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.

He would hold that position until 1966.

In the Soviet Union this position carried such titles as Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR ; Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ; and in the case of the Soviet Russia Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the All-Russian Congress of Soviets ( pre-1922 ), and Chairman of the Bureau of the Central Committee of the Russian SFSR ( 1956 – 1966 ).

Hardy handing over command of the Kenya Army to Brigadier Joseph Ndolo on 1 December 1966, British influence was underlined with the appointment of Major General Robert Penfold as Chief of General Staff, a new position as senior officer of the entire armed forces.

Agnew ran for the position of Governor of Maryland in 1966.

After retiring from Penn State in 1966, Curry accepted a position at the University of Amsterdam.

Intolerable working conditions during the Nazi regime resulted in a temporary position at the Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri in 1936, before his appointment as chairman of the mathematics department at Stanford University in 1938, where he helped build up the department until his retirement in 1966.

In 1966, Wilson was created the first Chancellor of the newly created University of Bradford, a position he held until 1985.

In 1966, Gusmão obtained a position with the public service, which allowed him to continue his education.

He left government in 1966 to take over as president of the Ford Foundation, a position he held until 1979.

After working his way up to the position, Emerick engineered the 1966 number one UK Manfred Mann hit Pretty Flamingo.

Hillery only remained in this position for just over a year, becoming the country's first Minister for Labour in 1966, as industrial disputes began to take their toll.

Lemass retired in 1966 after 7 years in the position and a leadership race ( the first contested race in the history of the party ) threatened to tear Fianna Fáil apart.

In October 1966, it peaked on the national Billboard chart at the No. 55 position.

It quickly gained national popularity, and by 1966, it rose to its peak position at # 9 on the national charts.

In 1976, after more than eight centuries, Hugues Delautre, one of the Franciscan fathers in charge of servicing the Vézelay sanctuary since 1966, discovers that not only the orientation axis of La Madeleine, but also its internal structure, have been determined taking into account the position of the earth relatively to the sun.

The 1966 blasphemy trial of novellist Hannu Salama became a cause célèbre for the antiestablishmentarian position.

In February 1966, Sukarno reshuffled his cabinet, sacking Nasution as Defence Minister and abolishing his position of armed forces chief of staff, but Nasution refused to step down.

A semi-official version of the events of 1965 – 1966 claims that the Indonesian Communist Party ( PKI ) chairman Aidit organised the murders of the six generals, using communist sympathisers within the military, to secure PKI's position in case of feared incapacitation of Sukarno, who suffered a mild stroke on 4 August 1965.

In 1966, the position was merged with that of the Secretary of State for the Colonies to form that of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, which was in turn merged with the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1968 to create the new position of Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs.

The position of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs was created on 1 August 1966 by the merger of the old positions of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations and Secretary of State for the Colonies.

In 1966, during the onset of the Cultural Revolution, Zhu was dismissed from his position on the Politburo Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China, and the activity of the National People's Congress was halted.

Additionally, Iowa was the first Big Ten institution to promote an African American to an administrative vice president ’ s position ( Dr. Phillip Hubbard, promoted in 1966 ).

He was a key figure in Newport's epic win over Whineray's 1963 New Zealand All Blacks setting up position for Uzzell's drop goal and kicked a penalty to draw with Australia in 1966.