page_title: August 1966
section_title: August 27, 1966 (Saturday)
hierarchical_section_title: August 1966 / August 27, 1966 (Saturday)
caption_attribution_description: Astoria–Megler Bridge
context_page_description: The following events occurred in August 1966:
context_section_description: Days away from turning 65, British yachtsman Francis Chichester set off from the Plymouth harbor in his ketch, the Gipsy Moth IV, with a goal of becoming the first person to sail around the world by himself.  Chichester hoped to reach Australia within 100 days, and would reach Sydney on December 12, exhausted and seven days later than planned.  After six weeks rest, he would set off for the United Kingdom, and return to a hero's welcome at Plymouth on May 28, 1967, having traveled 29,617 miles.
  The 4.1 mile long Astoria–Megler Bridge, at the time the longest continuous truss bridge in the world, opened over the Columbia River, linking Astoria, Oregon and Megler, Washington.
  Born: Juhan Parts, Prime Minister of Estonia from 2003 to 2005, in Tallinn.
caption: Astoria-Megler Bridge
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