yes

Northern Colorado

Boston College Eagles

Missoula, MT

1966 NCAA Soccer Championship

Carson-Newman

Michigan State University

football

The 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA University Division college basketball. It began on March 7, 1966, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in College Park, Maryland. A total of 26 games were played, including a third place game in each region and a national third place game.Texas Western, coached by Don Haskins, won the national title with a 72–65 victory in the final game over Kentucky, coached by Adolph Rupp. Coach Haskins started five black players for the first time in NCAA Championship history. Jerry Chambers of Utah was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player. The 2006 film Glory Road is based on the story of the 1966 Texas Western team.

OU 18-9

Oklahoma Baptist

Team Champions: UCLA

St. John's Red Storm

The 1966 National Football League Championship Game was the 34th NFL championship, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was the final game of the 1966 NFL season.It determined the champion of the National Football League (NFL), which met the champion of the American Football League (AFL) in Super Bowl I, then formally referred to as the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game. The Western Conference champion Green Bay Packers (12–2), defending league champions, were hosted by the Dallas Cowboys (10–3–1), the Eastern Conference champions.The home field for the NFL Championship alternated between the two conferences; even-numbered years were hosted by the Eastern and odd-numbered by the Western. Starting with the 1975 season, playoff sites were determined by regular season record, rather than a rotational basis.The New Year's college bowl game at the Cotton Bowl for the 1966 season included the SMU Mustangs of Dallas. It was played the day before, New Year's Eve, which required a quick turnaround to transform the natural grass field. The two games were filled to the 75,504 capacity, but both local teams came up short.

Army Black Knights

Asbury 6 yard run

Norman, Oklahoma

SMU

Big Sky Conference

Regional Semifinals

The 1966 NAIA football season, as part of the 1966 college football season in the United States, was the eleventh season of college football sponsored by the NAIA.The season was played from August to November 1966, culminating in the 1966 NAIA Championship Bowl, played this year on December 10, 1966 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.Waynesburg defeated Wisconsin State–Whitewater in the Championship Bowl, 42–21, to win their first NAIA national title.

1966 Orszagos Bajnoksag I (men's water polo)

Alabama

The 1966 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy (USNA) during the 1966 college football season. Navy competed as an independent with no conference affiliation. The team was led by second-year head coach Bill Elias.

The 1966 Oakland Raiders season began with the team trying to improve on their 8–5–1 record from 1965. The 1966 season was the seventh season in Oakland and in the American Football League. 1966 also saw the team move their home games from Frank Youell Field to the new Oakland–Alameda County Coliseum.

The 1966 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at the Pukekohe Park Raceway on 8 January 1966. The race had 19 starters.It was the 13th New Zealand Grand Prix, and doubled as the opening round of the 1966 Tasman Series. Graham Hill won his second consecutive NZGP.

Terry Hanratty 2-yard run

Arkansas State

Texas

Idaho

Oklahoma

Joe Gushue and Mendy Rudolph

Kent State Golden Flashes

South Course

Michigan

ND 24-7

Western Division

1966 Norwegian Football Cup

Georgia

Virginia Tech

Lawrence, KA

Cal Poly Pomona

Wisconsin State–Whitewater

Villanova

Miami Hurricanes

Crespino 19 yard pass from Morrall

The 1966 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships were contested March 11−12, 1966 at the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Michigan at the second annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division indoor track and field events in the United States.Kansas topped the team standings, finishing one point ahead of USC. It was the Jayhawks' first title in program history.

1966 New England Patriots season

NYU

Notre Dame vs. Michigan State, 1966

The New Year Honours 1966 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1965 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1966.

