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Year '''1966''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCMLXVI]]''') was a [[common year starting on Saturday]] (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 [[Gregorian calendar]].
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== Events of 1966 ==
===January===
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* [[January 1]] - In a coup, Colonel [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, taking out President [[David Dacko]].
* [[January 2]] - A strike of [[public transportation]] workers in [[New York City]] begins (it will end [[January 13]]).
* [[January 3]] - The first [[Acid Tests|Acid Test]] is conducted at [[the Fillmore]], [[San Francisco]].
* [[January 4]] - A military coup occurs in [[Republic of Upper Volta|Upper Volta]] (later [[Burkina Faso]]).
* [[January 4]] - The prime ministers of [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] meet in [[Moscow]].
* [[January 4]] - A [[gas leak]] fire at the Feyzin oil refinery near [[Lyon]], [[France]] kills 18 and injures 84.
* [[January 10]] - [[Pakistan]]i-[[India]]n peace negotiations end successfully in [[Tashkent]].
* [[January 10]] - The French paper ''[[L'Express (France)|L'Express]]'' publishes a story of [[Georges Figon]], who took part in the kidnapping of [[Mehdi Ben Barka]].
* [[January 11]] - A conference on [[Rhodesia]] begins in [[Lagos]], [[Nigeria]].
* [[January 11]] - The first [[SR-71 Blackbird]] spy plane goes into service at [[Beale AFB]].
* [[January 12]] - United States President [[Lyndon Johnson]] states that the [[United States]] should stay in [[South Vietnam]] until [[Communism|Communist]] aggression there is ended.
* [[January 13]] - [[Robert C. Weaver]] becomes the first [[African American]] Cabinet member, by being appointed [[United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development]].
* [[January 15]] - A violent military [[coup]] is staged in [[Nigeria]].
* [[January 15]] - [[Moscow]] announces the death of rocket designer [[Sergei Korolev]].
* [[January 17]] - The Nigerian [[coup]] is overturned.
* [[January 17]] - A [[B-52 Stratofortress|B-52]] bomber collides with a [[KC-135 Stratotanker]] over [[Spain]], dropping three 70-kiloton [[hydrogen bomb]]s near the town of Palomares, and 1 into the sea, in the [[Palomares hydrogen bombs incident]].
* [[January 17]] - [[Carl Brashear]], the first [[African American]] [[United States Navy]] diver, is involved in an accident during the recovery of a lost h-bomb which results in the amputation of his leg.
* [[January 18]] - French police announce that [[Georges Figon]] committed suicide, prior to his arrest for the kidnapping of [[Mehdi Ben Barka]].
* [[January 18]] - About 8,000 U.S. soldiers land in [[South Vietnam]]; U.S. troops now total 190,000.
* [[January 19]] - [[Indira Gandhi]] is elected [[Prime Minister of India]]; she is sworn in [[January 24]].
* [[January 19]] - Australian Prime Minister [[Robert Menzies]] resigns.
* [[January 20]] - Demonstrations occur against high food prices in [[Hungary]].
* [[January 21]] - Italian Prime Minister [[Aldo Moro]] resigns due to a power struggle in his party.
* [[January 22]] - The military government of [[Nigeria]] announces that ex-prime minister [[Abubakar Tafawa Balewa]] was killed during the coup.
* [[January 22]] - The [[Chad]]ian [[Muslim]] insurgent group [[FROLINAT]] is founded in [[Sudan]], starting the [[Chadian Civil War]].
* [[January 26]] - [[Harold Holt]] becomes Prime Minister of [[Australia]] when [[Robert Menzies]] retires.
* [[January 26]] - [[Beaumont children disappearance]]: Three children disappear on their way to [[Glenelg, South Australia|Glenelg Beach]], [[South Australia]], never to be seen again.
* [[January 27]] - The British government promises the U.S. that British troops in [[Malaysia]] will stay until more peaceful conditions occur in the region.
* [[January 29]] - The first of 608 performances of ''[[Sweet Charity]]'' opens at the Palace Theatre in [[New York City]].
* [[January 31]] - The [[United Kingdom]] ceases all trade with [[Rhodesia]].
===February===
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* [[February 1]] - [[West Germany]] procures some 2,600 [[political prisoner]]s from [[East Germany]].
* [[February 3]] - The unmanned Soviet [[Luna 9]] spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the [[Moon]].
* [[February 4]] - [[All Nippon Airways Flight 60]] plunge into [[Tokyo]] Bay (133 dead).
* [[February 6]] - [[Fidel Castro]] blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among [[Cuba]]n soldiers.
* [[February 10]] - Soviet writers [[Yuli Daniel]] and [[Andrei Sinyavsky]] are sentenced to 5 and 7 years, respectively, for 'anti-Soviet' writings.
* [[February 11]] - The [[Belgium|Belgian]] government resigns.
* [[February 14]] - The [[Australian dollar]] is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
* [[February 19]] - The naval minister of the [[United Kingdom]], [[Christopher Mayhew]], resigns.
* [[February 20]] - While Soviet author and translator [[Valery Tarsis]] is abroad, the [[Soviet Union]] negates his citizenship.
* [[February 23]] - A military [[coup]] in [[Syria]] replaces the previous government with a [[Ba'ath]]ist regime.
* [[February 24]] - A military [[coup]] in [[Ghana]] raises sacked General Ankrah to power while president [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is abroad.
* [[February 26]] - A [[curfew]] is declared in [[Jakarta]], [[Indonesia]].
* [[February 28]] - U.S. astronauts [[Charles Bassett]] and [[Elliott See]] are killed in an aircraft accident in [[St. Louis, Missouri]].
===March===
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* [[March 1]] - Soviet [[space probe]] ''[[Venera 3]]'' crashes on [[Venus (planet)|Venus]], becoming the first [[spacecraft]] to land on another [[planet]]'s surface.
* [[March 1]] - The [[Ba'ath Party]] takes power in [[Syria]].
* [[March 2]] - [[Kwame Nkrumah]] arrives in [[Guinea]] and is granted [[refugee|asylum]].
* [[March 4]] - [[The Beatles]]: In an interview published in The London ''[[Evening Standard]]'', [[John Lennon]] comments, "We're more popular than [[Jesus]] now," eventually sparking a controversy in the [[United States]].
* [[March 4]] - 124 killed [[BOAC]] [[Boeing 707]] jetliner crashed [[Mount Fuji]], [[Japan]].
* [[March 5]] - A massive theft of nuclear materials is revealed in [[Brazil]].
* [[March 5]] - ''Merci Chérie'' by Udo Jürgens (music by Udo Jürgens, text by Udo Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1966]] for [[Austria]].
* [[March 7]] - [[Charles De Gaulle]] asks U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] for negotiations about the state of [[NATO]] equipment in [[France]].
* [[March 8]] - Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the [[Indonesia]]n Foreign Ministry.
* [[March 8]] - [[Ronald Kray]], one of the [[Kray twins]], shoots rival gangster [[George Cornell]]; the incident leads to the brother's incarceration.{{Fact|date=June 2007}}<!-- see 9th below -->
* [[March 8]] - [[Vietnam War]]: [[Australia]] announces it will substantially increase its number of troops in [[Vietnam]].
* [[March 8]] - An [[Irish Republican Army]] bomb destroys [[Nelson's Pillar]] in [[Dublin]].
* [[March 9]] - [[Ronnie Kray]] murders [[George Cornell]] in the Blind Beggar pub.{{Fact|date=June 2007}}<!-- was it the 8th or the 9th..? -->
* [[March 10]] - [[Crown Prince]]ss [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]] marries [[Claus von Amsberg]]. Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
* [[March 11]] - Indonesian President [[Sukarno]] gives all [[executive power]]s to General [[Suharto]] (see [[Transition to the New Order]] and [[Supersemar]]).
