Apollo AS-201 Launch: First Saturn IB Flight, February 26, 1966

A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. Date: April 26, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Soviet Union Launches Luna 10, First Moon Orbiter March 31,…

Aeroflot Flight 2723 crashes into the Caspian Sea off the Absheron Peninsula, killing 33 people. Date: April 23, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 23 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Beaumont Children Disappear from Glenelg Beach, South Australia, January 26,…

The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed. Date: April 26, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This…

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year. Date: July 4, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 4 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966People’s Liberation…

A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown. Date: October 5, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 5 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966King Mwambutsa IV Deposed by Prince Charles Ndizi, July 8,…