1966

1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year beginning on a Saturday according to the Gregorian calendar.

Events

January

• January 1st: In Central African Republic Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa defeats President David Dacko. The Constitution and civil rights are suspended.
• 2 January: In the United States, public transport employees in New York are on strike (which will end on 13 January).
• 3 January:
  • The First Tricontinental Conference (with over 500 delegates) meets in Havana, Cuba. It will end on January 15. OSPAAAL (Organization of Solidarity among the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America) is created, which calls on the peoples of the world to "create one, two, three Vietnam".
  • First LSD test at Fillmore (San Francisco).
  • In the United States, the first spy aircraft Lockheed SR-71 comes into service.
• 4 January:
  • In Alto Volta (now Burkina Faso) the military Aboubacar Sangoulé Lamizana defeats the first president Maurice Yaméogo.
  • In France, a fire due to a gas loss at the Feyzin oil refinery (near Lyon) leaves 84 injured and 18 killed (11 of them firefighters).
• 4-10 January: in Taskent, the capital of Uzbekistan (one of the republics of the Soviet Union), the first ministers of India and Pakistan are present.
• January 5: in France, re-election of the government of Georges Pompidou, defeat of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
• January 6: Vicente Soto wins the Nadal award for his novel The ditch.
• 7 January: in France the IUT (University Institutes of Technology) are created.
• 10 January:
  • The peace negotiations between Pakistan and India are successfully concluded in the Soviet Union.
  • In France, the newspaper L'Express publishes the story of Georges Figon, who participated in the abduction of Mehdi Ben Barka (on January 18, the French police will announce that Figon committed suicide before being arrested).
• 11 January:
  • Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri dies in India.
  • In Lagos (Rodesia, present Zimbabwe) a conference begins on the national situation.
• January 12: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares that U.S. soldiers must stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression is over.
• 13 January:
  • In a well 183 meters underground, in the U9br area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:37 (local time) United States detonates its Maxwell atomic bomb, less than 20 kt. It is the 442 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
  • Two islands of the archipelago of Juan Fernández (Chile) receive new names: Robinson Crusoe (formerly called More to Earth) and Alejandro Selkirk (formerly More Out).
  • In the United States—in the framework of apartheid that devastated that country until 1967—Robert C. Weaver is appointed Secretary of Urban Development, and becomes the first African-American to access the government cabinet of that country.
• 15 January:
  • In Nigeria the military took power violently.
  • The Soviet Government of Moscow announces the death of Serguéi Koroliov, chief engineer of the Soviet Space Programme.
• 16 January:
  • In Havana, during the First Conference of Solidarity of the Peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America and at the initiative of its President Salvador Allende, the 27 Latin American delegations decided to create the Latin American Solidarity Organization (OLAS), which calls the Latin American peoples to "make the Andes mountain range a gigantic Sierra Maestra tricontinental".
  • In Montevideo (Uruguay) comes the first issue of the magazine March.
• 17 January:
  • In Spain, two American planes are colliding (a B-52 Stratofortress and a KC-135 Stratotanker). Four atomic bombs of 70 kilotons fall, at sea, three in the vicinity of Palomares and another in the vicinity of Almeria.
  • In Nigeria, the two-day coup d ' état is countered.
  • Carl Brashear, the first African American diver, suffers an accident in the recovery mission of the fallen bombs in Palomares, which forces him to amputate his leg.
  • In the United States, Simon and Garfunkel publish their second album, The sounds of silence.
• 18 January:
  • Nearly 8,000 U.S. soldiers landed in South Vietnam (in total there are already 190 000 troops).
  • In a well at 561 meters underground, in the U7i area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:37 (local time) United States detonates its Lampblack atomic bomb (of 38 kt). At the same time, in a well at 275 meters underground in the U3cj area detonates the Sienna bomb (4 kt). It is the bomb n. 443 and 444 of the 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 19 January:
  • In India, Indira Gandhi (daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru) is elected prime minister (assuming on 24 January).
  • Prime Minister Robert Menzies resigns in Australia.
• 20 January: in Hungary, the people demonstrate against high food prices.
• 21 January:
  • In Italy, Prime Minister Aldo Moro resigns because of the power struggle within his party.
  • In a well 333 meters underground, in the U3cd area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:28 (local time) United States detonates its 7 kt Dovekie atomic bomb. It is the 445 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 22 January:
  • The Nigerian government announces that former Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was killed during the coup of 15.
  • In Sudan, the Muslim dissident group Frolinat was founded, beginning the Chadian Civil War.
  • In a well at 213 meters underground, in the U10m area of the Nevada atomic testing site, at 7:17 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 446, Reo, of 0.15 kt. E
  • Pope Paul VI creates the Archdiocese of Anchorage in Alaska.
• 26 January:
  • In Australia, Harold Holt becomes prime minister.
• In Glenelg Beach (South Australia) three white children disappear, and are never seen again.
• January 27: The British government promises the United States that its troops in Malaysia will remain alone until there are more peaceful conditions in the region.
• 29 January: in the United States the first of 608 presentations of the work are released Sweet Charity at the Palace Theatre in New York.
• 30 January: in Luxembourg the Luxembourg Commitment is signed, for the use of the majority method of unanimity in the EEC.
• January 31: The British government breaks up trade relations with Rodesia.

February

• 1 February:
  • West Germany is requesting some 2600 political prisoners from East Germany.
  • U.S. President Johnson requires Congress to grant $2,469 million (for economic aid) and 917 million more (for military aid) to various third-world countries.
• 2 February:
  • In Barcelona (Spain) is demolished the Camp de Les Corts, former stadium of the Barcelona Football Club.
  • In France, Jean Lecanuet created the Democratic Center.
• February 3: On the Moon, the Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 performs the first controlled rocket-assisted alunizaje.
• February 4th: in Japan, a passenger plane from the Japanese company All Nippon Airways falls on Tokyo Bay, with the result of 133 dead.
• 5 February:
  • The 49th anniversary of the 1917 Constitution is celebrated in Mexico.
  • The U.S. government confirms the sale of Patton-type combat cars to Israel.
  • In the violent anti-American demonstrations held in front of the U.S. embassy in Madrid, protesters call for the evacuation of military bases in Spain.
• 6 February:
  • In Cuba, Fidel Castro criticizes China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers.
  • In Costa Rica, right-wing candidate José Joaquín Trejos won the general elections.
• February 7: Spanish Minister of Information and Tourism, Manuel Fraga, bathes in the beach of Palomares (Almeria), in the face of the popular fear of the radioactivity of an American H bomb lost in the sea after an air accident.
• February 9: Dominican military forces machine-gun a student demonstration demanding the departure of U.S. occupation troops. 12 students die.
• 10 February:
  • Jamaican musician Bob Marley married Rita Anderson.
  • Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky are sentenced to five and seven years in prison, respectively, in their writings against the Government.
  • The Royal Spanish Academy accepts new words such as “alunizar”, “audiovisual” and “historicism”.
• February 11: In Belgium the government resigns.
• 14 February: Australia opens the Australian dollar to two dollars per sterling pound, or ten shillings per dollar.
• 15 February: for tourist purposes and without reciprocal character, Spain grants the Germans the entry into the country without the need for a passport, although with an identity card.
• February 19: British naval minister Christopher Mayohew resigns.
• February 20: The Soviet government denies citizenship to Valeri Tarsis, a Soviet writer and translator.
• February 21: General De Gaulle announces that the French fleet of the Mediterranean will be detached from the command of NATO and that no American atomic weapons will be stored in the French bases.
• 22 February:
  • In India, the government declares 7 of the 16 states of the Union as areas of famine.
  • In Uganda, Prime Minister Milton Obote assumes full powers.
• February 23: In Syria, a military coup replaces the previous government with a Ba'ath regime.
• 24 February:
  • In Ghana, while President Kwame Nkrumah is abroad, General Ankrah takes power through a military coup.
  • In the framework of the Vietnam War, Japanese photographer Kyoichi Sawada records the image (which will win a World Press Award) of an M113 armored with American soldiers dragging the body of a Vietcong soldier to death.
• February 26: The curfew is declared in Jakarta.
• February 28: In Saint Louis, United States, astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See die in an aviation accident.

