The temperature on April 10, 1966 was between 4.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
May 25 » Explorer program: Explorer 32 launches.
July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
Day of death October 25, 1966
The temperature on October 25, 1966 was between 4.8 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
June 8 » An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
October 14 » The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
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