* [[March 11]] - French President [[Charles De Gaulle]] states that French troops will be taken out of [[NATO]] and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year.
* [[March 12]] - [[Bobby Hull]] of the [[Chicago Blackhawks|Chicago Black Hawks]] sets the [[National Hockey League|NHL]] single season scoring record against the [[New York Rangers]] with his 51st goal.
* [[March 13]] - The 1956 film version of [[Rodgers and Hammerstein]]'s ''[[Carousel (film)|Carousel]]'', adapted from their stage musical, is shown on network TV for the first time by [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC-TV]]. It will be repeated just three months later.
* [[March 16]] - ''[[Gemini 8]]'' ([[David Scott]], [[Neil Armstrong]]) docks with an [[Agena target vehicle]].
* [[March 17]] - More anti-communist demonstrations occur in [[Indonesia]].
* [[March 17]] - Off the coast of [[Spain]] in the [[Mediterranean]], the [[DSV Alvin]] [[submarine]] finds a missing American [[hydrogen bomb]].
[[Image:P6anglican.jpg|thumb|right|[[Archbishop of Canterbury]] meeting the [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] [[Pope]]]]
* [[March 19]] - The [[Texas Western]] Miners defeat the [[Kentucky]] Wildcats with 5 black starters, ushering in desegregation in athletic recruiting.
* [[March 20]] - World Cup Trophy the "[[Jules Rimet]]" is stolen at an exhibition, it is later found by a dog named "[[Pickles]]" and his owner David Corbett.
* [[March 22]] - In [[Washington, DC]], [[General Motors]] President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate [[Ralph Nader]] for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
* [[March 23]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] and [[Arthur Michael Ramsey]], the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], meet in Rome.
* [[March 26]] - Demonstrations are held across the [[United States]] against the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[March 27]] - In [[South Vietnam]], 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.
* [[March 28]] - [[Indira Gandhi]] visits [[Washington, DC]].
* [[March 29]] - The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the [[Soviet Union]]; [[Leonid Brezhnev]] demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
* [[March 31]] - The [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] under [[Harold Wilson]] wins the British General Election.
* [[March 31]] - The [[Soviet Union]] launches ''[[Luna 10]]'', which later becomes the first [[space probe]] to enter orbit around the [[Moon]].
===April===
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* [[April 2]] - The [[Indonesia]]n army demands that the country rejoin the [[United Nations]].
* [[April 4]] - ''[[Luna 10]]'' enters orbit around the [[Moon]].
* [[April 7]] - The [[United Kingdom]] asks the [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]] for authority to use force to stop [[oil tanker]]s that violate the embargo against [[Rhodesia]]. Authority is given [[April 10]].
* [[April 8]] - Buddhists in [[South Vietnam]] protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for [[free elections]].
* [[April 9]] - [[Norwich City F.C.]] captain [[Barry Butler (footballer born 1934)|Barry Butler]] is killed in a car accident.
* [[April 13]] - [[United States]] president [[Lyndon Johnson]] signs the 1966 [[Uniform Time Act]] act dealing with [[Daylight Saving Time]].
* [[April 14]] - The [[South Vietnam]]ese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
* [[April 15]] - An anti-[[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] conspiracy is exposed in [[Egypt]].
* [[April 18]]
**China declares that it will stop economic aid to [[Indonesia]].
**[[38th Academy Awards]] ceremony
* [[April 21]] - An [[artificial heart]] is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a [[Houston, Texas]] hospital.
* [[April 21]] - The opening of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] is televised for the first time.
* [[April 21]] - [[Haile Selassie]] visits [[Jamaica]] for the first time, meeting with [[Rastafarian]] leaders.
* [[April 21]] - [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] go on trial at [[Chester Crown Court]], for the murders of 3 children who vanished between [[November]] [[1963]] and [[October]] [[1965]].
* [[April 27]] - [[Pope Paul VI]] and Soviet Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] meet in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] (the first meeting between leaders of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Soviet Union]]).
* [[April 28]] - In [[Rhodesia]], security forces kill 7 [[ZANLA]] men in combat; ''[[Chimurenga]]'', the [[ZANU]] rebellion, begins.
* [[April 29]] - U.S. troops in [[Vietnam]] total 250,000.
* [[April 30]] - Regular [[hovercraft]] service begins over the [[English Channel]] (discontinued in 2000 due to the [[Channel Tunnel]]).
* [[April 30]] - The [[Church of Satan]] is formed by [[Anton Szandor LaVey]] in [[San Francisco]]
* [[April 30]] - [[Uniform Time Act|Uniform]] [[Daylight Saving Time]] first observed in most parts of [[North America]].
===May===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Flood]]s occur on the [[Finland|Finnish]] coast.
* [[May 3]] - [[Swinging Radio England]] and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on [[AM broadcasting|AM]], with a combined potential 100,000 watts, from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters.
* [[May 4]] - [[Fiat]] signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[May 6]] - The [[Moors Murderers]] trial at Chester Crown Court ends with [[Ian Brady]] being found guilty on all 3 counts of murder. He is sentenced to 3 concurrent terms of life imprisonment. [[Myra Hindley]] is convicted on 2 counts of murder and cleared on a third charge, but is guilty of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady. She receives 2 concurrent terms of life imprisonment for murder and a 7-year fixed term for being an accessory.
* [[May 12]] - African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
* [[May 12]] - Opening of the [[Busch Memorial Stadium]] in [[St Louis, Missouri]].
* [[May 12]] - [[China Radio International|Radio Peking]] claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over [[Yunnan]] (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
* [[May 14]] - [[Turkey]] and [[Greece]] intend to start negotiations about the situation in [[Cyprus]].
* [[May 15]] - [[Indonesia]] asks [[Malaysia]] for peace negotiations.
* [[May 15]] - The [[South Vietnam]]ese army besieges [[Da Nang]].
* [[May 15]] - Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the [[White House]], then rally at the [[Washington Monument]].
* [[May 16]] - A seamen's strike is called in Britain.
* [[May 16]] - The legendary album ''[[Pet Sounds]]'' by [[The Beach Boys]] is released.
* [[May 16]] - [[Bob Dylan]]'s seminal album, ''[[Blonde on Blonde]]'' is released in the USA.
* [[May 16]] - In [[New York City]], Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] makes his first public speech on the [[Vietnam War]].
* [[May 19]] - [[Gertrude Baniszewski]] is found guilty of murdering and torturing [[Sylvia Likens]] and is sentenced to life in prison. Released on parole in December 1985.
* [[May 24]] - [[Uganda]]n army troops arrest [[Mutesa II of Buganda]] and occupy his palace.
* [[May 24]] - The [[Nigeria]]n government forbids all political activity in the country (until [[January 17]], [[1969]]).
* [[May 25]] - [[Explorer program]]: ''[[Explorer 32]]'' is launched.
* [[May 25]] - In [[St. Louis, Missouri]], U.S. Vice-President [[Hubert Humphrey]] and U.S. Secretary of the Interior [[Stewart Udall]] dedicate the [[Gateway Arch]], as part of the [[Jefferson National Expansion Memorial]].
* [[May 26]] - [[Guyana]] achieves independence.
* [[May 28]] - [[Fidel Castro]] delcares [[martial law]] in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
* [[May 28]] - The [[Indonesia]]n and [[Malaysia|Malayan]] governments declare that the [[Indonesian Confrontation]] is over (a treaty is signed on [[August 11]]).
* [[May 31]] - The [[Philippines]] reestablishes [[diplomatic relations]] with [[Malaysia]].
===June===
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* [[June 1]] - The final new episode of ''[[The Dick Van Dyke Show]]'' airs (the first episode aired on [[October 3]], [[1961]]).
* [[June 2]] - [[Éamon de Valera]] is re-elected as Irish president.
* [[June 2]] - [[Surveyor program]]: ''[[Surveyor 1]]'' lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the [[Moon]], becoming the first [[spacecraft]] to soft-land on another world.
