As the anniversary of Confederation, Dominion Day, and later Canada Day, was the date set for a number of important events, such as the first national radio network hookup by the Canadian National Railway ( 1927 ), the inauguration of the CBC's cross-country television broadcast ( 1958 ), the flooding of the Saint Lawrence Seaway ( 1958 ), the first colour television transmission in Canada ( 1966 ), the inauguration of the Order of Canada ( 1967 ), and the establishment of " O Canada " as the country's national anthem ( 1980 ).

As CND did not have a national membership until 1966, the strength of public support in its early days can be estimated only from the numbers of those attending demonstrations or expressing approval in opinion polls.

Suspended after World War II, the celebration was reinstated in 1966 as the national holiday Kenkoku Kinen no hi (" National Foundation Day ").

An annual commemoration, in the form of a military parade, was held each year on Easter Sunday, culminating in a huge national celebration on the 50th anniversary in 1966. began to write of it in terms of a " blood sacrifice ".

Banks was a member of the England national team that won the 1966 World Cup.

Constituted in 1966, it is one of two newly created states carved out of the greater Punjab province as a means of creating a stronger national identity.

* 1966 – A military coup takes place in Upper Volta ( later Burkina Faso ), dissolving the National Parliament and leading to a new national constitution.

Prior to the accident he had captained England 22 times, and, being only 27, was expected to lead them in the 1966 World Cup ; but he was never again selected for the national team.

Through collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute ( IRRI ), 52 modern rice varieties were released in the country between 1966 and 1997, helping increase national rice production to 14 million tons in 1987 and to 19 million tons in 1996.

It has also seized power twice at home ( 1966 & 1983 ) and today ‘ has become entrenched in all facets of civic and economic life ,’ including manipulation of national political life – General Sani Abacha ’ s creation of artificial political parties – and a central role in the control and management of Nigeria ’ s oil wealth.

The PPP had its roots in the labor movement and was in the forefront of national policy prior to independence, winning elections from 1957 through 1966.

The annual national championship for Club Racing is called the SCCA National Championship Runoffs and has been held at Riverside International Raceway ( 1964, 1966, 1968 ), Daytona International Speedway ( 1965, 1967, 1969 ), Road Atlanta ( 1970 – 1993 ), Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course ( 1994 – 2005 ), and Heartland Park Topeka ( 2006 – 2008 ).

After independence, Zambia followed in the steps of the Soviet Union by instituting a program of national development plans, under the direction of a National Commission for Development Planning: the Transitional Development Plan ( 1964 – 66 ) was followed by the First National Development Plan ( 1966 – 71 ).

( 1966 ) ( Broadway and national tour )

In U. S. v. Grinnell, 384 U. S. 563 ( 1966 ), the trial judge, Charles Wyzanski, composed the market only of alarm companies with services in every state, tailoring out any local competitors ; the defendant stood alone in this market, but had the court added up the entire national market, it would have had a much smaller share of the national market for alarm services that the court purportedly used.

* In 1966 Patrice Lumumba's image was rehabilitated by the Mobutu regime and he was proclaimed a national hero and martyr in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

In 1966, the system of national assistance ( a social assistance scheme for the poor ) was overhauled and renamed Supplementary Benefit.

In May 1966, Wilson announced 30 % pay rises for doctors and dentists-a move which did not prove popular with unions, as the national pay policy at the time was for rises of between 3 % and 3. 5 %.

The Industrial Development Act of 1966 changed the name of Development Districts ( parts of the country with higher levels of unemployment than the national average and which governments sought to encourage greater investment in ) to Development Areas and increased the percentage of the workforce covered by development schemes from 15 % to 20 %, which mainly affected rural areas in Scotland and Wales.

Despite various cutbacks after 1966, expenditure on services such as education and health was still much higher as a proportion of national wealth than in 1964.

Bacup followed the regional and national trend of deindustrialisation during the early and mid-20th century ; a process exacerbated by the closure of Bacup railway station in 1966.

In January 1966, an unheralded mid-season replacement show became a national pop culture phenomenon.