March

• 1 March:
  • The soviet space probe Venera 3 clashes against Venus, being the first spacecraft to touch the surface of another planet.
  • In Syria, the Baath party takes power.
  • Sucre (Colombia) becomes a department.
  • The Soviet Union launches the lunar probe Cosmos 111, which failed in its goal of making a smooth alunizaje.
• 2 March: Former President of Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah, arrives in Guinea where he is given political asylum.
• 4 March: in an interview in the newspaper Evening Standard (United States), John Lennon says: "We are now more popular than Jesus," which triggers a controversy throughout the country.
• March 5: In Brazil, a complete theft of nuclear materials is revealed.
• March 7: In France, Charles de Gaulle asks U.S. President Lyndon Johnson for negotiations on the status of NATO teams in France (France withdraws from the NATO comprehensive command).
• 8 March
  • In Indonesia, popular demonstrations are held in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • The U.S. police jail Ronald Kray (one of the Kray twins) for murdering his rival gangster, George Cornell.
  • In Australia it announces that the number of soldiers in Vietnam will significantly increase.
  • In Dublin, an IRA bomb destroys Nelson's Pilar.
• March 10: In the Netherlands, the Crown Princess Beatriz of the Netherlands marries the German Claus von Amsberg. There are some popular manifestations against, due to the nationality of the next prince consort.
• 11 March:
  • In Indonesia, President Sukarno gives all executive power to General Suharto.
  • In France, President Charles De Gaulle states that the French troops will leave NATO and that all NATO bases and barracks in France will have to close within one year.
• March 12: In the Convention of Republican Institutions, François Mitterrand proposes the creation of a counter-Government (shadow cabinet). In May he will make public the composition of his counter-government.
• 13 March: In Taiwan, an 80.0 earthquake and a tsunami leave 6 dead and several damages.
• March 16: The American ship Gemini 8 is connected in space with the Agena satellite.
• 17 March:
  • More anti-communist demonstrations are conducted in Indonesia.
  • In Spain, the Alvin submarine finds one of the American hydrogen bombs lost in the Mediterranean Sea.
• March 19: In the United States, the Texas Western Miners defeat the Kentucky Wildcats with five black players, trampling on racial discrimination in the recruitment of athletes.
• 20 March: An earthquake of 6.8 shakes the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 22 March: Mobutu Sese Seko confiscates the legislature in the Congo.
• 22 March: in the Chinese city of Xingtai an earthquake of 6.8 leaves more than 8,000 dead and 38,000 wounded.
• March 23: Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey (the Archbishop of Canterbury) are in Vatican City. This is the first official meeting in 400 years between the leader of the Catholic Church and that of the Anglican.
• March 26: In the United States there are many popular demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
• March 27: In South Vietnam, 20 000 Buddhists march against pro-American military government policies.
• March 28: Indira Gandhi visits Washington.
• March 29: The 23rd Conference of the Communist Party is held in the Soviet Union. Leonid Brézhnev demands that American troops leave Vietnam and announce that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfactory.
• 31 March:
  • The Soviet Union launches Moon 10, which will be the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
  • In the UK, the Labour Party (leadered by Harold Wilson) won the general elections.

April

• April 1st: in a well at 561 meters underground, in the U7j area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:40 (local time) United States detonates its Lime atomic bomb, less than 20 kt. It is the 455 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 2 April: In Indonesia, the army demands entry into the United Nations.
• April 4: the Soviet ship Moon 10 enters orbit around the Moon.
• April 6: in a well at 561 meters underground, in the U2ca area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 5:57 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 456, Stutz, 5 kt.
• 7 April: in a well 226 meters underground, in the U3ek area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 14:27 (local time) United States detonates its 6 kt Tomato atomic bomb. It is the 457 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• April 7: In Palomares (Almeria) the H bomb dropped three months before an American plane is recovered.
• 7 April: in Spain, the new Press and Print Law (which liberalized the information) came into force, promoted by Minister Manuel Fraga.
• April 7: Dakar is held at the First World Festival of Black Art.
• 7 April: The British Government asks the United Nations Security Council to use the force to stop a cargo ship violating the oil embargo against Rodesia. The authority will be given to you on April 10.
• April 8: In South Vietnam, Buddhists protest against the fact that the new pro-American government has not set a date for free elections.
• 8 April: in France it is published Les mots et les choses (words and things)Michel Foucault.
• April 9: In the UK, Barry Butler (Norwich City Football Club) died in a car accident.
• 12 April:
  • In Beverly Hills (California), Jan Berry (from Jan & Dean), suffers brain damage in a serious car accident.
  • Mexican singer Javier Solís died of heart failure.
• April 14: In South Vietnam, the government (United States senior) promises free elections by 5 months.
• April 14: in a well at 544 meters underground, in the U20a1 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:13 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 458, Duryea, of 70 kt.
• April 15: A conspiracy against Nasser was discovered in Egypt.
• April 18: In China, Mao's government declares that it will suspend all economic aid to Indonesia.
• April 19: In Mexico, two leaders of the Trotskista Revolutionary Workers Party are arrested for supporting the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Guatemala.
• April 21: An artificial heart (in Marcel DeRudder) is installed in a hospital in Houston (Texas).
• 21 April: In the United Kingdom, for the first time the opening of Parliament is televised.
• April 21: In the Dominican Republic, the Universidad Nacional Pedro Henríquez Ureña (UNPHU) was founded.
• April 23: in a well at 168 meters underground, in the U2m1 area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 6:13 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 459, Fenton, 1.4 kt.
• April 25: in a well 296 meters underground, in the U11b area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:38 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb n.o 460, Pin Stripe, 5 kt.
• April 26: in Taskent (Uzbekistan), there is an earthquake that leaves 200 dead.
• April 27: Pope Paul VI and Soviet Prime Minister Andréi Gromyko are in the Vatican City. It is the first meeting between the leaders of the Catholic Church and the Soviet Union.
• April 28: in Rodesia, security forces kill seven ZANLA soldiers in combat. Zanu rebellion begins.
• April 29: in Vietnam, the number of U.S. soldiers in the country totals 250 000.
• April 30: In the UK a regular hovercraft service begins on the Channel (replaced in 2000 by the Channel Tunnel).
• April 30: in San Francisco (California), Anton Szarr LaVey creates the Church of Satan.

May

• 1 May:
  • Floods on the coast of Finland.
  • In the United States, the first event of the Society for Creative Anachronism takes place.
• May 3: From a boat anchored in international waters to the southern coasts of England, Swinginging Radio England and Britain Radio begin to spread in AM with a power of 100,000 W.
• 4 May: the Italian company Fiat signed a contract with the Soviet Union to build a car factory in that country.
• May 5: Javier Barros Sierra as rector of UNAM in Mexico.
• 6 May: In the UK, life imprisonment for the couple of Ian Brady (1938-) and Myra Hindley (1942-2002), the killers of Moor cases.
• May 8: in Costa Rica, José Joaquín Trejos Fernández became the 35th President of that nation.
• 12 May:
  • At the UN, African members of the Security Council call for the British army to block Rodesia.
  • In Saint Louis (United States) the Stadium Busch Memorial Stadium is opened.
  • In China, Radio Beijing states that American planes shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan. The next day the United States denies the fact.
• 14 May: In Cyprus, the governments of Turkey and Greece begin negotiations on the situation of the island.
• 15 May:
  • In Indonesia, the government asks its Malaysian par to begin peace negotiations.
  • In South Vietnam, the Sitia Army Da Nang.
  • In front of the White House (Washington D.C.) thousands of pacifist protesters meet and then walk to the George Washington monument.
• 16 May:
  • In the UK, a seafarer strike (will take two months).
  • In the United States, the Beach Boys release their album Pet Sounds, of 1966 of peculiar beauty for his vocal harmonies.
  • It is published in the United States Blonde on Blonde, Bob Dylan's seventh studio album recorded almost entirely in Nashville. It is one of the first double albums in the history of modern music, and is considered by criticism as one of the best in the history of rock & roll.
• 24 May:
  • In Uganda, the army arrested King Mutesa II of Buganda and occupied his palace.
  • In Nigeria, the government prohibits any political activity in the country (until 17 January 1969).
• 25 May:
  • The United States launches the Explorer ship 32.
  • In San Luis (Misuri), Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial.
• May 26: Guyana is independent of the United Kingdom (although it is still part of the British Community).
• 28 May:
  • In Cuba, Fidel Castro announced a martial law due to a possible U.S. attack.
  • The Governments of Indonesia and Malaysia declare the Indonesian Confrontation resolved. A treaty will be signed on 11 August.
• May 29: In Mexico the Aztec Stadium will be inaugurated, in its inaugural party the eagles of the Americas won 2-2 Ante Torino with the first goal of Arlindo dos Santos
• May 31: The Philippines reformes its diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

