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The following events occurred in February 1966:

February 3, 1966: Soviet probe Luna 9 sends back the first pictures transmitted from the Moon's surface
February 14, 1966: Australia goes decimal, introduces the dollar...
... and phases out the pound
February 28, 1966: U.S. astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See die in plane crash three months before scheduled Gemini 9 mission

February 1, 1966 (Tuesday)

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  • West Germany bartered for the release of 2,600 political prisoners from East Germany by a transaction involving the export of $24,250,000 worth of West German consumer goods to their East German neighbors, in return for allowing the prisoners to depart the Communist nation. The New York Times described the agreement as "payment of ransom of up to $10,000 per prisoner".[1] The goods, scarce in the East and abundant in the West, were items such as coffee, fresh fruit and butter, as well as fertilizer.[2]
  • In the United States, 19 employees of the John W. Campbell farms in Dade County, Florida, were killed when the bus they were riding in was struck by a freight train. The men were being brought home after a day's work of harvesting vegetables, and the Seaboard Lines train was on its way to the farm to pick up the cars that had been loaded with produce. All of the dead were migrant workers from Puerto Rico, and most of them were young men in their 20s.[3][4]
  • International pressure against the white-minority government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) was stepped up when three major airlines serving the nation— British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC), British United Airways and Alitalia— made their last flights into the capital at Salisbury (now Harare), then departed and canceled further service.[5]
Buster Keaton / Hedda Hopper

February 2, 1966 (Wednesday)

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  • American adventurer Nick Piantanida set off in the Strato Jump II from a park in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in an attempt to make the highest parachute jump ever, and inadvertently reached the highest altitude ever reached by a balloonist. When he reached his target altitude of 110,000 feet (34,000 m), he prepared to jump and then discovered that the oxygen hose that tethered him to the gondola was frozen and could not be disconnected. While he struggled to set himself free, the balloon continued to climb until he was more than 23 miles (37 km) high. At 123,500 feet (37,600 m), he aborted the parachute jump, separated the gondola from the balloon, and spent the next 32 minutes descending to Earth while the gondola's parachute system slowed his fall. Besides not being able to set the parachute record, he did not set an officially recognized altitude record either, because he had returned to Earth without the balloon. Three months later, on May 1, Pantanida would make a new attempt to set a record, but would suffer a fatal accident on Strato Jump III.[8]
  • Members of the Gemini Program Office and Flight Operations Division attended a mission planning meeting for Project Gemini flights 9 through 12, held at McDonnell. The last item on the agenda was a reminder from McDonnell that the Gemini spacecraft was capable of flying to a relatively high elliptic orbit from which it could safely reenter under certain circumstances. The type of orbit McDonnell suggested had an apogee of 500 nautical miles (930 km; 580 mi) to 700 nautical miles (1,300 km; 810 mi). This would involve using the Agena primary propulsion system both to get into this orbit and to return to a 161-mile (259 km) circular orbit for nominal reentry.[9]
  • At Belmore Park in Sydney, three young Australian men became the first people to burn their draft registration cards as a protest against Australia's participation in the Vietnam War. Wayne Haylen, Barry Robinson and Greg Barker stood before a crowd of 200 people and declared their intention to refuse the draft.[10]
  • A vulture collided with a Pakistan International Airlines helicopter, causing a rotor blade to tear off, and killing 24 of the 25 people on board. The accident occurred as the helicopter was approaching a landing in Faridpur in what is now Bangladesh.[11]
  • Go-Set, Australia's first pop music newspaper, was launched in Melbourne.[12]

February 3, 1966 (Thursday)

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  • At 18:45:30 UTC (9:45 p.m. in Moscow), the uncrewed Soviet Luna 9 became the first object to make a controlled landing on the Moon, touching down in the Oceanus Procellarum to the northwest of the Reiner crater. It began transmitting signals four minutes later, and within 20 minutes of landing, sent back the first ground-level photographs of the Moon's surface.[13] Although the arrival was not quite a "soft" landing— the capsule was ejected when the descent module was 16 feet (4.9 m) above the surface, and bounced several times before coming to rest— it was a more gentle descent than previous probes that had crashed into the ground. The pictures would yield an important discovery, demonstrating that the surface of the Moon was solid rock, rather than the accumulation of eons of dust deposits, and therefore would be suitable for a human landing.[14]

February 4, 1966 (Friday)

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February 5, 1966 (Saturday)

