March 1966 calendar

Events

• 01 Mar 1966 Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet
• 02 Mar 1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
• 03 Mar 1966 WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 04 Mar 1966 North Sea Gas is first pumped ashore by British Petroleum.
• 05 Mar 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 07 Mar 1966 Wait A Minim! opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances
• 08 Mar 1966 Golden Boy closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
• 09 Mar 1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black Governor of Federal Reserve Board
• 10 Mar 1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley.
• 11 Mar 1966 Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out.
• 12 Mar 1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
• 13 Mar 1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational.
• 15 Mar 1966 8th Grammy Awards: "Taste of Honey", Tom Jones, Frank Sintra, and Barbra Streisand.
• 16 Mar 1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott; aborted after 6.5 orbits.
• 17 Mar 1966 South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund.
• 18 Mar 1966 Pousse Cafe opens at 46th St. Theater NYC for 3 performances
• 19 Mar 1966 Pousse Cafe closes at 46th St. Theater NYC after 3 performances
• 20 Mar 1966 The World Cup Trophy (the quotJules Rimetquot) is stolen at an exhibition it is later found by a dog named quotPicklesquot and his owner David Corbett.
• 21 Mar 1966 US Supreme Court reverses Massachusetts' ruling that film Fanny Hill is obscene.
• 22 Mar 1966 In Washington, D.C., General Motors President James M. Roche appears before a Senate subcommittee, and apologizes to consumer advocate Ralph Nader for the company's intimidation and harassment campaign against him.
• 23 Mar 1966 Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome.
• 24 Mar 1966 US Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance.
• 25 Mar 1966 Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the Yesterday and Today album, It is later pulled
• 26 Mar 1966 Demonstrations are held across the United States against the Vietnam War.
• 27 Mar 1966 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational.
• 29 Mar 1966 The 23rd Communist Party Conference is held in the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying.
• 30 Mar 1966 Barbra Streisand stars on Color Me Barbra special on CBS
• 31 Mar 1966 USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter

Famous Birthday

• Arthur (TV presenter)
• José Garcia

  French-Spanish actor of Galician origin, he took Garcia (mother's name) as stage name.

• Shobana (actress)
• Stéphane De Groodt
• Jerry Cantrell

  US rock guitarist (Alice in Chains - "Dirt").

• Delphine de Vigan
• Jan Lundgren
• Tatjana Patitz

  German model and actress.

• Michael Imperioli

  American actor and screenwriter.

• Zack Snyder

  Director.

• Brian Shaw

  American basketball guard for Orlando Magic, formerly with the Celtics and Miami Heat.

• Arthur H

  French pianist, songwriter and singer.

• Michael Patrick MacDonald

  American memorist.

• H P Baxxter
• Shurik'n

  French hip hop artist, also known as Shurik'n Chang-Ti.

• Daniela Amavia

  American actress and model.

• Alan Davies

  British comedian and actor.

• Fernando Colunga

  Soap Opera Actor.

• Aasif Mandvi

  Indian-American actor producer and screenwriter.

• Pascal Vahirua
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Famous Deaths

• Alice Pearce

  Comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies at 52.

• Heinrich Lemacher

  Composer, dies at 74.

• Janis Medins

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Richard Hageman

  Composer, dies at 83.

• Walter Lang

  Composer, dies at 69.

• Enrique E Ecker

  Cura?aos/US bacteriologist, dies at age 79.

• Anna Achmatova

  Ukrainian poet, dies at age 76.

• Mari Sandoz

  US author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at age 64.

• Frederik "Frits" Zernike

  Dutch physicist (Nobel Prize 1953), dies at age 77.

• Abe Saperstein

  founder of Harlem Globetrotters, dies at age 63.

• Johannes W Elsensohn

  Dutch actor/writer (Arie), dies at age 82.

• Mien Labberton

  Dutch poet, dies at age 82.

• Harry Daugherty

  trombonist (Spike Jones and City Slickers), dies at age 50.

• Joseph Fields

  American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer (Born 1895).

• Erwin Piscator

  German theatrical producer and director famed for his ingenious Expressionistic staging techniques.

• Pablo Birger

  Argentinian race car driver (d. 1966).

• Fritz Houtermans

  Polish-German physicist and academic (d. 1966).

• Newbold Morris

  American lawyer and politician (d. 1966).

• Anna Akhmatova

  Ukrainian-Russian poet and author (d. 1966).

• John Harlin

  American pilot and mountaineer (d. 1966).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Barry Sadler - The Ballad Of The Green Berets
2. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
3. The Rolling Stones - 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. Lou Christie - Lightnin' Strikes
5. Herman's Hermits - Listen People

Top #5 songs in the UK

1. The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
2. The Spencer Davis Group - Somebody Help Me
3. The Hollies - I Can't Let Go
4. Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
5. Dusty Springfield - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me