Editing 1966 (section)

== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] stages a successful ''coup d'état'' of the Central African Republic and declares himself president.
* January 10 - The [[Ku Klux Klan]] attack the home of Civil Rights Movement leader Vernon Dahmer, burning down his home and killing him.
* February 24 - [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is deposed as President of Ghana by a group of military officers calling themselves the [[National Liberation Council]], who establish a military junta to govern the country.
* March 12 - The [[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66]] come to an end.
* March 13 - [[UNITA]] is founded by [[Jonas Savimbi]].
* March 18 - The [[Grey Wolves]] are founded.
* April 4 - The [[National Renewal Alliance]] is founded.
* May 6 - Both [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] are sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the Moors murders.
* May 16 - [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communist Party of China]] initiate the Cultural Revolution.
* May 25 - [[Gertrude Baniszewski]] and her daughter [[Paula Baniszewski|Paula]] are both found guilty of the [[murder]] of Sylvia Likens and are sentenced to life in prison.
* June 19 - [[FROLINAT]] is founded.
* July 6 - Malawi declares independence from the United Kingdom. Prime Minister [[Hastings Banda]] is named president.
* July 28 - [[Yakubu Gowon]] is installed as the head of state of Nigeria following a military coup.
* August 1 - The University of Texas tower shooting: [[Charles Whitman]] perpetrates a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] from atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 14 people and injuring 31 others.
* August 24 - [[Bruce Greatbatch]] gives the order for the [[Expulsion of the Chagossians|Chagossians to be forcibly removed]] from the island of Diego Garcia.
* August 26 - Beginning of the South African Border War.
* September 6 - South African Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] is assassinated in Cape Town by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]]. 
* September 29 - The Nigerian military government under Yakubu Gowon launches a [[pogrom]] against the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria, leaving about 30,000 dead.
* October 5 - Beginning of the Korean DMZ Conflict.
* November 28 - [[Michel Micombero]] successfully abolishes the Burundian monarchy and declares himself the first President of Burundi.