WHAT ALL HAPPENED JUNE TO OCTOBER 1966
Find out what all happened June to October 1966

Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions) (12. September 1966)

Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle. (18. July 1966)

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

King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. (8. July 1966)

The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera, Antony and Cleopatra. (16. September 1966)

The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. (14. June 1966)

Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap. (24. July 1966)

The Namibian War of Independence starts with the battle at Omugulugwombashe. (26. August 1966)

The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific. (2. July 1966)

Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. (1. August 1966)

Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province. (18. August 1966)

Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President. (6. July 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)

In Cape Town, South Africa, the architect of Apartheid, Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, is stabbed to death during a parliamentary meeting. (6. September 1966)

The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II. (8. September 1966)

The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. (30. June 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)

The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. (29. August 1966)

The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. (22. October 1966)

Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers. (22. August 1966)