1966 in the United Kingdom
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Events from the year 1966 in the United Kingdom.
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Events
- January 12 - Three British MPs visiting Rhodesia (Christopher Rowland, Jeremy Bray and David Ennals) assaulted by supporters of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith
- January 31 - United Kingdom ceases all trade with Rhodesia
- February 9 - a Prototype Fast Reactor nuclear reactor opens in Dounreay on the north coast of Scotland
- February 19 - Naval minister, Christopher Mayhew, resigns
- March 1] - Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan announces decision to embrace decimalisation of the pound (which was effected on 15 February 1971)
- March 4 - The Beatles: In an interview published in The Evening Standard, John Lennon comments, "We're more popular than Jesus now,"
- March 8 - Ronald Kray, one of the Kray twins, shoots rival gangster George Cornell; the incidents leads to brother's incarceration
- March 23 - Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome — the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches
- March 31 - The Labour Party under Harold Wilson win the general election
- April 7 - The United Kingdom asks the UN Security Council authority to use force to stop oil tankers that violate oil embargo against Rhodesia. Authority is given April 10
- April 9 - Norwich City FC captain Barry Butler is killed in a car accident
- April 21 - The opening of Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time
- April 30 - regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued 2000 due to Channel Tunnel)
- May 3 - Swinging Radio England and Britain Radio commence broadcasting on AM with a combined potential 100,000 watts from the same ship anchored off the south coast of England in international waters
- May 6 - The Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley sentenced for life imprisonment
- May 12 - African members of the UN Security Council say that British army should blockage Rhodesia
- May 16–July 1 - Seamen's strike in Britain
- June 29 - Sailors' strike, organised by the National Union of Seamen ends
- July 3 - 31 arrests made after a protest against the Vietnam war outside US embassy turns violent
- July 12 - Zambia threatens to leave the Commonwealth of Nations because of British peace overtures to Rhodesia
- July 14 - Gwynfor Evans becomes member of Parliament for Carmarthen, the first ever Plaid Cymru MP
- July 15 - a ban on black workers at Euston railway station overturned
- July 16 - Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about Vietnam War — Soviet Government refutes his ideas
- July 26 - Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent
- July 30 - England beat West Germany 4-2 to win the 1966 World Cup at Wembley
- August 2 - Spanish government forbids overflights of British military aircraft
- August 5 - The Beatles released Revolver (album) .[1]
- August 29 - The Beatles play their very last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, California
- September 19 - Scotland Yard arrests Ronald Edwards suspected of being involved of the great train robbery
- September 30 - Botswana achieves independence
- October 4 - Basutoland becomes independent and takes the name Lesotho
- October 21 - Aberfan disaster in South Wales, 144 (including 116 children) killed by collapsing coal slag heap
- October 22 - British spy George Blake escapes from Wormwood Scrubs prison; he is next seen in Moscow
- October 22 - Spain demands that United Kingdom stop military flights to Gibraltar — Britain says no the next day
- October 25 - Spain closes its Gibraltar border against non-pedestrian traffic
- November 5 - 38 African states demand that the United Kingdom use force against Rhodesian government
- November 15 - Harry Maurice Roberts, who had killed three policemen in August, is caught near London
- November 30 - Barbados achieves independence
- December 1 - Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith negotiate on HMS Tiger in Mediterranean
- December 20 - Harold Wilson withdraws all his previous offers to Rhodesian government and announces that he agrees to the independence only after the founding of black majority government
- December 22 - Rhodesian Prime minister Ian Smith declares that he considers that Rhodesia is already a republic
- December 31 - Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from Dulwich Art Gallery in London
Births
January - March
- January 3 - Martin Galway, Northern Irish composer
- February 6 - Rick Astley, British singer
- March 4 - Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (The Sundays)
- 8 March - Gregory Barker, British Conservative politician and MP for Bexhill and Battle
- 17 March - Andrew Rosindell, British Conservative politician and MP for Romford
- 24 March - Mark Williams, Welsh Liberal Democrat politician, Shadow Minister for Wales, and MP for Ceredigion
- March 25 - Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer
- March 31 - Roger Black, British athlete
April - June
- April 1 - Chris Evans, British radio disc-jockey
- 1 April - Sharon Hodgson, British Labour politician and MP for Gateshead East and Washington West
- April 11 - Lisa Stansfield, British soul singer
- April 15 - Samantha Fox, British model and singer
- April 29 - Phil Tufnell, British cricketer
- May 10 - Jonathan Edwards, British athlete
- May 26 - Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- May 26 - Zola Budd, South African athlete
- 4 June - Bill Wiggin, British Conservative politician, Shadow Minister for Agriculture & Fisheries ,and MP for Leominster
- 3 June - Jonathan Shaw, British Labour politician and MP for Chatham and Aylesford
- 7 June - Mark Ravenhill, English playwright (Shopping and Fucking)
- 19 June - Samuel West, British actor
- June 22 - Michael Park, British rally co-driver (d.2005)
July - September
- 25 July - Diana Johnson, British Labour politician and MP for Kingston upon Hull North
- 7 August - John David Cairns, Scottish Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland and MP for Inverclyde
- 12 August - Tobias Ellwood, British Conservative politician and MP for Bournemouth East
- August 26 - Shirley Manson, Scottish musician and Garbage frontwoman
- September 23 - Adam Price, Welsh Plaid Cymru politician and MP for Carmarthen East and Dinefwr
October - December
- October 9 - David Cameron, British Conservative Party leader, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, and MP for Witney
- October 10 - Tony Adams, English footballer
- 11 October - Stephen Williams, British Liberal Democrat politician and MP for Bristol West
- October 26 - Steve Valentine, British actor
- 1 November - Jeremy Hunt, British Conservative politician and MP for Surrey South West
- December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland, Canadian actor
- 22 December - David Wright, British Labour politician and MP for Telford
Deaths
- March 8 - William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor, politican (born 1907)
- April 2 - C.S. Forester, author (born 1899)
- April 10 - Evelyn Waugh, author (born 1903)
- May 22 - Tom Goddard, cricketer (born 1900)
- July 13- Princess Beatrice of Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (born 1884), granddaughter of Queen Victoria.
- October 26 - Alma Cogan, singer (born 1932)
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