June

• 2 June:
  • Ireland re-elects President Éamon of Valera.
  • The American Surveyor 1 probe boasts in Oceanus Procellarum, becoming the first spacecraft to descend gently into another world.
  • The Zairian government executes four ex-ministers on charges of forming a conspiracy to kill Mobutu Sese Seko.
• June 3: In the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer is elected president for the second time.
• 5 June:
  • The astronaut Eugene A. Cernan completes the second American space walk (2 hours and 7 minutes) during the Gemini 9A mission.
  • Carlos Lleras Restrepo wins Colombia's presidential elections.
• June 6: In the United States, James Meredith, an activist for the civil rights of Black people, is shot during the March against Fear, a lonely walk from Memphis to denounce racism and promote African Americans to register to vote.
• June 8: In the United States, a F-104 Starfighter and the second prototype of the B-70 Valkyrie are colliding, both destroyed.
• 13 June: United States, as part of the case Miranda versus Arizona, the Supreme Court releases the defendant because the police did not inform him about his rights before he was arrested. From that moment the so-called Warning Miranda was established.
• 14 June: In Vatican City, Pope Paul VI announced the abolition of the Índex Librorum Prohibitorum (indice of forbidden books) after the Second Vatican Council.
• June 17: in France, Air France staff strike.
• June 18: In the United States, CIA chief William F. Raborn resigns, is succeeded by Richard Helms.
• June 19: in France, in Le Mans Ford wins 24 hours of Le Mans against Ferrari, with his Ford GT40 taking the victory Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon taking away the victory of Ken Miles and Phil Hill.
• 20 June: 1 July: French President Charles de Gaulle visits the Soviet Union.
• June 21: In Mosman, Australia, opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot at during a political meeting.
• 22 June: in France, the plan of Charles Fouchet for higher education is signed, with the aim of reforming it in line with the needs of companies.
• June 25: In the city of La Plata (capital of the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina) the Canal 2 (present-day America TV).
• June 28: In Argentina, a military uprising called the Argentine Revolution defeats Argentine President Arturo Umberto Illia and replaces him with the de facto president General Juan Carlos Onganía.
• 29 June:
  • In North Vietnam, U.S. aircraft bomb civilian targets in the cities of Hanoi and Haiphong.
  • In the United Kingdom, the sailor strike, organized by the National Marine Union, ends.
  • In France, the Church of Our Lady (Le Raincy), built between 1922 and 1923 by the brothers Gustave and Auguste Perret, is classified as a historical monument.
• In France, De Gaulle formally leaves NATO.
• In the United States, Frank Zappa and his group The Mothers of Invention appear on the musical scene with their first album Freak Out! (double album), which revolutionizes the music with its strange sounds, the structure of the songs, the extravagant instrumentation and its aversion to the prevailing psychodelia.

July

• July 1st: In the Dominican Republic, Joaquín Balaguer assumes as president.
• 2 July: in the Mururoa atoll (in the middle of the Pacific Ocean) France explodes its first atomic bomb.
• July 3: in Bolivia, René Barrientos is elected president.
• July 3: In London, England, the first supergroup of history is formed, Cream
• July 4th: A general mobilization is declared in North Vietnam.
• 4 July: in the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act, which entered into force since 1967.
• July 6: Malaui becomes a republic.
• July 7: In North Vietnam the Warsaw Pact conference ends with the promise of supporting the country.
• 7 July: the school cycle 1965-1966 of the SEP in Mexico is completed.
• July 11: Opening of the 8th World Cup Edition in England.
• July 12: Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
• July 12: Zambia threatens to leave the British Community because of the openings of the United Kingdom towards Rodesia.
• July 12: In the United States, Major Lieutenant W. H. Whalen is arrested for espionage.
• 14 July: in Syria, Israeli and Syrian aircraft fight over the Jordan River area.
• July 14: In Chicago, USA, Richard Speck murders eight nursing students in his dorms.
• July 14: In the UK, Gwynfor Evans becomes a member of Parliament by Carmarthen, the first Plaid Cymru of the country.
• July 16: British Prime Minister Harold Wilson arrives in Moscow to begin the peace negotiations on the Vietnam War. The Soviet government refutes its proposals.
• July 17: In Japan the Ultraman television series begins to be broadcast.
• July 18: U.S. spacecraft Gemini 10 (with astronauts Michael Collins and John W. Young) enters Earth orbit, reaching the world altitude record of 800 km.
• July 18: In Cleveland (United States) the Hough Riots begin, the first manifestations of racial mass violence in this city.
• July 19: In the Netherlands the government declares a person non grata to the Chinese consul Liu en-Tsiu, due to the death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; it is rumored that he was kidnapped and detained in the consul office.
• July 22: In China, the government declares a person non grata to the Dutch consul G.J. Jongejans, but does not let him leave the country until the Chinese engineer group has left the Netherlands.
• July 23: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kangas troops in Stanleyville rebelled in support of the exiled minister Moise Tschombe. The riot lasts several weeks.
• July 24: UN Secretary General U Thant visits Moscow.
• July 26: In the UK, Lord Gardiner presents the Practical Declaration at the House of Lords, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own precedents.

A CIA Lockheed plane, like the one that fell in Bolivia.

• July 28: in the vicinity of Llanquera, an American spy plane Lockheed U-2 crashes in Oruro (Bolivia). The pilot was supposed to be dead when the plane crashed.
• July 28: The U.S. Government states that the spy plane Lockheed U-2 was shot down on Cuba.
• July 29: In Argentina, the dictatorship of Onganía invades the universities of Buenos Aires and beats the teachers, accusing them of communists (Night of the Long Bastons). It begins an exodus (in some cases, definitive) of Argentine intellectuals abroad.
• 29 July: in Nigeria, the army rebels and executes its leader, General Aguiyi-Ironsi.
• July 30: in London (England) The World Championship is over and England is the world champion of 1966 for the first time in front of the disappeared Federal Germany now Germany for a 4-2 score.

August

• 1-10 August (according to others on April 18 or May 16): the Chinese Communist Party (of Mao Zedong) officially declared the bloody "Cultural Revolution" officially begun.
• August 1st: In Nigeria, General Yakubu Gowon defeats the constitutional president.
• August 1st: at the University of Texas, Austin, United States, a Charles Whitman kills 19 people and hurts 28 other students from the main building of the university.
• 2 August: the Spanish government prohibits flights from the British air force on national territory.
• August 5 (according to others, 8): In London, the British group The Beatles released their album Revólver.[1].
• August 5: In Chicago (United States), Martin Luther King Jr. is wounded in the head by a stone thrown by an angry crowd of whites, during a march for the rights of Black people.
• August 5: in New York the construction of the World Trade Center begins
• 6 August: in the United States, Braniff Airlines flight 250 falls in Falls City, New Zealand 42 people die on board.
• August 6: In Bolivia, René Barrientos assumes as president.
• August 6: In Lisbon (Portugal) the bridge on the Tagus River is opened.
• 7 August: In Lansing, United States, racial riots are unleashed.
• August 10: The United States launches Moon Orbiter 1, the first American ship to orbit another world.
• August 10: The Eastern German court sentenced Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying on the United States Government.
• August 11: In Chicago, the British group The Beatles holds a press conference. John Lennon apologizes for his phrase "we are more popular than Jesus," saying, "I didn't mean to say it as something declared unreligious."
• August 12: 87 meters underground, in the Nevada test camp (102 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:36 local time United States detonates the 20 kiloton Tangerine atomic bomb (the Hiroshima bomb generated 13 kt). This is the 478 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• August 12: In the Braybrook Street massacre (in London, United Kingdom), Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shot three civilian police. They will later receive life imprisonment.
• 13 August: in Turkey an earthquake leaves 2394 dead and 10,000 wounded.
• August 15: Syrian and Israeli troops fight for three hours at Lake Genesaret.
• 15 August: in New York, United States, the newspaper New York Herald Tribune.
• August 16: The Anti-American Activities Committee begins investigations against civilians who have helped the Viet Cong (in the framework of the Vietnam War), with the attempt to generate legislation that would illegalize such activities. Anti-war protesters interrupt the meeting, and 50 are arrested.
• 17 August: negotiations between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Republic begin in Kuwait to stop the war in Yemen.
• August 18: in North Vietnam, the Company D, of the Sixth Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment finds and defeats a force of the Vietcong that is estimated four times greater, in the battle of Long Tan in the province Phuoc Tuy.
• August 19: in Turkey, an earthquake in the east of the country destroys several cities and leaves a balance of 2,400 dead.
• 21 August: in Egypt, seven men are sentenced to death due to agitation against Nasser.
• August 22: In the United States, the Organizing Committee of Agricultural Workers (UFWOC) is established, which will be the predecessor of the United Agricultural Workers (UFW).
• August 26: In French Somaliland, today Djibouti has popular riots and demonstrations.
• August 29: at the Candlestick Park of San Francisco (California), The Beatles play their last concert.
• August 30: France offers independence to the leaders of Djibouti.
• August 31: Cambodia: Phnom Penh speech by French President Charles de Gaulle.

