Venera 3 Crashes on Venus, First Spacecraft to Land on Another Planet March 1, 1966

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9. Date: October 1, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 1 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Beijing Red Guards Kill Bian…

Charles Whitman kills 15 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police. Date: August 1, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 1 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Soviet Union Launches Luna 9 Spacecraft, January…

Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965. Date: February 2, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 2 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 Crashes Near Bratislava, 82 Killed, November 24, 1966Hendrik…

Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), the predecessor of the United Farm Workers. Date: August 22, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 22 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966F-104 Collides with…

March Against Fear: African-American civil rights activist James Meredith is wounded in an ambush by white sniper James Aubrey Norvell. Meredith and Norvell are photographed by Jack R. Thornell, whose photo will receive the 1967 Pulitzer Prize in Photography, the last one to be awarded in the category. Date: June 6, 1966 Read more on…

Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965. Date: January 10, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 10 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Aeroflot Flight 2723 Crashes into Caspian Sea, 33…