page_title: January 1966
section_title: January 8, 1966 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: January 1966 / January 8, 1966 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: English: H.E William Gopallawa
context_page_description: The following events occurred in January 1966:
context_section_description: Operation Crimp, also known as the Battle of the Ho Bo Woods, was jointly launched by U.S. and Australian forces fighting in Vietnam.
  William Gopallawa, the Governor-General of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), declared a state of emergency throughout the South Asian island nation, after protests by the Sinhalese majority against recent regulations that favored the Tamil language. A young Buddhist priest was killed by the army crackdown on the riots. Press censorship and curfews would stay in place for 11 months, ending on December 7, 1966.
caption: Gov.Gen. Gopallawa
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