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1966 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1966th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.
October 9 – The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series in baseball, 1–0, to sweep the series for their first World Championship; Frank Robinson wins the Triple Crown. October 15. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill creating the United States Department of Transportation.
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"For the first time," historians would note later, "rapid-imaging of nearly an entire hemisphere was possible. We could watch, fascinated, as storm systems developed and moved and were captured in a time series of images. Today such images are an indispensable part of weather analysis and forecasting." [37]
In fiction, August 19, 1966, is the date of a nuclear war in the 1960 film The Time Machine, an adaptation of the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells. Remaining in London, the film's hero (played by Rod Taylor ) departs from December 31, 1899, witnessing future wars as he stops at September 13, 1917, then June 19, 1940, until getting ...
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24 September – St Kilda defeats Collingwood in the 1966 VFL Grand Final. [93] 1 November – The Bart Cummings-trained Galilee (ridden by John Miller) wins the 1966 Melbourne Cup. [94] 30 December – Fidelis takes line honours in the Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race while Cadence is ultimately declared the handicap winner. [95] [96]
The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 4 of the World Series, 1–0, to sweep the series for their first world championship. Frank Robinson clouted a home run in the fourth inning. [55] South Korean forces reportedly massacred 168 South Vietnamese civilians by in the village of Binh Tai in South Vietnam's Sông Bé ...