NASA Launches Gemini 12, November 11, 1966

A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett. Date: February 28, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on February 28 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More…

The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra. Date: September 16, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 16 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Ansett-ANA Flight…

Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting. Date: September 6, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on September 6 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Aeroflot Flight 2723 Crashes…

Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. Date: October 4, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 4 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966British Guiana Gains Independence, Becomes Guyana, May 26, 1966Beaumont Children Disappear from Glenelg Beach,…

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 1966Bulgarian TABSO…