On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

The country ’ s first president, David Dacko was overthrown by his army chief-of-staff, Jean-Bédel Bokassa in 1966.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996, also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa ), a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d ' état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979.

On the night of December 31, 1965 – January 1, 1966 General Jean-Bédel Bokassa carried out a successful coup d ' état against Dacko and prevented the possible assumption of power by a rival, Colonel Jean Izamo, head of the national gendarme police force.

After Bokassa reciprocated by meeting Tombalbaye on 2 April 1966 along the southern border of Chad at Fort Archambault, the two decided to help one another if either was in danger of losing power.

Bokassa met with Prime Minister Georges Pompidou on 7 July 1966, but the French remained noncommittal in offering their support.

After Bokassa threatened to withdraw from the franc monetary zone, President Charles de Gaulle decided to make an official visit to the CAR on 17 November 1966.

This car took second place overall ( all three top finishers were Ford GT40s ) in the 1966 24 Hours of Daytona.

Shortly after President Julio César Méndez Montenegro took office in 1966, the army launched a major counterinsurgency campaign that largely broke up the guerrilla movement in the countryside.

In August or September 1966, Yvan Ridel took a picture of a large footprint with three toes, north-east of Loubomo, notable as hippopotami have four toes.

Retrospectives of Marini ’ s work took place at the Kunsthaus Zürich in 1962 and at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome in 1966.

There has been a strong military coup culture, between 1966 and 1999 10 Military Coups in Nigeria took place.

'" In 1966, he took the microphone in front of 300 sports club guests and criticized the state of distance running in Finland, reproaching the sports executives as publicity seekers and tourists, and demanding the athletes to sacrifice everything in order to accomplish something.

At the end of 1966 Menzies took up a scholar-in-residence position at the University of Virginia.

In 1966, he was offered and took up a place at Imperial College London, but after a year left that course also without a degree.

Waters took his information about the date of the end of the Mayan Long Count calendar from the 1966 edition of Michael Coe's The Maya.

Beginning in October 1966, Adorno took up work on Aesthetic Theory.

In 1966 the General Assembly adopted the two detailed Covenants, which complete the International Bill of Human Rights ; and in 1976, after the Covenants had been ratified by a sufficient number of individual nations, the Bill took on the force of international law.

On 1 May 1965 the service took its current name of BBC World Service and the service itself expanded its reach with the opening of the Ascension Island relay in 1966, serving African audiences with greater signal and reception, and the later relay on the Island of Masirah.

Reportedly, her first extramarital affair took place in 1966, with her daughter's godfather, Bordeaux wine producer Anthony Barton, and a year later she had a one-month liaison with Robin Douglas-Home, a nephew of British politician Alec Douglas-Home.

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution (), was a social-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976.

While most sports commentators gain some recognition if their career is long enough, Wolstenholme is best remembered for his commentary of the 1966 Football World Cup Final at Wembley Stadium, specifically the impromptu words he used with impeccable timing as the match came to a conclusion during injury time, as a small pitch invasion took place just as Geoff Hurst scored to put England 4-2 ahead:

The premiere of Incubus took place at the San Francisco Film Festival on October 26, 1966, where, according to producer Taylor, a group of 50 to 100 Esperanto enthusiasts " screamed and laughed " at the actors ' poor pronunciation of the language.

Called " The Trips Festival ", it took place on January 21 – January 23, 1966, and was organized by Stewart Brand, Ken Kesey, Owsley Stanley and others.

The French Grand Prix took place here 14 times between 1938 and 1966.

One of the great upsets in College Bowl history — or indeed, in the history of any intercollegiate competition — came on March 6, 1966, when a small women's college, Agnes Scott College, took on the defending champions from Princeton University, which had challenged and defeated a team from Mount Holyoke College the previous week.

