British Guiana Gains Independence, Becomes Guyana, May 26, 1966

The Tbilisi Metro is opened. Date: January 11, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 11 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Haile Selassie Visits Jamaica, Rastafari Grounation Day, April 21, 1966Surveyor 1 First U.S. Soft Landing on the Moon June 2,…

Topeka, Kansas, United States is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale, exceeding US$200 million in damages. Seventeen people are killed, over five hundred more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. Date: June 8, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 8 📅…

The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland. Date: May 21, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 21 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966DSV Alvin Finds Missing American Hydrogen Bomb Off Spain, March 17,…

In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist. Date: February 23, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 23 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Robert…

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…

Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England. Date: May 6, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 6 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Apollo Program AS-201 Launch: First Saturn IB Flight, February…