# 1966 in India

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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.

## Incumbents

| Post | Name |
| President of India | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Prime Minister of India | Lal Bahadur Shastri (Prime Minister until 11 January) |
| Prime Minister of India | Gulzarilal Nanda until 24 January (acting Prime Minister) |
| Prime Minister of India | Indira Gandhi |
| Vice President of India | Zakir Husain |
| Chief Justice of India | P. B. Gajendragadkar until 24 January |
| Chief Justice of India | Amal Kumar Sarkar 15 March – 29 June |
| Chief Justice of India | Koka Subba Rao starting 30 June |

### Governors

| Post | Name |
| Andhra Pradesh | Pattom A. Thanu Pillai |
| Assam | Vishnu Sahay |
| Bihar | M. A. S. Ayyangar |
| Gujarat | Nityanand Kanungo |
| Haryana | Dharma Vira (starting 1 November) |
| Jammu and Kashmir | Bhagwan Sahay |
| Karnataka | V. V. Giri |
| Kerala | Ajith Prasad Jain (until 6 February) Bhagwan Sahay (starting 6 February) |
| Madhya Pradesh | K. Chengalaraya Reddy (until 2 February) P. V. Dixit (2 February-9 February) K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February) |
| Maharashtra | P V Cherian |
| Nagaland | Vishnu Sahay |
| Odisha | Ajudhia Nath Khosla (until 5 August) Khaleel Ahmed (5 August-11 September) Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 11 September) |
| Punjab | Sardar Ujjal Singh (until 26 June) Dharma Vira (starting 26 June) |
| Rajasthan | Sampurnanand |
| Uttar Pradesh | Bishwanath Das |

## Events

* National income - ₹321,058 million

### January - May

* 3 January – Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan agree to the Tashkent Declaration, a peace pact mediated by the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R.
* 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
* 19 January – Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
* 24 January - Air India Flight 101 crashed into Mont Blanc killing the 117 passengers including Homi J. Bhabha who was in the flight. There was a similar aviation accident in the same spot in 1950.
* 5 March - Indian Air Force bombs Aizawl following Mizo National Front uprising.
* 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
* 20 April – Lumding Train Bombing occurs on the North-East Frontier Railway.

### June - December

* 6 June - First Indira Gandhi ministry devalues Indian rupee by 57%.
* 10 June - President of India promulgates Jayanti Shipping Company (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1966 to take over shipping company owned by Jayanti Dharma Teja.
* 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
* 12 July – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
* 7 November - 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation and ensuing violence took place.
* 17 November – Reita Faria, [Eve's Weekly Miss India] is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.

## Law

* 27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
* 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
* 22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
* 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.

## Sport

* Krishan Lal, (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

## Births

* 3 January – Chetan Sharma, cricketer
* 11 January – Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated (d.2007).
* 22 January - Kesineni Srinivas, politician and member of parliament from Vijayawada.
* 28 January – Anjani Kumar, 1990 batch IPS officer
* 22 February – Babu Antony, actor and martial artist.
* 24 March - Galla Jayadev, politician and member of parliament from Guntur.
* 30 March – Vikraman, film director.
* Vikram17 April – Vikram, actor.
* 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
* 15 May – M. Kumaran, politician.
* 30 May – Rajinder Garg, politician.
* 8 July – Revathi, actress.
* 14 July – Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
* 28 August – Priya Dutt, politician.
* 1 September - Sonam Wangchuk, Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist.
* 26 September - Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji, Spiritual leader
* 24 October – Nadhiya, actress.
* 30 October – K. V. Anand, cinematographer and film director (d. 2021)
* 28 November – P. Ravi Shankar, actor, dubbing artist, director and writer.
* 5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician.

### Full date unknown

* Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and journalist.
* September – Faisal Khan, actor.

## Deaths

* 11 January – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904).
* Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (b. 1921).
* 24 January – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist.
* 26 February - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1883).