September

• September 6: In Cape Town, South Africa, the racist Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, considered the “apartheid architect”, is stabbed by the Greek activist Dimitri Tsafendas (1918-1999) during a parliamentary meeting.
• September 7th: In the United States the last episode of the series Dick Van Dyke's show (the first was in October 1961).
• September 8 (according to others, 22): In the United States, "The Human Trap", the first episode of the science fiction series Star Trek.
• 9 September: NATO decides to move the SHAPE barracks to Belgium.
• September 11: UN Secretary-General U Thant states that he will not seek re-election because of the failure of the UN's efforts to prevent the Vietnam War.
• September 12: in the U5i Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:30 (local time), the United States detonates to 255 m underground its 7.8 kt Derringer atomic bomb. It is the 479 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 12 to 15 September: the American astronauts of Gemini 11, Richard Gordon and Charles Conrad, hurled into space with an Agena vehicle.
• September 13: In South Africa, Balthazar Johannes Vorster is elected the new Prime Minister.
• September 13: In China, the TASS agency reports clashes between members of the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guard.
• September 16: In South Vietnam, Thích Tri Quang begins a hunger strike that will last a hundred days.
• September 16: In the United States the Metropolitan Opera House is inaugurated at the Lincoln Center in New York with the world premiere of the opera Antony and Cleopatra of Samuel Barber.
• September 18: On the North Coast of Chicago, USA, Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of Senator Charles H. Percy, is stabbed and beaten to death in the mansion of the family.
• September 19: In the UK, Scotland Yard arrests Ronald Edwards as a suspect in the great robbery of the train.
• September 23: in the U7o Area of the Nevada Atomic Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 10:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 19 kt Daiquiri atomic bomb to 561 m underground. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kt). It is the 480 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 28 September: in Argentina, 18 students, workers, trade unionists and Peronist journalists—whose average age was 22—are hijacking a Douglas DC-4 aircraft from Argentine Airlines and diverting it to the Falkland Islands (operative Condor).
• September 30: Botswana (then Bechuanaland) is independent of the British Empire (although it is still part of the British Community).

October

• October 1st (midnight): Germany: Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau prison.
• 2 October: in Madrid, Spain, the Vicente Calderón Stadium was inaugurated.
• 3 October: Tunisia cuts diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic.
• October 3: Mexico creates the company Cablevisión (now Izzi Telecom).
• 4 October: Basutoland is independent of South Africa and takes the name of Lesoto.
• 4 October: Israel requests the external membership of the European Economic Community.
• October 5: In the Unesco the recommendation is signed regarding the status of teachers. This event is now held as World Teacher Day.
• October 7: The Soviet government declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
• 11 October: France and the Soviet Union signed a treaty on cooperation in nuclear research.
• October 12: Anacoco Crisis between Guyana and Venezuela on the sovereignty of the eastern part of the island of Anacoco, part of the boundary of the disputed area between the two countries by the Guayana Estequiba.
• 14 October: In Montreal, Canada, the metro is opened.
• October 15: in the United States, President Lyndon B. Johnson founded the Transportation Department.
• October 16: Tequisistlán Mex Coronación de Sta María del Rosario by the Bishops of Texcoco and Querétaro.
• October 17: Lesoto and Botswana agree to join the United Nations.
• October 17: Lima (capital of Peru) is shaken by a devastating 8.1 earthquake that leaves 100 dead.
• 21 October: Aberfan Catastrophe occurs in the village of Aberfan in South Wales, United Kingdom.
• October 22: from Wormwood Scrubs prison (United Kingdom) British spy George Blake escapes. In the future it will be seen in Moscow.
• 22 October: Spain demands that the United Kingdom interrupt military flights to Gibraltar; the next day the British Government refuses.
• October 23: in China, Liu Shaoqi performs his first public criticism.
• October 24: in Manila (Philippines) negotiations on the Vietnam War begin.
• October 25: In Jakarta, a military court sentenced Subandrio to death (ex-Minister of the Exterior).
• October 25: In Spain, the government closes the border of Gibraltar against non- pedestrian traffic.
• 26 October: NATO moves its headquarters from Paris to Brussels.
• October 27: UN takes Namibia from South Africa.
• 29 October: In Acra (Ghana), the government kidnapped the Guinean delegation who was heading for an Organization for African Unity (OAU) meeting in Ethiopia.

Se ha descubierto que un cambio en un solo locus de un gen del hongo sin branquias Lentinus tigrinus hace que tenga un cuerpo fructífero cerrado. Esto sugiere que la aparición de una especie secotioide puede no requerir muchas mutaciones.

• 2 November: in the United States, the Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123 000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the United States
• 4 November: In central and northern Italy, exceptional floods occur after many days of incessant rain, overflowing the rivers. Floods affect coastal cities and those on the banks of the main rivers. Great waves with high tide immerse Venice, Trento, Siena, but are in Florence (Florence floods) and Grosseto where they produce the greatest damage, with the overflow of the Arno and Ombrone rivers. The Arno River runs Florence and Pisa with a flow of more than 4500 m3/s. Many works of art are damaged.
• 5 November: In Africa, 38 states demand that the United Kingdom use force against the Rodesia government.
• 6 November: The United States launches the Orbiter Moon 2.
• 7 November: In Cleveland (Ohio) the first black mayor is elected in an American city.
• 8 November: in Massachusetts, United States, former general, Edward Brooke, becomes the first black senator since Reconstruction.
• November 8: In California, Republican actor Ronald Reagan is elected governor.
• 11 November: In Israel, a mine kills three paramilitaries on the border of the West Bank.
• 11 November: In Spain, the dictator Franco amnested his Falangists for the crimes they committed during the Spanish civil war.
• 15 November: Gemini 12, which transports astronauts James A. Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, amerizes in the Atlantic Ocean 600 km east of the Bahamas.
• 15 November: near London (United Kingdom), the police captured Harry Maurice Roberts, who had killed three police officers in August.
• 15 November: the Confederation of Oceania Football is founded, the maximum football in that continent.
• 16 November: In the United States, physician Sam Sheppard is acquitted of his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in 1954.
• 17 November: the UN General Assembly founded the Organization for the Development of Industry.
• 17 November: on Arizona (United States) there is a spectacular meteor shower of the Lioness for twenty minutes (at the rate of 2300 per minute).
• November 20: the Racing Club, led by Juan José Pizzuti, won the First Division Championship with an important difference on the subfield, the Atlético River Plate Club, consecration of two dates before the end of the contest. The champion and the sub-campion ranked the Copa Libertadores 1967, to the dessert won by Racing Club.
• 21 November: In Togo, the army crushes a coup attempt.
• 28 November: in New York it is Black and White Ball (crowd) The Party of the CenturyTruman Capote.
• November 30: Barbados is independent of the British Empire.

December

• 1 December: In the Mediterranean Sea, the first ministers Harold Wilson (United Kingdom) and Ian Smith (of Rodesia) negotiate on the ship HMS Tiger.
• December 1st: In West Germany, Kurt Georg Kiesinger is elected Chancellor.
• December 2: U Thant is re-elected as Secretary General in the UN.
• December 3: anti-Portuguese demonstrations are performed in Macao. The next day the curfew is declared.
• 3 December: in a tunnel 830 meters underground, in the Salmon Site, 15 km west of the town of Purvis (state of Mississippi), at 6:15 (local time) United States detonates its atomic bomb Sterling, of 0.38 kt. It is the 487 bomb of 1131 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• December 7: In Syria, the government offers weapons to the Jordanian rebels.
• 7 December: Barbados is accepted at the United Nations.
• 8 December: In the Aegean Sea opposite Crete, 217 die when the ferry Heraklion (from Typaldos Line) sinks.
• 8-18 December: South Pacific Games are held in Numea, New Caledonia.
• December 9: In Bangkok (Thailand) the V Asian Games begin.
• December 9: the supergroup Cream publishes its first album, Fresh cream, with the independent record label of Reaction Records.
• 13 December: in a well 240 meters underground, in the U3ez area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 9:50 (local time) United States detonates its 1 kt Sidecar atomic bomb. At 13:00, the 7-kt New Point pump detonates. It is the 488 and 489 of the 1131 bombs that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 14 December: A referendum on the Organic Law of the State is held in Spain.
• December 15: Walt Disney dies from lung cancer at age 65.
• 16 December: the UN Security Council approves the oil embargo against Rodesia.
• December 16: The UN declares the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
• December 16: at the San Remo Festival (Italy) debut Caterina Caselli with Nessuno my può giudicare.
• December 17: the South African government does not adhere to the trade embargo against Rodesia.
• December 18: In Peru, Luis Bedoya Reyes founded the Christian Popular Party, which today is the third oldest party in Peru still in activity.
• December 20: in a well 1215 meters underground, in the U20g area of the Nevada atomic testing site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 7:30 (local time) United States detonates its Greeley atomic bomb, of less than 870 kt. It is the 491 bomb of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• December 20: In Morlaix, France, the Brethren farmers strike.
• December 20: Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to the Rodesia government and announces that he will only accept independence if a government is created with a black majority.
• December 20th: in Bangkok, Thailand, the V Asian Games culminate.
• December 22: In Rodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith declares that he considers that his country is already a republic (beginning the British Commonwealth).
• December 26: In the United States, the controversial Black Nationalist Ron Karenga — head of the California State University Black Studies Chair in Long Beach — celebrates the first kwanzaa (American Black People's Celebration, which lasts until January 1st).
• December 27: In Beijing, China, ten thousand Red Guards meet by denouncing President Liu Shaoqi.
• December 31: In Germany, Walter Ulbricht proposes negotiations on the unification of the two Germanys.
• December 31: at the Dulwich Picture Gallery Museum in London (UK) paintings are stolen for the value of several million pounds. They recover days later.
• December 31: In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the government takes over the mining union of Alto Katanga.
• December 31: In France, the PCF-FGDS waiver agreement is made in the legislative perspective.
• December 31: In England, Team McLaren Mercedes is created by Bruce McLaren, for his later Formula 1 debut the following year.