* [[June 2]] - Four former cabinet ministers are executed in [[Zaire]], for alleged involvement in a plot to kill [[Mobutu Sese Seko]].
* [[June 3]] - [[Joaquín Balaguer]] is elected president of the [[Dominican Republic]].
* [[June 5]] - ''[[Gemini 9]]'': [[Gene Cernan]] completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).
* [[June 6]] - [[Civil rights]] activist [[James Meredith]] is shot while trying to march across [[Mississippi]].
* [[June 8]] - An [[XB-70 Valkyrie]] prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with a [[F-104 Starfighter]] chase plane during a photo shoot. [[NASA]] pilot [[Joseph A. Walker]] and [[USAF]] test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
* [[June 8]] - [[Topeka, Kansas]] is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the [[Fujita Scale]]: the first to exceed US $100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. [http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php]
* [[June 13]] - ''[[Miranda v. Arizona]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that the police must inform [[suspect]]s of their rights before questioning them.
* [[June 14]] - The [[Holy See|Vatican]] abolishes the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]'' (index of banned books).
* [[June 17]] - An [[Air France]] personnel strike begins.
* [[June 18]] - [[CIA]] chief [[William Raborn]] resigns - [[Richard Helms]] becomes his successor.
* [[June 20]] - French President [[Charles De Gaulle]] starts visit to the [[Soviet Union]].
* [[June 21]] - Opposition leader Arthur Calwell is shot after attending a political meeting in Mosman, Sydney, Australia.
* [[June 28]] - In [[Argentina]], a [[military dictatorship|junta]] deposes president [[Arturo Umberto Illia]] in a coup, and appoints General [[Juan Carlos Ongania]] to lead.
* [[June 29]] - A sailors' strike, organised by the [[National Union of Seamen]], ends in the [[United Kingdom]].
* [[June 29]] - [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. planes begin bombing [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]].
* [[June 30]] - [[France]] formally leaves [[NATO]].
* [[June 30]] - The [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) is founded in [[Washington, DC]].
===July===
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* [[July 1]] - [[Joaquin Balaguer]] becomes president of the [[Dominican Republic]].
* [[July 3]] - [[Rene Barrientos]] is elected [[president of Bolivia]].
* [[July 4]] - [[North Vietnam]] declares general [[mobilization]].
* [[July 4]] - President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs the [[Freedom of Information Act (United States)|Freedom of Information Act]], which goes into effect the following year.
* [[July 4]] - Romania's premier Nicolae Ceausescu proposes dissolution of both NATO and the Warsaw Pact alliance in a meeting of Warsaw Pact powers at Bucharest.
* [[July 6]] - [[Malawi]] becomes a republic.
* [[July 7]] - A [[Warsaw Pact]] conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
* [[July 8]] - King [[Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi]] is deposed by his son [[Ntare V]], who is in turn deposed by prime minister [[Michel Micombero]].
* [[July 11]] - The [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] begins in [[England]].
* [[July 12]] - [[Indira Gandhi]] visits Moscow.
* [[July 12]] - [[Zambia]] threatens to leave the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] because of British peace overtures to [[Rhodesia]].
* [[July 12]] - U.S. Lieutenant Major W.H. Whalen is arrested for spying.
* [[July 14]] - [[Israel]]i and [[Syria]]n jet fighters clash over the [[Jordan River]].
* [[July 14]] - [[Richard Speck]] murders 8 student nurses in their [[Chicago]] dormitory.
* [[July 14]] - [[Gwynfor Evans]] becomes member of Parliament for [[Carmarthen]], the first [[Plaid Cymru]] MP in the [[United Kingdom|UK]].
* [[July 16]] - British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about the [[Vietnam War]] (the Soviet government refutes his ideas).
* [[July 17]] - [[Richard Speck]] is arrested; he tries to commit suicide but fails.
* [[July 18]] - ''[[Gemini 10]]'' ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]) launched. After docking with an [[Agena target vehicle]], they then set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763 km).
* [[July 18]] - The [[Hough Riots]] break out in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], the city's first [[Mass racial violence in the United States|race riot]].
* [[July 19]] - A Chinese delegate in the [[Netherlands]], Liu en-Tsiu, is declared [[persona non grata]] because of the death of a Chinese engineer in unclear circumstances; there are claims that he was kidnapped and taken to the delegate's office.
* [[July 22]] - The Chinese government declares Dutch delegate G. J. Jongejans [[persona non grata]], but tells him not to leave the country before a group of Chinese engineers has left the [[Netherlands]].
* [[July 23]] - [[Katanga|Katangese]] troops in [[Stanleyville]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]], revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister [[Moise Tshombe]].
* [[July 24]] - U.N. Secretary General [[U Thant]] visits Moscow.
* [[July 26]] - Lord Gardiner issues the [[Practice Statement]] in the [[House of Lords]], stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous [[precedent]].
* [[July 28]] - The U.S. announces that a [[Lockheed U-2]] reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
* [[July 29]] - The [[Nigeria]]n army rebels and executes head of state [[Ironsi|General Aguiyi-Ironsi]].
* [[July 29]] - [[Bob Dylan]] is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in [[Woodstock, New York]]. He is not seen in public for over a year.
* [[July 30]] - [[England national football team|England]] beats [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] 4–2 to win the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] after [[extra time]].
===August===
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* [[August 1]] - Sniper [[Charles Whitman]] kills 13 people from the [[University of Texas at Austin]] Main Building.
* [[August 1]] - A [[military coup]] occurs in [[Nigeria]]; General [[Yakubu Gowon]] takes over.
* [[August 2]] - The Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft.
* [[August 3]] - Comedian Lenny Bruce dies. Comedian Brent Butt is born.
* [[August 5]] - [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] leads a civil rights march in [[Chicago]], during which he is struck by a rock thrown from an angry white mob.
* [[August 5]] - [[The Beatles]] release the legendary ''[[Revolver (album)|Revolver]]'' album in the [[United Kingdom]].[http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/b/beatles-revolvermft.shtml]
* [[August 5]] - Mao Zedong launches a Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.
* [[August 6]] - [[Braniff Airlines Flight 250]] crashes in [[Falls City, Nebraska]], killing all 42 on board.
* [[August 6]] - [[Rene Barrientos]] takes office as the president of [[Bolivia]].
* [[August 6]] - The [[Tagus|Tagus River]] Bridge opens in [[Lisbon]], [[Portugal]].
* [[August 7]] - Race riots occur in [[Lansing, Michigan]].
* [[August 10]] - An East German court sentences Günter Laudahn to life imprisonment for spying for the [[United States]].
* [[August 10]] - [[Lunar Orbiter 1]], the first U.S. spacecraft to orbit another world, is launched.
* [[August 11]] - [[The Beatles]] hold a press conference in [[Chicago]], during which [[John Lennon]] apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."
* [[August 12]] - [[Massacre of Braybrook Street]]: Harry Roberts, John Duddy and Jack Witney shoot dead 3 plain clothes policemen in [[London]]; they are later sentenced to life imprisonment.
* [[August 13]] - In the [[People's Republic of China]], [[Mao Zedong]] begins the [[Cultural Revolution]].
* [[August 13]] - An [[earthquake]] in [[Turkey]] kills 2,394 and injures 10,000.
* [[August 15]] - [[Syria]]n and [[Israel]]i troops clash over Lake Genesaret for 3 hours.
* [[August 15]] - It is announced that the ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' will not resume publication.
* [[August 16]] - [[Vietnam War]]: The [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] starts investigating Americans who have aided the [[Viet Cong]], with the intent to make these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
* [[August 17]] - [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Republic]] begin negotiations in [[Kuwait]] to end the war in [[Yemen]].
