February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Day of death November 7, 1966
The temperature on November 7, 1966 was between 8.9 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
May 21 » The Ulster Volunteer Force declares war on the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland.
June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
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 14 » The city of Montreal begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid transit system.
November 2 » The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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.
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