1966

1966 (MCMLXVI) was .
Events
January 8 - Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.
January 12 - Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).
February 23 - Television is first broadcast in Greece when ERT went on the air.
April 5 - The Money Programme debuts on BBC2 (1966-present).
June 27 - The first episode of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows airs on ABC, introducing Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) to the viewing audience as she applies for a job at the Collinwood Manor.
July 1 - First Canadian color television broadcast.
September - ABC switches to the color standard, meaning that all three US networks are now broadcasting in color regularly.
September 3 - The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
September 7 - The final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
September 8 - The first episode of Star Trek airs (1966-1969).
September 12 - The Monkees premieres (1966-1968).
October 2 - The four-part serial Talking to a Stranger, acclaimed as one of the finest British television dramas of the 1960s, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2.
October 27 - It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.
November 16 - Cathy Come Home, possibly the best-known play ever to be broadcast on British television, is transmitted in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand.
Births
February 6 - Rick Astley, British singer
March 10 - Omer Tarin, Pakistani poet, scholar and mystic
April 8 - Robin Wright, American actress
April 15 - Samantha Fox, British supermodel & singer
April 25 - Femke Halsema, Dutch politician and writer
May 16 - Janet Jackson, American singer & actress
June 30 - Mike Tyson, American professional boxer
August 3 - Brent Butt, Canadian actor and comedian
August 7 - Jimmy Wales, American founder of Wikipedia
September 9 - Adam Sandler, American comedian and actor
October 2 - Rodney Anoa'i, American professional wrestler (died 2000)
October 9 -- David Cameron, British Prime Minister
October 11 - Luke Perry, American actor (died 2019)
December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
Deaths
January
January 1 - Vincent Auriol, President of France (b. 1884)
January 11 - Alberto Giacometti, Swiss sculptor (b. 1901)
January 11 - Hannes Kolehmainen, Finnish runner (b. 1889)
January 11 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (b. 1904)
January 14 - Sergei Korolev, Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (b. 1907)
January 22 - Herbert Marshall, English actor (b. 1890)
February
February 1 - Buster Keaton, American actor (b. 1895)
February 1 - Hedda Hopper, American actress and columnist (b. 1885)
March
March 3 - William Frawley, American actor (b. 1887)
April
April 9 - Sutan Sjahrir, Prime Minister of Indonesia (b. 1909)
April 13 - Georges Duhamel, French writer (b. 1884)
April 13 - Abdul Salam Arif, 2nd President of Iraq (b. 1921)
May
May 4 - Edmond Locard, French forensic scientist (b. 1877)
May 7 - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, Polish writer (b. 1909)
May 12 - Felix Steiner, German SS commander (b. 1896)
May 15 - Venceslau Bras, President of Brazil (b. 1868)
May 30 - Waino Aaltonen, Finnish artist and sculptor (b. 1894)
June
June 4 - Chang Myon, 2nd, 7th Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1899)
July
July 23 - Montgomery Clift, American actor (b. 1920)
August
August 3 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925)
September
September 14 - Cemal Gursel, President of Turkey (b. 1895)
October
November
November 17 - James Jabara, American Air Force pilot (b. 1923)
December
December 15 - Walt Disney, American animator (b. 1901)
Nobel Prizes
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Literature was won by Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs.
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was won by Peyton Rous and Charles Brenton Huggins.
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was won by Robert S. Mulliken.
The 1966 Nobel Prize in Physics was won by Alfred Kastler.
The Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded in 1966.