January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 2 » The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital city, Canberra, between Sydney and Melbourne.
February 16 » Iceland's first football club, Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur, is founded.
February 22 » Filipino forces led by General Antonio Luna launch counterattacks for the first time against the American forces during the Philippine–American War. The Filipinos fail to regain Manila from the Americans.
March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
Day of death June 27, 1966
The temperature on June 27, 1966 was between 13.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 24.6 mm of rain during 16.5 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
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.
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 30 » England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
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