On 1 January 1966 Selkirk's island was officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island.

Alberto Giacometti (; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966 ) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman, and printmaker.

Finally, at the same time as Madison Avenue became one-way northbound and Fifth Avenue became one-way southbound, Broadway was made one-way southbound between Madison Square ( where Fifth Avenue crosses ) and Union Square on January 14, 1966, completing its conversion south of Columbus Circle.

Sadler debuted the song on television on January 30, 1966 on The Ed Sullivan Show.

On 1 January 1966, following a swift and almost bloodless coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumed power as president of the Republic.

The Night of the Steel Assassin is a January 1966 episode of The Wild Wild West TV series.

Of these, sixteen were held in London, reflecting then-prevailing views of the Commonwealth as the continuation of the Empire and the centralisation of power in the British Commonwealth Office ( the one meeting outside London, in Lagos, was an extraordinary meeting held in January 1966 to coordinate policies towards Rhodesia ).

Cover art for paperback edition of The Secret of Saturn's Rings ( 1966 ) Wollheim's first story, " The Man from Ariel ," was published in the January 1934 issue of Wonder Stories when he was nineteen.

He continued as federal Treasurer until January 1966, when Menzies finally retired.

Holt was sworn in as Prime Minister on Australia Day, 26 January 1966.

In January 1966, Loot was revived, with Oscar Lewenstein taking up an option.

Nauru became self-governing in January 1966.

The first Trips Festival, sponsored by the Merry Pranksters and held at the Longshoremen's Hall in January 1966, saw The Grateful Dead and Big Brother and the Holding Company play to an audience of 10, 000, giving many their first encounter with both acid rock, with its long instrumentals and unstructured jams, and LSD.

On January 17, 1966, the duo released the album Sounds of Silence, which – helped by the title track's success – hit No. 21, while Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. was re-released and reached No. 30.

* declared a jubilee from 1 January to 26 May 1966 to urge all Catholics to study and accept the decisions of the council and apply them in spiritual renewal ;

The last three, intended to replace the 7000 series machines, were never sold and were replaced by the 65 and 75, which was first delivered during November 1965, and January 1966, respectively.

Wednesday Morning, 3 A. M. was re-released in January 1966 to capitalize on their newly found radio success with a later re-mixed electric / acoustic version of The Sounds of Silence, and so the album reached # 30 on the Billboard pop charts.

The Doors is the debut album by the American rock band The Doors, recorded in August 1966 and released in January 1967.

strips were originated for the British market in the 1960s ( some Gold Key material was also reprinted ), the most notable for Lady Penelope comic, which launched in January 1966.

There were 24 issues running monthly from February 1966 till January 1968, inclusive.

Sessions in October and November yielded just one usable single (" Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window "), and two days of recording in January 1966 for what was intended to be Dylan's next album, Blonde on Blonde resulted in " One of Us Must Know ( Sooner or Later )", which was released as a single a few weeks later and was subsequently selected for the album.

* January 22 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish physicist ( d. 1966 )

* January 12 – Sergei Korolev, Russian rocket scientist ( d. 1966 )

* October 29 – Vietnam War – Vietnamization: The total number of American troops still in Vietnam drops to a record low of 196, 700 ( the lowest since January 1966 ).

* January 13 – Sophie Tucker, Russian-born singer and comedian ( d. 1966 )

In January 2011, it was announced that Eastwood was in talks to direct Beyoncé Knowles in a third remake of the 1937 film A Star Is Born ; however, the project was delayed due to Beyoncé ’ s pregnancy.

" In January 2011, Eastwood told the UK's Daily Mail that " I loved the fact that Obama is multi-racial.

Eastwood Lane ( May 22, 1879 – January 22, 1951 ) was an American composer who wrote piano suites and ballet music.

Chairman Trevor Eastwood announced in the annual report that the company was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange () on 9 January 1992.

