About the day » Wednesday May 11, 1966Calender converter

• Eddy Driver, Tennessee († 1966)
• Roy Walden Pleger, Grand Rapids, MI († 2018)
• Werner Bisschop, Lamswaarde, Hulst, Zeeuws Vlaanderen, Zeeland, Nederland († 2008)
• Adrianus Bosman († 1966)
• Klaas WJsz Ravensberg(en), Bergambacht († 1992)
• Meindert Bruinsma († 1996)
• Freddy Peter Frank Bluekens († 2009)
• Cornelia Maria Johanna Christophine ZONNEVELD, Heusden
• Nicole Marina Dorothea Eugenie Paanakker, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1967)

• Cornelia Maria van der Burg (83), Pijnacker,, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Anton de Namur (78), Algoma, Kewaunee, Wisconsin, Verenigde Staten
• Cornelia Elisabeth Sanderse (77), Vlissingen
• Cornelis Rozendaal (46), Steenbergen
• Anna Lura Tommy Taylor (65), Sonoma, Sonoma, California, Verenigde Staten
• Akke Roorda (78), Heerenveen, Friesland, Netherlands
• Albert Drost (55)
• Anna Helen Dreyer (58), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Anna Helen (58), Grand Rapids, Kent, Michigan, United States
• Adolf Müller (84), Erndtebrück, Kreis Wittgenstein

• 1962 » Steve Bono, American football player
• 1964 » Bobby Witt, American baseball player
• 1964 » Floyd Youmans, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 1967 » Alberto García Aspe, Mexican footballer and manager
• 1969 » Mitch Healey, Australian rugby league player and coach
• 1969 » Simon Vroemen, Dutch runner
• 1970 » Harold Ford, Jr., American lawyer and politician
• 1970 » Jason Queally, English cyclist
• 1972 » Tomáš Dvořák, Czech decathlete and coach
• 1973 » Tsuyoshi Ogata, Japanese runner

• 1955 » Gilbert Jessop, English cricketer (b. 1874)
• 1960 » John D. Rockefeller Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1874)
• 1963 » Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
• 1967 » James E. Brewton, American painter (b. 1930)
• 1979 » Lester Flatt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1914)
• 1981 » Bob Marley, Jamaican singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1945)
• 1981 » Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
• 1983 » Zenna Henderson, American writer (b. 1917)
• 1985 » Chester Gould, American cartoonist, created Dick Tracy (b. 1900)
• 1986 » Fritz Pollard, American football player and coach (b. 1894)

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.
• January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
• February 28 » A NASA T-38 Talon crashes into the McDonnell Aircraft factory while attempting a poor-visibility landing at Lambert Field, St. Louis, killing astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett.
• June 8 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
• June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
• September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
• December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.

The temperature on May 11, 1966 was between 8.1 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south.