Date: February 12, 1966
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Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon. Date: August 23, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on August 23 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Charles Whitman University of Texas Shooting Kills 15 August 1, 1966Chicago…
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. Date: September 15, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on September 15 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day…
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 β π Other events on February 28 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day (Today) More…
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world. Date: June 2, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on June 2 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1966China Officially Purges Intellectuals…
A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people. Date: March 4, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia β π Other events on March 4 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This Day (Today) More events from 1966NASA T-38 Crash Kills Astronauts See and Bassett, February…
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 β π Other events on February 3 π Events on this day in 1966 π On This…