The Great Fire of Iloilo breaks out in a lumber yard in Iznart Street and burns for almost half a day destroying nearly three-quarters of the City Proper area and Php 50 million pesos in total properties' damage. Date: February 7, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 7 📅 Events…
All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133. Date: February 4, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 4 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon. Date: February 3, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 3 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This…
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)
The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program. Date: January 31, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 31 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
The three Beaumont children disappear from a beach in Glenelg, South Australia, resulting in one of the country's largest-ever police investigations. Date: January 26, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 26 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
Air India Flight 101 crashes into Mont Blanc. Date: January 24, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 24 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
Indira Gandhi becomes India's first female prime minister. Date: January 19, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 19 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)
Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea. Date: January 17, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 17 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅…
The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état. Date: January 15, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on January 15 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today)