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• Burundi: Prime Minister Michel Micombero deposes Ntare V, who in turn had deposed his father, King Mwambutsa IV.
• United States: Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton founded the Black Panther party.
• Jamaica: the emperor of the rastafaris, Haile Selassie, for the first time visits the Caribbean island, and is received by the leading rastas.
• Soviet Union: Konstantin Chernenko (who would later be a leader of the Soviet Union) becomes a candidate for a member of the Central Committee.
• United States: Franklin and Penelope Rosemont founded the Surrealist Movement in the United States
• Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn win the Fermi Award.
• United States: Congress creates the National Council for Marine Resources and the Development of Engineering.
• United States: Will Lang Jr. begins the Life Magazine investigation of the murder of John F. Kennedy and the Warren Commission, detained a few months later by Holland McCombs.
• United States: Martin Richards designs the BCPL programming language.
• Germany: the DKW car is no longer produced.
• Sri Lanka: Theravāda Buddhist meeting (sangha) with the idea of joining differences and working together.
• Norway: in Oslo, Terje Lømo observes for the first time the LTP (long-term power), the putative cell mechanism of learning and memory.

Births

January

• January 1st: Michael Empireli, American actor.
• January 5: Yuri Amano, Japanese seiyū.
• January 6: Andrew Wood, American singer, of the Mother Love Bone band (f. 1990).
• January 7: Corrie Sanders, South African boxer (f. 2012).
• 12 January:
  • Olivier Martínez, French actor.
  • Rob Zombie, musician, singer, artist and American writer.
• January 13: Patrick Dempsey, American actor.
• 14 January:
  • Marco Hietala, Finnish musician.
  • Dan Schneider, American writer and producer.
• January 15: Virginia Innocenti, actress, author and Argentine singer.
• 17 January:
  • Stephin Merritt, American singer, from the band The Magnetic Fields.
  • Karim Aïnouz, filmmaker, screenwriter and Brazilian visual artist.
• January 18: Dave Batista, American professional fighter.
• 19 January:
  • Stefan Edberg, Swedish tennis player.
  • Juan Soler, Argentine-Mexican actor.
• January 20: Tracii Guns, American guitarist, of the band Guns N' Roses.
• January 27: Ken Sugimori, designer and artistic director of Pokémon.
• January 29: Romerio de Souza Faría, Brazilian footballer.
• January 31: Brian Mikkelsen, Danish politician.

February

• February 1st: Michelle Akers, American footballer.
• 4 February: Luisa Fernanda Giraldo, Colombian actress.
• February 6: Rick Astley, British singer.
• 7 February:
  • Ute Geweniger, German swimmer.
  • Kristin Otto, German sportsman and journalist.
• February 8: Hristo Stoichkov, Bulgarian footballer.
• 9 February:
  • Ellen van Langen, a Dutch athlete.
  • Silvia de Dios, Colombian actress.
• February 10: Nicolás Montero, Colombian actor.
• February 11: Anthony Parker, American football player.
• February 17: Quorthon (Thomas Forsberg) Swedish musician of the Bathory band.
• 19 February:
  • Max Delupi, actor, humorist and Argentine driver.
  • Enzo Scifo, Belgian footballer.
  • Miroslav Đukić, Serbian footballer.
  • Paul Haarhuis, Dutch tennis player.
• February 20: Cindy Crawford, model, American actress and singer.
• 22 February:
  • Gonçalves, Brazilian footballer.
• 24 February:
  • Alain Mabanckou, Congolese writer.
  • Billy Zane, American actor.
• 25 February:
  • Alexis Denisof, American actor.
  • Tea Leoni, American actress.
• 27 February:
  • Claudio Pocho Lepratti, an Argentine social activist, murdered (f. 2001).
  • Donal Logue, Canadian actor.
• 28 February:
  • Paulo Futre, Portuguese footballer.
  • Patrick Delmas, Franco-Colombian actor.
  • Philip Reeve, British writer.

March

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Fernando Colunga.

• March 3: Fernando Colunga, Mexican actor.
• 4 March:
  • Kevin Johnson, American basketball player.
  • Grand Puba (Brand Nubian), American rapper.
• March 5: Michael Irvin, American former football player.
• 9 March: Sherri Ann Jarvis, victim of American murder (f. 1980)
• March 10: Edie Brickell, American singer.
• 13 March: Marcial Álvarez, Spanish actor
• March 14: Gary Anthony Williams, American actor.
• March 18: Jerry Cantrell, American rock guitarist.
• March 19: José Chino Zapatera, former footballer and football coach.
• March 21: Armando Archundia, Mexican football referee.
• 23 March: Bethlehem Rodriguez, journalist and collaborator of Spanish television.
• 25 March:
  • Tom Glavine, American baseball player.
  • Jeff Healey, guitarist, trumpeter and Canadian singer.
• 26 March:
  • Nini Flores, accordionist and bandoneonist Argentinian chamamecero (f. 2016).
  • Michael Empireli, American actor.
• March 27: Ramiro Castillo, Bolivian footballer (f. 1997).
• March 28: Høgni Hoydal, a ferocious politician.

April

• April: Jorge Galván Rosillo, Mexican writer.
• April 2: Teddy Sheringham, British footballer.
• April 3: Miina Tominaga, Japanese seiyū.
• April 5: Rosa Alcázar, special and wonderful woman.
• 8 April:
  • Robin Wright, American actress.
  • Mazinho, Brazilian footballer.
• 9 April:
  • Thomas Doll, a football player and a German coach.
  • Cynthia Nixon, American actress.
  • Luis Monzón, a Spanish rally pilot.
• April 11: Lisa Stansfield, British singer.
• 14 April:
  • André Boisclair, Canadian politician.
  • David Justice, American baseball player.
  • Greg Maddux, American baseball player.
• 15 April:
  • Pedro Andreu, Spanish drummer, of the Heroes band of Silence.
  • Samantha Fox, British model and singer.
• April 17: Tamara Sujú, Venezuelan activist.
• 18 April:
  • Lidia Borda, Argentine tango singer.
  • Trine Hattestad, Norwegian athlete.
• April 20: David Chalmers, Australian philosopher.
• April 21: Segismundo de Austria-Toscana, noble Italian.
• 22 April:
  • Jeffrey Dean Morgan, American actor.
  • Mariana Levy, Mexican actress (f. 2005).
• 24 April:
  • Edgar Borges, Venezuelan writer.
  • Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer.
  • Marisela, Mexican-American singer and actress.
• April 25: Isabelle Pasco, French actress and model.
• April 27: Yoshihiro Togashi, Japanese mangaka.
• April 28: Jackson Galaxy, cat trainer, musician and American television presenter.
• 30 April:
  • Peter Outerbridge, Canadian actor.
  • José Luis Rodríguez García, Spanish cyclist.

May

Marta Sánchez.

• 1 May:
  • Olaf Thon, German footballer.
  • Robinson Díaz, Colombian actor.
• May 6: Rocío San Miguel, a Venezuelan lawyer and activist.
• 7 May: Andrea Tafi, Italian cyclist.
• 8 May:
  • Marta Sánchez, Spanish singer.
  • Claudia Taffarel, Brazilian doorman.
• 10 May:
  • Jonathan Edwards, British athlete.
  • Wade Dominguez, actor, model, singer and American dancer (f. 1998).
• May 11: Christoph Schneider, German musician, of the Rammstein band.
• 12 May:
  • Stephen Baldwin, American actor.
  • Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian singer.
  • Deborah Kara Unger, Canadian actress.
• 14 May:
  • Damián Dreizik, actor, theatrical director and Argentine screenwriter.
  • Mike Inez, American bassist, Alice in Chains.
  • Fabrice Morvan, French singer, of the Duo Milli Vanilli.
  • Jorge Schubert, Argentine actor and writer.
• May 16: Janet Jackson, American singer.
• 18 May:
  • Marlon Moreno, Colombian actor.
  • Ivan Hernández Dala, Venezuelan military.
• May 19: Polly Walker, British actress.
• May 21: Lisa Edelstein, American actress and screenwriter.
• May 23: Luis Zahera, Spanish actor.
• 24 May:
  • Eric Cantona, footballer and French actor.
  • Francisco Javier Cruz, Mexican footballer.
  • Helena Ranaldi, Brazilian actress.
• 26 May:
  • Zola Budd, South African athlete.

Helena Bonham Carter

• • Helena Bonham Carter, British actress.
• 28 May:
  • Maiamar Abrodos, trans actress and Argentine teacher.
  • Ashley Laurence, American actress.
• 30 May:
  • Thomas Häßler, German footballer.
  • Stephen Malkmus, American singer, Pavement band.

June

Pedro Guerra.