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February 6, 1966 (Sunday)

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February 7, 1966 (Monday)

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  • Television was broadcast in South Vietnam for the first time, as the United States Navy used "Stratovision", sending a C-121 Constellation airplane to carry transmitting equipment, videotape machines and a small television studio aloft. The C-121 took off from Saigon, climbed to 10,500 feet (3,200 m), then flew in a slow oval pattern at 170 miles per hour (270 km/h), and, at 7:30 p.m., transmitted the first THVN programs to outdoor television sets that had been tuned to Channel 9; the United States and South Vietnam would set up four ground-based stations in the autumn.[23]
  • Paul Williams and other students at Swarthmore College published the first issue of the rock music magazine Crawdaddy!, starting with ten pages of material and 500 copies printed on a mimeograph machine.[24] The publication, which preceded Rolling Stone by almost two years, would develop into a mass market publication lasting through 1979, and being revived by Williams from 1993 to 2003.
  • U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Premier Nguyễn Cao Kỳ of South Vietnam convened with other officials in Honolulu, Hawaii, to discuss the course of the Vietnam War.[25][26]
  • Born: Kristin Otto, German Olympic swimming champion who won six gold medals for East Germany in the 1988 Summer Olympics; in Leipzig[27]

February 8, 1966 (Tuesday)

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February 9, 1966 (Wednesday)

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February 10, 1966 (Thursday)

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  • Valley of the Dolls, by author Jacqueline Susann, was released by publisher Bernard Geis Associates and quickly rose to become the number one best-selling novel. From a friend, Susann had obtained a list of the bookstores upon which The New York Times relied on sales figures to determine its bestseller list. She then used her own money to buy large quantities of the book at these stores, resulting in her novel going to #1 on the list. Valley of the Dolls would go on to rank among the best selling novels of all time.[32]
  • Died:
    • Ryan DeGraffenried Sr., 40, American attorney and candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Alabama, was killed in a plane crash after making a campaign speech in Fort Payne, Alabama. Despite being warned of high winds, DeGraffenried and pilot Bob Hoskins took off from Fort Payne to fly to Gadsden in a Cessna 310, which crashed into a hillside four minutes later.[33][34]
    • Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, 87, British Army strategist and military historian

February 11, 1966 (Friday)

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February 12, 1966 (Saturday)

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February 13, 1966 (Sunday)

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  • The Washington Post ran a story headlined "Car Safety Critic Nader Reports Being 'Tailed'", by reporter Morton Mintz, a revelation that would eventually propel consumer advocate Ralph Nader to national fame and turn his recent book Unsafe at Any Speed into a bestseller. Nader's crusade against General Motors had largely been overlooked, until "the company did not recognize the value of public relations and opted instead to use intimidation and harassment to shut down Nader... The result was the media coverage and attention GM had hoped to avoid."[47] Though the Post story ran on page 43, and did not get attention right away, other magazines and newspapers would soon investigate the story and make Nader's name a household word.[48]
  • In what one author has described as "the single largest contribution made by drones during the Vietnam War",[49] a Firebee 147E unmanned aircraft with electronic intelligence monitors was sent on a one-way mission to be shot down by the SA-2 antiaircraft radar and missile defense system being used by North Vietnam. The drone was picked up by the radar and destroyed, but not before "finally acquiring the long-mysterious command uplink and downlink signals" that were used in the SA-2 operation, and relaying the data back to a nearby DC-130 transport aircraft; acquisition of the signal led to developing methods to jam it as well.[50]
  • The Second Route of Western Australia's Eastern Railway was closed, after almost 70 years of operation.
  • The closing ceremony of the 1966 Winter Universiade was held at Sestriere, Italy.

February 14, 1966 (Monday)

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  • At 12:01 a.m., "C-day" began. The currency of Australia was decimalised, and the Australian dollar was introduced, while the Australian pound would be phased out over two years under the auspices of the Decimal Currency Board. Pound notes were replaced by two-dollar bills, ten-shilling notes by one-dollar notes, and the shilling itself (12 pence) exchanged for a ten-cent piece. The sixpence and the new five cent piece were interchangeable. The nation's banks, which had been closed since February 9, began the exchange of monies upon opening Monday morning.[51][52]
  • Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinyavsky were convicted of authoring "anti-Soviet" books and sentenced to five and seven years hard labour, respectively. Under the pen-name "Nikolai Arzhak", Daniel had written the story "Moscow Calling", which Judge Lev Smirnov concluded to be intentionally malicious. Judge Smirnov described Sinyavsky's "What Is Socialist Realism?" (written under the name "Abram Tertz") as "a mockery of the ideas of communist construction".[53]
  • Twenty-three people were killed and 30 injured when the train they were in derailed after departing the town of Shwe Nyaung in northeast Burma and sent seven coaches into a deep ravine.[54]

