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January   February   March   April   May   June   July   August   September   October   November   December     General 1966 Miss World 1966 Reita Faria ( Miss India ) Miss Universe 1966 Margareta Arvidsson (Sweden) 1966 Eurovision Song Contest Winner: Austria Udo Jurgens  'Merci Cheri' 1966 Academy Awards - The 'Oscars' Best Actor: Paul Schofield ( A Man For All Seasons ) Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ( Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? )Best Film: A Man For All Seasons 1966 - General The Average Wage: £20.6s.1d Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California Mrs Ghandi becomes prime minister of India An American plane 'loses' an H-bomb off the coast of Spain French car manufacturers Peugeot and Renault merge The thermal printer is invented by Texas Instruments Pierre Cardin's 'Space Age' collection is launched The Playboy 'Bunny' Club opens at 45 Park Lane The MacLaren Formula 1 racing team is formed Unemployment quoted at 328,000 Two American Gemini capsules dock in orbit The Beatles play their last live concert Frank Sinatra marries Mia Farrow Mary Quant is awarded the O.B.E. Hayley Mills marries John Boulting The 'Cultural Revolution' starts in China The Rootes Group is taken over by Chrysler In Vietnam American dead outnumber Vietnamese for the first time Timothy 'turn on, tune in and drop out' Leary is arrested on drug charges The opening of parliament is shown live on television for the first time James Meredith, the first black student at Mississippi University is shot dead Lulu becomes the first British female pop singer to perform behind the 'Iron Curtain' Henrik Verwoerd dies after being stabbed by a white man in South Africa's parliament Henry Cooper loses his rematch with Muhammad Ali in the 6th round, due to cuts Evangelist Billy Graham begins a major campaign at Earl's Court Grand Prix drivers Walter Hansgen and John Taylor are killed in crashes January 1966 1st The Psychedelic Shop opens at Haight Street, San Francisco 4th 4,000 people attend a memorial service for Richard Dimbleby at Westminster Abbey 13th Three visiting Labour M.P.s are expelled from Rhodesia 15th The TRIPS festival, considered to be the start of the Hippie movement is held in San Francisco 19th Menzies resigns as Australian Prime Minister after a record 16 years in office 21st Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd 28th Film actress Hedy Lamarr is arrested for shoplifting in Los Angeles 29th The Road Safety Act is passed which leads to the use of the breathalyser February 1966 1st The first £25,000 Premium Bond winner was Norman Jepson 1st Silent comedy star Buster Keaton dies aged 70 1st Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper dies 3rd Luna 9 is the first artificial satellite to land on the moon 7th The Who and The Kinks perform on the last 'Shindig' show on ABC television 8th Freddie Laker sets up an airline to cater for the package holiday market 9th The government announces plans to build a fast-breeder reactor at Dounreay, Scotland 28th Liverpool's 'Cavern Club' closes March 1966 1st The Russian craft Venus III is the first to land on another planet 1st The government announces plans for decimalisation 3rd Actor William Frawley who played Fred Mertz in 'I Love Lucy' dies 17th Arkle wins the Cheltenham Gold Cup for the third year in succession 20th The World Cup Jules Rimet trophy is stolen from Central Hall, Westminster 27th The World Cup trophy is found in a garden in South London by 'Pickles' the dog 31st Labour are re-elected in a General Election April 1966 Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti marry for the second time, the first being declared void 1st The British Airports Authority is formed 2nd Author C.S. Forester dies 4th The Soviet spacecraft Luna X achieves Lunar orbit 10th Evelyn Waugh dies 26th L.K. O'Brien is appointed Governor of The Bank of England May 1966 3rd Pirate station Britain Radio starts test broadcasts 6th Brady and Hindley are found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment for the 'Moors Murders' 15th The 44 day seamens strike causes the government to declare a state of