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 ).

As relations between the two factions became worse, the Military Committee initiated the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état which ousted the National Command led by al-Razzaz, Aflaq and their supporters.

A Lebanese military map, published in 1966, showing the Shebaa Farms as being on the Syrian side of the border

Following the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état against the leadership of Michel Aflaq, the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party split in two ; one Damascus-based ( Syrian-led ) Ba ' ath Party and one Baghdad-based ( Iraqi-led ) Ba ' ath Party.

Aflaq was ousted during the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état, which led to a schism within the Ba ' ath Party.

Salah Jadid ( 1926 – 19 August 1993, Arabic: صلاح جديد ) was a Syrian general and political figure in the Arab Socialist Baath Party in Syria, and the country's de facto leader from 1966 until 1970.

On May 9, 1966, he and Arafat were detained by Syrian police loyal to air marshal Hafez al-Assad after an incident where a pro-Syrian Palestinian leader, Yusuf Orabi was thrown out of the window of a three-story building and killed.

* Ammar Abdulhamid ( born 1966 ), Syrian political activist

Nedumbassery is also the home town of famous Jacobite Syrian Bishop late ' Gevargis Mor Gregorios, BA, LT of Vayaliparambil pynadath family ( 1899 – 1966 ), a leader, agriculturist and an educationalist who managed a High school to an Engineering college ( 1960's ) and started a silent educational revolution in India as early as 1939 in pre-independent British India. HG. Mor Gregorios Vayaliparambil was the first Chairman of Mor Athanasious College Association, Kothamangalam.

* Suzan Najm Aldeen ( born 1966 ), Syrian actress

" The Syrian Ba ' athists have erected a statue in al-Arsuzi's honour ; it was erected following the 1966 coup.

On 23 February 1966 a bloody coup d ' état led by a left-wing Ba ' athist faction headed by Chief of Staff Salah Jadid, overthrew the Syrian Government.

Each branch of the party, in turn, had a local governing body, the Regional Command, and although practical power became centred in the Syrian and Iraqi Regional Commands and the National Command of each faction assumed an essentially symbolic role, the party split in 1966, with different factions taking control in Syria and Iraq, each faction retained a pan-Arab structure.

In 1966, the Syrian Ba ' th's secret military committee took power, and implemented a far-left line.

In 1965, the province of Dhofar revolted, this time with the support of People's Republic of China and some of the nationalist Arab states, followed by an assassination attempt in 1966, which had a marked effect on Said causing him to become even more erratic in governing the country.

* Zaid " Zeddy " Al Refai, ( born 1966 ), First Arab to summit Mount Everest.

From 1949 to 1966, Arab citizens were regarded by Israel as a hostile population, and major Arab population centers were governed by military administrations divided into several districts.

While most of the Palestinian Arab population that remained in Israel after the war was granted an Israeli citizenship, Arab Israelis were subject to martial law up to 1966.

In 1966, security restrictions placed on Arab citizens of Israel were lifted completely, the government set about dismantling most of the discriminatory laws, and Arab citizens of Israel were granted the same rights as Jewish citizens.

In April 1966 the team entered the 1966 Arab Nations Cup in Baghdad, Iraq.

Shakhbut was the ruler of the emirate of Abu Dhabi until August 6, 1966 when he was deposed in a bloodless coup by his brother Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, who became the emir of Abu Dhabi, and eventually rose to become the undisputed leader of the United Arab Emirates. After which he went away to Lebanon 10-15 years later he was allowed back in U. A. E by his Brother H. H. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahiyan

Najwa Karam () ( born February 26, 1966 ) is a Lebanese Multi-Platinum, Best-Selling Arab female Recording Artist, and Ambassador for L ' Oréal Paris, who has sold over 50 Million records worldwide.

During the 1950s, Alterman was opposed to the martial law imposed at the time on Israel's Arab citizens ( until 1966 ), and was also strongly supportive of workers ' struggle such as the 1952 sailors ' strike which was suppressed by the Ben Gurion Government.

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

Madeline Amy Sweeney ( December 14, 1966 – September 11, 2001 ), known as Amy Sweeney, was an American flight attendant on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was hijacked and flown deliberately into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City, as part of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

Rajiv began working for Indian Airlines as a professional pilot while his mother became Prime Minister in 1966.

A United Airlines DC-6 at Stapleton Airport, Denver, in September 1966

Services began in 1966, under the name Aerolíneas de Ponce ( Ponce Airlines ), with Aero Commanders.

Category: Airlines established in 1966

* Madeline Amy Sweeney ( 1966 – 2001 ), flight attendant on American Airlines Flight 11 when it was flown into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks ; she was the first person to report the hijacking.

The inauguration was on 15 May 1966 and was marked by the visits of the first big jets of Middle East Airlines and Kuwait Airways Comets.

Three decades later, a 1966 New York Times classified ad for stewardesses at Eastern Airlines listed these requirements: " A high school graduate, single ( widows and divorcees with no children considered ), 20 years of age ( girls 19 1 / 2 may apply for future consideration ).

In 1966 Scandinavian Airlines inaugurated the airport's first non-stop route to mainland Europe.

* West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashed on October 1, 1966 with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5. 5 miles south of Wemme.

Lorenzo's first professional jobs were at Eastern Airlines and Trans World Airlines, working in financial analysis, from 1963 — 1966.

Fuji, Japan in 1966, and the in-flight separation of an engine on an Evergreen International Airlines Boeing 747 cargo jet near Anchorage, Alaska in 1993.

* Alan Joyce ( executive ) ( 1966 -), CEO Qantas Airlines

* William A. Patterson ( 1899 – 1980 ), president of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966

" Pat " Patterson ( October 1899 — 1980 ) was the President of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966.

Since it was founded in 1966, Scenic Airlines has experienced at least five fatal accidents.

* On 11 May 1966 at around 18: 10 local time, the three crew members operating a Polynesian Airlines Douglas R4D-5 ( registered 5W-FAB ) on training flight lost control of the aircraft when a door separated mid-flight over the Apolima Strait, by which the vertical stabilizer was damaged.

In 1966 the agency opened a Los Angeles office to handle the Continental Airlines business.

* Altair Airlines, a regional airline that operated out of Philadelphia, Pa., from 1966 to 1982

* Stewardess ( American Airlines 1961-64, Pan Am 1966 )

Category: Airlines established in 1966

Malaysia-Singapore Airlines ( MSA ) came into being in 1966 as a result of a joint ownership of the airline by the governments of Malaysia and Singapore.