March 1966 calendar

March 1966
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Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened in March 1966.
The US president was Lyndon B. Johnson (Democrat), the UK Prime Minister was Harold Wilson (Labour), Pope St Paul VI was leading the Catholic Church.

But much more happened on March 1966: find out below

Historical Events

Which were the important events of March 1966?

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
05 Mar 1966 BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.