The temperature on June 23, 1966 was between 10.2 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
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 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
September 12 » Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).
September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
Day of death June 25, 1966
The temperature on June 25, 1966 was between 13.1 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
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