* [[August 18]] - [[Vietnam War]]: D Company, 6th Battalion of the [[Royal Australian Regiment]], meets and defeats a [[Viet Cong]] force estimated to be 4 times larger, at the [[Battle of Long Tan]] in Phuoc Tuy Province, [[Republic of Vietnam]].
* [[August 19]] - An [[earthquake]] in eastern [[Turkey]] destroys whole cities.
* [[August 21]] - Seven men are sentenced to death in [[Egypt]], for anti-[[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] agitation.
* [[August 22]] - The United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the [[United Farm Workers|United Farm Workers of America]] ([[UFW]]), is formed.
* [[August 26]] - Riots occur in [[French Somaliland]].
* [[August 29]] - [[The Beatles]] play their very last concert at [[Candlestick Park]] in [[San Francisco, California]].
* [[August 30]] - [[France]] offers independence to French Somaliland.
===September===
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* [[September 1]] - [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[U Thant]] declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
* [[September 1]] - 98 [[United Kingdom|British]] tourists die in an air crash in [[Ljubljana]], [[Yugoslavia]].
* [[September 6]] - In [[Cape Town]], the [[South Africa]]n architect of [[Apartheid]], Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], is stabbed to death by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]] during a parliamentary meeting.
* [[September 8]] - ''[[Star Trek]]'', the classic science fiction television series, debuts with its first episode, titled "[[The Man Trap]]."
* [[September 9]] - [[NATO]] decides to move [[SHAPE]] headquarters to [[Belgium]].
* [[September 12]] - ''[[Gemini 11]]'' ([[Richard Gordon]], [[Pete Conrad]]) docks with an [[Agena target vehicle]].
* [[September 12]] - [[General of the Army (United States)#Second version|Five Star General]] [[Omar Bradley]] marries actress Esther "Kitty" Buhler in [[San Diego, California]].
* [[September 12]] - [[Balthazar Johannes Vorster]] becomes the new South African Prime Minister.
* [[September 13]] - [[TASS (USSR)|TASS]] reports on clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards.
* [[September 16]] - In South Vietnam, [[Thich Tri Quang]] begins a 100-day hunger strike.
* [[September 16]] - The [[Metropolitan Opera House]] opens at [[Lincoln Center]] in [[New York City]] to the world premiere of [[Samuel Barber]]'s opera, ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (opera)|Antony and Cleopatra]]''.
* [[September 18]] - Valerie Percy, the 21-year-old daughter of Senator [[Charles H. Percy]], is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore.
* [[September 19]] - [[Scotland Yard]] arrests Ronald Edwards, suspected of involvement in the Great Train Robbery.
* [[September 30]] - [[Baldur von Schirach]] and [[Albert Speer]] are released from [[Spandau Prison]].
* [[September 30]] - [[Botswana]] achieves independence.
===October===
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* October - [[Bobby Seale]] and [[Huey P. Newton]] found the [[Black Panther Party]].
* [[October 1]] - [[West Coast Airlines Flight 956]] crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of [[Wemme, Oregon]]. This accident marks the first loss of a [[DC-9]]. <ref>[http://amelia.db.erau.edu/reports/ntsb/aar/AAR67-AF.pdf Aircraft Accident Report. West Coast Airlines, Inc DC-9 N9101. Near Wemme, Oregon], Adopted: [[11 December]] [[1967]]</ref>
* [[October 3]] - [[Tunisia]] severs diplomatic relations with the [[United Arab Republic]].
* [[October 4]] - [[Israel]] applies for the outer membership of the [[European Economic Community|EEC]].
* [[October 4]] - [[Basutoland]] becomes independent and takes the name [[Lesotho]].
* [[October 5]] - [[UNESCO]] signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is now celebrated as World Teachers' Day.
* [[October 7]] - The [[Soviet Union]] declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
* [[October 9]] - The [[Baltimore Orioles]] defeat the [[Los Angeles Dodgers]] in Game 4 of the [[World Series]], 1–0, to sweep the series for their 1st World Championship.
* [[October 11]] - [[France]] and the [[Soviet Union]] sign a treaty for cooperation in nuclear research.
* [[October 14]] - The city of [[Montreal]] inaugurates its [[metro]] system (see [[Montreal Metro]]).
* [[October 15]] - U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] signs a bill creating the [[United States Department of Transportation]].
* [[October 15]] - U.S. Congress passes a bill for the creation of [[Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore]] to be created.
* [[October 15]] - [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC-TV]] telecasts a highly-acclaimed ninety-minute television adaptation of the musical ''[[Brigadoon]]'', starring [[Robert Goulet]], [[Peter Falk]], and [[Sally Ann Howes]]. It wins many [[Emmy Awards]], is repeated just five months later, and inaugurates a short-lived series of special television adaptations of famous Broadway musicals on ABC. Goulet stars in all but one of these specials.
* [[October 16]] - [[Grace Slick]] performs live for the first time with [[Jefferson Airplane]].
* [[October 17]] - [[Lesotho]] and [[Botswana]] are admitted to the [[United Nations]].
* [[October 21]] - The [[Aberfan disaster]] occurs in [[South Wales]], [[United Kingdom]].
* [[October 22]] - British spy [[George Blake]] escapes from [[Wormwood Scrubs (HM Prison)|Wormwood Scrubs]] prison; he is next seen in [[Moscow]].
* [[October 22]] - [[Spain]] demands that the [[United Kingdom]] stop military flights to [[Gibraltar]]; Britain refuses the next day.
* [[October 24]] - Negotiations about the [[Vietnam War]] begin in [[Manila]], [[Philippines]].
* [[October 25]] - A military court in [[Jakarta]] sentences ex-foreign minister Subandrio to death.
* [[October 25]] - Spain closes its [[Gibraltar]] border to non-[[pedestrian]] traffic.
* [[October 26]] - [[NATO]] moves its HQ from [[Paris]] to [[Brussels]].
* [[October 27]] - The [[United Nations]] takes [[Namibia]] from [[South Africa]].
* [[October 29]] - The [[Guinea]]n delegation to the [[Organization of African Unity|OAU]] meeting in [[Ethiopia]], become hostages of the [[Ghana]]ian government in [[Accra]].
===November===
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* [[November 2]] - The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 [[Cuba]]ns the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the [[United States]].
* [[November 4]] - The [[Flood of the River Arno in Florence|Arno river floods]] [[Florence]], damaging many art treasures.
* [[November 5]] - Thirty-eight African states demand that the [[United Kingdom]] use force against the [[Rhodesia]]n government.
* [[November 6]] - [[Lunar Orbiter 2]] is launched.
* [[November 8]] - Former [[Massachusetts]] Attorney General [[Edward Brooke]] becomes the first [[African American]] elected to the [[United States Senate]] since [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]].
* [[November 8]] - Actor [[Ronald Reagan]], a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], is elected [[Governor]] of [[California]].
* [[November 9]] - [[John Lennon]] meets [[Yoko Ono]] at the [[Indica Gallery]]
* [[November 11]] - A mine kills 3 [[Israeli]] paratroopers on the [[West Bank]] border.
* [[November 11]] - [[Spain]] declares general amnesty for crimes committed during the [[Spanish Civil War]] (effective only for the [[Falangists]]' side).
* [[November 15]] - ''[[Gemini 12]]'' ([[James A. Lovell]], [[Buzz Aldrin]]), splashes down safely in the [[Atlantic Ocean]], 600 km east of the [[Bahamas]].
* [[November 15]] - [[Harry Maurice Roberts]], who killed 3 policemen in August, is caught near [[London]].
* [[November 15]] - A [[Boeing 727]] carrying [[Pan Am Flight 708]] crashes near [[Berlin]], [[Germany]], killing all three people on board.
* [[November 16]] - U.S. doctor [[Sam Sheppard]] is acquitted in his second trial for the murder of his pregnant wife in [[1954]].
* [[November 17]] - The U.N. General Assembly decides to found the [[United Nations Industrial Development Organization]].
