Apollo ran from 1961 to 1972, and was supported by the two-man Gemini program which ran concurrently with it from 1962 to 1966.

* 1966 – Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phuoc Tuy province.

When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.

Birth and death rates of Japan since 1950, with the sudden drop in hinoeuma year ( 1966 )

Although Cyril Davies left the group in 1963, Blues Incorporated continued to record, with Korner at the helm, until 1966.

In 1966, Nin had her marriage with Pole annulled, due to the legal issues arising from both Guiler and Pole having to claim her as a dependent on their federal tax returns.

According to Volume I of her diaries, 1931 – 1934, published in 1966 ( Stuhlmann ), Nin first came across erotica when she returned to Paris with her mother and two brothers in her late teens.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was made into a musical film in 1966, directed by Richard Lester, with Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford re-creating their Broadway stage roles, Leon Greene reprising his West End stage role and Phil Silvers starred in an expanded role as " Marcus Lycus ".

The river flooded this city regularly in historical times, the last occasion being the famous flood of 1966, with 4, 500 m³ / s after rainfall of in Badia Agnano and in Florence, in only 24 hours.

No fewer than 17 Michelin starred restaurants are located in the region, among them two restaurants with 3 stars ( Restaurants Bareiss and Schwarzwaldstube in Baiersbronn ) as well as the only restaurant in Germany that has been awarded a Michelin star every year since 1966.

He formed the Shiv Sena on 19 June 1966 with the intent of fighting for the rights of the natives of the state of Maharashtra ( called Maharashtrians ).

Walsh began his pro coaching career in 1966 as an assistant with the AFL's Oakland Raiders.

However, a US Public Health Service trial of BCG in Georgia and Alabama published in 1966 showed an efficacy of only 14 %, and did much to convince the US it did not want to implement mass immunization with BCG.

After helping United to win the Football League in 1965, he won a World Cup medal with England in 1966 and another Football League title with United the following year.

Charlton's role was developing from traditional inside-forward to what today would be termed an attacking midfield player, with Ramsey planning to build the team for the 1966 World Cup around him.

Of the eight original American League teams, the Orioles were the last of the eight to win the World Series, doing so in 1966 with its four – game sweep of the heavily favored Los Angeles Dodgers.

Between 1965 and 1966 Fulcher organised happenings, parties and other events under the name A1 Good Guyz with two graduates of Twickenham Art College, David Wills and Roy Burge.

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

On 28 September 2008, the CSU failed to gain an absolute majority, attaining 43 %, of the vote in the Bavaria state election for the first time since 1966 on a percentage basis and was forced into a coalition with the FDP.

The Lancer / Ace editions ( 1966 – 1977 ), under the direction of de Camp and Lin Carter, were the first comprehensive paperbacks, compiling the material from the Gnome Press series together in chronological order with all the remaining original Howard material, including that left unpublished in his lifetime and fragments and outlines.

From 1966 to 1976, Alexei Kosygin, Podgorny and Mikhail Suslov, all leading officials, attended a Central Committee meeting once ; it was in 1973 to ratify the Soviet Union's treaty with West Germany.

Cronenberg's fascination with the film Winter Kept Us Warm ( 1966 ) by classmate David Secter sparked his interest in film.

Early songs with disco elements include " You Keep Me Hangin ' On " ( The Supremes, 1966 ), " Only the Strong Survive " ( Jerry Butler, 1968 ), " Message to Love " ( Jimi Hendrix's Band of Gypsys, 1970 ), " Soul Makossa " ( Manu Dibango, 1972 ), Eddie Kendricks ' Keep on Truckin ' ( 1973 ) and " The Love I Lost " by Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes ( 1973 ).

Their basis for this conclusion included: a belief that the South Vietnamese military was no longer combat effective ; the results of the fall 1967 South Vietnamese presidential election ( in which the Nguyễn Văn Thiệu / Nguyễn Cao Kỳ ticket had only received 24 percent of the popular vote ); the Buddhist crises of 1963 and 1966 ; well-publicized anti-war demonstrations in Saigon ; and continuous criticism of the Thieu government in the southern press.

In addition to winning the 1966 MVP, Robinson also won the Triple Crown ( leading the American League in batting average, home runs, and runs batted in ), a feat also achieved the following season by Boston's Carl Yastrzemski but never since.

Racial tensions arose as a result of perceived imbalances, leading to the 1966 and 1967 riots.

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

Newman made important contributions leading to an invitation to present his work at the 1962 International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm at the age of 65, and proved a Generalized Poincaré conjecture for topological manifolds in 1966.

According to Robert M. Gray of Stanford University, the first ideas leading to LPC started in 1966 when S. Saito and F. Itakura of NTT described an approach to automatic phoneme discrimination that involved the first maximum likelihood approach to speech coding.

An important event leading up to May 1968 was the scandal in Strasbourg in December 1966.

* Mike Salisbury ( born 1966 ), a leading advocate of the natural burial movement in Canada

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.

Because he relied so much on his fastball, he also surrendered numerous home runs, leading the American League in home runs allowed for three consecutive years between 1966 and 1968.

In 1966 it was the leading venue of the World Cup.

She was subsequently cast in a leading role in the sci-fi film Fantastic Voyage ( 1966 ), which was a hit and made her a star.

A 1966 serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who officially entitled The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve, but often referred to by fans simply as The Massacre, is set during the events leading up to the Paris massacre.

It was the first time since 1966, and only the second time in the series ' history, that a new leading actor's debut story was shown before the conclusion of the previous lead's season.

Ruth Turner of Harvard University was the leading 20th century expert on the Teredinidae ; she published a detailed monograph on the family, the 1966 volume " A Survey and Illustrated Catalogue of the Teredinidae " published by the Museum of Comparative Zoology.

A major step in his career was the leading role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment ( 1966 ) opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters.

Elektra's entrance into pop gained the label considerable prestige on the music scene by being one of the first labels to sign up leading acts from the new wave of American psychedelic rock of 1966 – 67.

Väinö Tanner ( 12 March 1881, Helsinki – 19 April 1966 ) was a leading figure in the Social Democratic Party of Finland, and a pioneer and leader in the cooperative movement in Finland.

In his later years, Ludendorff went into a relative seclusion with his second wife, Mathilde von Kemnitz ( 1874 – 1966 ), writing several books and leading the Tannenbergbund.

As a result, organizations such as the Humane Society of the United States began to investigate breeding kennels, leading to the passage of the Animal Welfare Act of August 24, 1966.

Graham Hill won the 1966 race with Amon winning the final Tasman formulae race in 1969 leading home Ferrari team mate Derek Bell for a dominant 1-2 at Lakeside Raceway.

In September 1966, Mário Rodrigues Filho, a Brazilian journalist, columnist and sports figure, died, leading to the administrators of the stadium renaming the stadium after him to Estádio Jornalista Mário Rodrigues Filho.

In 1966, the curriculum was expanded to include degree offerings other than those leading to a teaching career.

The result was that although volumes held up well throughout the BMC era, market share fell as did profitability and hence investment in new models, triggering the 1966 merger with Jaguar Cars to form British Motor Holdings ( BMH ), and three years later leading to the government sponsored merger of BMH with Leyland Motor Corporation.