July 1966 calendar

Events

• 01 Jul 1966 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64)
• 02 Jul 1966 1st France nuclear explosion on Mururoa atoll
• 03 Jul 1966 Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game
• 04 Jul 1966 Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos
• 05 Jul 1966 New York City transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents
• 06 Jul 1966 Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
• 07 Jul 1966 A Warsaw Pact conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
• 08 Jul 1966 US airline strike (until August 19th)
• 09 Jul 1966 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane
• 10 Jul 1966 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational
• 11 Jul 1966 The 1966 FIFA World Cup begins in England.
• 12 Jul 1966 10.51 (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record)
• 13 Jul 1966 Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago
• 14 Jul 1966 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
• 16 Jul 1966 Half a Sixpence closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
• 17 Jul 1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
• 18 Jul 1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
• 19 Jul 1966 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas
• 21 Jul 1966 Gemini X returns to Earth.
• 23 Jul 1966 Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens
• 24 Jul 1966 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone Country Club - Akron
• 25 Jul 1966 Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone
• 26 Jul 1966 WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 28 Jul 1966 The U.S. announces that a Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
• 29 Jul 1966 Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock, New York
• 30 Jul 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open
• 31 Jul 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas

Famous Birthday

• Laurence Ferrari

  French journalist, ex-anchor of the TF1 weekly news, she replaced Patrick Poivre d'Arvor.

• Amélie Nothomb

  Belgian writer who writes in French.

• Matthew Fox

  American actor.

• Irène Jacob

  French actress, winner of the Cannes Festival’s Best Actress Award for her dual role in "La Double Vie De Véronique," 1991.

• Dean Cain

  American actor.

• Martina McBride

  American country music singer.

• Alessio Boni

  Italian actor, who finished his theatre studies at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in 1992.

• Ana Torrent

  Spanish film actress.

• Mike Horn
• Lynda Lemay

  Canadian singer-songwriter.

• Stone Gossard

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pearl Jam Mother Love Bone Brad Temple of the Dog and Green River).

• Karine Lollichon
• Cheb Mami

  Algerian singer, popular for his duets with Sting and Zucchero.

• Stéphane Caron
• Stéphane Henon
• Greg Grunberg

  American actor and producer.

• Carlos Leon
• Lou Barlow

  American musician, original member of the alternative rock groups Dinosaur Jr.

• Jean-François Richet

  French film director, screenwriter, film producer, and film editor.

• Guru (American rapper)
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Famous Deaths

• Montgomery Clift

  Movie actor (From Here to Eternity).

• Montgomery Clift

  Movie actor (From Here to Eternity).

• Bud Powell

  American jazz pianist (Born 1924).

• Tony Lema

  American golfer (d. 1966).

• German Germanovich Galinin

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Eugeen Calleen

  Flemish sculptor, dies at 83.

• [Edward] Montgomery Clift

  Actor (From Here to Eternity), dies at 45.

• Donald Novis

  Singer / actor (Pajama Game), dies at 60.

• Douglass Montgomery

  Actor (Forbidden, Daybreak), dies at 56.

• Pal Jardanyi

  Composer, dies at 44.

• Edward G Craig

  English actor / director (On Art of Theatre), dies at 94.

• Alex E von Falkenhausen

  German General, dies at 87.

• Carmelita Geraghty

  Dies of heart attack at 65.

• D T Suzuki

  Zen Buddhism scholar, dies at 96 in Tokyo, Japan.

• Julien Carette

  Dies of burns at 68.

• Sad Sam Jones

  American baseball player (Born 1892).

• Montgomery Clift

  American actor whose impact made him a star from the time of his first film, "Red River," 1948.

• Jan Brzechwa

  Polish author and poet (d. 1966).

• Bobby Fuller

  American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four) (d. 1966).

• Julie Manet

  French painter and art collector (d. 1966).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
2. The Beatles - Paperback Writer
3. Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky
4. The Troggs - Wild Thing
5. The Cyrkle - Red Rubber Ball

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
2. Troggs - With A Girl Like You
3. Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Get Away
4. Chris Farlowe - Out Of Time
5. The Beatles - Paperback Writer