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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.
February 3, 1966: Soviet probe Luna 9 sends back the first pictures transmitted from the Moon's surface February 14, 1966: Australia goes decimal, introduces the dollar..... and phases out the pound February 28, 1966: U.S. astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in plane crash three months before scheduled Gemini 9 mission
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.
In 1966, at age 19, he was the second-youngest major league player, and when he finished in 1993 at age 46, he was the oldest. [ 68 ] Giacomo Agostini won the first of 15 Grand Prix motorcycle racing world championships , including seven consecutive 500 cc motorcycle world titles.
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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.
The 1966 season was Tulane's last as an SEC member. [43] [44] At the United Nations, the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was signed by representatives of nine nations on the first day that it was opened for signature. Brazil, the Central African Republic, Greece, Israel, the Philippines, Poland ...