This page relates to the year 1966 Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

  • January 3rd: Conference “tricontinentale” with Havana (more than 500 deputy) (3-15 janv.).
  • December 2nd: Re-election of U Thant as general secretary of UNO.
  • the the United Nations proclaim the international Pacte relating to the economic rights, social and cultural.

Europe

  • Attempt at liberalization of the mode in Yugoslavia by S. Kavčič (1966 - 1968).

  • Herminio de Palma founds the League of union and revolutionary action (LUAR) to the Portugal.
  • the industielle production in Yugoslavia more than doubled compared to 1957. The share of GNP accumulated and distributed by the federal government fell from 70 to 30%.

Spain

  • November: Constitutional reform in Spain: separation of the capacities between the Head of the State and the chief of the government (the first names the second); widening of the the Cortes to members elected by the household heads and the married women.
  • December 14th: Referendum on the Organic law of the State, in Spain.
  • Law on the press of Manual Fraga Iribarne raising the preliminary censure in Spain.
  • working Dispute in Spain (1966 - 1967).

France

See also: 1966 in France

Great Britain

  • January: Creation of the Council of the reorganization industrial to facilitate the industrial merger (birth of British Leyland and International Computers Ltd in 1968). Creation of a National council of research and development.
  • March 31st: Labor Victoire with legislative with the the United Kingdom.
  • May 21st: Formation of the Defense forces of Ulster (UVF, Protestants), which carry out anticatholic operations in Northern Ireland.
  • September 15th: Setting with flood of the first British submarine equipped with 16 fused Polaris.
  • 600  000 applicants for work to the the United Kingdom.

Italy

Soviet Union

  • the new plan envisages to quadruple the production of cars while passing from a production from 200.000 to 800.000 units. FIAT and Renault are candidates to help Soviet to assemble factories.

    • In Ukraine, FIAT will be authorized to build a factory to assemble a model derived from FIAT 124 and which will employ 20.000 workmen for an awaited production of 300.000 units.
    • Renault obtains in June a big contract to modernize various existing factories, in particular those which produce the Moskvitch.

Africa

  • January 1st: Coup d'etat of the general Jean-Bedel Bokassa in Central Africa which replaces the president David Dacko. Bokassa dissolves the Parliament and suspends the Constitution.

  • January 3rd: In the Upper Volta, a popular rising leads the first president Maurice Yaméogo to resign. The colonel Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana becomes president of the republic in the name of the army.
  • January 15th: The president of the Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe is reversed. Beginning of a series of successive Coups d'etat in Nigeria. Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi seizes the power (fine the July 29th).
  • February 24th: Kwame Nkrumah, absent, is deposited by a military coup d'etat to the Ghana.
  • March 2nd: Milton Obote seizes the power in Uganda following a coup d'etat against the kabaka (king) of Bouganda. It imposes a bloody dictatorship (300  000 died of 1966 with 1972).
  • May-June: “Conspiracy of Pentecost” to the Congo-Kinshasa, of which the alleged leaders are hung as a public in front of hundreds of thousands of spectators.
  • June: China grants a new loan to the Mali and sends new technical assistants.
  • June 7th: In Democratic republic of Congo, the Lieutenant-General Joseph-Desired Mobutu promulgates the Bakajika, specifying the land legal mode like what “the ground and the basement belong at the Congolese State”.
  • June 27th: The charter of OCAM (common Organization African and Malagasy) is adopted with Tananarive.
  • June 30th: Léopoldville is officially famous Kinshasa.
  • July 8th: The king of the Burundi Mwambusta IV is deposited by his son Ntare V the Lion.
  • July 29th: The president of the Nigeria Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi is assassinated.
  • : The general Yakubu Gowon arrives at the capacity at the Nigeria. He divides the federation into twenty-six States to break the hegemony of the North, which is distributed in six units. The Ibo, which directed the area hitherto is, are seen cut sea and oil fields.
  • August 25th: Charles de Gaulle is accommodated with Djibouti by violent demonstrations in favor of independence.
  • September 30th: Independence of the Botswana.
  • September: Cabinet reshuffle with the Mali following the departure of four important ministers.
  • October 4th: Creation of the Lesotho.
  • October 17th: The the United Nations withdraw its mandate on the South-western African with the South Africa.
  • November 28th: Military coup d'etat to the Burundi. Establishment of the Republic.
  • December 31st: the Government Congolese nationalizes the UMHK, activities and properties, renaming it Gécamines (General society of the Careers and the Mines), a government enterprise.

  • the Malawi Congress Party (MCW) becomes the sole party of the Malawi.

  • the UPS (Union progressist sénégalaise) becomes sole party in fact to the Senegal.
  • Reference of the Nigerians of the Ghana (1966-1967).

