* 1966 – The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system.

Monarchs and members of their family have also owned in a private capacity homes and land in Canada: King Edward VIII owned Bedingfield Ranch, near Pekisko, Alberta ; The Marquess of Lorne and Princess Louise owned a cottage on the Cascapédia River in Quebec ; and Princess Margaret owned Portland Island between its gifting to her by the Crown in Right of British Columbia in 1958 and her death in 2002, though she offered it back to the Crown on permanent loan in 1966 and the island and surrounding waters eventually became Princess Margaret Marine Park.

René Lévesque (; August 24, 1922 – November 1, 1987 ) was a reporter, a minister of the government of Quebec, ( 1960 – 1966 ), the founder of the Parti Québécois political party and the 23rd Premier of Quebec ( November 25, 1976 – October 3, 1985 ).

He served as the 19th Premier of Quebec from 22 June 1960, to 16 August 1966.

Bourassa was first elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec ( MLA ) for the riding of Mercier in 1966, then won the Quebec Liberal Party leadership election on January 17, 1970.

While living in Montreal, Quebec in 1966, Fraser and poet Leroy Johnson founded the literary magazine Intercourse: Contemporary Canadian Writing ( see Intercourse magazine ).

In 1963, in conjunction with the Canada Pension Plan the government of Canada authorized the province to create its own Régie des Rentes du Québec ( Quebec Pension Plan ); universal contributions came into effect in 1966.

In particular, countries such as Italy, the Benelux countries, Spain, Portugal ( with the Civil Code of 1867, later replaced by the Civil Code of 1966, which is strongly influenced by the German BGB ), the Latin American countries, the province of Quebec, the state of Louisiana in the United States, and all other former French colonies which base their civil law systems to a strong extent on the Napoleonic Code.

His father, Daniel Johnson, Sr., had been the Premier of Quebec from 1966 to 1968 as the leader of the Union Nationale, a conservative political party.

His father, Daniel Johnson, Sr., served as Premier of Quebec from 1966 to 1968.

Francis Daniel Johnson, Sr., PC ( April 9, 1915 – September 26, 1968 ) was a Quebec politician and the 20th Premier of Quebec from 1966 until his death in 1968.

In 1965 and 1966, Flxible also licensed its " New Look " transit bus design to Canadair Ltd., an aircraft manufacturer in Ville St-Laurent, Quebec.

From 1966 to 1969, the company acquired and upgraded their network to fill all of Quebec.

In the 1966 Quebec general election, the RIN, along with the Ralliement National or RN, won about 8. 8 % of the popular vote and no seats.

* Daniel Johnson, Sr. ( 1915 – 1968 ), politician, leader of the Union Nationale party and Quebec premier, 1966 – 1968

The Quebec general election of 1966 was held on June 5, 1966, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec, Canada.

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" He had previously been a candidate of the Ralliement national, a social credit and Quebec nationalist party that contested the 1966 provincial election without Caouette's approval.

* Adrian Hanauer ( born 1966 ), American businessman and minority owner and general manager of the Seattle Sounders FC

The 1965 constitution led to the first general elections and to independence on 30 September 1966.

He first entered the House of Commons in the general election of 1966, as the Labour MP for Aberdeen South, at the age of 28.

He unsuccessfully contested the marginal seat of Aberdeen South in the 1964 general election, and won it in the landslide Labour victory at the 1966 general election at the age of 28, defeating Priscilla Tweedsmuir by 1, 799 votes.

The support for state autonomy grew when Awami League introduced the Six point movement in 1966, and participated with full force in the 1970 general elections in which the Awami League had won and secured the exclusive mandate of East-Pakistan.

Holt fought his first and only general election as Prime Minister on 26 November 1966, focusing his campaign on the issue of Vietnam and the supposed Communist threat in Asia.

In 1966, Robinson was hired as general manager for the short-lived Brooklyn Dodgers of the Continental Football League.

Since independence, general elections have been held in 1966, 1971, 1976, 1981, 1987, 1992, 1996, 1998, 2003 and 2008.

* 1892 – Josef Dietrich, German SS general ( d. 1966 )

After the 1966 general election, in which Labour won a comfortable majority, Jenkins pushed through a series of police reforms which reduced the number of separate forces from 117 to 49.

A Liberal activist in Lowdham, Nottinghamshire during the 1966 general election canvassed a gardener in his seventies and was brusquely informed: " I'm a Gladstone and a Primitive Methodist ".

The current Father of the House of Commons is Sir Peter Tapsell, Conservative MP for Louth and Horncastle, who began his continuous service from the 1966 general election.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

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

Heath became the Tories ' youngest leader and retained office after the party's defeat in the general election of 1966.

During 1965, this was reduced to a single seat as a result of by-election defeats, but in May 1966 Wilson called another general election and this time won it by a 96-seat majority.

In the 1970 general election Plaid Cymru contested every seat in Wales for the first time and its vote share surged from 4. 5 % in 1966 to 11. 5 %.

* 1966 — Stephen Hawking and George Ellis show that any plausible general relativistic cosmology is singular

* The art of awareness ; a textbook on general semantics by J. Samuel Bois, Dubuque, Iowa: W. C. Brown Co., 1966.

Trying to improve the condition of Christians in general and Catholics in particular behind the Iron Curtain, he engaged in dialogue with Communist authorities at several levels, receiving Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and USSR President Nikolai Podgorny in 1966 and 1967 in the Vatican.

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

In 1966, in a study of revolutionary socialism, Milorad M. Drachkovitch of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace ( a conservative / libertarian think tank ), noted two tactical options which divided late 19th century and early 20th century anarchists from socialists: electoral politics, which the socialists embraced, but anarchists generally opposed ; and, the general strike as a mechanism to prevent war, which anarchists supported, but socialists refused to endorse.

The American World War II and Korean War general Haywood Hansell, who helped plan the Allied bombing offensive against both Germany and Japan, lived in Wassenaar in retirement from 1957 to 1966.