WHAT ALL HAPPENED OCTOBER TO DECEMBER 1966
Find out what all happened October to December 1966

Vietnam War: Binh Tai Massacre (9. October 1966)

Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. (24. November 1966)

The city of Montreal, Quebec, begins the operation of its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. (14. October 1966)

West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9. (1. October 1966)

Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho. (4. October 1966)

U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. (8. November 1966)

NASA launches Gemini 12. (11. November 1966)

Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. (18. December 1966)

Vietnam War: Diên Niên - Phước Bình massacre (9. October 1966)

Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. (5. October 1966)

The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. (2. November 1966)

In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu. (13. November 1966)

Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. (15. November 1966)

The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle. (1. December 1966)

The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach. (26. December 1966)

Botswana and Lesotho join the United Nations. (17. October 1966)

The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go). (22. October 1966)

The Soviet Union launches Luna 12. (22. October 1966)

The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. (27. December 1966)

Barbados joins the United Nations. (9. December 1966)