The 12 Hours of Sebring, 24 Hours of Daytona, and 24 Hours of Le Mans were once widely considered to be the trifecta of sports car racing ; driver Ken Miles would have been the only driver to win all three in the same year, but an error in the team orders of the Ford GT40 team at Le Mans in 1966 took the win from him, although he finished first.

Peter Werbe, a 29-year-old Michigan State dropout who had been with the paper since March 1966, took over as editor.

* November 12, 1966: Mesa, Arizona Bob Smith, 18, took seven people hostage at Rose-Mar College of Beauty, a school for training beauticians.

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.

Her final gig with the Airplane took place at the Fillmore on October 15, 1966.

In 1966, Haig took command of a battalion of the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam.

From 1966 to 2009, this power lay with the House of Lords, granted by the Practice Statement of 1966.

Trends after 1965 ( like the fall of OZNA and UDBA chief Aleksandar Ranković from power in 1966 ), however, led to the Croatian Spring of 1970 – 71, when students in Zagreb organized demonstrations for greater civil liberties and greater Croatian autonomy.

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

The transfer of power from Menzies to Holt in February 1966 was smooth and unproblematic, and at the federal election later that year the electorate overwhelmingly endorsed Holt, giving the Holt-McEwen Coalition government a 41-seat majority, the largest in Australian history at the time.

* 1966 – The Ba ' ath Party takes power in Syria.

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.

Following the relative success in 1964-5 of student organizing as opposed to the failure of community organizing, in 1966 the New Left began to overturn the traditional Marxist focus on the proletariat, arguing that the Left should answer the needs of students and tap student power.

" In 1966, S. Rajaratnam saw Singapore ’ s challenge as ensuring its sustained survival, peace, and prosperity in a region suffering from mutual jealousies, internal violence, economic disintegration and great power conflicts.

Politics in the Syrian Arab Republic takes place in the framework of what is officially a semi-presidential republic, but what the CIA consider " a republic under an authoritarian regime " where the power is in the hands of the President of Syria and his family, all members of the ruling Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party which is a cell of the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party ( established in 1966 when the original Ba ' ath Party was dissolved and split into two ).

The IFC increasingly invested in private energy from 1966 to 1994, financing 34 projects in the electric power sector worth approximately $ 7. 4 billion USD ($ 11. 5 billion in 2012 dollars ).

The removal of this group from power is sometimes considered to have marked the end of the Cultural Revolution, which had been launched by Mao in 1966 as part of his power struggle with leaders such as Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping and Peng Zhen.

* Sanshenggong hydroelectric power station ( 1966 )

His 3rd cabinet ( 1966 – 68 ) stayed in power for 833 days, a record for Italy's so-called " First Republic ".

In the early 1960s, she made a bid for power during the Cultural Revolution ( 1966 – 1976 ), which resulted in widespread chaos within the communist party.

In 1966 she was appointed deputy director of the Central Cultural Revolution Group and claimed real power over Chinese politics for the first time.

Nor did he spare the hierarchy of the country's church, since a 1966 Vatican Concordat granted Duvalier the power to appoint Haiti's bishops.

Another coup in June 1966, the so-called Argentine Revolution, brought Onganía to power.

Moderate Party members like Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping rose to power, and Mao was marginalized within the party, leading him to initiate the Cultural Revolution in 1966.

He made the Court a power center on a more even base with Congress and the presidency especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education ( 1954 ), Gideon v. Wainwright ( 1963 ), Reynolds v. Sims ( 1964 ), and Miranda v. Arizona ( 1966 ).

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 1966, with Kỳ leading the way, Thi was sacked in a power struggle, provoking widespread civil unrest in his base in I Corps ; Quang led Buddhist protests against Kỳ and Thiệu and many units in I Corps began disobeying orders, siding with Thi and the Buddhist movement.

Whatever its other causes, the Cultural Revolution, declared in 1966, was overtly pro-Maoist, and gave Mao the power and influence to purge the Party of his political enemies at the highest levels of government.