The 1966 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team represented the University of Nebraska–Lincoln as a member of the Big Eight Conference in the 1966 college football season. The team was coached by Bob Devaney and played their home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The 1966 NBA Expansion Draft was the second expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held from April 30 to May 1, 1966, so that the newly founded Chicago Bulls could acquire players for the upcoming 1966–67 season. Chicago had been awarded the expansion team on January 16, 1966. The Bulls were the third NBA franchise to play in Chicago, following the Chicago Stags, which folded in 1950, and the Chicago Packers–Zephyrs, which moved to Baltimore and became the Baltimore Bullets in 1963. In addition, the Bullets relocated to Washington in 1973 as the Capital Bullets, then became the Washington Bullets a year later, before becoming the Washington Wizards in 1997.In an NBA expansion draft, new NBA teams are allowed to acquire players from the previously established teams in the league. Not all players on a given team are available during an expansion draft, since each team can protect a certain number of players from being selected. Before the 1966 expansion draft, the Bulls' general manager, Dick Klein, asked that each team reduce the number of protected players from eight (as initially planned) to seven. In exchange, he agreed to pick last (instead of first) in each round of that year's college draft. He also promised Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics that he would not draft Boston's K. C. Jones, as long as Auerbach met with him to share his opinions of other players throughout the NBA.The Bulls selected eighteen unprotected players, two from each of the nine other NBA teams. On the first day of the draft, they selected players from the Eastern Division teams; on the second day, they picked from the Western Division teams. The Bulls' selections included former first overall pick Bob Boozer, three-time All-Star Johnny Kerr and one-time All-Star Len Chappell. Kerr retired from playing prior to the start of the season, and was later named the franchise's first head coach. Another expansion draft pick, Al Bianchi, also retired as a player and was later named the team's assistant coach. Dick Klein had been planning to hire Kerr and Bianchi as coaches before the draft even took place, but because they were still under playing contracts with other teams, Klein needed to draft them instead of hiring them outright. Ten players from the expansion draft joined the Bulls for their inaugural season, but only six played more than one season for the team. Guy Rodgers—whom the Bulls acquired in exchange for Jim King and Jeff Mullins—and Jerry Sloan were named to the 1967 All-Star Game, becoming the franchise's first All-Stars.Sloan played ten seasons with the Bulls and became the Bulls' franchise leader in games played when he retired in 1976, a record which has since been broken by Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen. He then coached the Bulls from 1979 to 1982, and in 1988, embarked upon a coaching career with the Utah Jazz that lasted 23 years. Sloan has since been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach, as has fellow draftee John Thompson. The latter never worked for the Bulls in any capacity, but found success as a coach at Georgetown University.

Central Connecticut State

Bowling Green

Notre Dame, IN

1966 NCAA football season

Montana Grizzlies

1966 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament

Saint Louis

Colby

Semifinals

Manhattan

Notre Dame Stadium

Grand National Series

1966 NCAA Division I-A football season

OU 6-3

St. Joseph's

Andy White 2-yard run

Sep 19
1966 NCAA University Division football rankings

Cavender 4-yard run

Akron

Carroll College (Montana)

The 1966 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1966 college football season as a member of the Big Sky Conference (Big Sky). The Grizzlies were led by third-year head coach Hugh Davidson, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of one win and eight losses (1–8, 0–4 Big Sky).

Bill Russell and Red Auerbach after winning their eighth consecutive NBA title

baseball

Norfolk State

plain

USC Trojans

Texas Western

The 1966 NFL season was the 47th regular season of the National Football League, and the season after which was played Super Bowl I, though it was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The league expanded to 15 teams with the addition of the Atlanta Falcons, thus an odd number of teams (making byes necessary).

David Conway 25-yard field goal

St. John's
Northwestern Wildcats

Pacific

New Zealand

Mendy Rudolph and Earl Strom
Jerry West

1966 Oklahoma Sooners football team

Cal Poly Pomona Broncos
The following poll makes up the 1966 NCAA University Division baseball rankings. Collegiate Baseball Newspaper published its first human poll of the top 20 teams in college baseball in 1957, and expanded to rank the top 30 teams in 1961.

1966 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

npr

1966 Országos Bajnokság I (men's water polo)

Georgia Southern

The 1966 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1966 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Bill Hess, the Bobcats compiled a 5–5 record (3–3 against MAC opponents), finished in fourth place in the MAC, and were outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 183 to 149.The team's statistical leaders included Bob Houmard with 641 rushing yards, Ron Delucca with 655 passing yards, and Jay Maupin with 447 receiving yards.

The "Game of the Century"

Steubenville

New York Jets

1966 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team

ND 38-0

Midwestern

Jones 98 yard pass from Morrall

Northeastern

Oklahoma State Cowboys

Western Michigan Broncos

Howard Wirtz

1966 NCAA University Division baseball season

Sunny

Dan Harshman 23-yard pass from Coley O'Brien
Nick Eddy 96-yard kickoff return

Mississippi State

1966 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships

The 1966 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1966. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1965 College World Series. The College World Series, held for the twentieth time in 1966, consisted of one team from each of eight geographical districts and was held in Omaha, Nebraska at Johnny Rosenblatt Stadium as a double-elimination tournament. Ohio State claimed the championship.

Cotton

The 1966 Mr. Olympia contest was an IFBB professional bodybuilding competition held in September 1966 at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, New York. It was the 2nd Mr. Olympia competition held.

Central Michigan

The 1966 Oklahoma Sooners football team represented the University of Oklahoma during the 1966 college football season. They played their home games at Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and competed as members of the Big Eight Conference. They were coached by head coach Jim Mackenzie.

St. Louis

1966 National Basketball Association Playoffs

Saint Mary's
The 1966 Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team represented Ohio State University in the 1966 NCAA University Division baseball season. The team was coached by Marty Karow in his 16th season at Ohio State.The Buckeyes won the College World Series, defeating the Oklahoma State Cowboys in the championship game.