• June 1st: Iliana Calabró, actress, conductor, comedian, vedette, singer and Argentine writer.
• 2 June: Pedro Guerra, Spanish singer
• 3 June:
  • Wumpscut, German DJ.
  • Carlos Añaños, Peruvian businessman.
• June 4: Cecilia Bartoli, Italian mezzosoprano.
• 6 June:
  • Faure Gnassingbé, president of Togo.
  • Anthony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer.
• June 7: Lorenzo Silva, Spanish writer.
• 8 June:
  • Julianna Margulies, American actress.
  • Jens Kidman, Swedish musician, from the Meshuggah band.

Juan Carlos Maneglia.

• June 9: Juan Carlos Maneglia, director, screenwriter and producer of Paraguayan cinema.
• 13 June:
  • Luis Merlo, Spanish actor.
  • Albeiro Usuriaga, Colombian footballer (f. 2004).
• June 14: Matt Freeman, American musician.
• 16 June:
  • Germán Martitegui, Argentine cook.
  • Jan Železný, Czech athlete.
• June 17: Christy Canyon, American pornographic actress.
• 18 June:
  • Sandy Alomar Jr., Puerto Rican former professional baseball player.
  • Lucila Gandolfo, Argentine actress and singer.
• 22 June:
  • Michael Park, British rally co-driver (f. 2005).
  • Tomoko Maruo, Japanese voice actress.
• June 25: Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese basketball player.
• 27 June:
  • J. J. Abrams, British film and television writer and producer.
  • Aigars Kalvītis, President of Latvia.
• 28 June:
  • John Cusack, American actor.
  • Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress.
• 30 June:
  • Marton Csokas, New Zealand actor.
  • Mike Tyson, American boxer.
  • David Venancio Muro, Spanish actor.

July

• July 3: Daniel Plaza, Spanish Olympic athlete.
• 5 July:
  • Robert Diggs, American rapper.
  • Claudia Wells, American actress.
  • Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer.
• July 6: Nicky Mondellini, Mexican nationalized Italian actress.

Chichi Peralta

• 9 July:
  • Eric Melvin, German musician, from the NOFX band.
  • Chichí Peralta, Dominican musician.
  • Manuel Mota, Spanish fashion designer.
• 11 July:
  • Mel Appleby, British singer-songwriter (f. 1990).
  • Greg Grunberg, American actor.
  • Cheb Mami, Algerian singer.
• 12 July:
  • Ana Torrent, Spanish actress.
  • Sabine Moussier, a Mexican actress of German origin.
• 13 July:
  • David X. Cohen, American televising and producer.
  • Gerald Levert, American singer.

Gustavo Bolívar

• 14 July:
  • Alessio Boni, Italian actor.
  • Matthew Fox, American actor.
• July 15: Irène Jacob, a French-Swiss actress.
• July 18: Dan O'Brien, American fighter.
• July 20: Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican politician, president between 2012 and 2018.
• 22 July:
  • Shawn Michaels, American fighter.
  • Gustavo Bolívar, Colombian senator and writer.
• July 25: Wataru Takagi, Japanese seiyū.
• July 28: Miguel Angel Nadal, Spanish footballer.

Marta Dilon

• 29 July:
  • Marta Dillon, journalist and LGBT activist from Argentina.
  • Sally Gunnell, British Olympic athlete.
  • Richard Steven Horvitz, an American voice actor.
  • Martina McBride, American singer.
  • Juan Antonio Orenga, Spanish basketball player.
  • Richard Steven Horvitz, American actor of bent.
• July 31: Dean Cain, American actor.

August

• August 4th: Sara Vivas, a Spanish-language actress.
• August 7: Jimmy Wales, founder of American Wikipedia.
• 10 August:
  • Udo Bölts, German cyclist.
  • Hansi Kürsch, German singer, Blind Guardian.
• August 11: Juan Bonilla, Spanish writer.
• 12 August:
  • Carlos Álvarez, Spanish baritone.
  • Les Ferdinand, British footballer.
• 14 August:
  • Halle Berry, American actress.
  • Freddy Rincón, Colombian footballer (f. 2022).
• 17 August:
  • Doug E. Fresh, musician (Beatbox).
  • Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder.
• August 18: María Onetto, an Argentine actress.
• August 19: Estéfano, cantautor, composer and musical producer from Colombia, from Donato and Estéfano.
• 20 August:
  • Miguel Albaladejo, Spanish filmmaker.
  • Dimebag Darrell, American guitarist, Pantera and Damageplan bands (f. 2004).
• August 22: GZA, American musician, of the Wu-Tang Clans band.
• August 23: Rik Smits, Dutch basketball player.

René Higuita

• 25 August:
  • Ricardo Henao, Colombian sports journalist.
  • Patricia Ayala, fonoaudiologa and Uruguayan politics.
• August 26: Shirley Manson, Scottish singer and leader of the Garbage group.
• August 27: Rene Higuita, Colombian footballer.
• 28 August:
  • Fabian Alegre, footballer and Argentine coach.
  • Yōko Takahashi, Japanese singer.
  • Julen Lopetegui, footballer and Spanish coach.
• August 29: Héctor Camps, Argentine journalist (f. 2010).

September

• 1 September:
  • José Delgado: Ecuadorian journalist.
  • Tim Hardaway, American basketball player.
• 2 September:
  • Salma Hayek, Mexican actress.
  • Olivier Panis, French Formula 1 pilot.
• September 4: Yanka Dyagileva, Russian singer.
• September 6: Eduardo Maruri, politician and Ecuadorian businessman.
• September 8: Carola Häggkvist, Swedish singer.

Adam Sandler

• 9 September:
  • Adam Sandler, actor, comedian, producer and American composer.
  • David Bennent, Swiss actor.
• 10 September:
  • Evelio Arias Ramos, Mexican actor and comedian (f. 2008).
  • Jordi Tarrés, Spanish trial pilot, world champion.
• 12 September:
  • Ben Folds, American singer and pianist.
  • Malu Mader, Brazilian actress.
• 13 September:

The Barby

• • Leonardo Veterale, La Barby, drag queen, humorist, TV presenter and Argentine singer.
  • Francine Gálvez, a Spanish journalist and presenter.
  • Maria Alejandra Díaz, Venezuelan lawyer.
• 14 September:
  • Mike Cooley, American guitarist.
  • Carlos Fuentealba, an Argentine teacher killed by the police (f. 2007).
• September 15: Dejan Savićević, Yugoslav footballer.
• 16 September:
  • Juan Pablo Ballester, Cuban artist specialized in painting, photography and installation.
  • Raúl Magaña, actor, model and Mexican driver.
  • Kevin Young, American athlete.
• 18 September:
  • Gabino Diego, Spanish actor.
  • Luis Florido, Venezuelan politician.
• September 20: Maite Delgado, presenter, actress and former Venezuelan model.
• September 21: Tab Ramos, American footballer.
• 22 September:
  • Erdogan Atalay, German actor.
  • Nelson Tapia, Chilean footballer.
  • Martín de Francisco, actor, locutor and Colombian presenter.
• September 27: Jovanotti, Italian rapper.

October

Felipe Camiroaga.

• October 1st: George Weah, a Liberian footballer and politician.
• 2 October:
  • Juan Carlos Tolosa, Argentine composer, director and pianist.
  • Rodney Anoai, WWF champion, Yokozuna (f. 2000).
• October 5: Terri Runnels, American professional fighter.
• 6 October:
  • Fito Cabrales, Spanish musician.
  • Tommy Stinson, American bassist.
• 8 October:
  • Felipe Camiroaga, Chilean television presenter (f. 2011).
  • Karyn Parsons, American actress.
• October 9: David Cameron, British Prime Minister.
• 10 October:
  • Tony Adams, British footballer.
  • Luis Dorante, baseball player and Venezuelan coach.

Pau Dones.

• 11 October:
  • Luke Perry, American actor (f. 2019).
  • Pau Donés, Spanish singer, leader of the band Jarabe de Palo (f. 2020).
• 12 October:
  • Brian Kennedy, Irish musician and writer.
  • Carlos Bernard, American actor.
• October 13: José Ángel Llamas, Mexican actor.
• October 15: Jorge Campos, Mexican commentator and ex-futbolist.
• October 19: Jon Favreau, filmmaker, actor and American screenwriter.
• October 20: Stefan Raab, star of comedies, presenter and German television producer.

Jorge Campos.

• October 21: Lucia Caram, monja dominica, cook, writer and Argentinean speaker.
• October 23: Alessandro Zanardi, Italian pilot.
• October 24: Roman Abramóvich, Soviet oil mogul and governor of the Chukotka region.
• October 26: Elena Benítez, Spanish taekwondista.
• 29 October:
  • Danilo Anderson, Venezuelan jurist and environmentalist.
  • Adriana Vignoli, an artist and an Argentine photographer (f. 2013).
• October 30: Carmen Borrego, director and collaborator of Spanish television programs.

November

• November 2: David Schwimmer, American actor (from the television series Friends).
• November 4: Sergio Sendel, Mexican actor.