* [[November 17]] - A spectacular [[Leonid]] meteor shower passes over [[Arizona]], at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.
* [[November 21]] - The army crushes an attempted coup in [[Togo]].
* [[November 28]] - [[Truman Capote]]'s Black and White Ball ('The Party of the Century') is held in New York City.
* [[November 30]] - [[Barbados]] achieves independence.
===December===
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* [[December 1]] - [[Kurt Georg Kiesinger]] is elected [[Chancellor of Germany|Chancellor of West Germany]].
* [[December 1]] - British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] and [[Rhodesia]]n Prime minister [[Ian Smith]] negotiate on [[HMS Tiger (C20)|HMS ''Tiger'']] in the Mediterranean.
* [[December 2]] - [[U Thant]] agrees to serve a second term as U.N. Secretary General.
* [[December 3]] - Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in [[Macau]]; a [[curfew]] is declared the next day.
* [[December 7]] - [[Syria]] offers weapons to rebels in [[Jordan]].
* [[December 7]] - [[Barbados]] is admitted to the [[United Nations]].
* [[December 8]] - The Typaldos Line's ferry ''Heraklion'' sinks in rough seas, in the [[Aegean Sea]] near [[Crete]] - 217 dead.
* [[December 15]] - In [[Los Angeles]], [[Walt Disney]] dies of lung cancer at age 65.
* [[December 16]] - The U.N. Security Council approves an oil embargo against [[Rhodesia]].
* [[December 16]] - The [[International Covenant]] on Economic, Social and Cultural rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights were adopted by the General Assembly by its resolution 2200 A (XXI).
* [[December 17]] - [[South Africa]] does not join the [[trade embargo]] against [[Rhodesia]].
* [[December 20]] - [[Harold Wilson]] withdraws all his previous offers to the [[Rhodesia]]n government, and announces that he will agree to [[independence]] only after the founding of a Black majority government
* [[December 22]] - Prime Minister [[Ian Smith]] declares that Rhodesia is already a republic.
* [[December 23]] - ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas (television special)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', narrated by [[Boris Karloff]], is shown for the first time on [[CBS]]. It will become an annual [[Christmas]] tradition.
* [[December 26]] - The first [[Kwanzaa]] is celebrated by [[Maulana Karenga]], the chair of [[Black Studies]], at [[California State University, Long Beach]].
* [[December 31]] - East German Premier [[Walter Ulbricht]] discusses negotiations about [[German reunification]].
* [[December 31]] - Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from the [[Dulwich Art Gallery]] in [[London]].
* [[December 31]] - The Congolese government takes over the [[Union Minière du Haut Katanga]].
===Undated===
* [[Konstantin Chernenko]], later leader of [[Soviet Union]], becomes candidate member of the [[Central Committee]].
* [[Surrealist Movement in the United States]] founded by [[Franklin Rosemont|Franklin]] and [[Penelope Rosemont]].
* [[Lise Meitner]] and [[Otto Hahn]] are awarded the [[Fermi Prize]].
* [[Congress of the United States]] creates [[National Council for Marine Resources and Engineering Development]].
* [[Will Lang Jr.]] begins [[Life (magazine)]]'s investigation into the assassination of [[John F. Kennedy]] and the [[Warren Commission]]. Will Lang Jr. is stopped by [[Holland McCombs]] a few months later.
* [[Martin Richards]] designs the [[BCPL programming language]].
* The [[DKW]] automobile goes out of production.
* World [[Buddhism|Buddhist]] [[Sangha]] Council convened by [[Theravada|Theravadins]] in [[Sri Lanka]] with the hope of bridging differences and working together.
* [[Long-term potentiation]] (LTP), the putative [[cell (biology)|cellular]] mechanism of [[learning]] and [[memory]], is first observed by [[Terje Lømo]] in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]].
* Actress [[Saira Banu]] marries actor [[Dilip Kumar]].
* [[Kwanzaa]] was created by [[Maulana Karenga|Dr. Maulana Karenga]].
===Ongoing===
* [[First Sudanese Civil War]] (1955–72)
* [[Guatemalan Civil War]] (1960–96)
* [[Indochina Wars]]
* [[Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation]] (1962–76)
* [[Laotian Civil War]] (1962–75)
* [[Marshall Plan]]
* [[North Yemen Civil War]] (1962–70)
* [[Portuguese Colonial War]] (1961–74)
* [[Shifta War]] (1963–67)
==Births==
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* [[January 1]] - [[Anna Burke]], [[Australia]]n politician and member for [[Division of Chisholm|Chisholm]] in the [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]]
* [[January 1]] - [[Crazy Legs (dancer)|Crazy Legs]], [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rican]] Breakdancer, President of [[Rock Steady Crew]]
* [[January 1]] - [[Michael Imperioli]], American actor
* [[January 3]] - [[Martin Galway]], Northern Irish composer
* [[January 4]] - [[Deana Carter]], American singer
* [[January 5]] - [[Kate Schellenbach]], American musician, drummer for The Beastie Boys from 1981 to 1984, and Luscious Jackson
* [[January 7]] - [[Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy]], American actress and model, wife of [[John F. Kennedy, Jr.]] (died [[1999]])
* [[January 8]] - [[Igor Vyazmikin]], Russian ice hockey player
* [[January 12]] - [[Rob Zombie]], American musician, artist, and writer
* [[January 13]] - [[Patrick Dempsey]], American actor
* [[January 14]] - [[Marco Hietala]], bassist in the Finnish Metal Band [[Nightwish]]
* [[January 17]] - [[Shabba Ranks]], Jamaican singer
* [[January 19]] - [[Stefan Edberg]], Swedish tennis player
* [[January 19]] - [[Floris Jan Bovelander]], Dutch field hockey player
* [[January 20]] - [[Stacey Dash]], American actress
* [[January 20]] - [[Tracii Guns]], American guitarist
* [[January 21]] - [[Wendy James]], British singer ([[Transvision Vamp]])
* [[January 24]] - [[Jimeoin]], Northern Irish-Australian comedian and actor
* [[January 29]] - [[Romário]], Brazilian footballer
* [[January 30]] - [[Hans Tutschku]], German composer
===February===
* [[February 1]] - [[Michelle Akers]], American soccer player
* [[February 4]] - [[Kyoko Koizumi]], Japanese actress and singer
* [[February 6]] - [[Rick Astley]], British singer
* [[February 9]] - [[Ellen van Langen]], Dutch athlete
* [[February 11]] - [[Stephen Gregory (actor)|Stephen Gregory]], American actor
* [[February 18]] - [[Richard A Collins]], British scientist and author
* [[February 20]] - [[Cindy Crawford]], American model and actress
* [[February 22]] - [[Yahya Ayyash]], chief bombmaker of Hamas and leader of Samaria battalion of Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades
* [[February 22]] - [[Brian Greig]], Australian statesman
* [[February 23]] - [[Michael Arata]], American actor
* [[February 24]] - [[Billy Zane]], American actor
* [[February 25]] - [[Samson Kitur]], Kenyan athlete
* [[February 25]] - [[Tea Leoni]], American actress
* [[February 26]] - [[Madeleine Carroll]], British actress
* [[February 26]] - [[Najwa Karam]], Lebanese singer
===March===
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* [[March 3]] - [[Tone Lōc]], American musician