Nov 7

Memorial Stadium

Independent

PIT 31–20

Wisconsin

#7 Nebraska

The 1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game is considered one of the greatest and most controversial games in college football history played between Michigan State and Notre Dame. The game was played in Michigan State's Spartan Stadium on November 19, 1966. Michigan State entered the contest 9–0 and ranked No. 2, while Notre Dame entered 8–0 and ranked #1. Notre Dame elected not to try for a score on the final series; thus, the game ended in a 10–10 tie. Notre Dame went on to win or share the national title in fourteen polls (including the AP and UPI); Michigan State won or shared in three minor polls, and Alabama, who finished with the only undefeated and untied record, won two minor polls.

Los Angeles Lakers

Boston College

Tom Schoen 40-yard interception return

Lakers defeat Hawks, 4–3

Fresno State

Wildcats

1966 New Year Honours

Purdue

OU 15-3

Winston-Salem

Xavier Minutemen

Ohio State

UMass Minutemen

Jerry Chambers

Southern Connecticut Owls

Oakland Raiders

XXIV Grand Prix Automobile de Monaco

TCU

The 1966 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships were contested June 16−18 at the 44th annual NCAA-sanctioned track meet to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate University Division outdoor track and field events in the United States.This year's outdoor meet was hosted by the University of Indiana at Billy Hayes Track in Bloomington.UCLA easily topped the team standings, capturing their second national title.

Grambling State (La.)

1966 NFL Championship Game

USC

(Selected by: Boston Bruins)

The 1966 Orange Bowl featured the third-ranked Nebraska Cornhuskers and the fourth-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide.This was the second year that the Orange Bowl was played at night on New Year's Day, after the other college football bowl games. Due to losses by both #1 Michigan State in the Rose Bowl and #2 Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl earlier in the day, the game had turned into a de facto national championship game, as the AP would be taking a final post-bowl vote for the first time ever.

Jim Palmer

Mike Vachon 20-yard field goal

Chris Schenkel and Bud Wilkinson

Evansville

The 1966 New York Jets season was the seventh season for the team in the American Football League (AFL). The season began with the team trying to improve on their 5–8–1 record from 1965 under head coach Weeb Ewbank. The Jets finished the season 6–6–2.

Springfield

1966 National Challenge Cup

Mike Vachon 41-yard field goal

Miami

Assumption

1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team

Oklahoma State

#8 Nebraska

North Dakota

1966 NBA Expansion Draft

Wisconsin State–Whitewater*

Temple

Kentucky

NBA

Army

Bowling Green State University

Midwestern (Texas)

1966 Ottawa bridge collapse

Mike Vachon 31-yard field goal

1966 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships

Raiders seasons

The 1966 New York Giants season was the 42nd season for the club in the National Football League. The Giants finished in last place in the Eastern Conference with a 1–12–1 record, the worst in franchise history.The 1966 Giants surrendered the most points in NFL history for a 14-game season. They allowed 501 points in 14 games, or an average of 35.8 points per game. This total broke the league record for the most points given up in a season.

Rancho La Cienga Stadium, Los Angeles, California

bottom

The 1966 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1966 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3–1 record (4–2–1 against Big 8 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the Big 8, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 121 to 116. Dan Devine was the head coach for the ninth of 13 seasons.

Location in Scotland

Michigan State

Joe Azzaro 38-yard field goal

New York

Nevada

Clyde Williams Field, Ames, Iowa

TOP TIER

The 1966 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team represented Oklahoma State University during the 1966 college football season.

The 1966 Nippon Professional Baseball season was the 17th season of operation of Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB).

Italy

Ohio

1966 NAIA football season

Oglethorpe

#3 Alabama

Regional Final

1966 PHS

Eastern Division

Roster

1966 National Opposition Union

Southern California

Shigeo Nagashima

Two human polls comprised the 1966 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) football rankings. Unlike most sports, college football's governing body, the NCAA, does not bestow a national championship, instead that title is bestowed by one or more different polling agencies. There are two main weekly polls that begin in the preseason—the AP Poll and the Coaches' Poll.

Bloomington, Indiana

ND 31-7

Duke
Syracuse

1966 Missouri Tigers football team

Bowl

University of Southern California

University of Notre Dame

Grambling State

The 1996 NASCAR Grand National Series evolved into the first of three NASCAR Grand National championships for David Pearson, whose 15 wins through the season was second only to Tim Flock's 18 victories in 1955 at that time. NASCAR allowed the return of the Chrysler Hemi engine in 1966, and at the same time Ford decided to boycott NASCAR for the season.

Michigan Wolverines

The 32nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honored the best filmmaking of 1966.