During the 1960s, he continued his television career, with guest appearances on such series as The Barbara Stanwyck Show, Route 66 ( a moving portrayal of a doomed pilot in the two-part episode " Fly Away Home "); Alfred Hitchcock Presents ; Perry Mason ( one of four actors in four consecutive episodes substituting for series star Raymond Burr, who was recovering from surgery ); Wagon Train ( a 90-minute colour episode as an English big game hunter who, in a display of amazing marksmanship, is able to kill an Indian chief from a great distance ); The Great Adventure ( in an installment of this anthology series about remarkable events in American history, he portrayed Confederate president Jefferson Davis ); Daniel Boone, ( in episodes " The Sound of Wings " and " First in War, First in Peace "); Lost in Space ( another two-part episode — as an all-powerful alien zookeeper, " The Keeper ", he worked one last time with his Third Man costar Jonathan Harris ); The Time Tunnel ( as Captain Smith of The Titanic, in the series ' 9 September 1966 premiere episode ); Batman ( as the villainous Sandman, in league with Julie Newmar's Catwoman ); three episodes of The Invaders ( as a malign variation of the Klaatu persona, culminating in a parallel plot also involving an assembly of world leaders ); an episode of I Spy (" Lana "); and two episodes of The F. B. I.

The South Bend plant ceased production on December 20, 1963, and the last Studebaker automobile rolled off the Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, assembly line on March 16, 1966.

The VAB, which was completed in 1966, was originally built to allow for the vertical assembly of the Saturn V rocket for the Apollo program.

* 1966: Mack begins production at its assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario, Canada.

The only change to this system of returning members to the assembly was the addition of two Members resulting from the creation of 6th Queens in 1966.

( This axle assembly replaced the 8. 75 " " drop-out " arrangement seen on some 1966 -' 72 A-bodies ).

* Nowab Musharaf Hussen ( 1871 – 1966 ): politician, education minister, member of Bengal legislative assembly

In 1995 Philips spun off the assembly and test operation in Korea, which was started by Signetics in 1966, as an independent subcontract service provider.

In the 1966 Quebec provincial election, he was elected to the Quebec legislative assembly in the riding of Montcalm as a member of the Union Nationale ( UN ), a conservative political party.

The last of the 8, 947 1966 models built, and the final Studebaker car, a V8-powered Cruiser four-door sedan, rolled off the Hamilton assembly line on March 16, 1966.

General Motors New Zealand ran its own assembly line in Trentham, near Wellington, from 1966 to 1971.

McDonald's first detailed, public discussion of UFOs was in a lecture given before an American Meteorological Society assembly in Washington D. C. on October 5, 1966.

* 1961 – 1966 Dipoli student assembly building in Otaniemi Espoo

The 1965 constitution led to the first general elections and to independence on 30 September 1966.

Each of the elections since independence in September 1966 has been freely and fairly contested and has been held on schedule.

Results for all parliamentary elections since 1966

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

Under this one-party constitution, Daddah was reelected in uncontested elections in 1966, 1971 and 1976.

Under this one-party constitution, Daddah was reelected in uncontested elections in 1966, 1971 and 1976.

It would not be until the adoption of the Twenty-fourth Amendment in 1962, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the U. S. Supreme Court's decision in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections in 1966, that all poll taxes and literacy tests were prohibited in all elections.

In the congressional elections of 1966, the Republicans gained three seats in the Senate and 47 in the House, reinvigorating the Conservative coalition and making it impossible for Johnson to pass any additional Great Society legislation.

With conservatives who attacked Johnson's Great Society making major gains in Congress in the 1966 midterm elections, and with anger and frustration mounting over the Vietnam War, Johnson was still able to secure the passage of additional programs during his last two years in office.

The provisional government, headed by Héctor García Godoy, announced general elections for 1966.

The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.

However, it was not until the U. S. Supreme Court ruled 6 – 3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections ( 1966 ) that poll taxes for state elections were unconstitutional because they violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The 1966 parliamentary elections represented a major shift in the balance of power towards Lon Nol and the rightist elements of the Sangkum, as conservative and right-wing candidates were overwhelmingly elected.

In September 1966, characterizing himself as a member of the loyal opposition, he publicly charged the Johnson administration with deception about Vietnam war costs and for delaying decisions to escalate the ground war until after the 1966 congressional elections.

He began by fighting the Labour stronghold of Mansfield in the 1964 and 1966 elections.

In 1965, the federal Government suspended local elections as a result of the Indonesian Confrontation, and in 1966 the functions of the City Council were transferred to the Chief Minister of Penang.

At some point in his late 30s he made the transition to broadcast journalism, and by the time of the 1966 elections he was working on a radio news show, as he explained to Mary Richards on the occasion of her producing her first news show all by herself at WJM-TV.

He was an active member of the Conservative Party in the early 1960s and fought, unsuccessfully, to recapture Orpington in the 1964 and 1966 UK general elections after its loss to the Liberals in the 1962 by-election.

Category: 1966 elections in Europe

In the municipal elections of 1966, the party gained 354 seats.

The Progressive Conservatives were re-elected with landslide mandates in the 1962 and 1966 elections, and Roblin never faced any serious competition in his own riding.