About the day » Wednesday March 9, 1966Calender converter

• Carol Lynn Claycomb († 1966)
• Ralph Anthony Dykxhoorn, Tillsonburg, Ont († 1970)
• Peter Haasen († 1996)
• Erwin Rudolf Harm
• Charles Smulders († 1966)
• Marielle Hovius († 2020)
• Ingrid Schachtschabel, Rotterdam († 2014)

• Arnoldus Johannes Gadri (64), Oosterhout, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• Adrianus Cornelius Maria van den Oetelaar (64), Tilburg, NB Netherlands
• * Maria Pieternella Verhoek (66), Rotterdam
• Anna Maria Cornelia Klompenhouwer (84), Valkenswaard
• Arnoldus Oerlemans (69), Vlijmen
• Agnes SMITH (68), Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States of America
• Anna Maria Clementia Vennekens (70), Geel, België
• Arnoldus Jacobus Johannes van Riemsdijk (72), Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, NL
• Adriaan Constant Gijsbrechts (75), Loenhout
• Alf Mateus Hansen (Hanssen) (81), Kirkegata, Mo i Rana, Nordland, Norge

• 1963 » Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian director and screenwriter
• 1963 » Terry Mulholland, American baseball player
• 1964 » Juliette Binoche, French actress
• 1964 » Phil Housley, American ice hockey player and coach
• 1965 » Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
• 1965 » Brian Bosworth, American football player and actor
• 1966 » Brendan Canty, American drummer and songwriter
• 1966 » Tony Lockett, Australian footballer
• 1968 » Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
• 1969 » Kimberly Guilfoyle, American lawyer and journalist

• 1954 » Vagn Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer and academic (b. 1874)
• 1955 » Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
• 1964 » Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
• 1969 » Abdul Munim Riad, Egyptian general (b. 1919)
• 1971 » Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria (b. 1902)
• 1974 » Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1974 » Harry Womack, American singer (b. 1945)
• 1983 » Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
• 1983 » Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
• 1988 » Kurt Georg Kiesinger, German lawyer, politician and Chancellor of Germany (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Johannes
3. Peter
4. Hendrik
5. Robert
6. Cornelis
7. John
8. Pieter
9. Ronald
10. Paul
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.
• March 19 » 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament.
• April 30 » The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.
• June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
• 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.
• September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
• November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

The temperature on March 9, 1966 was between 5.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.