* [[March 4]] - [[Daniela Amavia]], American actress and international model
* [[March 4]] - [[Kevin Johnson]], American basketball player
* [[March 4]] - [[Grand Puba]] (Brand Nubian), American rapper
* [[March 4]] - [[Patrick Hannan (musician)|Patrick Hannan]], English pop drummer with The Sundays
* [[March 4]] - [[Steve Bastoni]], Italian Australian actor
* [[March 4]] - [[Dav Pilkey]], American writer
* [[March 4]] - [[Wash Westmoreland]], British film director
* [[March 5]] - [[Mark Z. Danielewski]], American author
* [[March 5]] - [[Michael Irvin]], American football player
* [[March 6]] - [[Maurice Ashley]], African-American chess grandmaster
* [[March 6]] - [[Yahya Ayyash]], Palestinian terrorist (died [[1996]])
* [[March 7]] - [[Jeff Feagles]], National Football League punter
* [[March 9]] - [[Michael Patrick MacDonald]], American memorist
* [[March 10]] - [[Edie Brickell]], American singer
* [[March 10]] - [[Mike Timlin]], baseball player
* [[March 16]] - [[Rodney Peete]], former National Football League quarterback
* [[March 17]] - [[David Taylor]], English Joiner
* [[March 25]] - [[Tom Glavine]], Major League Baseball player
* [[March 25]] - [[Jeff Healey]], Canadian guitarist (d. [[2008]])
* [[March 25]] - [[Anton Rogan]], Northern Irish footballer
* [[March 29]] - [[Krassimir Balakov]], former Bulgarian footballer and member of the Bulgarian national team
===April===
* [[April 1]] - [[Chris Evans (presenter)|Chris Evans]], British radio disc-jockey
* [[April 2]] - [[Teddy Sheringham]], British footballer
* [[April 3]] - [[Miina Tominaga]], Japanese [[seiyu]] (voice actress)
* [[April 4]] - [[Riduan Isamuddin]], [[2002 Bali bombings|Bali bombing]] [[suspect]]s
* [[April 8]] - [[Robin Wright Penn]], American actress
* [[April 8]] - [[Bobby Ologun]], Nigerian television personality and martial artist
* [[April 11]] - [[Dustin Rhodes]], American professional wrestler
* [[April 11]] - [[Lisa Stansfield]], British soul singer
* [[April 13]] - [[Ali Boumnijel]], Tunisian football goalkeeper
* [[April 14]] - [[Greg Maddux]], American baseball player
* [[April 14]] - [[Lloyd Owen]], British actor
* [[April 15]] - [[Samantha Fox]], British model and singer
* [[April 18]] - [[Trine Hattestad]], Norwegian athlete
* [[April 20]] - [[David Chalmers]], Australian philosopher
* [[April 21]] - [[Bubba the Love Sponge]], American radio personality
* [[April 22]] - [[Jeffrey Dean Morgan]], American actor
* [[April 28]] - [[John Daly (golfer)|John Daly]], American golfer
* [[April 29]] - [[Phil Tufnell]], British cricketer
===May===
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* [[May 1]] - [[Anne Fletcher]], American film director and choreographer
* [[May 3]] - [[Firdous Bamji]], Indian-American actor
* [[May 6]] - [[Andrea Chiesa]], Swiss Formula One driver
* [[May 6]] - [[Cindy Hsu]], Emmy Award winning anchor and reporter
* [[May 7]] - [[Anderson Cummins]], international cricketer
* [[May 7]] - [[Hill Harper]], American film, television and stage actor
* [[May 7]] - [[Jes Høgh]], Danish football (soccer) player
* [[May 8]] - [[Robert J. Behnen]], genealogist and a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives
* [[May 8]] - [[Blag Dahlia]], American musician, producer, and author
* [[May 8]] - [[Kamil Kašťák]], Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
* [[May 8]] - [[Marta Sánchez]], Spanish female vocalist, entertainer
* [[May 8]] - [[Cláudio Taffarel]], Brazilian goalkeeper
* [[May 10]] - [[Mikael Andersson (ice hockey b. 1966)|Mikael Andersson]], ice hockey player
* [[May 10]] - [[Frank T. Caprio]], General Treasurer of Rhode Island
* [[May 10]] - [[Wade Domínguez]], American actor, model, singer and dancer (d. 1998)
* [[May 10]] - [[Jonathan Edwards (athlete)|Jonathan Edwards]], British athlete
* [[May 10]] - [[Anne Elvebakk]], biathlete from Norway
* [[May 10]] - [[Genaro Hernandez]], Mexican-American boxer
* [[May 11]] - [[Christoph Schneider]], German musician ([[Rammstein]])
* [[May 12]] - [[Stephen Baldwin]], American actor
* [[May 12]] - [[Bebel Gilberto]], Brazilian popular singer
* [[May 13]] - [[Nereus Acosta]], politician, academician, and political scientist in the Philippines
* [[May 13]] - [[Cheryl Dunye]], film director, producer, screenwriter, editor and actress
* [[May 13]] - [[Darius Rucker]], American singer ([[Hootie & the Blowfish]])
* [[May 13]] - [[Alison Goldfrapp]], English singer-songwriter
* [[May 13]] - [[Jeffrey Scott Holland]], American artist and musician
* [[May 16]] - [[Juan Manuel Funes]], Guatemalan football coach and former midfielder
* [[May 16]] - [[Janet Jackson]], American singer
* [[May 16]] - [[Thurman Thomas]], American football player
* [[May 19]] - [[Neil Campbell (musician)|Neil Campbell]], British musician
* [[May 19]] - [[Sophia Crawford]], actress, stuntwoman and martial artist
* [[May 20]] - [[Mindy Cohn]], American actress
* [[May 20]] - [[Joey Gamache]], American boxer
* [[May 21]] - [[Lisa Edelstein]], American actress and playwright
* [[May 22]] - [[Siri Eftedal]], Norwegian team handball player and Olympic medalist
* [[May 22]] - [[Johnny Gill]], American singer
* [[May 23]] - [[Graeme Hick]], English cricketer
* [[May 24]] - [[Dan Abrams]], MSNBC host and correspondent
* [[May 24]] - [[Eric Cantona]], French footballer
* [[May 24]] - [[Francisco Javier Cruz]], Mexican football player
* [[May 24]] - [[Ella Guru]], American painter and musician
* [[May 25]] - [[Ahmad Reza Abedzadeh]], Iranian goalkeeper and Iranian national football team member
* [[May 25]] - [[Jeff Cross (American football)]], American football defensive end
* [[May 26]] - [[Helena Bonham Carter]], English actress
* [[May 26]] - [[Zola Budd]], South African athlete
* [[May 27]] - [[Heston Blumenthal]] [[OBE]], British chef
* [[May 27]] - [[Carol Campbell (actress)]], Afro-German actress, model and presenter
* [[May 27]] - [[Juan M. Garcia]], Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives
* [[May 28]] - [[Theo Bleckmann]], German vocalist and composer
* [[May 28]] - [[Larry Davis (criminal)]], (d. 2008)
* [[May 29]] - [[Robert Anderson]], child murderer, executed 2006
* [[May 30]] - [[Frank Goosen]], German cabaret artist and novel author
* [[May 30]] - [[Thomas Häßler]], German football player
* [[May 30]] - [[Stephen Malkmus]], American singer ([[Pavement]]),([[Stephen Malkmus]])
===June===
* [[June 1]] - [[Greg Schiano]], American football coach
* [[June 2]] - [[Candace Gingrich]], [[LGBT]] rights activist
* [[June 4]] - [[Cecilia Bartoli]], Italian mezzo-soprano
* [[June 4]] - [[Tiffany Million]], American actress
* [[June 6]] - [[Faure Gnassingbé]], President of Togo
* [[June 6]] - [[Murdoc Niccals]], Member of [[Gorillaz]], [[Damien Thorn]] The Awnser to [[Armegeddon]]
* [[June 8]] - [[Julianna Margulies]], American actress
* [[June 8]] - [[Doris Pearson]], British singer [[Five Star]]
* [[June 8]] - [[Jens Kidman]], Swedish musician
* [[June 14]] - [[Matt Freeman]], American musician
* [[June 15]] - [[Roberto Carnevale]], musician
* [[June 16]] - [[Jan Železný]], Czech javelin thrower
* [[June 17]] - [[Christy Canyon]], porn actress
