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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 12, 1966 – Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
• January 21, 1966 – New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Fire Horse in Chinese astrology.
• February 26, 1966 – Vietnam War: The ROK Capital Division of the South Korean Army massacres 380 unarmed civilians in South Vietnam.
• May 8, 1966 – A plane crash at Connellsville, Pennsylvania kills Pennsylvania Attorney General, Walter E. Alessandroni, his wife, and other state officials.
• July 1, 1966 – The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• September 12, 1966 – Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA’s Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions)
• September 15, 1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
• October 5, 1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
• November 13, 1966 – In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
• November 28, 1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.

Who Were Born On 1966?

• January 17, 1966 – António Zeferino, Cape Verdean runner
• April 8, 1966 – Harri Rovanperä, Finnish race car driver
• May 8, 1966 – Cláudio Taffarel, Brazilian footballer and coach
• June 21, 1966 – Nan Woods, American actress
• July 13, 1966 – Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor and educator
• July 19, 1966 – David Segui, American baseball player
• September 27, 1966 – Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut
• October 12, 1966 – Jonathan Crombie, Canadian-American actor and screenwriter (d. 2015)
• October 15, 1966 – Bill Charlap, American pianist and composer (The Blue Note 7)
• October 25, 1966 – Perry Saturn, American wrestler