16 January 1966Death of Courtney Hicks HodgesCourtney Hicks Hodges
Death of Courtney Hicks Hodges
Historical records for United States of America in 1966, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.
Death of Courtney Hicks Hodges
Death of Buster Keaton
Apollo-Saturn 201 tests spacecraft systems without a crew.
Develops its live sound during a London Fog residency.
Signs with Verve Records after producer Tom Wilson sees the Mothers perform, leading to the name Mothers of Invention.
During Gemini VIII American astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David Scott perform the first orbital docking
The rendezvous and first ever docking between two spacecraft is successfully completed after 6.5 hours in orbit. The mission launches, the most complex yet, with a rendezvous and docking with the unmanned Agena target vehicle, the second American (and third ever) extra-vehicular activity (EVA) (Armstrong himself dislikes the term "space walk"). During Gemini VIII American astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David Scott perform the first orbital docking
During Gemini VIII American astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David Scott performed the first orbital docking
Is assigned as pilot for Apollo 1.
Is named commander for the first crewed Apollo mission.
Is assigned as senior pilot for Apollo 1.
Releases the double album Blonde on Blonde.
Releases Just Like a Woman on Blonde on Blonde.
Releases Visions of Johanna on Blonde on Blonde.
Hendrixs first single is a cover of "Hey Joe", crafted after folk-singer Tim Roses slower revision of the song and adapted to Hendrixs style
Begins a residency at the Whisky a Go Go.
Releases Freak Out! with the Mothers of Invention, an ambitious double album combining satire, rock and experimental composition.
Signs the Freedom of Information Act, strengthening public access to federal records.
During the flight of Gemini IX American astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan make a two-hour EVA
During the flight of Gemini IX American astronauts Tom Stafford and Eugene Cernan make a two-hour EVA
During Gemini X American astronauts Mike Collins and John Young make two rendezvous and docking maneuvers with Agena target vehicles, plus complete a complex EVA
During Gemini X American astronauts Mike Collins and John Young make two rendezvous and docking maneuvers with Agena target vehicles, plus complete a complex EVA
Death of Montgomery Clift
Suffers a motorcycle accident near Woodstock.
Apollo-Saturn 202 tests the command module heat shield.
Death of Lee Edward Bowers, when his car leaves an empty road and hits a concrete bridge abutment near Midlothian, Texas
Engineers early recordings that shape The Doors' studio sound.
Produces the first Doors album sessions.
Signs with Elektra Records after Los Angeles club exposure.
Improvises provocative lyrics during The End at the Whisky.
Signs the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act to establish federal automobile safety standards.
Signs the Child Nutrition Act, expanding federal support for school meals and child nutrition programmes.
Signs the Department of Transportation Act, creating the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Signs the National Historic Preservation Act, creating a national framework for protecting historic places.
Birth of David Lawrence Schwimmer
The last Gemini flight, Gemini XII, is launched on this date, during this mission, American astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin completed three EVAs and a docking with an Agena target vehicle
The last Gemini flight, Gemini XII, is launched on this date, during this mission, American astronauts Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin completed three EVAs and a docking with an Agena target vehicle
CIA monitors and responds to Jim Garrison's New Orleans investigation.
In the autumn of 1966, Garrison began to re-examine the Kennedy assassination. Guy Banister had died of a heart attack in 1964, but Garrison re-interviewed Jack Martin, who told the district attorney that Banister and his associates were involved in stealing weapons and ammunition from armories and in gunrunning
Jim Garrison resumed his Kennedy assassination investigation in November 1966, eventually directing attention toward Clay Shaw.
Arrangements were underway for a new trial to be held in February 1967, in Wichita Falls, Ruby was admitted to Parkland Hospital in Dallas, suffering from pneumonia
Ruby made a final statement from his hospital bed that he and he alone had been responsible for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald
Garrison first interviewed Shaw in connection with the renewed assassination investigation in December 1966.
Publication of "In Cold Blood". Publication of "A Christmas Memory"
Directs, "A Man For All Seasons"
Winner of Best Actor for Cat Ballou
Winner of Best Supporting Actress for A Patch Of Blue
Gamow promotes the microwave background discovery as strong support for the hot Big Bang model
Bobby Seale & Huey Newton found the Black Panthers
The Nashville sessions produce the album "Blonde on Blonde", featuring what Dylan later calls "that thin wild mercury sound". Releases Album, "Blonde on Blonde"
Forms Buffalo Springfield with Neil Young and becomes his major early songwriting counterpart.
The SCLC forms a coalition with CCCO, Coordinating Council of Community Organisations, an organisation founded by Albert Raby, the combined organisations efforts are fostered under the aegis of The Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM)
King turns toward economic issues; SCLC moves civil rights struggle to the North; opens Chicago office to organize protests against housing and employment discrimination. Growing popularity of the black power movement, blacks stressing self-reliance and self-defense, indicates King's influence was declining, especially among young blacks
Appointed Commander 3rd Marine Amphibious Force
The SCLC forms a coalition with CCCO, Coordinating Council of Community Organisations, an organisation founded by Albert Raby, the combined organisations efforts are fostered under the aegis of The Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM)
The SCLC forms a coalition with CCCO, Coordinating Council of Community Organisations, an organisation founded by Albert Raby, the combined organisations efforts are fostered under the aegis of The Chicago Freedom Movement (CFM)
Appointed Director of the CIA
Hunt's period directing covert-action work in the Domestic Operations Division concluded after several years in that assignment.
"I aint got no quarrel with those Vietcong" and "no Vietcong ever called me nigger". Ali refuses to serve in the United States Army during the Vietnam War as a conscientious objector, because "War is against the teachings of the Holy Quran". Ali is banned from fighting in the United States and forced to accept bouts abroad for most of 1966
Stars in Duel at Diablo
Elected to the House of Representatives
Manages the Velvet Underground and presents them with the multimedia Exploding Plastic Inevitable shows.
The Beach Boys release, "Good Vibrations", no 1 in the USA & UK
Appointed Governor of Maryland
Appointed Governor of California
Founder Member of Grateful Dead
Stars in "Harper"
Highway 61 Revisited connects Dylan's roots to blues, folk and rock.
Publication of "In Cold Blood". Publication of "A Christmas Memory"
Chas Chandler helps Hendrix form a new band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, with guitarist-turned-bassist Noel Redding and drummer Mitch Mitchell, both British musicians
Hendrix forms his own band, Jimmy James and The Blue Flames
Stars in, "Khartoum"
Releases Long Hair as part of Tony and Siegrid, an early pop recording before his producer career.
Records early material with The Castiles at Mr. Music in New Jersey.
Hughes sells his TWA stock for $546 million when the company faced numerous lawsuits
Stars in, "The Fortune Cookie"
Stars in The Good the Bad and the Ugly, completing the Dollars trilogy.
Meets Dino De Laurentiis and agrees to appear in the anthology film The Witches opposite Silvana Mangano.
Eastwood meets producer Dino De Laurentiis in New York City and agrees to star in a non-Western five-part anthology production named Le Streghe ("The Witches") opposite De Laurentiis wife, actress Silvana Mangano
Allens first directorial effort is "Whats Up, Tiger Lily?"
Directs a screen adaptation of Edward Albees Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton
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