About the day » Tuesday January 11, 1966Calender converter

• Jan de Jong († 1983)
• Gerrit Jan Plasman († 1996)
• Jacoba Henriette Metselaar († 2002)
• J.P.S. van Gog († 2013)
• Antje Koopmans († 1967)
• Jacob van der LEEDEN, Leerdam († 1966)
• Gerrit Jan Plasman († 1996)
• Jan Johannis de Jong, Leerdam († 1983)
• Gerard Lawrence Beiboer, Australie († 2015)
• Maria Isabel Esquivel, Bexar, Texas († 2001)

• Antonius Hennus (81), Hees, Mopertingen (B)
• Adrianus Sebastianus de Visser (72), Bergen op Zoom, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bernardus Greeven (72), Breda, Nederland
• Aafje Nijman (74), Alkmaar
• Aldert Dieters (62), Zaandam
• Antonius Wilhelmus Bernardus de Bie (79), Veghel
• Allegonda Tjietske Bootz (52), Maastricht, Limburg, Nederland
• Christina van der Bent (72), Voorhout, Teylingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Charlotta Cecilia VAN LOO (76), Mt. Angel, Marion Co, Oregon, Verenigde Staten
• Cirila T Trujillo Ramirez (86), Trinidad, Las Animas County, Colorado

• 1963 » Petra Schneider, German swimmer
• 1963 » Tracy Caulkins, American-Australian swimmer
• 1964 » Albert Dupontel, French actor and director
• 1964 » Ralph Recto, Filipino lawyer and politician
• 1965 » Aleksey Zhukov, Russian footballer and coach
• 1965 » Mascarita Sagrada, Mexican wrestler
• 1966 » Marc Acito, American author and screenwriter
• 1967 » Michael Healy-Rae, Irish politician
• 1968 » Anders Borg, Swedish economist and politician, Swedish Minister for Finance
• 1968 » Tom Dumont, American guitarist and producer

• 1958 » Alec Rowley, English organist and composer (b. 1892)
• 1958 » Edna Purviance, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1961 » Elena Gerhardt, German soprano and actress (b. 1883)
• 1963 » Arthur Nock, English-American scholar, theologian, and academic (b. 1902)
• 1965 » Wally Pipp, American baseball player (b. 1893)
• 1966 » Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor and painter (b. 1901)
• 1966 » Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
• 1968 » Moshe Zvi Segal, Israeli linguist and scholar (b. 1876)
• 1969 » Richmal Crompton, English author and educator (b. 1890)
• 1972 » Padraic Colum, Irish poet and playwright (b. 1881)

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.
• March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
• August 16 » Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
• November 24 » Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
• November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
• December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.

The temperature on January 11, 1966 was between -7.0 °C and -3.0 °C and averaged -5.1 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.