About the day » Friday September 9, 1966Calender converter

• Renzia Siebes Boomsma, Sneek, Gem. Sneek, Friesland, Nederland († 2002)
• Franciscus C.L. Verbeek († 2004)
• Jacob Jan Koster († 1966)
• Johan Luk Imelda Stefan VAN OPSTAL, Leuven,3000,Vlaams-Brabant,Vlaanderen,BELGIË († 1967)
• Douwe Ernst Wiersma, Delft († 2013)
• Rita Punie, Sint-Truiden, België († 2016)
• Margaretha Wilhelmina Nottrot, Amsterdam, NH, The Netherlands († 2008)
• Jeannette Baas, Weststellingwerf, Friesland, Nederland
• Angelique Maria Johanna Adriana Touw, Bergen op Zoom
• Johanna (Anja) den Toom, Gouda, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Bernardus Henderikus Kok (73), Eindhoven
• Cornelia Sia de Boer (70), Amsterdam
• Andries Jan KRAAIJENBRINK (54), Malaga (Spanje)
• Catharina Johanna Balm (75), Haarlem
• Antonius Peters (69), Veghel,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Bastiaan Speksnijder (69), Amsterdam Noord-Holland,, Netherlands
• Bernard Jan Vervoort (57)
• Albertus Läkamp (71), Appingedam, Groningen, Netherlands
• Clara Engberts van der Meulen (93), Conklin (Ottawa), Michigan (USA)
• Adrianus Goede (83), Landsmeer

• 1965 » Dan Majerle, American basketball player and coach
• 1965 » Marcel Peeper, Dutch footballer
• 1966 » Adam Sandler, American actor, screenwriter, and producer
• 1966 » Brian Smith, Australian-Irish rugby player and coach
• 1966 » Georg Hackl, German luger and coach
• 1966 » Kevin Hatcher, American ice hockey player
• 1967 » Akshay Kumar, Indian actor and producer
• 1967 » B. J. Armstrong, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1967 » Chris Caffery, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 » Mark Shrader, American wrestler

• 1955 » Carl Friedberg, German pianist and educator (b. 1872)
• 1958 » Charlie Macartney, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1886)
• 1959 » Ramón Fonst, Cuban fencer (b. 1883)
• 1960 » Jussi Björling, Swedish tenor (b. 1911)
• 1969 » Willy Mairesse, Belgian racing driver (b. 1928)
• 1975 » Johannes Brenner, Estonian footballer (b. 1906)
• 1975 » John McGiver, American actor (b. 1913)
• 1976 » Mao Zedong, Chinese philosopher, academic, and politician, 1st Chairman of the Communist Party of China (b. 1893)
• 1978 » Hugh MacDiarmid, Scottish linguist, poet, and author (b. 1892)
• 1978 » Jack L. Warner, Canadian-American production manager and producer, co-founded Warner Bros. (b. 1892)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Paul
10. Ronald
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.
• February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
• March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
• July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
• July 6 » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
• October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.

The temperature on September 9, 1966 was between 3.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.