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Chronology of 1966 World Events Highlights
A compact year in review recounts 1966 war and peace chapters with space gains and civil rights slowdowns. Key items include Johnson’s Viet Nam pledges, major crises in Indo-Pak, Sino relations, Moon and space tests, assassinations, elections, and pivotal diplomatic moves across the globe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viet Nam
India
Pakistan
U.S
Pope Paul VI
Peking
Moscow
Hanoi
Saigon
Washington
New York Transit
Aleksei N. Kosygin
Tashkent
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Johnson
Robert C. Weaver
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Johnson Aguiyi-Konsi
South Viet Nam
Indira Gandhi
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
Red China
North Viet Nam
Air India
Mont Blanc
France
President Johnson
U.N
Buster Keaton
Hollywood
Moon
Tokyo Bay
Honolulu
Sophie Tucker
New York
Billy Rose
Jamaica
Paul VI
Indonesia
China
Chester W. Nimitz
San Francisco
de Gaulle
NATO
Ghana
Accra
Kwame Nkrumah
Apollo
Atlantic
Elliott M. Lee Jr
Maj
Charles A. Bassett
Venus
Japan
Mt. Fuji
U.S. Supreme Court
Beatrix
Netherlands
Suharto
Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons
Miami
Congress
Los Angeles
Watts
Pacific
Vatican
U.N. Security Council
Britain
Rhodesia
Mozambique
Evelyn Waugh
London
Cairo
Defense McNamara
U Thant
Rusk
National Guard
Chicago West Side
Richard Speck
Chicago
Cleveland
Tony Lema
Indiana
North
Germany
Charles Whitman
Texas University
Nigeria
Secretary of Agriculture
Orville Freeman
Federal Trade Commission
Luci Johnson
Patrick Nugent
Cassius Clay
Brian London
New York Herald Tribune
House
Senate
Earth
Machinists Union
Lester Pearson
Campobello Island
N.B
Francis X. Bushman
Pacific Palisades
Calif
Ljubljana
Yugoslavia
Cicero
Red China Defense
Lin Piao
Red Guard
Hendrik Verwoerd
South Africa
New York World Journal Tribune, Inc
Margaret Sanger
Tucson
Ariz
William C. Menninger
Topeka
Kan
Karl Mildenberger
Frankfurt
National Assembly
Tahiti
Valerie Percy
U.S. Senate
Charles Percy
U.N. General Assembly
Paul Reynaud
Paris
Albert Speer
Baldur von Schirach
Spandau
Inez
Haiti
Lesothoborn
Basutoland
Texas
Jack Ruby
Soviet Union
Baltimore Orioles
Los Angeles Dodgers
Department of Transportation
Peru
New York City
Elizabeth Arden
Aberfan
Wales
89Th Congress
Manila
Oriskany
United Arab Republic
Syria
Joint Defense Command
Europe
Kremlin
Bulgarian Communist Party
World Communist Conference
Cleveland Williams
Houston
David L. Lawrence
Pittsburgh
U.N. Committee
Hungary
Bulgaria
National Traffic Safety Agency
South Vietnam
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
West Germany
Coalition of
Christian Democrats and
Social Democrats
University of California
Berkeley
U.S.S.R
Georgia
Bill Moyers
Walt Disney
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
John F. Kennedy
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party