Cincinnati

The 1966 Mongolian National Championship was the third recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held the previous year. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar won the title on numerous occasions during that time. Nonetheless, the 1966 national championship was won by Khudulmur (literally: Labour or Workers and also romanised as Hödölmör), their second title following victory in the 1964 championship.

Don Nelson

Central State (Ohio)

The 1966 NFL season was the 47th regular season of the National Football League, and the season after which was played Super Bowl I, though it was called the AFL-NFL World Championship Game. The league expanded to 15 teams with the addition of the Atlanta Falcons, thus an odd number of teams (making byes necessary). This was the last season that NFL teams were divided into just two groups called conferences, and only one round of playoffs was played, the NFL championship game between the two conference champions. The season concluded with Super Bowl I. The NFL Green Bay Packers defeated the AFL Kansas City Chiefs at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum with a score of 35-10.

Central State
The 1966 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament was held in March at Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Missouri. The 29th annual NAIA basketball tournament featured 32 teams playing in a single-elimination format. This tournament featured the game with the most points scored. Al Tucker received the MVP award for the second time this year.

National

Davidson

NAIA National Semifinals

Randolph-Macon

Morris Harvey

Cheyney

Notre Dame at Michigan State

American International

Gail Goodrich

Giants

Steve Arlin
Washington State Cougars

Athens (Ala.)

The 1966 National Football League Championship Game was the 34th NFL championship, played at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was the final game of the 1966 NFL season.It determined the champion of the National Football League (NFL), which met the champion of the American Football League (AFL) in Super Bowl I, then formally referred to as the first AFL–NFL World Championship Game.

Minnesota Golden Gophers

NAIA National Championship

Final

The 1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1966 college football season. The Irish, coached by Ara Parseghian, ended the season undefeated with nine wins and one tie, winning a national championship. The Fighting Irish earned a consensus title after beating No. 10 Oklahoma 38–0 in Norman, tying unbeaten and No. 2 Michigan State 10–10, and ending the season defeating No.

1966 NBA Finals

NBC

Big Ten

Hilton 31 yard pass from Nelsen

Northwestern University

Loyola-IL
Utah

San Francisco

ND 10-0

#6 Nebraska

Tie 7–7

Conjar 7-yard run

St. Procopius

NAIA Third Place Game

Celtics defeat 76ers, 4–1

Crimson Tide

Boston Celtics

NYG 7–0

Lumberjack Stadium

1966 Oakland Raiders season

Illinois Wesleyan

Oklahoma City

The Nigerian counter-coup of 1966, or the so-called "July Rematch", was the second of many military coups in Nigeria. It was masterminded by Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed and many northern military officers. The coup started out as a mutiny at roughly midnight on July 28, 1966 and was a reaction to the killings of Northern politicians and Officers by mostly Igbo soldiers on January 15, 1966 (see 1966 Nigerian coup d'état.) The July mutiny/counter coup resulted in the murder of Nigeria's 1st military Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi and Lt Colonel Adekunle Fajuyi (who was hosting a visiting Ironsi) in Ibadan by angry northern Non Commissioned Officers (NCOs). Upon the termination of Ironsi's government, Lt Colonel Yakubu Gowon was appointed Head of State by the July 1966 coup conspirators.

American League

1966 NFL Expansion Draft

ND 7-0

1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game

Arizona State

1966 NPB season

OU 15-9

Northern Illinois Huskies

New York Yankees

Oklahoma Sooners

East Carolina

New South Wales Rugby Football League

United States Military Academy

1966 NIT

University of Alabama

Kansas

East

Annapolis, MD

Ballman 9 yard pass from Nelsen
NYG 14–7

College World Series

center

College Park, Maryland

Big 8

Japan Series

Tie 14–14

The 1966 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916 and 1919 against the then-private transit companies had all failed. There had also been some partial TWU strikes in the 1930s, but no citywide actions.

Long Island

nflc

Big Eight Conference

Ukrainian Nationals

Navy Midshipmen

TCU Horned Frogs

1966 NHL Amateur Draft

Giants seasons

The 1966 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1966 at the Cadet Gymnasium at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the 43rd annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.USC topped the team standings for the fourth consecutive year, once again finishing ahead of Indiana.

Hanratty 6-yard run

BOTTOM TIER

Notre Dame

1966 Nippon Professional Baseball season

Percy Williams 1-yard run

The 1966 PGA Championship was the 48th PGA Championship, played July 21–24 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Al Geiberger won his only major championship, four strokes ahead of runner-up Dudley Wysong.Sam Snead, age 54, was co-leader and leader after the first two days, but shot 75 in the third round on Saturday. Geiberger carded a two-under 68 to lead by four strokes over Wysong, who shot a 66. Both shot two-over 72 on Sunday as both bogeyed the first two holes.

