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events

1. January: Militärputsch in that The government 1 takes over Central African Republic of, Colonel Jean Bedel
Bokassa. January: Syria becomes member in the UPU (Universal Postal Union)
1. January: in Australia the Pound of Sterling is replaced by the Australian dollar as currency and the English system of units becameby the metric system replaces
15. January: in Nigeria a rebellion of troop units breaks out, in whose process prime minister Tafawa Balewa is murdered; power takes over major general Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, which dissolves the parties and which condition waives
10. February: The Jamaican Reggaelegende Bob Marley marries its Cuban friend Rita Anderson one
23. February: to Syria member of the left wing of the Baath party by a Militärputsch and fall the Bath founder Salah ad-DIN aluminium-Bitar transfer power: Head of the governmentbecomes S.Dschedid (Jedid), president becomes N. el Atassi
10. March Amsterdam: Wedding by crowning princess Beatrix of the Netherlands with Claus's von Amsberg
12. June: in Elazig (Turkey) the foundation-stone for the Euphrates dam is put, credits for this cameof the EEC, the USA and the World Bank
11. November: for the first time in the Federal State Mississippi a white is condemned because of rape of a black one; the legally prescribed death penalty is lifelong converted into
12. November: A 18-jähriger shoots pupils in Arizona, the USA, five women and a girl. For its arrest it indicates as reason, it has admits to become to want
beginning of the Chinese culture revolution
in New York town center the ISKCON based

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politics

sees also List of the heads of state 1966

1. January: A Hans's Schaffner Federal President of Switzerland 1
becomes. January: Syria becomes member in the UPU (Universal Postal Union)
10. January: Signing of the declaration of Taschkent, with that India (Lal Bahadur Shastri) andPakistan (Muhammed Ayub Khan) its disputes to settle want. Shastri still dies on the day after in Taschkent
18. January: In India the congress party information minister Indira Gandhi selects to their leaders of the parliamentary group and thus to the Indian Prime Minister
20. January: Sir Robert Menzies withdraws after 16 years as a prime minister from Australia , successors becomes its party friend Harold gets
1. February: in France a law over the full legal equal rights of the women comes into force
4. February: In Belgium explains Pierre Harmel its resignation as an Prime Minister, whom the king does not accept (see 11. February)
8. February: President Lyndon B. Johnson meets in Honolulu with representatives of south Viet Nam and signs an explanation, after „the communist aggressionto be rejected and for the people in south Viet Nam the conditions for a better future be created are “
11. February: Pierre Harmel repeated its request for resignation of 4. February
24. February: Putsch in Ghana: President Kwame Nkrumah is set off, duringit on a journey abroad is
in February: Unrests in the eastBelgian coal-mining region because of the threatening locking of coal bills
10. March: in Luxembourg the chamber of deputies demands remunerations of the Federal Republic of Germany for during 2. World war obligation-recruited Luxemburger (see 23. March)
23. March: The Federal Party Congress of the CDU Ludwig Erhard selects to the new chairman of the party
23. March: the State Department in Bonn answers a resolution of the parliament in Luxembourg on renewed remuneration negatively, there the requirements of Luxembourg already throughthe contract of the 11. July 1959 24 is
taken off. March: Debate in the German Bundestag over the employment of the combat aircraft Starfighter, that cost up to then 27 pilots the life with 51 total losses
31. March: the parliamentary elections in To Great Britain end to party 8 with a clear victory
of the labour. April: The central committee of the CPSU selects Leonid Brezhnev unanimously to the Secretary-General
9. April: UN authorizes Great Britain to the blockade Rhodesiens
18. April: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Greece
22. April: Double taxation agreement between Germany and Japan
16. May: Outbreak of heavy strikes in the English merchant fleet, which heavy economic damage draws (end: 1.7.)
26. May: Independence from Guyana
29. May: the USA and Thailand sign a new friendship treaty, 20,000 US soldiers stand because of the Viet Nam war in the country
30. May/1. June: Discussions between Indonesia and Malaysia in Bangkok (Thailand) lead to a relaxation between both neighbours and to abatingthe fights in the border area
5. June: Willy Brandt is selected to the chairman of the SPD
26. June: That Swiss canton Basel city leads the woman right to vote
27. June: With a unblutigen coup d'etat the military transfers power to Argentina
6. July: in Malawi a new condition comes into force , after which the country becomes a republic within the Commonwealths; Prime minister H. Banda becomes a president
19. July the Federal Constitutional Court explains the so far valid party financing from the Federal Budget for inadmissible;only appropriate election campaign costs may be refunded
1. August: to Nigeria general staff boss Yakubu Gowon transfers power 10 after
a Militärputsch. September: Guyana. Admission into the United Nations
20. September: Guyana becomes member at the United Nations
in the summer: Education of the red guard, those the fight of the Chinese culture revolution to lead is
30. September: the South African State of Botswana attains its independence from Great Britain
4. October: Lesotho becomes independently
17. October: Botswana and Lesotho becomeMembers of the United Nations
27. October: The United Nations extract the mandate over Namibia 27
from South Africa. October: The Bonn government coalition between CDU/CSU and FDP breaks by different opinions for the improvement of the financial situation of the federation
8. November: Ronald Reagan is selected to the governor by California
20. November: Swiss canton Zurich is correct in a popular vote against the woman Mrs.
28. November: the Dominican republic gives itself a condition
30. November: Barbados becomes independent of Great Britain
30. November: Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard hands the resignation