February 15, 1966 (Tuesday)

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Torres (center)
  • Died: Camilo Torres Restrepo, 37, Colombian guerrilla leader who had renounced his position as a Roman Catholic priest in order to join the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN) to fight the government. Torres was killed in a skirmish with the Colombian military near Bucaramanga, but his philosophy of a "Christian Revolution" would inspire other people in Colombia.[57]

February 16, 1966 (Wednesday)

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  • One week before Ash Wednesday, Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic constitution Paenitemini, revising obligations for Roman Catholic Church adherents for Lent. The age at which abstinence was required was raised to 14 years old, and the number of universal days of fasting days was reduced from 40 days to only two (Ash Wednesday and Good Friday), and the days of obligatory abstinence to eight (Ash Wednesday, Good Friday, and the Fridays in between).[58]
  • Thirty-six people were killed, and 53 injured, by two bombs placed on an express train in the Indian state of Assam. According to Railways Minister Ram Sabhag Singh, the train had been halted when a time bomb exploded in the rear compartment of a coach with passengers inside. An hour later, while the victims were still being removed, a second bomb exploded in the front of the train, killing rescue workers and more passengers.[59]
  • The twentieth and last nuclear explosion in Algeria was conducted in the desert in a test by France, near the village of In Eker.[60] Afterwards, until January 27, 1996, all French tests would take place at locations in the South Pacific Ocean, primarily at the atolls of Moruroa and Fangataufa.
  • Twenty-nine people on a commuter train were killed as they approached the Yugoslavian city of Split (now in Croatia), and 27 more were injured. The passenger train was impacted by a 19-car coal train that had been descending a steep grade when its brakes failed.[61]
  • J. Carlyle Sitterson became Chancellor of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.[62]
  • Sixteen coal miners died in an explosion near Kamp-Lintfort, West Germany.[63]

February 17, 1966 (Thursday)

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February 18, 1966 (Friday)

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Channing
  • In an attempt to give an artificial boost to the Nielsen ratings for a sweeps month, by cheating on the rating reports for a television presentation of An Evening with Carol Channing, Rex Sparger conspired with Channing's husband, producer Charles Lowe, to pay viewers in 58 households in Ohio and Pennsylvania to watch the entire program. The Nielsen company's screening procedures detected the unusual spike of viewers in those locations, and omitted the areas from its sample that evening.[70] Nielsen would file a $1,500,000 lawsuit against Sparger on March 24,[71] which would be settled after Sparger signed a consent order conceding his attempt to distort the ratings. Sparger would reveal that he had found out the identities of contractors who serviced the meters placed on television sets, then followed them as they called on the sample homes.[72]
  • Testifying before the House Committee on Science and Astronautics Subcommittee on Manned Space Flight, NASA Deputy Administrator Robert C. Seamans, Jr., described three basic elements in NASA's Apollo Applications Program (AAP) effort:
    • Extension of orbital staytimes to 45 days or more through minor modifications to the present Apollo system.
    • Procurement of additional spacecraft and launch vehicles for follow-on flights beyond the present Apollo schedule.
    • Utilization of Apollo vehicles during the 1968–1970 time frame if the agency's most optimistic Apollo schedules were realized.
"We cannot today look toward a permanent manned space station, or a lunar base, or projects for manned planetary exploration," Seamans stated, "until our operational, scientific and technological experience with major manned systems already in hand has further matured."[36]
  • The consulate of the People's Republic of China in Phong Saly, Laos, was heavily strafed by gunfire, and the Beijing government charged that four American fighter jets had attacked "with more than 600 bullets", as well as dropping eight bombs to the east of the city, which was 20 miles (32 km) from the border with China.[73]
  • Twenty-two people were killed, and 23 others seriously injured, when their bus plunged over a 70-foot (21 m) high cliff outside the seaside town of Ye in Burma. Burmese officials reported that the steering rod had snapped as the bus was driving on a curving mountain road.[74]
  • Born: Phillip DeFreitas, England cricketer; in Scotts Head, Dominica
  • Died: Grigori Nelyubov, 31, one of the twenty original Soviet cosmonauts, after being struck by a train in an apparent suicide attempt. Nelyubov and two other cosmonauts had been dismissed from the Soviet space program after getting into a fight with military guards on March 27, 1963.

