What Happened In July 1966 In History

Historical Events for July, 1966

• 1st » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
• 2nd » The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb codenamed Aldébaran in Mururoa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
• 4th » President of the United States named U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act (United States) named Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• 6th » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first Heads of State of Malawi called President.
• 8th » List of Kings of Burundi King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Ntare V of Burundi Charles Ndizi.
• 10th » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.
• 15th » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
• 18th » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Canaveral e.g Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
• 24th » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jumping known as BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.

Famous Birthdays on July in 1966

• 1st » Enrico Annoni, Italian footballer
• 1st » Shawn Burr, Canadian-American ice hockey player (d. 2013)
• 2nd » Jean-François Richet, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 3rd » Moisés Alou, American baseball player
• 4th » Minas Hantzidis, German-Greek footballer
• 4th » Lee Reherman, American football player and actor
• 5th » Susannah Doyle, English actress, director, and playwright
• 5th » Claudia Wells, Malaysian-American actress
• 5th » Gianfranco Zola, Italian footballer and coach
• 6th » Brian Posehn, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 7th » Jim Gaffigan, American comedian and actor
• 7th » Gundula Krause, German-American violinist
• 7th » Neil Tobin, American magician
• 8th » Ralf Altmeyer, German-Chinese virologist and academic
• 8th » Shadlog Bernicke, Nauruan politician
• 8th » Suzanne Krull, American actress (d. 2013)
• 8th » Mike Nawrocki, American voice actor, animator, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded Big Idea Entertainment
• 9th » Pamela Adlon, American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 9th » Gayle and Gillian Blakeney or Gayle Blakeney, Australian actress and singer
• 9th » Gayle and Gillian Blakeney known as Gillian Blakeney, Australian actress and singer
• 9th » Zheng Cao, Chinese-American soprano (d. 2013)
• 9th » Manuel Mota (fashion designer) called Manuel Mota, Spanish fashion designer (d. 2013)
• 9th » Marco Pennette, American screenwriter and producer
• 10th » Gina Bellman, New Zealand-English actress
• 10th » Clive Efford, English politician
• 10th » Johnny Grunge, American wrestler (d. 2006)
• 10th » Christian Stangl, Austrian mountaineer
• 11th » Nadeem Aslam, Pakistani-English author
• 11th » Greg Grunberg, American actor and producer
• 11th » Kentaro Miura, Japanese author and illustrator
• 11th » Mick Molloy, Australian actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 11th » Bo Sanchez, Filipino minister and author
• 11th » Rod Strickland, American basketball player
• 12th » Taiji (musician) known as Taiji, Japanese bass player and songwriter (Loudness (band) called Loudness and X Japan) (d. 2011)
• 12th » Jeff Bucknum, American race car driver
• 12th » Annabel Croft, English tennis player and sportscaster
• 12th » Tamsin Greig, English actress
• 12th » Ana Torrent, Spanish actress
• 12th » Misato Watanabe, Japanese singer
• 13th » Gerald Levert, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (LeVert and LSG) (d. 2006)
• 13th » Natalia Luis-Bassa, Venezuelan-English conductor
• 14th » Juliet Cesario, American actress
• 14th » Owen Coyle, Scottish-Irish footballer and manager
• 14th » Tanya Donelly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Throwing Muses, Belly (band) known as Belly, and The Breeders)
• 14th » Matthew Fox, American actor
• 14th » Matt Hume American mixed martial artist and trainer
• 14th » Ellen Reid, Canadian singer and pianist (Crash Test Dummies)
• 14th » Brian Selznick, American author and illustrator
• 15th » Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter and drummer (Bonham (band) called Bonham, Damnocracy, and Black Country Communion)
• 15th » Irène Jacob, French-Swiss actress
• 16th » Jyrki Lumme, Finnish ice hockey player
• 16th » Mikhail Tatarinov, Russian ice hockey player
• 16th » Johnny Vaughan, English journalist and critic
• 17th » Lou Barlow, American guitarist and songwriter (Deep Wound, Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, and The Folk Implosion)
• 17th » Sten Tolgfors, Swedish politician, 30th Minister for Defence (Sweden) e.g Minister of Defence for Sweden
• 18th » Lori Alan, American actress
• 19th » Nancy Carell, American actress
• 19th » David Segui, American baseball player
• 20th » Anton du Beke, English dancer
• 20th » Stone Gossard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone, Brad (band) known as Brad, Temple of the Dog, and Green River (band) called Green River)
• 20th » Agot Isidro, Filipino actress
• 20th » Enrique Peña Nieto, Mexican politician, 57th President of Mexico
• 21st » Arija Bareikis, American actress
• 21st » Sarah Waters, Welsh author
• 22nd » Tim Brown (American football) named Tim Brown, American football player and manager
• 22nd » Shaun Cohen, South African-American wrestler
• 23rd » Samantha Beckinsale, English actress
• 23rd » Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist
• 24th » Mo-Do, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
• 24th » Martin Keown, English footballer and coach
• 25th » Maureen Herman, American bass player (Babes in Toyland (band) e.g Babes in Toyland)
• 25th » Diana Johnson, English politician
• 25th » Lynda Lemay, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 25th » Christine Quinn, American politician
• 28th » Paul Loughlin, English rugby player
• 28th » Shikao Suga, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 29th » Sally Gunnell, English hurdler
• 29th » Richard Steven Horvitz, American voice actor
• 29th » Stuart Lampitt, English cricketer
• 29th » Martina McBride, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 30th » Kerry Fox, New Zealand actress
• 30th » Craig Gannon, English guitarist and songwriter (The Smiths, The Bluebells, The Adult Net)
• 30th » Allan Langer, Australian rugby player
• 31st » Dean Cain, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 31st » Tatsuya Ishihara, Japanese animator and director
• 31st » Kevin Martin (curler) known as Kevin Martin, Canadian curler

Famous Deaths for July 1966

• 1st » Frank Verner, American runner (b. 1883)
• 2nd » Jan Brzechwa, Polish poet and author (b. 1900)
• 3rd » Leonie Taylor, American archer (b. 1870)
• 5th » George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry named Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
• 6th » Sad Sam Jones, American baseball player and manager (b. 1892)
• 11th » Delmore Schwartz, American poet and author (b. 1913)
• 12th » D. T. Suzuki, Japanese philosopher and author (b. 1870)
• 14th » Julie Manet, French painter (b. 1878)
• 15th » Seyfi Arkan, Turkish architect (b. 1966)
• 18th » Bobby Fuller, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (b. 1942)
• 23rd » Montgomery Clift, American actor and screenwriter (b. 1920)
• 24th » Tony Lema, American golfer (b. 1934)
• 29th » Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, Nigerian general and politician, 2nd List of heads of state of Nigeria called Head of State of Nigeria (b. 1924)
• 29th » Adekunle Fajuyi, Nigerian colonel (b. 1926)
• 31st » Bud Powell, American pianist (b. 1924)

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