August 1966 calendar

Events

• 01 Aug 1966 Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 andwounds 31 at University of Texas
• 02 Aug 1966 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
• 03 Aug 1966 S African government bans Beatle records
• 05 Aug 1966 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000)
• 06 Aug 1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London
• 07 Aug 1966 Race riots occur in Lansing, Michigan.
• 10 Aug 1966 First lunar orbiter launched by US.
• 11 Aug 1966 Last Beatle concert tour of US begins
• 12 Aug 1966 The General Services Administration turns the New Orleans Mint over to the state of Louisiana.
• 14 Aug 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 15 Aug 1966 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission.
• 16 Aug 1966 Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
• 17 Aug 1966 Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit.
• 18 Aug 1966 Vietnam War: the Battle of Long Tan occurs, when a patrol of 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment encounter the Viet Cong.
• 19 Aug 1966 Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed
• 20 Aug 1966 Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert
• 21 Aug 1966 Seven men are sentenced to death in Egypt, for anti-Nasser agitation.
• 22 Aug 1966 Beatles arrive in New York City
• 23 Aug 1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
• 24 Aug 1966 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
• 26 Aug 1966 Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs
• 27 Aug 1966 Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak
• 28 Aug 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic
• 29 Aug 1966 Beatles last public concert
• 30 Aug 1966 France offers independence to French Somaliland.
• 31 Aug 1966 Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match

Famous Birthday

• Halle Berry

  American actress, able to play sexy and vulnerable or cute and sassy.

• Shirley Manson

  Scottish born lead singer for Garbage, a pop band co-founded in 1995 by Butch Vig, one of the music industry's most in-demand producers at...

• David Hallyday

  French singer and noted family, the son of French rock star Johnny Hallyday.

• Hansi Kürsch

  German singer-songwriter and bass player (Blind Guardian and Demons and Wizards).

• Rosalie van Breemen
• Dimebag Darrell

  American guitarist (Pantera and Damageplan) (d. 2004).

• Rex Chandler
• Lee Ann Womack

  American musician.

• Jimmy Wales

  American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia...

• Sarita Choudhury

  English actress.

• Tasha de Vasconcelos
• Yang Erche Namu
• Delphine Forest
• Luc Leblanc

  French cyclist, best climber, he became World Road Champion in 1994.

• Marco Bracci

  Italian volleyball champion, a member of the Italian men's team that won a Bronze Medal at the Atlanta Olympics 8/04/1996.

• Eric Hélary
• GZA (rapper)
• Patrice Lhotellier
• Marina Berlusconi

  Italian business woman from a noted family, the daughter of Silvio Berlusconi and his first wife, Carla Elvira Lucia Dall'Oglio.

• Agostino Abbagnale

  Italian sports champion; the winner of an Olympic Gold Medal for rowing, 1988.

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Famous Deaths

• Lenny Bruce

  American satirical nightclub comedian, known for biting and controversial subject matter, who changed the landscape of standup comedy and...

• Charles Whitman

  kills 15 people shooting from the Main Building at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.

• Jan Kiepura

  Sosnowiec, Poland -- Vocalist / actor (Her Wonderful Lie).

• Jacobus C Bloem

  Poet (Cinders).

• Gerhard / Gerhart Pohl

  German writer (Battle of Kolbenau), dies at 64.

• Michael Garrison

  Producer (Crowded Sky), dies after a fall at 43.

• Isaac Keesing

  Dutch founder (System Keesing), dies at 80.

• Watze Cuperus

  Frisian Author (Struggle & Blessing), dies at 75.

• Francis Xavier Bushman

  Actor (Ben-Hur), dies at 83.

• Kasimir Edschmid [Karl E Schmidt]

  German writer, dies at 75.

• Apolinary Szeluto

  Composer, dies at 82.

• Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

  Sci-fi Author (Space Lords), dies at 53.

• Art Baker

  TV host (You Asked For It), dies at 67.

• Jack Mather

  Actor (Cisco Kid), dies of heart attack at 58.

• Francis X Bushman

  American actor (Born 1883).

• Sayyid Qutb

  Egyptian theoretician (Born 1906).

• Pierre Charles

  Belgian heavyweight boxer, dies at 63.

• Bud Powell

  American Jazz pianist, a virtuoso of the bebop era of the 1940s and 50s.

• Tip Snooke

  South African cricketer (Born 1881).

• Cordwainer Smith

  American sinologist author and academic (d. 1966).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The Troggs - Wild Thing
2. The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
3. Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Lil' Red Riding Hood
4. Bobby Hebb - Sunny
5. Napoleon XIV - They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Troggs - With A Girl Like You
2. The Beatles - Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby
3. The Beach Boys - God Only Knows
4. Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time
5. Los Bravos - Black Is Black