February 19, 1966 (Saturday)

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February 20, 1966 (Sunday)

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  • Cecilia Cummins was born in Richmond, North Yorkshire, the fifth child of the Cummins family to have a February 20 birthday since 1952, a coincidence that has been noted in the Guinness Book Of World Records since 1977 under the category "Most siblings born on the same day". The book noted that the odds were one in 17,797,577,730.[79] Her arrival coincided with the birthdays of her sisters Catherine (14), Carol (13), Claudia (5) and her brother Charles (10).
  • The Norwegian oil tanker Anne Mildred Brovig collided with the British coaster MV Pentland off of the coast of West Germany near Heligoland. Both ships caught fire[80] and the Brovig sank, spilling 16,000 tons of its cargo of Iranian crude oil, the last major spill to threaten Germany. Between the use of dispersants and favorable weather, the oil slick disappeared without damaging the German coast.[81]
  • After the injection of contaminated waste water into the mountains of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal caused earthquakes in Denver, Colorado, the program was halted. Tremors had started one month after the first injection on March 8, 1962, then halted temporarily after a cessation of the process.[82]
  • Emmett Ashford became the first African-American Major League Baseball umpire, hired by the American League after 15 years of umpiring in the minor leagues.[83]
  • The Soviet Union revoked the citizenship of Soviet author Valery Tarsis, who had emigrated to the United Kingdom two weeks earlier.[84][85]
  • Born: Cindy Crawford, American model and actress; in DeKalb, Illinois
  • Died: Chester Nimitz, 80, U.S. Fleet Admiral who commanded the Pacific Fleet in World War II, and later Chief of Naval Operations

February 21, 1966 (Monday)

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  • President Sukarno of Indonesia "reshuffled" his cabinet, starting with the removal of his Defense Minister, Abdul Haris Nasution, appointing enough sympathizers to create what was called the "Cabinet of 100 Ministers". Dismissing advisers who opposed the Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI) and replacing them with PKI sympathizers, he fired seven of his nine State Ministers, the Commanders of the Navy and the Army, and reassigned others in order to reduce the generals' authority. Within less than three weeks, he would be forced to hand over his executive authority to General Suharto.[86]
  • In a televised press conference, French President Charles de Gaulle said that France would require command of all foreign troops and military institutions in France when the NATO agreement expired on April 4, 1969.[87] Soon afterward, De Gaulle would announce that France would withdraw on July 1, and that he wanted the troops, officers and bases of the United States and United Kingdom removed by April 1, 1967.[88]
  • The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved Jack Hood Vaughn as Director of the Peace Corps, and Lincoln Gordon to replace him as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon cast the only dissenting vote. The Committee unanimously approved U.S. participation in the Asian Development Bank.[89]
  • Syria's Minister of Defence Muhammad Umran ordered the transfer of three key supporters of army chief Salah Jadid, Major-General Ahmad Suwaydani, Colonel Izzad Jadid and Major Salim Hatum.[90]

February 22, 1966 (Tuesday)

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Veterok and Ugolyok
  • The Soviet Union launched two dogs, "Veterok" and "Ugolyok" (translated in the American press as "Breezy" and "Blackie", respectively) into orbit around the Earth on board the satellite Kosmos 110.[91] The two dogs would remain in orbit for 22 days and then safely return to Earth on March 16.[92]
  • Milton Obote, the Prime Minister of Uganda, called for a meeting of his cabinet. After discussions started, he called in soldiers and then placed five of the group (State Minister Grace Ibingira, Agriculture Minister Mathias Ngobi, Health Minister Emmanuel Lumu, Minister of Works Balaki Kirya and Labour Minister George Magezi)[93] under arrest on grounds that they had been "conspiring to overthrow the Government by violent means".[94]
  • The Broadway production of Slapstick Tragedy: Two Plays by Tennessee Williams premiered at the Longacre Theatre. Despite Williams's success with productions such as The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the double-bill of plays (The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein) would close after only seven performances.[95]
  • British Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced that the United Kingdom would withdraw its troops from the Aden Protectorate by 1968, endorsing the "Defence White Paper" that stated "we do not think it appropriate that we should maintain defence facilities there" after independence was granted.[96]
  • The 1966 Australian Grand Prix was held at Lakeside International Raceway and was won by Graham Hill.[97]

