February 27 » Fußball-Club Bayern München is founded.
March 14 » The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard.
March 18 » AFC Ajax Amsterdam, The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded.
May 26 » Thousand Days' War: The Colombian Conservative Party turns the tide of war in their favor with victory against the Colombian Liberal Party in the Battle of Palonegro.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death October 20, 1966
The temperature on October 20, 1966 was between 8.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 16 » The Communist Party of China issues the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
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).
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
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