Date: June 13, 1966
Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President. Date: July 6, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on July 6 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Ulster Volunteer Force Declares War on IRA in Northern Ireland, May 21, 1966France First…
The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. Date: March 1, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 1 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Haile Selassie Visits Jamaica, Rastafari Grounation Day, April 21, 1966Explorer 32 Launches May 25, 1966Rabbi Morris Adler Fatally…
Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit. Date: March 16, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on March 16 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966British Guiana Gains…
Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day. Date: April 21, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 21 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Robert C. Weaver Becomes First African American Cabinet Member, January…
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…
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 1966Venera 3…