WHAT ALL HAPPENED FEBRUARY TO NOVEMBER 1966
Find out what all happened February to November 1966

The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). (22. October 1966)

Australian currency is decimalised. (14. February 1966)

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

Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. (5. October 1966)

Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day. (21. April 1966)

Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. (15. October 1966)

The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. (30. June 1966)

The first Star Trek series premieres on NBC. (8. September 1966)

Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup. (19. March 1966)

Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. (1. August 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)

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

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)

The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. (14. October 1966)

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

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

Aberfan disaster: A slag heap collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren. (21. October 1966)

The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. (1. July 1966)

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