* 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.

In 1966 a military coup deposed the first president of Upper Volta, Maurice Yaméogo, suspended the constitution, dissolved the National Assembly, and placed Lieutenant Colonel Sangoulé Lamizana at the head of a government of senior army officers.

" But the 1966 national assembly elections showed a significant swing to the right, and General Lon Nol formed a new government, which lasted until 1967.

In April 1966 the British Government bought the entire assets of the Chagos Agalega Company in the BIOT for £ 600, 000 and administered them as a government enterprise while awaiting US funding of the proposed facilities, with an interim objective of paying for the administrative expenses of the new territory.

* 1966 – In Syria, Baath party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.

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.

In 1966 the Chilean government renamed Isla Más Afuera to Alejandro Selkirk and Isla Más a Tierra to Robinson Crusoe, in order to promote tourism.

* 1977 – Chinese government removes a decade old ban on William Shakespeare's work, effectively ending the Cultural Revolution started in 1966.

Nevertheless, during Kekkonen's presidency, a few parties were represented in most governments — mainly the Centrists, Social Democrats and Swedish People's Party — while the People's Democrats and Communists were often in government from 1966 onwards.

During the election campaign of 1966, Powell claimed that the British government had contingency plans to send at least a token British force to Vietnam and that, under Labour, Britain " has behaved perfectly clearly and perfectly recognisably as an American satellite ".

In 1966, to increase the efficiency of government administration, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck made Thimphu the year-round capital.

The government lasted until 1966 when-after much unrest including mass demonstrations and strikes by students, labor unions, and civil servants-the military intervened.

Erhard's government was short-lived, however, and in 1966 a grand coalition between the SPD and CDU was formed, with Brandt as Foreign Minister and Vice-Chancellor.

The general election of 1966 saw the Labour government of Harold Wilson achieve a large increase in seats, however Heath remained Conservative leader.

The National Insurance Act of 1966, which introduced supplementary earnings-related benefits for short-term sickness and unemployment, had far-reaching distributional consequences by “ guaranteeing that insurance benefits rose at the same rate as wages in the late 1960s .” Trade unions were supportive of the advances made in social protection by the Wilson government, which had a considerable impact on the living standards of the lowest quintile of the population.

The government continued to struggle both with the economy and with the slender majority which, by 1966, had been reduced to one.

When Menzies retired in 1966, McEwen became the longest-serving figure in the government, and he had an effective veto over government policy.

Political maneuvering climaxed in February 1966, when Prime Minister Milton Obote suspended the constitution and assumed all government powers, removing the positions of president and vice president.

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

In a second coup ( 1965 ), he assumed the office of Prime Minister in 1966 and then established a presidential form of government headed by himself in 1967.

The ratio of Viet Cong to government soldiers jumped from one to 10 in 1961 to one to five a year later. The alleged 1966 martyrdom of Viet Cong soldier Nguyễn Văn Bé is much celebrated in Vietnam, despite the fact that he later turned up alive.

As a result of an agreement with the Cambodian government made in 1966, weapons for the Viet Cong were shipped to the Cambodian port of Sihanoukville and then trucked to Viet Cong bases near the border along the " Sihanouk Trail ", which replaced the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

In early June 1966, the British government ( Fred Mulley ) decided it could not afford the cost, and wanted to leave the ELDO organisation-one of the few European organisations in which a lead player.

In 1965 and 1966 the French government stressed to its various defense suppliers the need to specialize to maintain viable companies.

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

Karpov improved so quickly under Botvinnik's tutelage that he became the youngest Soviet National Master in history at fifteen in 1966 ; this tied the record established by Boris Spassky in 1952.

In 1966, the Country Party was established in the territory, while the Liberal Party was small.

The Committee on Data for Science and Technology ( CODATA ) was established in 1966 as an interdisciplinary committee of the International Council for Science.

** Import substitution and nationalization, 1952 – 1966, during which the first program of industrialization in 1957 was established and led by the public sector in heavy industries such as iron and steel and chemical industries.

Category: States and territories established in 1966

In 1917, Albert Einstein established the theoretical foundations for the laser and the maser in the paper Zur Quantentheorie der Strahlung ( On the Quantum Theory of Radiation ); via a re-derivation of Max Planck ’ s law of radiation, conceptually based upon probability coefficients ( Einstein coefficients ) for the absorption, spontaneous emission, and stimulated emission of electromagnetic radiation ; in 1928, Rudolf W. Ladenburg confirmed the existences of the phenomena of stimulated emission and negative absorption ; in 1939, Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify “ short ” waves ; in 1947, Willis E. Lamb and R. C. Retherford found apparent stimulated emission in hydrogen spectra and effected the first demonstration of stimulated emission ; in 1950, Alfred Kastler ( Nobel Prize for Physics 1966 ) proposed the method of optical pumping, experimentally confirmed, two years later, by Brossel, Kastler, and Winter.

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 First AFL-NFL World Championship Game was established as part of the June 8, 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL.

UNIDO was established as a UN programme in 1966 with headquarters in Vienna, Austria, and became a specialized agency of the United Nations in 1985.

In motorsports, the Can-Am and Trans-Am series were both established in 1966.

The University of Minnesota Rochester ( UMR ) is the newest campus of the University of Minnesota system, having been formally established in December 2006 ( although the University of Minnesota has offered classes in Rochester as a satellite site since as early as 1966 ).

The Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco, California, on Walpurgisnacht, April 30, 1966, by Anton Szandor LaVey, who was the Church's High Priest until his death in 1997.

Category: Religious organizations established in 1966

Such reforms were mostly via private member's bills on ' free votes ' in line with established convention, but the large Labour majority after 1966 was undoubtedly more open to such changes than previous parliaments had been.

In 1966, five development areas ( covering half the population in the UK ) were established, while subsidies were provided for employers recruiting new employees in the Development Areas.

Category: Musical groups established in 1966

In imitation of the land-grant colleges ' focus on agricultural and mechanical research, Congress later established programs of sea grant colleges ( aquatic research, in 1966 ), urban grant colleges ( urban research, in 1985 ), space grant colleges ( space research, in 1988 ), and sun grant colleges ( sustainable energy research, in 2003 ).

A 1966 act of Congress established the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden as part of the Smithsonian Institution with a focus on modern art, in contrast to the existing National Art Gallery.

Later in 1966 the paper moved to Plum Street where they also established a bookshop.

This original lodge, however, had little to do with the one Licio Gelli established in 1966, two years after becoming a freemason.

The Northern Arizona Normal School was established in 1899, renamed Northern Arizona University in 1966.

It was established by an act of Congress on October 15, 1966, and began operation on April 1, 1967.

* 1966 – Department of Transportation established PL 89-670Uniform Time Act

Category: Government agencies established in 1966