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September 1 – While waiting at a bus stop Ralph Baer, an inventor with Sanders Associates, writes a four-page document that lays out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television: the beginning of a multibillion-dollar industry. September 7 – The ocean liner SS Hanseatic catches fire and burns in New York Harbor.
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.
1966 events in the United States by month (12 C) / 1966 disestablishments in the United States (48 C, 9 P) 1966 establishments in the United States (59 C, 59 P) A.
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The 1966 event is still described as "the last primary maximum" of the Leonids. [103] Reita Faria, a medical student who had won the Femina Miss India title, was crowned Miss World in London, becoming the first person from India to win the title. Faria told reporters that she had never appeared in a bathing suit prior to the world pageant.
November 6 is the 310th day of the year ... 1966 – Peter DeLuise, American actor, ... On This Day "Historical Events on November 6". OnThisDay.com.
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In college football, the #1 Michigan State Spartans were upset by the #5 UCLA Bruins, 14–12, in the Rose Bowl, and the #2 Arkansas Razorbacks were toppled, 14–7, by the unranked LSU Tigers in the Cotton Bowl, setting up that evening's Orange Bowl game between the #3 Nebraska Cornhuskers and the #4 Alabama Crimson Tide as the game that was likely to determine the unofficial national ...