About the day » Monday April 18, 1966Calender converter

• Frank Dorsman († 2020)
• Darwin Lee Reverts, Pipestone, Pipestone County, Minnesota († 2007)
• Kenric Dale van Wyk, Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa († 2017)
• Engbertine Visscher, Dedemsvaart, Overijssel, Nederland
• Chad Jonathan Allen, Wellsboro, Tioga, Pennsylvania, United States († 2006)

• Abraham Verhage (71), Oost-Souburg, Nederland
• Anthonie Gast (70), Middelburg, Zeeland, NL
• aart NUGTEREN (79), ridderkerk
• Edith van Sande (78), Fillmore, Minnesota, Verenigde Staten
• Eilina Henrika Dijkhuis (77), 's Gravenhage
• Antonius Hubertus Leonard Caselli (71), Einighausen (Sittard-Geleen), Limburg, Nederland
• Bernardus Johannes Steggink (85), Oud Ootmarsum
• Cornelis Bijl (66), Dubbeldam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anthony J Mecca (56), Dunmore, Lackawanna, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten
• Bernhard Johan(nes) Steggink (85), Oud-Ootmarsum (gem. Denekamp)

• 1963 » Conan O'Brien, American actor, producer, screenwriter, and talk show host
• 1963 » Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor and producer
• 1963 » Peter Van Loan, Canadian lawyer and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of International Trade
• 1963 » Phil Simmons, Trinidadian cricketer
• 1964 » Niall Ferguson, Scottish historian and academic
• 1964 » Rithy Panh, Cambodian director and screenwriter
• 1966 » Valeri Kamensky, Russian ice hockey player
• 1967 » Maria Bello, American actress and writer
• 1969 » Keith DeCandido, American author
• 1969 » Stefan Schwarz, Swedish footballer and manager

• 1951 » Óscar Carmona, Portuguese field marshal and politician, 11th President of Portugal (b. 1869)
• 1955 » Albert Einstein, German-American physicist, engineer, and academic (b. 1879)
• 1958 » Maurice Gamelin, Belgian-French general (b. 1872)
• 1959 » Irving Cummings, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1888)
• 1959 » Percy Smith, English footballer and manager (b. 1880)
• 1963 » Meyer Jacobstein, American academic and politician (b. 1880)
• 1964 » Ben Hecht, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1894)
• 1965 » Guillermo González Camarena, Mexican engineer (b. 1917)
• 1967 » Karl Miller, German footballer (b. 1913)
• 1974 » Marcel Pagnol, French author, playwright, and director (b. 1895)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Paul
9. Ronald
10. Pieter
11. Marcel
12. Willem
13. Johan
14. Jacob
15. David
16. Richard

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Anna
5. Petra
6. Ingrid
7. Jolanda
8. Elisabeth
9. Yvonne
10. Cornelia
11. Petronella
12. Anita
13. Jacqueline
14. Catharina
15. Sandra
16. Karin

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from April 14, 1965 to November 22, 1966 the cabinet Cals, with Mr. J.M.L.Th. Cals (KVP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from November 22, 1966 to April 5, 1967 the cabinet Zijlstra, with Prof. dr. J. Zijlstra (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 12.4 million citizens.
• May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
• August 1 » Purges of intellectuals and imperialists becomes official China policy at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
• December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on April 18, 1966 was between 3.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 15.0 mm of rain during 9.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east.