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1966 Calendar Trivia

The next time you can reuse this calendar will be on year 2033. Both calendars will be exactly the same! This is assuming you are not interested in the dates for Easter and other irregular holidays that are based on a solar cycle.

April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), December 12 (12/12), and the last day of February always fall on the same day of the week in any given year. This is called the ‘Doomsday rule’. Check these dates using the full 12-month calendar below to verify.

1966 Calendar

Historical Events Of 1966

• January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
• February 23, 1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• April 26, 1966 – A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
• July 4, 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• July 18, 1966 – Australian children’s television series Play School airs for the first time, going on to become the longest-running children’s show in Australia, and the second longest running children’s show in the world
• September 6, 1966 – In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting.
• September 8, 1966 – The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
• October 15, 1966 – The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
• November 15, 1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program’s final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
• December 24, 1966 – A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.

Who Were Born On 1966?

• January 6, 1966 – Ipče Ahmedovski, Macedonian singer (d. 1994)
• February 25, 1966 – Sam Phillips, American model, actress, producer, and radio host
• February 28, 1966 – Archbishop Jovan VI of Ohrid
• March 23, 1966 – Lorenzo Daniel, American sprinter
• March 25, 1966 – Humberto González, Mexican boxer
• August 7, 1966 – Kristin Hersh, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses and 50 Foot Wave)
• September 14, 1966 – Aamer Sohail, Pakistani cricketer and politician
• October 3, 1966 – Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player and sportscaster
• October 26, 1966 – Sverre Gjørvad, Norwegian drummer and composer (Dingobats)
• December 27, 1966 – Bill Goldberg, American football player, wrestler, and actor