WHAT ALL HAPPENED NOVEMBER TO DECEMBER 1966
Find out what all happened November to December 1966

The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. (27. December 1966)

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

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. (8. November 1966)

NASA launches Gemini 12. (11. November 1966)

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

Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. (18. December 1966)

The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. (2. November 1966)

Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom. (30. November 1966)

Barbados joins the United Nations. (9. December 1966)

Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. (15. November 1966)

In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu. (13. November 1966)

The Greek ship SS Heraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200. (8. December 1966)

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

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

The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194 cm. (4. November 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 first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. (26. December 1966)

The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle. (1. December 1966)