page_title: December 1966
section_title: December 21, 1966 (Wednesday)
hierarchical_section_title: December 1966 / December 21, 1966 (Wednesday)
caption_attribution_description: English: A logo employed by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) when it first broadcast programming in color in the 1960s.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in December 1966:
context_section_description: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted, 4–3, to permit International Telephone & Telegraph (ITT) to purchase the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) television and radio network.
  Eight schoolchildren in Windsor, Ontario were killed, and 16 others injured, when a tractor-trailer overturned while attempting a right turn, dumping ten tons of sand onto their school bus.  Ranging in age from six to nine years old, the children were on their way from Frith Public School to their homes in Oldcastle when the accident happened shortly after 3:00.  The weight of the sand tore a hole through the bus roof, and the cargo poured in.  Some of the victims were cut by the metal of the roof, while others were buried and suffocated.  Three students at the back of the bus were uninjured and able to escape out of the back of the bus.
  France and West Germany signed an agreement to allow French forces to continue to be stationed in the former French zone of West Germany, despite France's earlier withdrawal from NATO.
  Born: Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian film and TV actor, and son of film star Donald Sutherland and stage and TV actress Shirley Douglas, while his parents were working in London, in the United Kingdom
caption: ABC logo
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