February 23, 1966 (Wednesday)

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February 23, 1966: Syria's General Jadid arrests President al-Hafiz and Premier al-Bitar
  • Major General Salah Jadid launched a coup d'état, arresting President Amin al-Hafiz, Prime Minister Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Speaker of Parliament Mansour Attrish, and the Defense Minister, Major General Mohammed Omran. Major General Jedid had been leader of the extremist faction of the Ba'ath Party until a purge in December. A future President, Air Force General Hafez al-Assad, was named as the new Defense Minister.[90][98] Hafiz's private residence was attacked by troops led by Salim Hatum and Rifaat al-Assad. Jadid appointed Nureddin al-Atassi as the new figurehead President, and Yusuf Zu'ayyin was restored to office as Prime Minister.[99]
 
Method of donning the Astronaut Maneuvering Unit
  • The astronaut maneuvering unit (AMU) scheduled to be tested on the Gemini 9 mission was delivered to Cape Kennedy. The receiving inspection revealed nitrogen leaks in the propulsion system and oxygen leaks in the oxygen supply system. Reworking these systems to eliminate the leakage was completed on March 11. Following systems tests, the AMU was installed in spacecraft No. 9 (March 14–18).[9]
  • On February 23 and 24, over 600 representatives of U.S. Government agencies and industrial firms participating in Project Gemini attended a Gemini Midprogram Conference at Manned Spacecraft Center. They heard some 44 papers describing the development of spacecraft and launch vehicle, flight operations, and the results of the first seven Gemini missions, including the findings of experiments performed during these missions.[9]
  • Isaac Adaka Boro, leader of the rebel Ijaw Volunteer Force, captured the city of Yenagoa with a force of 159 youths, then declared the independence of the short-lived Niger Delta People's Republic; the Republic lasted only 12 days before police arrived from Lagos and arrested the rebels.[100]
  • A British Defence White Paper, recommending withdrawal of British presence in Aden, was published.[101]

February 24, 1966 (Thursday)

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Former President for life Nkrumah
  • A military coup in Ghana overthrew President for life Kwame Nkrumah while he was making a state visit to Beijing.[102][103] Former Major General Joseph A. Ankrah, who had been fired the year before by Nkrumah, was named as the leader of the seven-man National Liberation Council that took control of the government. Across Ghana, enthusiastic crowds tore down statues that Nkrumah had erected for himself as "Redeemer of the Nation".[104] Declassified CIA and U.S. State Department documents, released in 2001, would show that the U.S., the UK and France provided the funding to the coup leaders.[105] Ankrah would be forced to resign on April 3, 1969, after being charged with corruption.[29]
  • Two days after arresting cabinet members, Uganda's Prime Minister Milton Obote fired Sir Edward Mutesa and took over as the new President of Uganda.[106]
  • Student protesters outside of the presidential palace in Jakarta were killed when Indonesian President Sukarno's guards fired into the crowd.[107]
  • Born: Billy Zane, American film actor; in Chicago

February 25, 1966 (Friday)

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  • Maurice J. Raffensperger, Director of Manned Earth Orbital Mission Studies at NASA HQ, summarized the outcome of discussions and agreements between Washington and the Centers regarding the S-IVB Workshop project. MSFC had overall responsibility for the Workshop system design and integration, with a design objective of a 30-day flight capability. The Gemini office at MSC had contractual and design responsibility for the airlock module, using basic Gemini components where feasible. Also, MSC would manage the CSM portion of the Workshop concept. MSFC was responsible for implementing the S-IVB Workshop experiment program and integrating experiments into the Workshop.[36]
  • Pursuant to the peace agreement signed by both nations on January 10 in Tashkent, India and Pakistan completed their troop withdrawals from the disputed territory, returning to the locations that they had occupied as of August 5, 1965, prior to the beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.[108] The last Indian troops left at sunset.[109]
  • Sir Ivan Stedeford Hospital opened in Ambattur, in India's Chennai state.
  • The coat of arms of Guyana was granted by the College of Arms.
  • Born: Téa Leoni, American television and film actress; in New York City

February 26, 1966 (Saturday)

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February 26, 1966: Launch of AS-201

February 27, 1966 (Sunday)

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February 28, 1966 (Monday)

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