Date: August 18, 1966
Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu. Date: May 30, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on May 30 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Tashkent Declaration Ends…
The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded. Date: June 30, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on June 30 📅 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,…
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) More events from 1966NFWA and AWOC Merge to Form UFWOC, United Farm…
A colliery spoil tip slips onto houses and a school in the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, 116 of whom were schoolchildren. Date: October 21, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on October 21 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from…
Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Date: August 29, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on August 29 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This Day (Today) More events from 1966Bechuanaland Becomes Republic of Botswana, Independence Declared September 30,…
The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed. Date: April 26, 1966 Read more on Wikipedia → 📅 Other events on April 26 📅 Events on this day in 1966 📅 On This…