One of nineteen astronauts selected by NASA in April 1966, Charles Duke had never flown in space before Apollo 16.

At the 23rd Congress ( 29 March – 8 April 1966 ) the survival ratio was 79. 4 percent, it decreased to 76. 5 percent at the 24th Congress ( 30 March – 9 April 1971 ), increased to 83. 4 percent at the 25th Congress ( 24 February – 5 March 1976 ) and at its peak, at the 26th Congress ( 23 February – 3 March 1981 ), it reached 89 percent.

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.

On April 12, 1966, Berry received severe head injuries in an automobile accident just a short distance from Dead Man's Curve in Los Angeles, California, two years after the song had become a hit.

Then the first kickboxing event was held in Osaka on April 11, 1966.

Kwame Nkrumah ( 21 September 1909 – 27 April 1972 ), P. C., was the leader of Ghana and its predecessor state, the Gold Coast, from 1951 to 1966.

In April 1967, the Porsche factory's Christophorus Magazine noted: " On 21 December 1966, Porsche celebrated a particularly proud anniversary.

Robin Gayle Wright ( born April 8, 1966 ) is an American actress.

Among the tracks on The Paul Simon Songbook that were rerecorded ( some with electric backing ) for Sound of Silence were " I Am a Rock " ( which as a single reached U. S. No. 3 in the summer of 1966 ), " Leaves That Are Green ", " April Come She Will ", " A Most Peculiar Man ", and " Kathy's Song ".

On 1 April 1966, MSC sent out contracts to Douglas, Grumman, and McDonnell for the conversion of a S-IVB spent stage, under the name Saturn S-IVB spent-stage experiment support module ( SSESM ).

* " Frequency-Shift Teletypewriter " – filed August 1966, issued April 1970

She was born on 18 April 1966 in Lørenskog, Norway.

* April 13 – United States president Lyndon Johnson signs the 1966 Uniform Time Act, dealing with daylight saving time.

* April 4 – William R. Munroe, American admiral ( d. 1966 )

Known for his leftist views, in April 1966 Ngouabi was demoted to the rank of soldier second class when he refused to be posted again at Pointe-Noire.

They had three children: Francesco Quinn ( March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011 ), Danny ( born April 16, 1964 ), and Lorenzo Quinn ( born May 7, 1966 ).

In 1965, Ponti obtained a divorce from Giuliana in France, allowing him to marry Loren on 9 April 1966.

Secrets of a Windmill Girl ( 1966 ) featured Pauline Collins and April Wilding and was directed by Arnold L. Miller.

In April 1966, Gallimard brought out another significant work by Foucault, Les Mots et les choses: Une archéologie des sciences humaines (" The words and the things "), which was later translated into English as The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences.

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.

The Flintstones is an animated, prime-time American television sitcom that was broadcast from September 30, 1960 to April 1, 1966 on ABC.

It is a museum and theatre first opened by his grandson Paul Robert-Houdin in April 1966.

Originally serialized in Worlds of If ( December 1965, January, February, March, April 1966 ), the book received the Hugo Award for best science fiction novel in 1967, and was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1966.

* April McDivitt, 1999 Indiana Miss Basketball and four-time Academic All-American, is a graduate of Connersville High School.

Garros scored three victories in three weeks before he himself was downed on 18 April and his airplane, along with its synchronization gear and propeller was captured by the Germans.

He left Lisbon on 7 April 1541 along with two other Jesuits and the new Viceroy Martim Afonso de Sousa, on board the Santiago.

On 25 April 1915, a force of British Empire and French troops landed at multiple places along the peninsula.

In April 1709, Mirwais along with his tribal army revolted against Gurgīn and the Safavids in Kandahar City.

On 27 April 1978, the PDPA, led by Nur Mohammad Taraki, Babrak Karmal and Amin Taha overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud, who was assassinated along with all his family members in a bloody military coup.

In April 1921, the IRA was again reorganised, in line with the Dáil's endorsement of its actions, along the lines of a regular army.

Jellicoe was made a Viscount in 1918 and was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1919, along with David Beatty.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

Young's party continued on into California trapping and trading from Sacramento to Los Angeles, returning to Taos in April, 1830 after trapping along the Colorado River.

On April 14, 2012 he along with Travis McCoy, Black Thought,? uestlove and The Roots performed a medley of Beastie Boys classics at the 2012 Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame ceremony.

Temperatures range from highs around along the Mekong in March and April to lows of or less in the uplands of Xiangkhoang and Phôngsali in January.

In April 1972, he stood for the Deputy Leadership of the party, along with Edward Short and Anthony Crosland.

The epidemic began on March 5 and continued through April 28, wiping out approximately 15 % of the known population of manatees along South Florida's western coast.

With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.

2 days later on April 1, 2001, Oklahoma police officer C. L. Parkins pulled Hazmi over for speeding in their Corolla along with an additional citation for failing to use a seatbelt together totaling $ 138.

On 26 April 2006, Neil Kinnock was given a six-month driving ban after being found guilty of two speeding offences along the M4 motorway, west of London.

This, along with a general economical decadence, damaged the dukedom, and last Duke and Prince, Flavio ( March 4, 1620 – April 5, 1698 ) was forced by the huge debts to sell it to the Odescalchi and others.

The rest of the post-September 1950 cartoons by Famous Studios that were released prior to April 1, 1962 ( except some special releases ) were sold to Harvey Comics, along with all rights to Famous ' characters Casper the Friendly Ghost, Little Audrey, Herman and Katnip, et al., in 1958, which were retitled " Harveytoons " for television distribution after 1959 ( beginning with their exposure on Matty's Funday Funnies ).

On April 7, 1979, the Marxist philosopher Antonio Negri was arrested along with the other persons associated with the Autonomist movement, including Oreste Scalzone.

In the late 1920s and 1930s, this idea gained some momentum ( along with other calendar reform proposals, such as the World Calendar ), and in 1928 a law was passed in the United Kingdom authorising an Order in Council which would fix the date of Easter in that country as the first Sunday after the second Saturday in April.

Following publication of a Letter to the Editor from Kranke and colleagues in April 2000, along with a non-specific response from Dr. Fujii, there was no follow-up on the allegation of data manipulation and no request for an institutional review of Dr. Fujii's research.

During the winter or dry season, extending roughly from November to April, the monsoon winds usually blow from the northeast along the China coast and across the Gulf of Tonkin, picking up considerable moisture ; consequently the winter season in most parts of the country is dry only by comparison with the rainy or summer season.

On 17 April 1229 the settlement was granted town rights along the lines of that for Goslar.

At the time of its liquidation, Westwood employed a third of the original Westwood Studios personnel, some of which formed Petroglyph Games in April 2003, along with three of them ( Brett Sperry, Adam Isgreen and Rade Stojsavljevic ) forming Jet Set Games development studio in 2008, both based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

* April 25 – The Federal Security Agency ( FSA ) is founded in the USA, along with the Civilian Conservation Corps and Public Health Service.