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July 18, 1966: Time-lapse photograph of Gemini 10 launch The Gemini 10 mission, with astronauts John W. Young and Michael Collins , was launched from complex 19 at Cape Kennedy at 5:20 p.m. [ 47 ] Less than two hours later, the Gemini Atlas-Agena target vehicle from complex 14 at 3:40 p.m. local time.
Black History Month: Black Students Union: 1970: February in the United States and Canada, October in the United Kingdom and Ireland June: African-American Music Appreciation Month: 1979: December 26 to January 1: Kwanzaa: 1966
Black History Month is an annually observed commemorative month originating in the United States, where it is also known as African-American History Month. [4] It began as a way of remembering important people and events in the history of the African diaspora, initially lasting a week before becoming a month-long observation since 1970. [5]
Congress passed a law designating February 1986 as “National Black (Afro-American) History Month,” noting Feb. 1 would mark the 60th annual “salute to Black History.”
July – The Chicago Surrealist Group is founded by Franklin and Penelope Rosemont with others. July 4. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act, which goes into effect the following year. The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) endorses the goal of Black Power at a well attended convention in Baltimore, Maryland. Martin ...
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.
July 30 in recent years ... July 30 is the 211th day of the year (212th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; ... 1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the ...
July 30 – At a special meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, called by Governor Hugh White, T.R.M. Howard of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership, along with nearly one hundred other black leaders, publicly refuse to support a segregationist plan to maintain "separate but equal" in exchange for a crash program to increase spending on black ...