December 1966 calendar

Events

• 01 Dec 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
• 02 Dec 1966 Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East
• 03 Dec 1966 Anti-Portuguese demonstrations occur in Macau a curfew is declared the next day.
• 04 Dec 1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 05 Dec 1966 I Do! I Do! opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 561 performances
• 06 Dec 1966 Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium.
• 08 Dec 1966 US and the USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
• 09 Dec 1966 Barbados joins the United Nations.
• 10 Dec 1966 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature.
• 11 Dec 1966 Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards.
• 12 Dec 1966 US Supreme Court votes 4-3 allowing Braves baseball team to move to Atlanta.
• 13 Dec 1966 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam
• 15 Dec 1966 Joyful Noise opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
• 16 Dec 1966 Beatles release Everywhere its Christmas in the UK
• 17 Dec 1966 South Africa does not join the trade embargo against Rhodesia.
• 18 Dec 1966 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
• 19 Dec 1966 ADB operations begin.
• 20 Dec 1966 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
• 21 Dec 1966 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
• 22 Dec 1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 23 Dec 1966 Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, last program
• 24 Dec 1966 Joyful Noise closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 performances
• 26 Dec 1966 The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
• 27 Dec 1966 At the Drop of Another Hat opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 performances
• 28 Dec 1966 Thirteen die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts, USA.
• 29 Dec 1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission
• 31 Dec 1966 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting

Famous Birthday

• Sinéad O'Connor

  Irish singer-songwriter.

• Patricia Kaas

  French singer and actress, starred in a film bio about Marlene Dietrich.

• Kiefer Sutherland

  British-American actor and noted family, the son of Donald and Shirley Sutherland, named Kiefer William Frederick Dempsey George Rufus...

• Edouard Baer

  French TV presenter, actor and film director, born in Alsatian jewish family.

• Hélène Rollès

  French actress and singer, primarily known for her major role in the TV sitcom Helen and the boys (Hélène et les Garçons), alongside...

• Eva LaRue

  American model and actress.

• Cláudia Raia

  Brazilian actress on TV and theater; ballerina.

• Jason Gould

  American actor and noted family, the son of Barbra Streisand and her husband Elliot Gould.

• Rachel Sutherland

  British-Canadian TV producer of "Kids in the Hall" and "The Rez.

• Stéphane Delajoux

  French physician and surgeon, called "the surgeon of stars".

• Bill Goldberg (wrestler)
• Caroline Pascal
• Philippe Etchebest

  French chef and television host.

• Fred Armisen

  American actor and musician.

• Gary Dourdan

  American actor.

• Alberto Tomba

  Italian skier, an expert on the slalom and winner of two Gold Medals in Calgary in February 1988.

• Matthew Laborteaux
• Chris Robinson (singer)
• Laurent Boudouani

  French boxer, the son of Algerian parents.

• Giulia Gam

  Brazilian actress, talented and versatile in comedy, drama, theater and soaps.

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Famous Deaths

• Walt Disney

  American cartoonist who created Mickey Mouse in 1928 and later made the first feature-length cartoon ever filmed, "Fantasia," 1940, a visual...

• Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Boris Koutzen

  Composer, dies at 65.

• Richard Whorf

  Actor (Chain Lightning), dies of heart attack at 60.

• Gustaf Paulson

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Hv Doderer

  Writer, dies at 70.

• Gaspar Cassado Moreu

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Ina Boudier-Baker

  Dutch Author (Poverty), dies at 88.

• Klaziena "Ina" Boudier-Bakker

  Singer (Armoede, Finale), dies at 91.

• Noel Gallon

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Gene Gauntier

  Dies in Cuernavaca Mexico.

• Robert Keith

  Actor (Battle Circus, Men in War), dies at 68.

• Charles Watts

  Actor (Lone Ranger & Lost City of Gold), dies of cancer.

• Chief Nipo Strongheart

  Native American actor (Pony Soldier), dies at age 75.

• Hermann Heiss

  Composer, dies at 68.

• Guillermo Stabile

  Argentine footballer (Born 1905).

• Luitzen [Bertus] Brouwers

  Dutch mathematician, dies at age 85.

• Sylveer Maes

  Belgian bicylist, dies at age 57.

• Trygve Halvdan Lie

  first United Nations Secretary-General (1946-53), dies at age 72.

• Christian A Herter

  US Minister of Foreign affairs (1959-61), dies at age 71.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. The New Vaudeville Band - Winchester Cathedral
2. The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
3. The Monkees - I'm A Believer
4. Donovan - Mellow Yellow
5. The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Tom Jones - Green Green Grass Of Home
2. The Beatles - Day Tripper / We Can Work It Out
3. The Monkees - I'm A Believer
4. Val Doonican - What Would I Be
5. The Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running