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The Jewish Revolt (66–73 AD) AD 66 ( LXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Telesinus and Paullinus (or, less frequently, year 819 Ab urbe condita ).
1966 ( MCMLXVI) 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.
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January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.January 12 – Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).February 23 – Television is first broadcast in Greece when ERTwent on the air.April 5 – The Money Programme debuts on BBC2(1966-present).February 6 – Rick Astley, British singerMarch 10 – Omer Tarin, Pakistani poet, scholar and mysticApril 8 – Robin Wright, American actressApril 15 – Samantha Fox, British supermodel & singerJanuary
1. January 1 – Vincent Auriol, President of France (b. 1884) 2. January 11 – Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901) 3. January 11 – Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889) 4. January 11 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904) 5. January 14 – Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. 1907) 6. January 22 – Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
February
1. February 1 – Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895) 2. February 1 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (b. 1885)
March
1. March 3 – William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was won by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs.The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was won by Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins.The 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by Robert S. Mulliken.The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Alfred Kastler.Updated on July 19, 2020. The story of English—from its start in a jumble of West Germanic dialects to its role today as a global language —is both fascinating and complex. This timeline offers a glimpse at some of the key events that helped to shape the English language over the past 1,500 years.
Among highlights in the history of the English language, the following stand out most clearly: the settlement in Britain of Jutes, Saxons, and Angles in the 5th and 6th centuries; the arrival of St. Augustine in 597 and the subsequent conversion of England to Latin Christianity; the Viking invasions of the 9th century; the Norman Conquest of 106...
Mar 23, 2016 · 50 Years Ago: A Look Back at 1966 - The Atlantic. Alan Taylor. March 23, 2016. 50 Photos. In Focus. A half-century ago, the war in Vietnam continued its escalation, NASA’s Project Gemini was...