Kenneth " Ken " Macintosh ( born 15 January 1962 ) is a Scottish Labour Party politician and the MSP for the Eastwood constituency.

* Eastwood, Joel :" The Spirit of Westmount ", The Hamilton Spectator, ( 17 January 2006 )

They returned to the Philippines to perform at Eastwood City on January 20, 2011 and played to sell-out crowds at the Rewind Festivals in Perth ( Scotland ) and Henley-on-Thames in August 2011.

However in January, he instead joined Eastwood Town instead.

On January 24 Paul Bang-Jensen, accompanied by Adolf Berle, was met by Dragoslav Protitch and Colonel Frank Begley, former Police Chief of Farmington, Conn., and now head of U.N. special police.

He met Mira Edgerly, a painter of portraits on ivory, shortly after the Armistice, and married her in January, 1919.

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

Diocletian met Maximian in Milan in the winter of 290 – 91, either in late December 290 or January 291.

The Ecuadorean Congress then met in an emergency session in Guayaquil on the same day, January 22, and ratified Noboa as President of the Republic in constitutional succession to Mahuad.

However, Draper ’ s scheduled appearance in January 1950 was met with opposition from Hester McCullough, a woman who involved herself in the hunt for subversives.

If they had gone it alone, the IRB and the Volunteers would possibly have come to their aid ; however, the IRB leaders met with Connolly in January 1916 and convinced him to join forces with them.

Baratieri suspected that Mengesha would invade Eritrea, and met him at the Battle of Coatit in January 1895.

France provided additional financial support in January 1997 after Gabon had met IMF targets for mid-1996.

On 22 January 1933, Meissner and Hindenburg's son met Hitler, Göring, and Frick at Ribbentrop's home in Berlin's exclusive Dahlem district.

Neither side was keen to continue the conflict, and following a papal truce the two leaders met in January 1200 to negotiate possible terms for peace.

On Saturday, January 22, the full cabinet met and only Secretary of War Jefferson Davis and Secretary of Navy James C. Dobbin supported repeal.

After Marshall's appointment in January 1947, administration officials met with Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov and others to press for an economically self-sufficient Germany, including a detailed accounting of the industrial plants, goods and infrastructure already removed by the Soviets in their occupied zone.

As a result of having read this book Gilbert, two years later, journeyed to England with three of his slaves and there in at drawing room meeting arranged in Wandsworth on 15 January 1759, met the preacher John Wesley.

In January 1821, on his return from Naples, Paganini met Rossini again in Rome, just in time to become the composer's substitute conductor for his opera Mathilde de Sharbran, upon the sudden death of the original conductor.

On January 5, Hazmi arrived in Kuala Lumpur, where he met up with Mihdhar, Attash, and Abu Bara.

When the Court met for its initial session, opened on 30 January 1922 to allow for the establishment of procedure and the appointment of Court officials, the Secretary-General of the League of Nations passed an emergency resolution through the Assembly which designated an official of the League and his staff as the Registrar and Registry respectively, with the first Registrar being Åke Hammarskjöld.

On 20 January 1192, Philip met with William of FitzRalph, Richard's seneschal of Normandy.

In January 2008 Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak met with former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani in Switzerland, at the Davos Economic Forum.

The Venice convention of 30 January 1892 was on cholera by the Suez Canal route ; that of Dresden of 15 April 1893, on cholera within European countries ; that of Paris of 3 April 1894, on cholera by the pilgrim traffic ; and that of Venice, on 19 March 1897, was in connection with the outbreak of plague in the East, and the conference met to settle on an international basis the steps to be taken to prevent, if possible, its spread into Europe.

In January 2002 the presidents of Suriname and Guyana met in Suriname and agreed to resume negotiations, establishing the Suriname-Guyana border commission to begin meeting in May 2002.

Sega had planned to ship at least 600, 000 consoles to retailers by Christmas ; this number was eventually met in January, 1995.