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.

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

* 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.

* 1966 – The Nigerian First Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d ' état.

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

There has been a strong military coup culture, between 1966 and 1999 10 Military Coups in Nigeria took place.

This measure tipped the balance in favor of Alawite officers who staged a coup in 1966 and for the first time placed Damascus in the hands of the Alawites.

The system ended with the military coup of 1966.

In January 1966, a group of primarily eastern Igbo led a military coup during which 30 political leaders including Nigeria's Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the Northern premier, Sir Ahmadu Bello were killed.

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.

In 1966 four cabinet members were arrested on charges of complicity in an attempted coup, tried by a military tribunal, and publicly executed in an open-air spectacle witnessed by over 50, 000 people.

Another coup in June 1966, the so-called Argentine Revolution, brought Onganía to power.

He had reached the rank of lieutenant colonel by 1966 and in 1968 he and Major Boris Martínez led a successful coup d ' état against the recently elected president of Panama, Arnulfo Arias, after only eleven days in office, when he tried to order Torrijos to a foreign post.

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (; 22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996, also known as Bokassa I of Central Africa and Salah Eddine Ahmed Bokassa ), a military officer, was the head of state of the Central African Republic and its successor state, the Central African Empire, from his coup d ' état on 1 January 1966 until 20 September 1979.

As relations between the two factions became worse, the Military Committee initiated the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état which ousted the National Command led by al-Razzaz, Aflaq and their supporters.

After the military coup, Sarney was a member of the ARENA, the political party of the military government and was elected as governor of the state of Maranhão in 1966, serving until 1971.

Following the 1966 Syrian coup d ' état against the leadership of Michel Aflaq, the Arab Socialist Ba ' ath Party split in two ; one Damascus-based ( Syrian-led ) Ba ' ath Party and one Baghdad-based ( Iraqi-led ) Ba ' ath Party.

He flew combat missions from Luang Prabang until 22 October 1966, when he once again attempted a coup.

In an attempt to regain control of the church, the pro-Jones group led a failed coup attempt during the Fifty-Ninth Holy Convocation in 1966.

In 1966, Jean-Bédel Bokassa took power in a coup d ' état.

After the 1966 military coup, the rulers promulgated a law establishing terms of four years, terms which were never completed because of political instability.

He drafted the constitution of the Organisation of African Unity ( OAU ); and also the first constitution of Ghana ( the first UK African colony to achieve independence ) which lasted for nine years until the coup of 1966.

Denard helped put down an attempted coup on behalf of Tshombe by Katangan separatists in July 1966.

The current text was chosen some time after the 1966 coup in Ghana.

They split in 1966 and Christina never remarried.

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 ).

Unusual for a star in the era before free agency, he split his best years between two teams: the Cincinnati Reds ( 1956 – 1965 ) and the Baltimore Orioles ( 1966 – 1971 ).

The PAP has held an overwhelming majority of seats in the Parliament of Singapore since 1966, when the opposition Barisan Sosialis ( Socialist Front ), a left-wing group that split from PAP in 1961, resigned from Parliament after winning 13 seats following the 1963 state elections, which took place months after a number of their leaders had been arrested in Operation Coldstore based on charges of being communists.

The Great Society decided to split up in late 1966 and played its last show on September 11.

Finally, in May 1966 the Lao General Staff summoned Thao Ma from RLAF headqarters at Savannakhet to inform him they had split off the transport planes into a separate air command and placed them under Sourith Don Sasorith.

It has been part of all coalitions with the significant exception of Paasio's first government ( 1966 – 68 ), which included only socialists ( Social Democratic Party ( SDP ), the split SDP faction Social Democratic Union of Workers and Smallholders and Finnish People's Democratic League ) and the Centre Party.

In 1966, the " Europe Zone " was split into two zones, " Europe Zone A " and " Europe Zone B ", so the winners of the four zones competed in the INZ challenger rounds.

This old province was established by the Americans in 1908 and was later split in 1966 into Mountain Province, Benguet, Kalinga, Apayao and Ifugao.

* Communist Revolutionary Party ( 1968 ): The Revolutionary Communist Party ( Partido Comunista Revolucionário, PCR ) emerged as an internal split of PCdoB in 1966, four years after the split of PC-SBIC into two parties.

* February 5-In another rematch of a 1966 world title fight, Dick Tiger retains his world Light-Heavyweight title with a fifteen round split decision over former world champion José Torres.

New Freeway Hall, Columbia City, Seattle, Washington, party headquarters. The Freedom Socialist Party is a socialist political party with a revolutionary feminist philosophy that emerged from a split in the United States Socialist Workers Party in 1966.

President McPhee retired in 1966, and the two Cal Poly split becoming two different and independent universities.

Professional instruction started in 1959 when the non-profit NAUI was formed, which later effectively was split, to form the for-profit PADI in 1966.

In 1966 the Ba ' ath movement split in half, one Syrian-dominated and one Iraqi-dominated.

In the aftermath of the 1966 Ba ' ath Party split, the Syrian-led Ba ' ath Party accused Aflaq of stealing al-Arsuzi's ideas, and called him a " thief ".

The 1966 Grand Prix received only minor appearance revisions from the 1965 edition including a new more rounded split grille and new taillight trim.

In due course two AONBs, split along the county boundary, were designated, namely the East Hampshire AONB in 1962 and the Sussex Downs AONB in 1966, and these were later to form the basis of the South Downs National Park.

In 1894, the manor was split to create the Sedgley and Coseley urban districts, the bulk of which were later merged into the Dudley County Borough in 1966.

The riding of Dartmouth — Halifax East was created in 1966 when the former dual-member Halifax riding was split into two.

There were few styling changes in the 1965 Valiants, but the 1966 Valiants had a split grille with fine-patterned insert ; new front fenders ; new rear fenders on the sedans ; new bevelled-edge rear reck lid ; heavier rear bumper ; and a new roofline with large backlight.

The institute was created in 1966 when it split from Steklov Institute of Mathematics.