* 1966 – Young Man Kang, Korean director

* 1966 – The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California.

* 1966 – Jeff Brown, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Dave Meggett, American football player

* 1884 – Vincent Auriol, French politician, 16th President of the French Republic ( d. 1966 )

* 1899 – C. S. Forester, English author ( d. 1966 )

* 1909 – Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Jeroen Duyster, Dutch rower

* 1966 – Juhan Parts, Estonian politician, 14th Prime Minister of Estonia

* 1966 – Braniff Airlines Flight 250 crashes in Falls City, Nebraska killing all 42 on board.

* 1918 – Giles Cooper Irish playwright ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – Shayne Corson, Canadian ice hockey player

* 1966 – Sean Hood, American screenwriter

* 1966 – Takayuki Iizuka, Japanese wrestler

* 1966 – M. V. Sridhar, Indian cricketer

* 1966 – Tim Wakefield, American baseball player

* 1966 – Flann O ' Brien, Irish humorist ( b. 1911 )

* 1966 – Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

* 1966 – Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1966 – James St. James, American club promoter and author

* 1966 – Brent Butt, Canadian actor

* 1966 – Eric Esch, American boxer

* 1966 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian ( b. 1925 )

The Homophile Movement was influenced by the successful activism of the Civil Rights Movement ( in 1960 the DOB's national president was Cleo Bonner, an African-American ), and higher profile members of the DOB such as Barbara Gittings, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon began to picket the White House, the State Department, and other federal buildings in 1965 and 1966 with members of the Mattachine Society.

In 1966, Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon joined the National Organization for Women, and urged readers of The Ladder to do the same, even reporting they got a family discount.

Jorge Del Prado was the general secretary between 1966 and 1991.

In the United States, Del Reeves ( no relation ) recorded and released in 1966 an album entitled " Del Reeves sings Jim Reeves ".

In 1966, the trio founded Red-E-Food Systems, Inc. with the idea of franchising the Casa Del Taco brand.

* Del Amo Boulevard ( 1966 )

Jorge Del Prado was the general secretary between 1966 and 1991.

Jonathan Del Arco born on ( March 7, 1966 in Uruguay ) is an American actor.

In his induction speech in 1966, Williams included a statement calling for the recognition of the great Negro Leagues players: " I've been a very lucky guy to have worn a baseball uniform, and I hope some day the names of Satchel Paige and Josh Gibson in some way can be added as a symbol of the great Negro players who are not here only because they weren't given a chance.

In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U. S. Board on Geographic Names and the U. S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming " Colored Mountain " in 1968 ; and in West Texas, " Dead Nigger Creek " was renamed " Dead Negro Draw ".

In his Baseball Hall of Fame induction speech in 1966, Ted Williams made a strong plea for inclusion of Negro league stars in the Hall.

* Nadelhaft, Jerome, 1966, " The Somersett Case and Slavery: Myth, Reality, and Repercussions " in Journal of Negro History, Vol.

In 1966 the school held its first official racial and ethnic survey, it which it was discovered that the “ American Negro ” represented 1. 02 % of the university population.

On the early evening of Thursday, June 16, 1966, when the marchers arrived in Greenwood, Mississippi, and tried to set up camp at Stone Street Negro Elementary School, Carmichael was arrested for trespassing on public property.

* Speech by U. S. Negro Leader Robert Williams, at a rally in Peking on Aug. 8, 1966, protesting the discrimination against African-Americans in the U. S.

Journal of Negro Education 35 ( Winter 1966 ): 77-82.

From 1964 – 1966 Walker worked with a new publishing venture, the Negro Heritage Library, which he headed as president in 1966.

She published the book The Testing of Negro Intelligence ( 1958, 2nd ed., 1966 ) surveying and summarizing the results of 40 years of intelligence tests involving whites and blacks.

In a 1966 New York Herald Tribune feature by his former office manager-turned-journalist, Marilyn Mercer claimed, " Ebony never drew criticism from Negro groups ( in fact, Eisner was commended by some for using him ), perhaps because, although his speech pattern was early Minstrel Show, he himself derived from another literary tradition: he was a combination of Tom Sawyer and Penrod, with a touch of Horatio Alger hero, and color didn't really come into it ".