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to technology and science

a 3. February: Luna program: With the landing of Luna for the first time the soft landing of a probe on that succeeds to 9 in the sea of the stormsMoon.
1. March: The space probe Venus 3 of the USSR reaches the Venus as the first terrestrial missile after three-month flight.
16. March: The two American astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott create the first coupling maneuver in the universe.
3. April: Soviet Luna 10 steps as the first satellite into circular path of the moon.
7. April: R. G. Ferry flies a new long-distance world record of 3.561 km with its helicopter Hughes OH-6 A.
26. November: In France that becomesworld-wide first tidal power station inaugurated.

Gas field Urengoi, which largest gas field of the world discovers
the dye laser discovered.

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culture

20. January: Premiere of the play „the meteor “of Friedrich Duerrenmatt in Zurich
14. February: Opening that University of Duesseldorf
2. June: Premiere of the jokeful opera seventeen days and four minutes of Werner Egk at the national theatre Stuttgart
21. June: Opening of the University of Konstanz
19. July: Culture agreement between Germany and Tunesien. Into force since that 13. March 1967
4. August: Culture agreement between Germany and Bolivia. Into force since that 21. September 1970
6. August: Premiere of the opera The Bassarids of Hans's Werner Henze to the salt citizen festivals
18. August: Beginning that'Large proletarian culture revolution 'in the People's Republic of China
29. August: Last common appearance of the Beatles in San Francisco
8. September: Premiere of the opera Hero and Leander of Günter Bialas in the national theatre Mannheim
16. September: Premiere of the opera Antony and Cleopatra of Samuel Barber at the metropolitan Opera in New York
15. November: Premiere of the opera Puntila of Paul Dessau at the German opera Berlin
off. Opening German nearly at night museum

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religion

15. February: Präses short sharp becomes new Evangelist bishop of Berlin (and thus successors of Otto Dibelius)
22. March - 24. March: Michael Ramsay, the archbishop of Canterbury, Pope Paul VI.an attendance off, the first meetingthe Primas of England with a Pope since the separation of the Anglikani church in the year 1536
14. June: The Roman Kurie lifts „the index of the forbidden books strong since 1559 led and 500 sides “on (last officialNew edition: 1948)

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disasters

17. January: South Spain escapes an atomic disaster, when over Palomares a B-52-Bomber of the US Air Force collides with a Tankflugzeug. Four plutonium bombs fall from the sky and in aufwändiger search are saved, which is crash areaby set free radiation contaminates
24. January in the alps all 177 passengers come Boeing 707 of the air India around the life, as the machine at a rock massif of the Mont blank smash
to 29. January: Bremen, Germany. One Convair CV-440 of German Lufthansa had an accident with the approach flight because of bad weather and small range of vision. All 46 humans on board died
4. February: Tokyo, Japan. Crash Boeing 727 the Nippon Airways briefly before the coast. All 133 humans16
died. February: A Schlagwetterexplosion on the hard coal bill Rossenray in Kamp Lintfort demands 16 victims
23. February: Heavy tempests arrange heavy damage to 4 in far parts of Spain and
Portugal. March: Tokyo, Japan. Douglas a DC-8 the Canadian Pacific had an accident during the approach flight on the runway. 64 humans died, 8 were saved
5. March: Tokyo, Japan. A Boeing 707 the BOAC hits against the mountain Fuji. All 124 humans die
8. April: By a fire in the engine room the Norwegian passenger liner Viking express with 494 persons burns out on board in the Karibik . 2 dead ones
26. April: An earthquake addresses strong destruction in the Uzbek capital Taschkent to
25. July:In a bus accident in close proximity to Limburg at the Lahn 28 children and 8 adults die
6. August: Sew case town center, Nebraska, the USA. A BAC-111 of the Braniff internationally Airways, on the regularFlight to Omaha, was seized by strong gusts of wind, which became right bearing area broken and the fuel in it exploded. All 42 persons on board died
19. August: Earthquake with Varto, east Turkey, nearly 2,520 dead ones
15. September: During the fall of the submarine „shark “of the Federal Navy 20 sailors 22
die. September: Vienna clay/tone, Australia. Crash of a Vickers Viscount 832 after imprisoned had a machine fire. All 24 persons on board died
3. November: Eddy towers in More than 1000 victims 24 demand gulf of
Bengalen. November: Bratislava, Slowakei, at that time still Czechoslovakia. A Bulgarian Ilyushin-18 of the TABSO Bulgarian fell briefly after the start in a snowstorm in the surrounding mountains. All 82Persons died
8. December: 229 humans die with the fall of the Greek ferry „Heraklion “on the travel from Crete after jetty from
24. December: Binh Thai, south Viet Nam. A military machine of the type C-44 falls into a locality. 129 humansdied. Most were inhabitants of the place