page_title: October 1966
section_title: October 14, 1966 (Friday)
hierarchical_section_title: October 1966 / October 14, 1966 (Friday)
caption_attribution_description: Nederlands: Jo Cals. Minister-president van Nederland (1965-1966)
context_page_description: The following events occurred in October 1966:
context_section_description: At 2:15 p.m. local time, the Montreal Metro, the new subway system for the Canadian city, was inaugurated with a declaration made by the guest of honor, French Minister of State Louis Joxe (as an emissary of French President De Gaulle) "and, within moments, trains filled with hundreds of special guests, pull out of 19 stations along north-south and east-west lines to converge on the Berri-de Montigny station, where the two lines meet."  The first of 5,000 passengers that day were greeted by Mayor Jean Drapeau, Quebec Premier Daniel Johnson, Sr., and External Affairs Secretary Paul Martin.
  Jo Cals resigned as the Prime Minister of the Netherlands, along with his entire cabinet, after his own Catholic People's Party withdrew its support for him and pushed through a vote of no confidence.  In the 150 member Second Chamber of the Staten-Generaal, the vote was 75-62 against the Cals government because of its unsuccessful fiscal policies, and only four of the 50 deputies from Cals's party supported him.
  The 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings was observed, celebrating the pivotal October 14, 1066 confrontation of the Norman Conquest of England, the death in combat of King Harold II, and the beginning of a new regal dynasty under William the Conqueror became king after his armies killed.  To mark the occasion, the General Post Office of the United Kingdom released 197,000,000 commemorative four-penny stamps throughout Britain.  Philatelists purchased sheets of the stamps for their collections, and some found errors that increased the rarity (and the value) of their purchase, including one example in Parkstone where the image of the Queen had been omitted.
  After his return from his tour of South Vietnam, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara sent a secret memo to President Johnson conceding that the U.S. effort in the Vietnam War was failing, noting that the government of North Vietnam "knows that we can't achieve our goals.  The prognosis is bad that the war can be brought to a satisfactory conclusion within the next two years... I see no reasonable way to bring the war to an end soon."  
  The International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) was established as the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States went into effect upon ratification by 20 nations.
  The North Yemen Civil War took on a larger dimension when government air raids villages in the northern mountains, including the bombing of two villages in Saudi Arabia.
  The Soviet optical film-return reconnaissance satellite Kosmos 129 was launched from Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
caption: Jo Cals
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