WHAT ALL HAPPENED JANUARY TO AUGUST 1966
Find out what all happened January to August 1966

A twelve-day New York City transit strike begins. (1. January 1966)

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

Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai. (19. June 1966)

Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. (17. January 1966)

The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution. (16. May 1966)

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

After a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa assumes power as president of the Central African Republic. (1. January 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)

Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. (23. August 1966)

The Church of Satan is established at the Black House in San Francisco, California. (30. April 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)

Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup. (19. March 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)

The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. (3. February 1966)

Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena Target Vehicle. (16. March 1966)

Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan. (7. August 1966)

Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation. (10. March 1966)

After a policy dispute, Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam's ruling junta launches a military attack on the forces of General Ton That Dinh, forcing him to abandon his command. (15. May 1966)

Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. (1. March 1966)

Apollo Program: Launch of AS-201, the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket (26. February 1966)