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| 1966 |
| | | Mao Zedong unleashes China's teenagers as violent Red Guards to spearhead his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Prime minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in the South African parliament | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Gurindji people at the Wave Hill station walk out in protest, launching the Aboriginal land rights movement in Australia | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Whale, a cantata by English composer John Tavener, has its premiere at the inaugural concert of the London Sinfonietta | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, California, to launch a more aggressive campaign for civil rights | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong, better known as the 'Little Red Book', is the constant companion of every Red Guard | |
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| 1966 |
| | | 116 children die when a sliding slag heap buries a primary school in the Welsh village of Aberfan | |
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| 1966 |
| | | US author Susan Sontag publishes her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Former chief Seretse Khama becomes the first president of an independent Botswana | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Che Guevara arrives in Bolivia in the hope of fomenting a left-wing revolution | |
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