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

• 6 November:
  • Paul Gilbert, American musician.
  • Laurent Lafforgue, French mathematician.
  • Christian Lorenz, German musician, of the Rammstein band.
  • Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, an Ecuadorian writer.
• November 8: Gordon Ramsay, British chef.
• 11 November: Benedicta Boccoli, Italian actress.
• 17 November:
  • Jeff Buckley, American singer and guitarist (f. 1997).
  • Sophie Marceau, French actress.
• November 18: Jorge Camacho Cordón, poet in Esperanto and Spanish.
• November 19: Gail Devers, American athlete.
• November 21: Troy Aikman, American ex-player of football.
• 23 November: Vincent Cassel, French actor (Irreversible, Purple rivers).
• November 24: Juan Pablo Gamboa, Colombian actor.
• November 25: Tim Armstrong, American musician.
• November 29: John Bradshaw Layfield, American fighter.
• 30 November: Mika Salo, Finnish Formula 1 pilot.

December

• 1 December:
  • Andrew Adamson, New Zealand filmmaker.
  • Larry Walker, Canadian baseball player.
• 5 December:
  • Antonio Briceño, Venezuelan photographer.
  • Patricia Kaas, French singer.
  • Patricia Kaas, French singer.
• 7 December:
  • C. Thomas Howell, American actor.
  • Linn Ullmann, a Norwegian journalist and writer.
• 8 December:
  • Sinéad O'Connor, Irish singer.
  • Tyler Mane, actor and Canadian professional fighter.
  • Matthew Labyorteaux, American actor.
  • Carmen Crespo, Spanish politics.
  • Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (f. 2019).
  • Dover Kosashvili, Georgian film director.
  • Matt Adler, American actor.
  • Walter Meza, Argentine singer.
  • Les Ferdinand, English footballer.
  • Hope Powell, English footballer.
• December 11: Gary Dourdan, American actor.
• 12 December:
  • Yoshihiro Asai, Japanese professional fighter.
  • Royce Gracie, Brazilian mixed martial arts professional wrestler.
• December 13: Didier van der Hove, Belgian actor.

Lucrecia Martel

• 14 December:
  • Lucrecia Martel, director of Argentine cinema.
  • Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Danish politician.
• December 19: Alberto Tomba, Italian skier.
• December 20: Yumi Tōma, Japanese seiyu.
• December 21: Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor.
• December 22: Alejandro Martínez, Colombian actor.
• 23 December:
  • Magdalena Amenábar Folch, a Chilean soprano and academic.
  • Oscar Borda, Colombian actor.
  • Cláudia Raia, actress, singer and Brazilian dancer.
• December 24: Diedrich Bader, American actor.
• December 25: Mauro Picotto, Italian DJ.
• December 27: Bill Goldberg, psychologist, retired football player and American professional fighter.
• 28 December:
  • Kaliopi, Macedonian singer.
  • Giulia Gam, Brazilian actress.
• December 29: Dexter Holland, American musician, The Offspring band.
• December 30: Bennett Miller, American filmmaker.
• December 31: Ricky Espinosa, Argentine musician, leader of Flema and Flemita (f. 2002).

Unknown dates

Elena Bottazzi

• Elena Bottazzi, a scientist, a Honduran microbeologist, born in Italy.
• Robert Carmona-Borjas, lawyer, academic and Venezuelan writer.
• Victor Ku, Chinese businessman and billionaire.
• Don Mario (Daniel Rendón Herrera), Colombian drug dealer.

Deaths

January

• 1 January: Vincent Auriol, a French politician, president between 1946 and 1954 (n. 1884).
• January 3, 2013 Marguerite Higgins, journalist and U.S. war correspondent (n. 1920)
• January 11: Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (n. 1901).
• January 11: Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish athlete (n. 1889).
• January 14: Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (n. 1888).
• January 14: Curt Backeberg, German botanist (n. 1894).
• 14 January: Serguéi Pavlóvich Koroliov, Russian engineer (n. 1906).
• January 15: Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Nigerian politician, Nigerian Prime Minister (1957-1966) (n. 1912).
• January 22: Herbert Marshall, British actor (n. 1890).

February

• February 1st: Buster Keaton, actor, scenographer and American filmmaker (n. 1895).
• 12 February: Wilhelm Röpke, German economist (n. 1899).
• 12 February: Elio Vittorini, Italian writer (n. 1908).
• 13 February: Marguerite Long, French pianist.
• February 15: Camilo Torres Restrepo, priest, theologian, sociologist and Colombian guerrilla (n. 1929).
• 17 February: Hans Hofmann, German painter (n. 1880).
• February 18: Robert Rossen, screenwriter, filmmaker and American producer (n. 1908).
• February 20: Chester William Nimitz, American military (n. 1885).
• 26 February: Gino Severini, Italian painter (n. 1883).

March

Fritz G. Houtermans.

• 1 March: Fritz G. Houtermans, German physicist (n. 1903).
• March 3: Alice Pearce, American actress (n. 1917).
• March 5: Anna Andreievna Ajmatova, a Russian writer and poet (n. 1889).
• 6 March: Charles Francis Buddy, American Catholic bishop (n. 1887).
• March 10: Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (n. 1888).
• March 15: Abe Saperstein, American businessman (n. 1902).
• March 28: Ramón María Aller Ulloa, Spanish astronomer.

April

• April 1st: Flann O'Brien, Irish writer and humorist (n. 1911).
• April 2: Cecil Scott Forester, English writer and journalist (n. 1899).
• April 10: Evelyn Waugh, British satirical novelist (n. 1903).
• April 13: Carlo Carrà, Italian fascist painter.
• 13 April: Georges Duhamel, French writer (n. 1884).

Javier Solís

• April 19: Javier Solís, Mexican singer (n. 1931).
• April 24: Josef Dietrich, German Nazi military (n. 1892).

May

• 3 May: Concepción Castella de Zavala, Spanish writer (n. 1889).
• May 15: Maximiliano Hernández Martínez, Salvadoran military (n. 1882).
• May 15: Venceslau Brás, president of Brazil (n. 1868).
• 17 May: Felix Steiner, German military (n. 1896).
• May 19: Alirio Ugarte Pelayo, politician, journalist, diplomat and Venezuelan lawyer (n. 1923).
• 30 May: Wäinö Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor (n. 1894).

June

• 7 June: Jean Arp, sculptor, painter and German-French poet (n. 1886).
• June 12: Hermann Scherchen, director of German orchestra (n. 1891).
• June 19: Ed Wynn, American actor (n. 1886).
• 20 June: Georges Lemaître, a Catholic priest, astronomer, physicist and astrophysicist Belgian (n. 1894).
• June 27: Arthur Waley, British Sinologist (n. 1889).
• June 30: Giuseppe Farina, Italian car pilot (n. 1906).

July

• July 5: George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1943 (n. 1885).
• July 10: Malvina Hoffman, American sculptor.
• July 12: Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki, a Japanese writer (n. 1870).
• July 13: Victorio Macho, Spanish sculptor.
• July 18: Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (n. 1942).
• 21 July: Philipp Frank, Austrian philosopher, physicist and mathematician (n. 1884).
• July 23: Montgomery Clift, American actor (n. 1920).
• July 29: Edward Gordon Craig, actor, filmmaker and English scenographer (n. 1872).
• July 31: Bud Powell, American pianist (n. 1924).
• 31 July: Alexander von Falkenhausen, German military (n. 1878).

August

• August 6: Cordwainer Smith, American writer (n. 1913).
• August 24: Tadeusz Komorowski, Polish military (n. 1895).
• August 31: Rocky Marciano, American boxer.

September

• September 3: Cécile Sorel, French actress.
• September 6: Margaret Sanger, American activist (n. 1879).
• September 6: Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, a Dutch sociologist and politician (n. 1901).
• September 12: Santiago Pampillón, student activist and Argentine worker.
• 14 September: Cemal Gürsel, president of Turkey (n. 1895).
• September 17: Fritz Wunderlich, German lyric tenor (n. 1930).
• 21 September: Paul Reynaud, French politician.
• September 28 (according to others, 22): André Breton, French poet and writer (n. 1896).

October

• 4 October: Heitor dos Prazeres, composer, singer and Brazilian painter (n. 1898).
• 8 October: Célestin Freinet, French pedagogue (n. 1896).
• 10 October: Otto Pankok, painter, sketch artist and sculptor (n. 1893).
• 10th October Forum Charlotte Cooper, British Tennisian (n. 1870)
• 13 October: Clifton Webb, American actor (n. 1889).
• 17 October: Cléo de Mérode, classical French dancer (n. 1875).
• October 17th: Wieland Wagner, German opera director and stage designer (n. 1917).
• October 18: Elizabeth Arden, a cosmetologist and Canadian businessman (n. 1878).

November

• 2 November: Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debye (82), Dutch physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1936 (n. 1884).
• November 2: Mississippi John Hurt, guitarist and blues singer (n. 1893).
• 5 November: Dietrich von Choltitz, German general, Nazi commander of Paris in 1944 (n. 1894).
• November 23: Alvin Langdon Coburn, American photographer (n. 1882).
• November 24: Ramón Amaya Amador, Honduran author (n.1916).

