page_title: November 1966
section_title: November 17, 1966 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: November 1966 / November 17, 1966 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: English: James Jabara in an Air Force photo, likely taken in the late 1950s, after his promotion from Major to LtCol.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in November 1966:
context_section_description: The Earth's orbit took it into the path of the debris of Comet Tempel–Tuttle, providing the most spectacular display of meteors in 133 years.  The Leonids shower peaked with a 20-minute display that began at 1155 UTC (4:55 in the morning at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona), where the meteors passed through the atmosphere at the rate of 40 per second. The spectacle, anticipated as the "Show of the Century" and the largest shower of record since the Leonids of November 12 and 13, 1833   However, overcast skies blocked the view for millions of other observers in the United States and Japan   The 1966 event is still described as "the last primary maximum" of the Leonids.
  The UN General Assembly passed Resolution 2152 (XXI), creating the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO).
  Don't Drink the Water, the first full-length play written by comedian Woody Allen, premiered on Broadway, opening at the Morosco Theatre.  After a run of 598 performances on stage, it would be made into a 1969 feature film and later as a 1994 made-for-television movie.
  Reita Faria, a medical student who had won the Femina Miss India title, was crowned Miss World in London, becoming the first person from India to win the title.  Faria told reporters that she had never appeared in a bathing suit prior to the world pageant.  The 1966 competition marked the first time that a Communist nation sent a contestant, and Mikica Marinovic of Yugoslavia was the runner up.
  Born:
  Daisy Fuentes, Cuban-American television star, in Havana
  Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (died 1997), son of Tim Buckley, in Anaheim, California
  Sophie Marceau, French film actress, in Paris
  Died:
  U.S. Air Force Colonel James "Jabby" Jabara, 43, American aviator, the first American jet fighter ace, was killed in a car crash along with his 16-year-old daughter, when the car in which he was riding overturned on the Florida Turnpike.  Jabara, a veteran of World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, had three distinguished flying crosses, 19 air medals and two distinguished service crosses.
  Adem Reka, 38, Albanian dockworker who was proclaimed a "Hero of Socialist Labor" in Albania after he was killed saving his fellow workers from a loading crane vessel that capsized in a violent storm.  A statue would be erected in his honor at Durrës, pilgrimages were made to his shrine, and a postage stamp would be issued by the government for Reka, who was virtually unknown outside of the Communist nation.
caption: Colonel Jabara
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