Mideast Regional Third Place

ND 17-0

CUST

1966 Ohio Bobcats football team

North Carolina Tar Heels

Philadelphia U

The 1966 New York Mets season was the 5th regular season for the Mets. They went 66–95 and finished 9th in the NL. They were managed by Wes Westrum. They played home games at Shea Stadium.1966 was the first season in which the Mets did not lose at least 100 games.

National Third Place Game

SW Missouri State

September 2016

Norfolk State (Va.)

1966 Mongolia National Championship

#3 Nebraska

1966 Nemzeti Bajnoksag I

Regular Season Game

ND 31-0

Texas Longhorns

The 1966 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on May 22, 1966. It was the opening round of the 1966 World Championship of Drivers, the first of a new era for Formula One, the 'return to power' as engine regulations were altered from 1.5 litres of maximum engine displacement to 3.0 litres. It was the 24th Monaco Grand Prix.The race was won by British driver Jackie Stewart driving a BRM P261.

1966 NBA Draft

1966 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey Tournament

Monaco

Gladieux 34-yard pass from O'Brien

Oklahoma Memorial Stadium

Tied 10-10

PIT 21–17

Columbia, MO

United Kingdom

Oct 24

Al Geiberger

Purdue at Notre Dame

The 1966 PGA Championship was the 48th PGA Championship, played July 21–24 at the South Course of Firestone Country Club in Akron, Ohio. Al Geiberger won his only major championship, four strokes ahead of runner-up Dudley Wysong.Sam Snead, age 54, was co-leader and leader after the first two days, but shot 75 in the third round on Saturday. Geiberger carded a two-under 68 to lead by four strokes over Wysong, who shot a 66. Both shot two-over 72 on Sunday as both bogeyed the first two holes. The lead shrunk to two as Wysong birdied the third while Geiberger bogeyed the fourth, but then birdied the fifth and ninth holes to regain the four-stroke advantage.The 1966 championship was originally scheduled to be held at Columbine Country Club in Columbine Valley, Colorado, a suburb south of Denver. A flash flood of the adjacent South Platte River in June 1965 caused significant damage to the course and forced a postponement. Firestone was scheduled to host in 1967, so the venues swapped years.This was the second of three PGA Championships at the South Course, which previously hosted in 1960 and later in 1975. It is the current venue for the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational, which began in 1976 as the "World Series of Golf" on the PGA Tour, preceded by the American Golf Classic, which debuted in 1961.

Nebraska Cornhuskers

Hanratty 1-yard run

Big Ten Conference Champions

Oregon State

Location in Ohio

Seton Hall

1966 National Hockey League Amateur Draft

medic

1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament

1966 Open Championship

The 1966 National Opposition Union (Spanish: Unión Nacional Opositora - UNO) was a Nicaraguan political coalition founded on October 24, 1966, by the Conservative Party (PC), the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) to challenge the candidacy of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in the 1967 Nicaraguan presidential election. The UNO nominated Fernando Agüero as their candidate.On January 22, 1967, UNO staged a massive demonstration in the capital city Managua in support of the candidacy of Agüero. Anastasio Somoza Debayle ordered the National Guard to attack the march and over 500 people were killed in a massacre.After the defeat of UNO in the 1967 election, Agüero signed the "Kupia-Kumi Pact" with Somoza whereby the Conservatives had their congressional quota increased to 40 per cent, a constituent assembly was established, and a triumvirate composed of Agüero and two Somocistas designated to rule from 1972 to 1974.

Stillwater, Oklahoma

PUR 7-0

Chapman

National League

Location in the United States

Clemson

The 1966 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit de Monaco on May 22, 1966. It was the opening round of the 1966 World Championship of Drivers, the first of a new era for Formula One, the 'return to power' as engine regulations were altered from 1.5 litres of maximum engine displacement to 3.0 litres. It was the 24th Monaco Grand Prix.The race was won by British driver Jackie Stewart driving a BRM P261. He took a forty-second victory over the Ferrari 246 of Italian driver Lorenzo Bandini. It was Stewart's second Grand Prix victory after winning the Italian Grand Prix the previous year. Stewart's team mate, fellow Briton Graham Hill finished a lap down in third position in his BRM P261. The only other driver to be classified as a finisher was American driver Bob Bondurant driving a BRM P261 entered privately by Team Chamaco Collect.

NASA T-38 crash

1966 NASCAR Cup Series

NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship

1966 PGA Championship

The 1966 Open Championship was the 95th Open Championship, held 6–9 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Jack Nicklaus won the first of his three Claret Jugs, one stroke ahead of runners-up Doug Sanders and Dave Thomas. It was the sixth of eighteen major titles for Nicklaus and marked the completion of the first of his three career grand slams.The 1966 Open was the first to be scheduled over four days, with one round each day, finishing on Saturday.

