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| 1966 |
| | | Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, becomes India's prime minister as leader of the Congress party | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Robert Menzies retires as Australian prime minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 is the first to achieve a soft-landing on the moon and to send back photographic data from the surface | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Ghana, is toppled in a coup while away on a state visit to China | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes power in a coup in the Central African Republic | |
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| c. 1966 |
| | | Scientists at the US Geological Survey develop the theory of plate tectonics as the explanation of continental drift | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Real-life husband and wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as the married couple in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 orbits the moon and broadcasts the Internationale to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Suharto forces the Indonesian president, Achmed Sukarno, to hand over to him all executive powers | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Joaquin Balaguer, a close associate of Trujillo, is elected president of the Dominican Republic | |
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| 1966 |
| | | British actor Michael Caine makes his name starring in two outstanding films within the year, Alfie and The Ipcress File | |
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| 1966 |
| | | English novelist Paul Scott publishes The Jewel in the Crown, the first volume in his 'Raj Quartet' | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Leonid Brezhnev, taking the title General Secretary (last used by Stalin), makes it plain that he is the Soviet leader | |
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| 1966 |
| | | NATO headquarters moves to Brussels after de Gaulle expels all NATO personnel from French soil | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the Awami League, demands full autonomy for East Pakistan (Bangladesh) | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Plaid Cymru sends its first MP to Westminster when Gwynfor Evans wins a Carmarthen by-election | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Irish poet Seamus Heaney wins critical acclaim for Death of a Naturalist, his first volume containing more than a few poems | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Communist leaders Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping are attacked in China's Cultural Revolution as the biggest and worst 'capitalist roaders' | |
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| 1966 |
| | | British fashion designer Mary Quant launches the miniskirt | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles | |
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| 1966 |
| | | After a long period of obscurity, Wide Sargasso Sea brings novelist Jean Rhys back into the literary limelight | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, by Tom Stoppard, is produced at the Edinburgh Festival | |
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| 1966 |
| | | UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Alf Ramsey (manager) and Bobby Moore (captain) lead the England football team to victory in the World Cup | |
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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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