About the day » Friday February 18, 1966Calender converter

• Monique Swaak, Hengelo († 2011)
• Rona Kwakkel, Neede, Gelderland, Nederland († 1973)
• Monique Swaak († 2011)
• Tania Reeve, Singapore († 1982)
• Michel SPAAS, Hasselt, Provincie Limburg, Flanders, Belgie († 2020)
• Jos Boksebeld, Raalte († 2022)
• Kimberly Anne Nelson († 1970)

• Antonius Godefridus Henraath (76), Eindhoven
• Charles E Bailey Sr (77)
• Aart Vos (84), Heukelum, Gelderland, Netherlands
• Arend Jan Ruesink (82), Dinxperlo
• Albert Vissering (76)
• Alida Anna Schoen (75), Amersfoort
• Adrianus van Geffen (85), Eindhoven, Nbr.NL
• Bernardus Johannes Meijer (73), Terneuzen
• Adriana Spee (86)
• Abraham Petrus Halberstadt (81), amsterdam, Noord-Holland (NDL)

• 1963 » Rob Andrew, English rugby player and cricketer
• 1964 » Matt Dillon, American actor and director
• 1964 » Paul Hanley, English drummer and songwriter
• 1965 » Dr. Dre, American rapper, producer, and actor
• 1966 » Phillip DeFreitas, Dominican-English cricketer
• 1967 » Colin Jackson, Welsh sprinter and hurdler
• 1967 » Roberto Baggio, Italian footballer
• 1968 » Molly Ringwald, American actress
• 1969 » Alexander Mogilny, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1969 » Tomaž Humar, Slovenian mountaineer († 2009)

• 1956 » Gustave Charpentier, French composer (b. 1860)
• 1957 » Dedan Kimathi, Kenyan rebel leader (b. 1920)
• 1957 » Henry Norris Russell, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and academic (b. 1877)
• 1960 » Gertrude Vanderbilt, American stage actress (b. c. 1885)
• 1964 » Joseph-Armand Bombardier, Canadian inventor and businessman, founded Bombardier Inc. (b. 1907)
• 1966 » Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1908)
• 1967 » J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (b. 1904)
• 1969 » Dragiša Cvetković, Serbian lawyer and politician, 17th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1893)
• 1973 » Frank Costello, Italian-American gangster (b. 1891)
• 1976 » Wallace Berman, American painter and illustrator (b. 1926)

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

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Monique
4. Petra
5. Anna
6. Ingrid
7. Elisabeth
8. Jolanda
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.
• January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
• March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
• May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
• June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
• July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
• November 4 » The Arno River floods Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7m (22ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. Also Venice was submerged on the same day at its record all-time acqua alta of 194cm (76in).

The temperature on February 18, 1966 was between -11.2 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -4.6 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.