* [[June 18]] - [[Kurt Browning]], Canadian figure skater
* [[June 19]] - [[Samuel West]], British actor
* [[June 21]] - [[Rudi Bakhtiar]], American journalist
* [[June 22]] - [[Michael Park (rally co-pilot)|Michael Park]], British rally co-driver (d. [[2005]])
* [[June 23]] - [[Richie Ren]], Taiwanese musician
* [[June 25]] - [[Dikembe Mutombo]], Congolese basketball player
* [[June 27]] - [[J. J. Abrams]], American television writer and producer
* [[June 28]] - [[Mary Stuart Masterson]], American actress
* [[June 28]] - [[John Cusack]], American actor
* [[June 30]] - [[Mike Tyson]], American boxer
* [[June 30]] - [[Marton Csokas]], New Zealand actor
===July===
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* [[July 1]] - [[Enrico Annoni]], Italian footballer
* [[July 3]] - [[Moisés Alou]], baseball player
* [[July 5]] - [[Kathryn Erbe]], American actress
* [[July 5]] - [[Claudia Wells]], American actress
* [[July 5]] - [[Gianfranco Zola]], Italian football (soccer) player
* [[July 6]] - [[Brian Posehn]] American actor and comedian
* [[July 7]] - [[Jim Gaffigan]], American comedian
* [[July 7]] - [[Gundula Krause]], German violinist
* [[July 11]] - [[Mick Molloy]], Australian comedian
* [[July 13]] - [[Gerald Levert]], American singer (d. [[2006]])
* [[July 14]] - [[Tanya Donelly]], American musician
* [[July 14]] - [[Matthew Fox (actor)|Matthew Fox]], American actor
* [[July 15]] - [[Irene Jacob|Irène Jacob]], French-born actress
* [[July 15]] - [[Dimitris P. Kraniotis]], Greek poet
* [[July 22]] - [[Shawn Michaels]], American professional wrestler
* [[July 29]] - [[Martina McBride]], American singer
* [[July 29]] - [[Richard Steven Horvitz]], American voice actor
* [[July 30]] - [[Murilo Bustamante]], Brazilian mixed martial artist
* [[July 31]] - [[Dean Cain]], American actor
===August===
* [[August 2]] - [[Tim Wakefield]], American baseball player
* [[August 3]] - [[Brent Butt]], Canadian comedian and creator of TV show "Corner Gas"
* [[August 7]] - [[Jimmy Wales]], American founder of Wikipedia
* [[August 7]] - [[Kristin Hersh]], American musician
* [[August 11]] - [[Juan Maria Solare]], Argentine composer
* [[August 12]] - [[Les Ferdinand]], English footballer
* [[August 14]] - [[Halle Berry]], American actress
* [[August 15]] - [[Scott Brosius]], former Major League Baseball player
* [[August 17]] - [[Rodney Mullen]], famous flatland skateboarder
* [[August 18]] - [[Gustavo Charif]], Argentine artist
* [[August 19]] - [[Lee Ann Womack]], American musician
* [[August 20]] - [[Dimebag Darrell]], guitarist for [[Pantera]] and [[Damageplan]] (d. [[2004]])
* [[August 23]] - [[Rik Smits]], Dutch basketball player
* [[August 25]] - [[Derek Sherinian]], American keyboardist
* [[August 26]] - [[Jacques Brinkman]], Dutch field hockey player
* [[August 26]] - [[Shirley Manson]], Scottish musician and [[Garbage (band)|Garbage]] frontwoman
* [[August 28]] - [[Priya Dutt]], Indian social worker and politician
===September===
* [[September 1]] - [[Tim Hardaway]], American basketball player
* [[September 2]] - [[Salma Hayek]], Mexican-born actress
* [[September 4]] - [[Yanka Dyagileva]], Russian singer
* [[September 6]] - [[Eduardo Maruri]], Ecuadorian business man and politician
* [[September 8]] - [[Carola Häggkvist]], Swedish pop singer
* [[September 9]] - [[Georg Hackl]], German luger
* [[September 9]] - [[Adam Sandler]], American actor and comedian
* [[September 12]] - [[Princess Akishino]], Japanese princess
* [[September 12]] - [[Ben Folds]], piano rock artist
* [[September 22]] - [[Mike Richter]], American ice hockey player
* [[September 22]] - [[Moustafa Amar]], Egyptian pop star
* [[September 24]] - [[Michael J. Varhola]], American author and publisher
===October===
* [[October 1]] - [[George Weah]], Liberian politician and football player
* [[October 2]] - [[Rodney Anoa'i]], Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. [[2000]])
* [[October 3]] - Rabbi [[Binyamin Ze'ev Kahane]], Israeli settler leader (d. [[2000]])
* [[October 7]] - [[Sherman Alexie]], Native American author
* [[October 8]] - [[Aaron Callaghan]], Irish football club executive
* [[October 9]] - [[David Cameron]], British politician
* [[October 10]] - [[Tony Adams (footballer)|Tony Adams]], English footballer
* [[October 11]] - [[Stephen Williams (politician)]], British politician
* [[October 12]] - [[Brian Kennedy (singer)|Brian Kennedy]], Irish musician and author
* [[October 14]] - [[Savanna Samson]], American porn star
* [[October 17]] - [[Mark Gatiss]], English actor and writer
* [[October 19]] - [[Jon Favreau]], American actor and director
* [[October 19]] - [[Sinitta]], 1980s pop singer
* [[October 24]] - [[Roman Abramovich]], Russian oil magnate
* [[October 26]] - [[Jeanne Zelasko]], FOX baseball host
* [[October 27]] - [[Matt Drudge]], American Internet journalist
* [[October 28]] - [[Steve Atwater]], American football player
===November===
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* [[November 2]] - [[David Schwimmer]], American actor
* [[November 3]] - [[Joe Hachem]], Lebanese-born Australian poker player
* [[November 6]] - [[Peter DeLuise]], American actor
* [[November 6]] - [[Paul Gilbert]], American musician
* [[November 6]] - [[Christian Lorenz]], German musician ([[Rammstein]])
* [[November 7]] - [[Lin Xiaochieh]], Burmese leader
* [[November 14]] - [[Curt Schilling]], baseball player
* [[November 17]] - [[Jeff Buckley]], American singer (d. [[1997]])
* [[November 17]] - [[Sophie Marceau]], French actress
* [[November 20]] - [[Kevin Gilbert]], American singer, composer, and instrumentalist
* [[November 21]] - [[Troy Aikman]], American football player
* [[November 23]] - [[Vincent Cassel]], French actor
* [[November 29]] - [[John Bradshaw Layfield]], American professional wrestler
* [[November 30]] - [[Wil Mara]], American author
* [[November 30]] - [[David Nicholls (writer)|David Nicholls]], English novelist and screenwriter
===December===
* [[December 1]] - [[Larry Walker]], Canadian [[Major League Baseball]] player
* [[December 7]] - [[C. Thomas Howell]], American actor
* [[December 7]] - [[Linn Ullmann]], Norwegian journalist and author
* [[December 8]] - [[Sinéad O'Connor]], Irish pop singer
* [[December 11]] - [[Leon Lai]], Hong Kong singer and actor
* [[December 12]] - [[Yoshihiro Asai]], Japanese professional wrestler (Último Dragon)
* [[December 12]] - [[Royce Gracie]], Brazilian martial artist
* [[December 13]] - [[Don Roff]], American writer and filmmaker
* [[December 14]] - [[Bill Ranford]], Canadian hockey player
* [[December 15]] - [[Katja von Garnier]], German film director
* [[December 16]] - [[Dennis Wise]], English footballer
* [[December 17]] - [[Milos Tichy]], Czech astronomer
* [[December 20]] - [[Ed de Goeij]], Dutch footballer
* [[December 20]] - [[Chris Robinson (singer)|Chris Robinson]], American singer ([[Black Crowes]])
* [[December 21]] - [[Kiefer Sutherland]], Canadian actor
* [[December 22]] - [[Dmitry Bilozerchev]], Soviet gymnast
* [[December 24]] - [[Diedrich Bader]], American actor and comedian
* [[December 27]] - [[Wendy Coakley-Thompson]], author
