WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO DECEMBER 1966
Find out what all happened January to December 1966

Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended. (12. January 1966)

All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133. (4. February 1966)

Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president. (28. November 1966)

The first prominent dàzìbào during the Cultural Revolution in China is posted at Peking University. (25. May 1966)

The city of Tashkent is destroyed by a huge earthquake. (25. April 1966)

The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. (13. June 1966)

A new government is formed in the Republic of Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. (26. April 1966)

A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129. (24. December 1966)

The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced. (29. September 1966)

The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. (21. May 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. (15. September 1966)

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. (24. November 1966)

Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction. (8. November 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. (4. July 1966)

In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist. (23. February 1966)

A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board. (15. November 1966)

Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations. (17. October 1966)

The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. (1. March 1966)

The former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu. (30. May 1966)

A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people. (4. March 1966)