Americas

  • January: Fidel Castro convenes a conference “tricontinentale” in order to create a revolutionary network of solidarity between the people of the Tiers-monde.
  • May 26th: Independence of the Guyana.
  • May 28th: Fidel Castro proclaims the martial Loi with Cuba to prevent a possible attack of the the United States.
  • June 28th: Military coup d'etat in Argentinian. Arturo Umberto Illia is reversed. The general Juan Carlos Onganía seizes the power, proclaims the “Argentinian revolution” ( Revolución Argentina ) and sets up an bureaucratic-authoritative mode. An economic program of fight against inflation, including/understanding a gel of the two years wages, is implemented. Onganía runs up against the increase in political violence, part of the left having taken the weapons against the oppressive mode, and is unable to cause political supports for its economic program. Radicals and peronists remain firmly in the opposition.
  • July 29th: Night of the Long Sticks ( Noche of los Bastones Largos ) in Argentinian. The police force dislodges the professors and the students who invested five universities.
  • October 7th: Dorion, Quebec - Tragedy railway whereas a bus filled of students was violently struck by a train, killing 19 people and by wounding 24 others. The precise cause of the accident is remained unknown with knowing why to the level crossing, the barrier rose too quickly whereas a second train ran in opposite direction, which the bus driver could not see. The impact was fatal.
  • October 14th: Opening of the Subway of Montreal.
  • November 27th: The presidential system east restores by the constitution in Uruguay.
  • November 30th: Independence of the Barbados.

  • rural Repression of the guerilla to the Peru, which makes several thousands of dead and discredits the mode of Belaúnde.

  • Mexico: Plan of the president Gustavo Díaz Ordaz of development and economic planning five years.

The United States

  • Turbid racial and birth of the “black power” in the United States. Riots in Chicago and Cleveland (be).

Oceania & the Pacific

Asia

  • March 11th, Indonesia: The general Soeharto, who afait to encircle the presidential palace by the army, obtains the full powerss of Soekarno while making him sign a Surat Perintah Sebelas Maret (" Supersemar ") or " schedule of March 11th " , by which the president formally transfers the capacity to the general. Soeharto is elected president of the Republic on March 21st by the MPRS ( Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat Sementara , " deliberative assembly of the people temporaire").
  • April 12th: American B-52 start to bombard the Vietnam of North.
  • July, Indonesia: Soekarno is deposed title of life president. He preserves a nominal right to watch on the governmental businesses. A presidium seizes the power, made up of Suharto (representative of the army), of Adam Malik (of the party Murba, “Marxist national”), of Hamengu Buwono XI (near to the socialist party prohibited in 1960), Idham Chalid (Nahdatul Ulama) and Sanusi Hardjdinata (right-hand side of the nationalist party). A rehandling with place the October 11th.
  • August 31st: Speech of Phnom Penh: No the military solution with the Vietnam, known as Charles de Gaulle, which requires the evacuation of the American forces followed by peace negotiation.
  • October 22nd: The general Lon Nol becomes Prime Minister with the Kampuchea.
  • October 25th: Subandrio, former Foreign Minister indonésien is condemned to death.

  • Treated friendship and of assistance enters the Mongolia and the Soviet Union, renewed in 1986.
  • the Japanese Communist party breaks with the Chinese PC follows to the Cultural revolution.

Indian sub-continent

China

  • Tibet : The Cultural revolution involves the destruction by the red, Chinese guards but also Tibetans, of testimonys of the old mode: monasteries, castles, books, statues, paintings, chortens and any marks of “superstitions” are destroyed.

The Middle East

  • February: The Egypt sign an agreement with the Soviet Union which allows the visit of Soviet ships in the ports of Salloum and of Port-Saïd. Nasser also grants visits to the Turkey, the France and the the United States to show its political independence.
  • February 23rd: The army organizes a coup d'etat in Syria. The radical faction seizes the power. A triumvirate is formed with Salah Jedid, Noureddine Al-Atassi and Hafez el-Assad. Aflaq and Bitar is constrained with the exile. The faction sunnite of the Parti Baath is eliminated from the political responsibilities. Alaouites and Druzes clashes for the conquest of the political field.
  • April 13rd: Died of the President d' Irak Abdel Salam Aref, which is replaced with the report heading by his/her brother Abdul Rahman Arif.
  • May 20th: The the United States deliver for the first time a tactical armament to the State of Israel.
  • September: The Druzes try to seize the capacity in Syria but are overcome and must disperse. The officers Alaouites, from now on only with the capacity, form the Néo-Baath with the end of the year. It approaches the Egypt and restores the diplomatic relations broken in 1961. It supports PLO and lets multiply the incidents in the area of the Golan.

  • PLO tries to be established in the West Bank. The Jordan breaks its relations with it.

  • the attack of a plane of company El-Al on the airport of Athens by a commando Palestinian mark the beginning of terrorism related to the geopolitical situation of the the Middle East.
  • Egypt: The public sector accounts for 90% of the value added industrial Egyptian woman. Establishment of a committee against feudality: approximately 30  000 ha are put under sequestration.

Arts & cultures

See also: 1966 with the cinema, 1966 in music, 1966 in literature, 1966 with the theater, 1966 as a cartoon, 1966 on television

Sciences & technology

See also: 1966 in science

See also: 1966 in aeronautics

See also: 1966 in the railroads

Sports

See also: 1966 in sport

See also: 1966 in football

Religion

  • March 23rd: The Pape Paul VI receives with Rome Dr. Michael Ramsey, archbishop of Canterbury. Since nearly four centuries, the two Churches were not attended any more. This day, they created commission anglicano - catholic.

  • nonwell informed or unknown Dates:

    • Suppression of the Index under Paul VI after the council the Vatican II.

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