* [[December 27]] - [[Bill Goldberg]], American professional wrestler
* [[December 27]] - [[John Harrington (photographer, author)|John Harrington]], photographer
==Deaths==
===January-March===
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* [[January 1]] - [[Vincent Auriol]], [[President of France]] (b. [[1884]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Alberto Giacometti]], Swiss sculptor (b. [[1901]])
* [[January 11]] - [[Hannes Kolehmainen]], Finnish runner (b. [[1889]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Barry Fitzgerald]], Irish actor (b. [[1888]])
* [[January 14]] - [[Bill Carr]], American athlete (b. [[1909]])
* [[January 15]] - [[Sergei Korolev]], Russian space scientist (b. [[1906]])
* [[January 15]] - [[Samuel Ladoke Akintola]], Nigerian premier of the Western region and Aare Ona Kakanfo XIII of the Yoruba (b. [[1910]])
* [[January 18]] - [[Kathleen Norris]], American writer (b. [[1880]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Buster Keaton]], American actor and film director (b. [[1895]])
* [[February 1]] - [[Hedda Hopper]], American gossip columnist (b. [[1885]])
* [[February 6]] - [[Narcisa de Leon]], Filipino film mogul (b. [[1877]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Billy Rose]], American composer and band leader (b. [[1899]])
* [[February 10]] - [[Lal Bahadur Shastri]], [[Prime Minister of India]] (b. [[1904]])
* [[February 15]] - [[Gerard Antoni Ciołek|Gerard Ciołek]], Polish architect and historian of gardens (b. [[1909]])
* [[February 20]] - [[Chester Nimitz]], American admiral (b. [[1885]])
* [[March 1]] - [[Fritz Houtermans]], German physicist (b. [[1903]])
* [[March 3]] - [[Maxfield Parrish]], American artist (b. [[1870]])
* [[March 3]] - [[Alice Pearce]], American actress (b. [[1917]])
* [[March 3]] - [[William Frawley]], American actor (b. [[1887]])
* [[March 5]] - [[Anna Akhmatova]], Russian poet (b. [[1889]])
* [[March 8]] - [[William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor]], British politician (b. [[1907]])
* [[March 10]] - [[Frits Zernike]], Dutch physicist, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1888]])
===April-June===
* [[April 1]] - [[Flann O'Brien]], Irish humorist (b. [[1911]])
* [[April 2]] - [[C.S. Forester]], English author (b. [[1899]])
* [[April 3]] - [[Battista Farina]], Italian car designer (b. [[1893]])
* [[April 10]] - [[Evelyn Waugh]], English author (b. [[1903]])
* [[April 11]] - [[Maximiliano Hernández Martínez]], military dictator of El Salvador (assassinated) (b. [[1882]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Georges Duhamel]], French author (b. [[1884]])
* [[April 13]] - [[Abdul Salam Arif]], [[President of Iraq]] (b. [[1921]])
* [[April 23]] - [[Georges Ohsawa]], Japanese diet founder (b. [[1893]])
* [[May 22]] - [[Tom Goddard]], English cricketer (b. [[1900]])
* [[May 23]] - [[Demchugdongrub]], Mongolian politician (b. [[1902]])
* [[June 1]] - [[Papa Jack Laine]], American jazz musician (b. [[1873]])
* [[June 7]] - [[Jean Arp]], Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (b. [[1887]])
* [[June 8]] - [[Anton Melik]], Slovenian geographer (b. [[1890]])
* [[June 11]] - [[Delmore Schwartz]], American poet (b. [[1913]])
* [[June 12]] - [[Hermann Scherchen]], Austrian conductor (b. [[1891]])
* [[June 19]] - [[Ed Wynn]], American actor (b. [[1886]])
* [[June 30]] - [[Giuseppe Farina]], Italian race car driver (b. [[1906]])
===July-September===
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* [[July 2]] - [[Jan Brzechwa]], Polish poet (b. [[1900]])
* [[July 5]] - [[George de Hevesy]], Hungarian chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. [[1885]])
* [[July 6]] - [[Sad Sam Jones]], baseball player (b. [[1892]])
*[[July 14]] - [[Julie Manet]], French painter (b. [[1878]]
* [[July 24]] - [[Montgomery Clift]], American actor (b. [[1920]])
* [[August 3]] - [[Lenny Bruce]], American comedian (b. [[1925]])
* [[August 6]] - [[Cordwainer Smith]], American author (b. [[1913]])
* [[September 5]] - [[Dezső Lauber]], Hungarian sportsman and architect (b. [[1879]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Margaret Sanger]], American birth control advocate (b. [[1879]])
* [[September 6]] - [[Hendrik Verwoerd]], Dutch-born [[Prime Minister of South Africa]] (b. [[1901]])
* [[September 11]] - [[C. E. Woolman]], American Airlines founder (b. [[1889]])
* [[September 14]] - [[Gertrude Berg]], American actress (b. [[1899]])
* [[September 17]] - [[Fritz Wunderlich]], German tenor (b. [[1930]])
* [[September 28]] - [[Andre Breton]], French writer (b. [[1896]])
* [[September]] - [[Hiram Wesley Evans]], American leader of the Ku Klux Klan (b. [[1881]])<!-- month of death verified at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/EE/fev17.html -->
===October-December===
* [[October 7]] - [[Smiley Lewis]], American R&B musician (born [[1913]])
* [[October 16]] - [[George O'Hara (actor)|George O'Hara]], American actor (born [[1899]])
* [[October 18]] - [[Elizabeth Arden]], Canadian-born beautician and cosmetics entrepreneur (born [[1878]])
* [[October 26]] - [[Alma Cogan]], English singer (born [[1932]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Peter Debye]], Dutch chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born [[1884]])
* [[November 2]] - [[Mississippi John Hurt]], American singer and guitarist (born [[1893]])
* [[November 12]] - [[Shakeb Jalali]], [[poet]] (b. [[1934]])
* [[November 19]] - [[Arthur Haynes]], English comedian (born [[1914]])
* [[November 23]] - [[Seán T. O'Kelly]], second [[President of Ireland]] (born [[1882]])
* [[December 15]] - [[Walt Disney]], American animated film producer (born [[1901]])
==Nobel Prizes==
* [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Physics]] - [[Alfred Kastler]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Chemistry]] - [[Robert S. Mulliken]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Physiology or Medicine]] - [[Peyton Rous]], [[Charles Brenton Huggins]]
* [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Literature]] - [[Shmuel Yosef Agnon]], [[Nelly Sachs]]
* [[Nobel Peace Prize|Peace]] - not awarded
==Academy Awards==
*Best Picture: ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'', [[Robert Wise]], producer
*Best Director: [[Robert Wise]], ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]''
*Best Actor: [[Lee Marvin]], ''[[Cat Ballou]]''
*Best Actress: [[Julie Christie]], ''[[Darling (film)|Darling]]''
*Best Supporting Actor: [[Martin Balsam]], ''[[A Thousand Clowns]]''
*Best Supporting Actress: [[Shelley Winters]], ''[[A Patch of Blue]]''
*Best Original Screenplay: ''[[Darling (film)|Darling]]'' written by [[Frederic Raphael]]
*Best Adapted Screenplay: ''[[Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', screenplay by [[Robert Bolt]]
*Best Original Song: ''[[The Sandpiper]]'', [[Johnny Mandel]] (music); [[Paul Francis Webster]] (lyrics); For the song "The Shadow of Your Smile"
*Best Original Score: ''[[Doctor Zhivago (1965 film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'', by [[Maurice Jarre]]
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