emergency 16th Ex-World Champion boxer Randolph Turpin is found shot dead at his flat in Leamington Spa 19th The revolving restaurant at the top of the Post Office tower opens 20th The Who's Keith Moon is injured when accidentally struck by Pete Townshend during a 'wild' routine June 1966 The Beatles appear 'live' on T.V. for the first time on 'Top of the Pops' 2nd Philips Petroleum announce the finding of a huge gas field in the North Sea off the Humber estuary 7th Roy Orbison's wife Claudette dies following a motorcycle accident 20th PC492 Mohamet Yusuf Daar becomes Britain's first black policeman 20th Sheila Scott lands her Piper Comanche at Heathrow, completing her 33 day round the world solo flight - the first woman to achieve it 21st Reg Calvert, owner of pirate station Radio City, is shot dead 29th The Barclaycard is launched, the first British-based credit card 29th Comedy actor Ronald Shiner dies July 1966 Brighton is the first English town to get 'yellow pages' Bob Dylan breaks his neck in a motorcycle accident, taking 18 months to recover Mike D'Abo replaces Paul Jones as lead singer of pop group Manfred Mann 11th BMC and Jaguar announce that they are to merge as British Motor Holdings 14th Brigitte Bardot marries Gunther Sachs 28th At 70, Florence Nagle becomes the first licensed female racehorse trainer 30th England win football's World Cup at Wembley, beating West Germany 4-2 30th Image 1Image 2Image 3 31st Princess Alexandra gives birth to Marina Victoria Alexandra August 1966 Prince Philip opens the Commonwealth Games in Kingston, Jamaica 3rd Comedian Lenny Bruce dies of a drugs overdose 6th The Ministry of Social Security is formed from the Ministries of Pensions and National Insurance 10th George Brown succeeds Michael Stewart as Foreign Secretary 14th U.S. spacecraft Orbiter 1 is reported to have achieved Lunar orbit 15th John Whitney is charged with the murder of three policemen 18th The Tay road bridge is opened 27th Francis Chichester begins his solo round the world voyage in Gypsy Moth IV September 1966 BMC announce plans for 11,000 redundancies, causing a strike until 11th November 3rd John Ridgeway and Chay Blyth complete their 92-day row across the Atlantic 6th The South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is assassinated 8th The Severn road bridge is opened by Her Majesty The Queen 15th Britain's first polaris submarine, H.M.S. Resolution, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness 28th 41 year old Eric Fleming, who played Gil Favor in 'Rawhide', is drowned in Peru 30th Lord Thomson buys The Times October 1966 Lead singer Denny Laine quits The Moody Blues 1st Georgie Fame splits from his backing group 'The Blue Flames' 7th Pop star Johnny Kidd dies in a car crash in Lancashire 7th The 'hippie' drug LSD is made illegal in California 14th The first edition of the 'International Times' underground paper is published 18th Timothy Evans is given a posthumous free pardon for the Christie murders 21st The Aberfan colliery slurry tip slide disaster claims the lives of 116 children and 28 adults 22nd Spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison 26th Singer Alma Cogan dies of cancer November 1966 Edward Brooke becomes the first black senator to be elected in the U.S.A. 9th Art treasures are endangered as Florence suffers its worst floods for a thousand years 9th Jack Lynch becomes the new Irish Prime Minister 9th Paul McCartney is involved in the moped accident which leads to rumours of his death by decapitation 15th James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin splash down in Gemini 12, the last Gemini mission 17th 150,000 Leonid meteors an hour visible in the skies across the United States 19th British comedy actor Arthur Haynes dies 25th Edgar J. Hoover announces that all evidence suggests that Lee Harvey Oswald was acting alone December 1966 The B.B.C. announces plans for reorganisation of its stations 1st The first British Christmas postage stamp is issued 6th The first geo-stationary satellite is placed in orbit over the Pacific 15th Cartoon genius Walt Disney dies aged 65 23rd The last edition of 'Ready Steady Go!' is broadcast 25th Pirate radio station Radio Essex closes down