December

• December 2: Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer, Dutch mathematician (n. 1881).
• December 5: Sylvère Maes, Belgian cyclist (n. 1909).
• December 6: Juan Natalicio González, president of Paraguay (n. 1897).
• December 15: Walt Disney, cartoonist, animator and producer of American films (n. 1901).
• 23 December: Heimito von Doderer, Austrian writer (n. 1896).
• December 24: Gaspar Cassadó, Spanish cellist (n. 1897).
• December 27: Guillermo Stábile, Argentine footballer (n. 1906).

No known date

• Arturo Iglesias Paiz, Argentine military, governor of Formosa (n. 1899).

Art and literature

• January 6: Vicente Soto wins the Nadal award for his novel The ditch.
• 16 February: in Havana, Cuba, José Lezama Lima publishes his novel Paradiso.
• Chinua Achebe: A man of the people.
• Isaac Asimov: Fantastic Voyage.
• Truman Capote: In cold blood.
• Agatha Christie: The third girl.
• Shūsaku Endō: Silence.
• Ian Fleming: Octopussy and The Living Daylights (posthumously published).
• Robert A. Heinlein: The Moon is a cruel lover.
• Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon.
• Thomas Pynchon: Lot 49 auction.
• Mario Vargas Llosa: The green house.
• Roald Dahl: Magic finger.
• Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern have died..
• Michel Foucault: Words and things.

Science and technology

• 12 November: total eclipse of the sun, visible in much of South America, centered in the area of the Iguazú Falls, province of Misiones (Argentina) and state of Paraná (Brazil).

Astronautics

• January 31st: launch of the Soviet lunar probe Moon 9, intended to perform a smooth alunizaje.

Sports

• May 11: Real Madrid C. F. wins its sixth European Cup after winning by 2-1 to Partizan at the Heysel Stadium (Brussels) with the goals of Amancio and Serena.
• The Club Atlético Peñarol is the champion of the Intercontinental Cup for the second time after winning the Real Madrid C. F.
• July 30: England: Football World Cup: the hosts win their first Football World Cup when they win in the final to Federal Germany for 4:2.
• The FC Barcelona is proclaimed, for the third time, champion of the Copa de Ferias (Copa de la UEFA).
• Midget: Efrén Chemolli Sr. wins his first two championships (Nocturno and Argentina), of the 12 that he would get along his career.
• Jack Brabham is the world champion of Formula 1.
• Chilean National Football Championship: Catholic University Champion.
• Professional Colombian Football: Independent Santa Fe (4th time).
• First Division of Ecuador: Barcelona is crowned for the third time.
• Chilean Rodeo: Abelino Mora and Miguel Lamoliatte win the 1966 National Rodeo Championship.
• Born the Algeciras BM, Spanish basketball club that militates in the Asobal League
• May 29: the Aztec Stadium is opened in Mexico City with the meeting between America and Torino, which ended up tied to two goals. The first goal in this stadium was noted by Arlindo (America) at minute 10 of the first time, and the second scored by Zague (America).

Cinema

• Un homme et une femme (in Spanish) A man and a womanClaude Lelouch and Signore e Signori (in Spanish) Ladies and gentlemen), by Pietro Germi win the Grand Prix of the Festival de Cannes.
• Person, directed by Ingmar Bergman and interpreted by Liv Ullmann and Bibi Andersson.
• BatmanWith Adam West and Burt Ward.
• The human jauria, filmed by Arthur Phen and played by Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda and Angie Dickinson.
• In silver tray, directed by Billy Wilder, whose protagonists incarnate Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon.
• Blow-Up, shot by Michelangelo Antonioni, and played by Vanessa Redgrave, David Hemmings and Sarah Miles. Palma de Oro in Cannes.
• Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo by Sergio Leone and interpreted by Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach and Lee Van Cleef

Oscars

• Best movie: A man for all seasons (in Spanish) A man for eternity) by Fred Zinnemann (Columbia Films).
• Best actor: Paul Scofield, by A man for eternity.
• Best actress: Elizabeth Taylor, by Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Who fears Virginia Woolf?).
• Best secondary actor: Walter Matthau, by The fortune cook (In silver tray).
• Best secondary actress: Sandy Dennis, by Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
• Best director: Fred Zinnemann, by A man for eternity.
• Best script adapted: Robert Bolt, by A man for eternity.
• Best original script: Claude Lelouch and Pierre Uytterhoeven, by A man and a woman.
• Best black and white photography: Haskell Wexler, by Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
• Best color photography: Ted Moore, by A man for eternity.
• Best black and white decoration: Richard Sylbert and George James Hopkins, by Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
• Best color decoration: Jach Martin Smith, Dale Hennesy, Walter M. Scott and Stuart A. Reiss, by Fantastic voyage (Awesome journey).
• Best sound: Franklin E. Milton, by Grand Prix (Grand Prix).
• Best song: Born free (John Barry and Don Black) from the film Born free (Free birth).
• Best original soundtrack: John Barry, by Free birth.
• Best soundtrack adapted: Ken Thorne, by A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Golfus of Rome).
• Best Mount: Fredric Steinkamp, Henry Berman, Stewart Linder and Frank Santillo, by Grand Prix.
• Best sound effects: Gordon Daniel, by Grand Prix.
• Best visual effects: Art Cruickshank, by Awesome journey.
• Best costume in black and white: Irene Sharaff, by Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?.
• Best colored wardrobe: Elizabeth Haffenden and Joan Bridge, by A man for eternity.
• Best foreign film: Un homme et une femme (in Spanish) A man and a woman), by Claude Lelouch (France).
• Best animation short: Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass Double Feature (Hubley-Paramount).
• Best real picture short: Wild Wings (England).
• Best documentary film: A year woward tomorrow (Office Economic Opportunity).
• Best documentary feature: The War Game (The War Game)by Peter Watkins (Pathe Contemporary Films).
• Special Oscars: to Y. Frank Freeman, for the services provided to the Academy; to Yakima Canutt, as a pioneer of specialists and double cinematographics.
• Oscar in memory of Irving Thalberg: Robert Wise.
• Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award: George Bagnall.

Music

• It forms The Monkees
• Jefferson Airplane: Release their first album Jefferson Airplane Takes Off.
• The Beach Boys launch their album Pet Sounds, of peculiar beauty for his vocal harmonies. A very rich and personal album composed of the talented band leader, Brian Wilson. His third simple number one "Good Vibrations".
• June: In the United States, Frank Zappa and his group The Mothers of Invention appear on the musical scene with their first album Freak Out! (double album), which revolutionizes the music with its bizarre sounds, the structure of the songs, the extravagant instrumentation and its aversion to the prevailing psychodelia.
• In the United States, Bob Dylan triumphs with his brilliant album Blonde on Blonde, acclaimed as one of the best albums in rock history. Contains the simple I Want You, one of the most romantic and shocking pieces of the American singer, and the mythical Rainy Day Women No. 12 & 35, Just Like a Woman, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands and Visions of Johanna among others.
• United Kingdom: the rock group Cream — made up of guitarist Eric Clapton, drummer Ginger Baker and bassist, vocalist and composer Jack Bruce — debuts with the album Fresh Cream.
• UK: Scottish singer Donovan triumphs with his LP Sunshine Superman one of the first albums of psychedelic music.
• Raphael: Sing...
• Roberto Carlos: Roberto.
• Rocío Dúrcal: Come with me.
• The Beatles launch the album Revolver, achieving the top of the lists of successes.
• The Mamas & the Papas: They launch their first album, If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears.
• Frank Sinatra: "Moonlight Sinatra". «Album published in March under the Reprise Records record label». "Strangers in the Night." «Album published on May 30 under the Reprise Records record label». "Sinatra at the Sands." «Album published in July under the Reprise Records record label». "That's Life." «Album published on November 18 under the Reprise Records record label».
• Nancy Sinatra: The album Boots is released under the Reprise Records record label. This contains success These Boots Are Made for Walkin'.
• ? and The Mysterians launch their most successful 96 Tears.
• Patricio Manns (1937-): "The captive of Tiltil" (changing).
• It dissolves, for disdained reasons, the punk rock band Los Saicos.

Classical music

• Dmitri Shostakóvich finally renounces to compose an opera on The gentle gift of Mikhail Shólojov in which he had been working during the first months of the year; he transmits his decision to Sofia Jentova and Boris Tishchenko in letters. The premiere of the work was scheduled for the Bolshoi season 1966/1967.

Festivals

• The 11th edition of the 11th edition of the Eurovision Song Festival in Luxembourg City LuxembourgLuxembourg.
  • Winner: The singer Udo Jürgens with the song "Merci, Chérie" representing Austria .

Television

Nobel laureates

• Physics: Alfred Kastler.
• Chemistry: Robert S. Mulliken.
• Medicine: Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins.
• Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs.
• Peace: destined to the special fund of this section of the prize.