UCLA

Isao Shibata

The 1996 NASCAR Grand National Series evolved into the first of three NASCAR Grand National championships for David Pearson, whose 15 wins through the season was second only to Tim Flock's 18 victories in 1955 at that time. NASCAR allowed the return of the Chrysler Hemi engine in 1966, and at the same time Ford decided to boycott NASCAR for the season. Pearson captured the championship with 35,638 points over second place James Hylton who finished the season with no wins, but 33,638 points for his consistency and efforts.

ND 20-7

December 2013

University of Miami

Lakeland (Wis.)

Ohio Bobcats

'''Waynesburg

1966 NCAA University Division baseball rankings

Division Semifinals

Quarterfinals

Overcast, Mild, Dry

Mississippi State Bulldogs

amateur

Carlos Yacovino

ND 24-0

The 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion in the 1965–66 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was held on March 19, 1966 at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland. The Kentucky Wildcats, the number one ranked team in men's college basketball, faced the Texas Western Miners, who were ranked third in the nation.

First Round

ND 3-0

Washington State

1966 New Zealand rugby league season

Kennedy 47-yard field goal

Buckeyes logo.svg

L 7–34 vs. Alabama

1966 Ottawa Rough Riders season

MSU

#4 Nebraska

New York Mets

DePaul

Arizona

Sam Jones

Carlos Yacovino PK

Colorado State

The 16th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on January 11, 1966, at Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio. The coaches were Red Auerbach for the East, and Fred Schaus for the West. Much of the game would focus around the local team's three named All-Stars. Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson had been named the event's MVP in 1964, and Cincinnati's Jerry Lucas had been named MVP in 1965. At game time, the East Division's top three teams, Boston, Philadelphia and Cincinnati, had the three best records in the league, with New York trailing far behind. This lead East Coach Red Auerbach to name Cincinnati's Adrian Smith as a reserve and not New York's sharpshooting Dick Barnett, a source of some controversy at the time. The home crowd rallied behind Smith as he emerged as the game's star. It was Smith's only All-Star appearance, and he remains to-date the only one-time NBA All-Star ever named the event's MVP. The overmatched West suffered not just from poor shooting, but also from losing key All-Star Jerry West to an eye injury in the first quarter. The game was nationally televised, with an attendance of 13,653.

Street Circuit

1966 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship

Kentucky Wesleyan

Jack Nicklaus

Philadelphia

did not qualify
PIT

Ted Kjolhede

Western Michigan

East Carolina Pirates

in NASCAR

Nick Eddy 1-yard run

Clemson Tigers

Clark 41 yard field goal

Elite Eight

Jackson State

Chapman Panthers

OSU 15-8

K.C. Jones

Southern State

Nov 28

NBA playoffs

Lincoln, Nebraska

Carson-Newman (Tenn.)

Big Sky

MSU 10-0

The 1966 NCAA University Division Basketball Tournament involved 22 schools playing in single-elimination play to determine the national champion of NCAA University Division college basketball. It began on March 7, 1966, and ended with the championship game on March 19 in College Park, Maryland.

Penn State

Azzaro 42-yard field goal

Providence

Idaho Vandals

DeKalb, IL

The 1966 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship was the eighth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The San Francisco Dons won their first title, defeating the Long Island Blackbirds in the final on December 3, 1966. This tournament returned to a field of 16 teams. The tournament final was played in Berkeley, California.

1966 Montana Grizzlies football team

Gogolak 14 yard field goal

Seton Hall Pirates

The 1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game is considered one of the greatest and most controversial games in college football history played between Michigan State and Notre Dame. The game was played in Michigan State's Spartan Stadium on November 19, 1966. Michigan State entered the contest 9–0 and ranked No. 2, while Notre Dame entered 8–0 and ranked #1. Notre Dame elected not to try for a score on the final series; thus, the game ended in a 10–10 tie.

Dec 5

1966 New Zealand Grand Prix

Oct 10

1966 Northern Illinois Huskies football team

Western Kentucky

John Havlicek

The New Year Honours 1966 were appointments in many of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries. They were announced in supplements to the London Gazette of 31 December 1965 to celebrate the year passed and mark the beginning of 1966. At this time honours for Australians were awarded both in the United Kingdom honours, on the advice of the premiers of Australian states, and also in a separate Australia honours list.The recipients of honours are displayed here as they were styled before their new honour, and arranged by honour, with classes (Knight, Knight Grand Cross, etc.) and then divisions (Military, Civil, etc.) as appropriate.

List of Nippon Professional Baseball seasons

The 1966 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1965–66 season.

