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April

• April 2 – The Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations.
• April 3 – Luna 10 is the first man-made object to enter lunar orbit.

• April 5 – During the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese military prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of Đà Nẵng before backing down.
• April 7 – The United Kingdom asks the United Nations Security Council for authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate the embargo against Rhodesia (authority is given April 10).
• April 8
  • Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.
  • Leonid Brezhnev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Union, as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
• April 14
  • Kenyan Vice President Oginga Odinga resigns, saying “invisible government” representing foreign interests now runs the country. He will head a new party, the Kenya People’s Union.
  • The South Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
• April 15 – An anti-Nasser conspiracy is exposed in Egypt.
• April 18
  • China declares that it will stop economic aid to Indonesia.
  • The 38th Academy Awards ceremony is held in Santa Monica, California: The Sound of Music wins Best Picture.
• April 21
  • An artificial heart is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a Houston, Texas, hospital.
  • The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.
  • Haile Selassie visits Jamaica for the first time, meeting with Rasta leaders.
  • Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965.
• April 24 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.
• April 26
  • A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye.
  • The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
• April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).
• April 28 – In Rhodesia, security forces kill seven ZANLA men in combat; Chimurenga, the ZANU rebellion, begins.
• April 30 – Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000).

Source Credit: 1966 (April) Wikipedia

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May 1966

• May 4
  • Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union.
  • May 1966 lunar eclipse: A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place, the 64th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 111.
• May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey.
• May 6 – The Moors murders trial ends in the UK with Ian Brady being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, receiving two concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory.
• May 7 – Irish bank workers go on strike.
• May 12
  • African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia.
  • Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan (the U.S. denies the story the next day).
• May 14 – Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus.
• May 15
  • Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations.
  • The South Vietnamese army besieges Da Nang.
  • Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the White House, then rally at the Washington Monument.
• May 16
  • The Chinese Communist Party issues the ‘May 16 Notice’, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
  • A strike is called by the National Union of Seamen in the United Kingdom.
  • In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.
• May 19 – Gertrude Baniszewski is found guilty of torturing and murdering 16-year-old Sylvia Likens at a court in Indianapolis, United States, and is sentenced to life in prison (she is released on parole in December 1985).
• May 24
  • Battle of Mengo Hill: Ugandan army troops arrest Mutesa II of Buganda and occupy his palace.
  • The Nigerian government forbids all political activity in the country until January 17, 1969.
• May 25
  • Explorer program: Satellite Explorer 32 (Atmosphere Explorer-B) is launched from the United States.
  • No. 9 Squadron RAAF becomes part of the 4,500 strong Australian Task Force assigned to duties in Vietnam, leaving for Southeast Asia aboard the aircraft carrier HMAS Sydney.
• May 26 – British Guiana achieves independence, becoming Guyana.
• May 28
  • Fidel Castro declares martial law in Cuba because of a possible U.S. attack.
  • The Indonesian and Malaysian governments declare that the Indonesia–Malaysia confrontation is over (a treaty is signed on August 11).
  • Boat ride “It’s a Small World” opens at Disneyland.
  • May 29 – Sports stadium Estadio Azteca officially opens in Mexico City in advance of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
  • May 31 – The Philippines reestablishes diplomatic relations with Malaysia.

Source Credit: 1966 (May) WiKipedia

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• March 1
• Clay Shaw, the only person ever indicted for conspiracy in the assassination of John F. Kennedy, was acquitted of all charges by a jury in New Orleans. The jury deliberated for only 55 minutes and concluded that Garrison had not proven his case.
• March 2 — Eleven spectators at a dragstrip track were killed, and more than 40 others injured, when one of the race cars went out of control at a speed of 180 miles (290 km) per hour.
• March 3
  • In a Los Angeles court, Sirhan Sirhan admits that he killed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.
  • Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart) to test the Apollo Lunar Module.

• March 4 – Arrest warrants are issued by a Florida court for Jim Morrison on charges of indecent exposure during a Doors concert three days earlier.
• March 10 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. (he later retracts his guilty plea).
  • The United States Navy establishes the Navy Fighter Weapons School (also known as Top Gun) at Naval Air Station Miramar.
  • The novel The Godfather by Mario Puzo is first distributed to booksellers by the publisher G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
• March 13 – Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
• March 18 – Operation Breakfast, the covert bombing of Cambodia by U.S. planes, begins.
• March 28 – Former United States General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower dies after a long illness in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

Source Credit: 1969 (March) WiKipedia

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• December 1 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz takes office as President of Mexico.
• December 3
  • Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest about 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover of and massive sit-in at the Sprout Hall administration building. The sit-in most directly protested the U.C. Regents’ decision to punish student activists for what many thought had been justified civil disobedience earlier in the conflict.
• December 5 – Australian Senate election, 1964: The Liberal/Country Coalition Government led by Prime Minister Robert Menzies hold their status quo, while the Labor Party led by Arthur Calwell lose one seat to the Democratic Labor Party, who hold the balance of power in the Senate alongside independent Reg Turnbull.
• December 10 – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway.
• December 11 – Che Guevara addresses the United Nations General Assembly. A bazooka attack is launched at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York City.
• December 12 – Jamhuri Day: Kenya becomes a republic, with Jomo Kenyatta as its first President.
• December 14 – Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States (379 US 241 1964): The U.S. Supreme Court rules that, in accordance with the Civil Rights Act of 1964, establishments providing public accommodation must refrain from racial discrimination.
• December 18 – The Christmas flood of 1964 begins in the United States, affecting the Pacific Northwest and some of Northern California. It will continue until January 7, resulting in 19 deaths, serious damage to buildings, roads and bridges, and the loss of 4,000 head of livestock.
• December 21 – The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark supersonic attack aircraft, developed for the U.S. Air Force, makes its first flight, at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas.
• December 22
  • A cyclone in the Palk Strait destroys the Indian town of Dhanushkodi, killing 1800 people.
  • The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird makes its first flight at Palmdale, California.
• December 23 – Wonderful Radio London becomes the United Kingdom’s fourth “Pirate” radio station, broadcasting from MV Galaxy (a former US Navy minesweeper) anchored off the east coast of England, with an American-style Top 40 (“Fab 40”) playlist of popular records.
• December 24 – The Brinks Hotel in Saigon, Vietnam, is bombed by the Viet Cong, resulting in the deaths of two US soldiers and injuries to a further 60 people, including civilians.
• December 30 – The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is established as a permanent organ of the UN General Assembly.

Source credit: 1964 [December] Wikipedia

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