January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
February 6 » The Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international arbitration court at The Hague, is created when the Senate of the Netherlands ratifies an 1899 peace conference decree.
February 7 » A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
Day of death September 14, 1966
The temperature on September 14, 1966 was between 11.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » In an interview in the London Evening Standard, The Beatles' John Lennon declares that the band is "more popular than Jesus now".
July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
November 15 » Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
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