University of Minnesota

Athens

Navy

Boston

The consensus 1966 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of four major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Associated Press, the USBWA, The United Press International and the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

Earl Jensen

Miami-OH

Nebraska

Midwest Regional Third Place

The 1966 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1966 NBA Playoffs, which concluded the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1965–66 season. The Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics faced the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-seven series that the Celtics won 4 games to 3. For the Celtics this was their tenth straight finals appearance, which tied a North American professional sports record set by the National Hockey League's Montreal Canadiens from 1951 to 1960.Thus Boston won its 8th consecutive league title, which no other team has achieved in North American professional sports competition. Before Game 2, after the Los Angeles Lakers' comeback overtime win in Game 1, Red Auerbach, who had challenged the entire league to topple the Celtics from their reign by announcing he would retire after 1965–1966 before the season had started (thus giving his detractors "one last shot" at him), announced Bill Russell as the Celtics coach for 1966–1967 and beyond. He would be the first African-American to coach in the NBA. Laker coach Fred Schaus privately fumed that Red's hiring had taken away all of the accolades his Lakers should have received following their tremendous Game 1 win. The Celtics won the next three games and looked ready to close out L.A. in Game 5. However, the Lakers won the next two games, setting the stage for another classic Game 7 in the Boston Garden. The Celtics raced out to a huge lead, and held off a late Los Angeles rally to capture the NBA title and send Red Auerbach out a champion.This was the last NBA championship series until 2016 in which a team trailing 3 games to 1 rallied to force a Game 7.

Huskie Stadium

Morris Harvey (W.Va.)

Philadelphia, PA

Jim Seymour 7-yard pass from Terry Hanratty

North Carolina

Minnesota

Jim Seymour 39-yard pass from Terry Hanratty

Officials
Norm Drucker and Earl Strom

1966 Monaco Grand Prix

The 1966 New York Yankees season was the 64th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 70–89, finishing 26.5 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Johnny Keane and Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. Keane managed his final MLB game in early-May, and died the following January at the age of 55.The Yankees finished in 10th place, although arguably a "strong" tenth.

UMass

Albuquerque (N.M.)

near St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Ronnie Johnson 4-yard run

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1966 NBA Playoffs

Simmons 21 yard pass from Nelsen

The 16th National Basketball Association All-Star Game was played on January 11, 1966, at Cincinnati Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio. The coaches were Red Auerbach for the East, and Fred Schaus for the West. Much of the game would focus around the local team's three named All-Stars. Cincinnati's Oscar Robertson had been named the event's MVP in 1964, and Cincinnati's Jerry Lucas had been named MVP in 1965.

Florida State

South Carolina State

1966 NBA draft

The 1966 National Opposition Union (Spanish: Unión Nacional Opositora - UNO) was a Nicaraguan political coalition founded on October 24, 1966, by the Conservative Party (PC), the Social Christian Party (PSC) and the Independent Liberal Party (PLI) to challenge the candidacy of Anastasio Somoza Debayle in the 1967 Nicaraguan presidential election.

Southern Illinois
Youngstown State

Cambria Stadium Philadelphia Pennsylvania

Statistics of Norwegian First Division in season 1966.

PIT 31–17

Jack Drees, Jim Morse

The 1966 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament involved 36 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA College Division college basketball as a culmination of the 1965-66 NCAA College Division men's basketball season. It was won by the Kentucky Wesleyan College and Kentucky Wesleyan's Sam Smith was the Most Outstanding Player.

(Muirfield)

Seattle Pacific

1966 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships

University of Wisconsin

The 1966 NBA World Championship Series was the championship round of the 1966 NBA Playoffs, which concluded the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s 1965–66 season. The Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics faced the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers in a best-of-seven series that the Celtics won 4 games to 3.

1966 Oklahoma State Cowboys football team

Big Ten Conference

The National Invitation Tournament was originated by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938. Responsibility for its administration was transferred two years later to local colleges, first known as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee and in 1948, as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), which comprised representatives from five New York City schools: Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, St.

The 1966 NFL expansion draft was a National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Atlanta Falcons, selected its first players. On June 30, 1965, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle So that the Falcons could become competitive with existing teams, the league awarded the Falcons the first pick in the 1966 NFL Draft, supplemented with the final pick in the first five rounds. The NFL also gave the new team the opportunity to select current players from existing teams. That selection was provided by the expansion draft, held on February 15, 1966. In this draft, held six weeks after the regular draft, the existing franchises listed players from which the Falcons could select to switch to the new team.Each of the 14 established teams froze 29 players on their 40-man rosters that opened the 1965 season (That made 154 players available.). Atlanta picked one of the 11 and then each team froze two more. Atlanta was able to select two more for a total of 42 players chosen. The Falcons paid $8.5 million for the franchise. (Feb 17, 1966 St. Petersburg Times.)

