On this day
Revisit the music, news, notable people, and historical moments connected to this date.
In 1966, the world population was approximately 3,404,041,125 people[†]
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1966, covering November 13, 1966.
The Monkees
Soundtrack
The Supremes
The Mamas & The Papas
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass
The Association
Lou Rawls
The Beatles
Ray Conniff
The Kinks
1966Susanna Haapoja, Finnish politician (died 2009)[†]
Aino Maria Susanna Haapoja was a Finnish politician in the Centre Party. Haapoja was born in Kauhava and became a Member of Parliament in 2003 and was elected for a second term in 2007. In 2005, she became the chair of the Kauhava city council. She was an agrologist by training.
1966In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.[†]
Fatah, formally the Palestinian National Liberation Movement, is a Palestinian nationalist and Arab socialist political party. It is the largest faction of the confederated multi-party Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the second-largest party in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC). Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority, is the chairman of Fatah.
1966All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea near Matsuyama Airport in Japan, killing 50 people.[†]
All Nippon Airways Flight 533, registration JA8658, was a NAMC YS-11 en route from Osaka, Japan, to Matsuyama on the island of Shikoku. It was the fifth crash in Japan in 1966 and the second one experienced by All Nippon Airways that year, the first being the loss of Flight 60 on February 4. It was also, at the time, the deadliest crash of an NAMC YS-11, and remains the second-deadliest after Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 63, which crashed in 1971 with 68 deaths.
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flow of Amer Falls reduced to 1/4 normal rate by Army engineers; diagram
rescue workers fight to control mud and rock slides threatening villages in Dolomites, Italy; 50% of Mezzano di Primiero covered by water, slime and rocks; map
Johnson signs food aid bill containing provisions banning shipments to countries trading with Cuba; supports intent of provisions but deplores curbs on Pres action
R B Smith, 18, slays 4 women and 1 child in beauty shop, wounds 2 others, Mesa; illus
US platoon attacked, Antrach; casualties heavy; US comdrs quietly cut troop strength in Operation Attleboro, Tayninh Prov, from 20,000 to about 11,000; DePuy remains in charge; Brig Gen Hollingsworth repts captured gas grenades contain nonlethal gas also used by US mil; 2 enemy bns attack elements of US 4th Inf Div, central highlands near Pleidjereng; map
D A Crane, in paper prepared for Logue study, proposes bldg centers of culture, commerce and community services in or near slum areas to upgrade and revitalize them while decongesting mid-Manhattan; details other benefits; suggests 8 sites; lists main problems created for city as whole by over-centralization in Midtown; offers other proposals for improving planning procedures
Successor, Garden State Stakes
Israel repts Jordanian planes tried to block Israeli Army retaliatory raid on Samua, Hebron area of Jordan; repts 1 downed in air clash; holds town harbors saboteurs; attack follows death of 3 Israelis, wounding of 6 in land mine blast, near Arad, near Jordanian border; Min Galili defends raid, s, Tel Aviv; Comay scores blast, lr to council; 4-mo extension of term of Israeli mil service seen aimed at strengthening border security; map
Article on lobbyists sent by state and city agencies to Washington to vie for some $15-billion available annually in form of Fed grants, contracts and other aid; some states have regular, fully staffed offices; some typical lobbyists int; illus
USSR diplomats walk out of Peking rally marking centenary of Sun Yat-sen birth when Chou En-lai charges USSR leaders have betrayed Lenin and Bolshevik Revolution; accompanied by reprs of Bulgaria, Czech, E Ger, Hungary, Poland and Mongolia; reprs of Albania, Rumania, Yugoslavia, N Korea and N Vietnam remain; Chou vigorously applauded when he calls for carrying anti-revisionism struggle 'through to the end,'
USIA library, Saigon, does not list or display books by B Fall, W Burchett and others critical of US policy; makes them available to readers showing 'serious interest,'
new Defense Dept Food Services Directorate seeks to raise Army and Air Force per capita allotments to Navy's level as step toward standardization; move to cost $6-million yrly; opposition to it noted