June 1966 calendar

Events

• 01 Jun 1966 Joaquin Balaguer elected President of Dominican Republic
• 02 Jun 1966 US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
• 03 Jun 1966 European DX Council forms in Copenhagen
• 04 Jun 1966 Batman & His Grandmother by Dickie Goodman hits #70
• 05 Jun 1966 Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
• 06 Jun 1966 Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
• 07 Jun 1966 New York Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
• 08 Jun 1966 NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970.
• 10 Jun 1966 Beatles record Rain, 1st to use reverse tapes
• 11 Jun 1966 I Am A Rock by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3
• 12 Jun 1966 Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan
• 13 Jun 1966 The US Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation. The adopted text: "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you."
• 14 Jun 1966 Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured
• 16 Jun 1966 Rowan & Martin Show, debuts on NBC-TV
• 17 Jun 1966 An Air France personnel strike begins.
• 18 Jun 1966 CIA chief William Raborn resigns Richard Helms becomes his successor.
• 19 Jun 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
• 20 Jun 1966 66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic Country Club - San Francisco
• 21 Jun 1966 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
• 24 Jun 1966 Period of relative peace following WWII exceeds that following WWI
• 25 Jun 1966 Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched
• 26 Jun 1966 Time for Singing closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 performances
• 27 Jun 1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, Dark Shadows, premieres on ABC-TV
• 28 Jun 1966 Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title
• 29 Jun 1966 In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time
• 30 Jun 1966 Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour

Famous Birthday

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• Julianna Margulies

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• J J Abrams

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• Cecilia Bartoli

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• Florence Pernel
• Grigori Perelman

  Russian mathematician and academic.

• Hope Sandoval

  American singer-songwriter (Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions).

• Mary Stuart Masterson
• Jason Patric

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• Faure Gnassingbé
• Dikembe Mutombo

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• Rudi Bakhtiar

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• Angela Cavagna

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• Stéphane Richer

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• Cédric Kahn
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Famous Deaths

• Alice Calhoun

  Actress (Flowing Gold, Between Friends), dies at 65.

• Hans / Jean Arp

  French / Swiss Painter / Poet / sculptor, dies at 78.

• Marjan Kozina

  Composer, dies at 59.

• Arthur Meulemans

  Belgian composer, dies at 82.

• Isabel Dawn

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• Ronald Shiner

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• Ethel Clayton

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• Natacha Rambova

  Costume designer, dies at 69.

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• Papa Jack Laine

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• Claudette Orbison

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• Giuseppe Farina

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• Anton Melik

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• Wallace Ford

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• Hermann Scherchen

  German-Swiss viola player and conductor (d. 1966).

• Jean Arp

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• Ed Wynn

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Percy Sledge - When A Man Loves A Woman
2. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
3. The Beatles - Paperback Writer
4. Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
5. The Mindbenders - A Groovy Kind Of Love

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night
2. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
3. The Beatles - Paperback Writer
4. Georgie Fame & The Blue Flames - Get Away
5. The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black