Permanent racing facility

Satch Sanders

Xavier
Valparaiso

March 1966

August–November 1966

1966 Orange Bowl

Aug

Coaches Poll released prior to game

; wind

1966 Mr. Olympia

Le Moyne

Jim Seymour 84-yard pass from Terry Hanratty
Coley O'Brien 5-yard run

PIT 31–27

L.A. Lakers

JFK Stadium

NIT

XXIVGrand Prix Automobile de Monaco

University of Cincinnati

Second Round

Indiana Hoosiers

The 1966 NASA T-38 crash occurred when a NASA Northrop T-38 Talon crashed at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 28, 1966, killing two Project Gemini astronauts, Elliot See and Charles Bassett. The aircraft, piloted by See, crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft building where their Gemini 9 spacecraft was being assembled. The weather was poor with rain, snow, fog, and low clouds. A NASA panel, headed by the Chief of the Astronaut Office, Alan Shepard, investigated the crash.

Harris 72 yard fumble return

The 1966 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 28th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 21, 1966, the meet was hosted for the second straight year by the University of Kansas at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).All NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet.

Tennessee

Steelers

Championship

Detroit, Michigan

1966 New York City transit strike

Memorial Stadium, Lincoln, Nebraska

PIT 24–17

Arizona Wildcats

OSU 8-0

Nov 14

Bridgeport

1966 NCAA University Division Outdoor Track and Field Championships

Rutgers Scarlet Knights

New York Giants

1966 NFL expansion draft

Rockhurst

Abilene Christian

NPB

1966 National Football League Draft

The 1966 NHL Amateur Draft was held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

1966 Notre Dame vs. Michigan State football game

NAVY

Lafayette Leopards

1966 National Board of Review Awards

1966 New York Giants season

Arkansas

Kent State

1966 NCAA Tournament

Colorado Springs, Colorado

Katsuya Nomura

Tie 34–34

ND 51-0

Houston

Mendy Rudolph

1966 National Basketball Association Draft

1966 Mongolian National Championship

Tied 7-7

Indiana

OU 9-3

The National Invitation Tournament was originated by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1938. Responsibility for its administration was transferred two years later to local colleges, first known as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Committee and in 1948, as the Metropolitan Intercollegiate Basketball Association (MIBA), which comprised representatives from five New York City schools: Fordham University, Manhattan College, New York University, St. John's University, and Wagner College. Originally all of the teams qualifying for the tournament were invited to New York City, and all games were played at Madison Square Garden.The tournament originally consisted of only 6 teams, which later expanded to 8 teams in 1941, 12 teams in 1949, 14 teams in 1965, 16 teams in 1968, 24 teams in 1979, 32 teams in 1980, and 40 teams from 2002 through 2006. In 2007, the tournament reverted to the current 32-team format.

Nick Eddy 3-yard run
MSU 7-0

Southern Connecticut

CST

Rhode Island

Colby Mules

Barry Gibbs

Southern Connecticut State University

The 1966 New York Giants season was the 42nd season for the club in the National Football League. The Giants finished in last place in the Eastern Conference with a 1–12–1 record, the worst in franchise history.The 1966 Giants surrendered the most points in NFL history for a 14-game season. They allowed 501 points in 14 games, or an average of 35.8 points per game. This total broke the league record for the most points given up in a season. The next most points allowed by a Giants team was 427 in the 2009 season, which was 16 games. The Giants allowed opponents to score more than 30 points in eight of the 14 games, and gave up over 50 points three times. They are the only team in history to give up 500 points in a 14-game season.On November 27, the Giants played the highest-scoring game in NFL history, losing to the Washington Redskins, 72–41. It was the first of three straight games in which the Giants gave up more than 45 points; they allowed 49 points against the Cleveland Browns and 47 versus the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Hugh Davidson

West Regional Third Place

Azzaro 28-yard field goal

National Championship Game

unknown

Missouri Tigers

Lamar

Nippon Professional Baseball Most Valuable Player Award

ND 14-7

Arizona State Sun Devils

Mid-American Conference

Texas Western College

Ron Shotts 3-yard run

ND 44-0

Baylor

Tournament

PUR

1966 NBA expansion draft

The 1966 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship was the eighth organized men's college soccer tournament by the National Collegiate Athletic Association, to determine the top college soccer team in the United States. The San Francisco Dons won their first title, defeating the Long Island Blackbirds in the final on December 3, 1966. This tournament returned to a field of 16 teams. The tournament final was played in Berkeley, California. The most outstanding offensive player of the tournament was Sandor Hites of San Francisco.

The 1966 Mongolian National Championship was the third recorded edition of the Mongolian National Championship for football, with the first tournament taking place in 1955 and no tournament held the previous year. It would appear however that championships were contested between 1956 and 1963, as sources note that a team called Aldar won the title on numerous occasions during that time.

New York City

MAC

NYU Violets

Georgia Tech

Lakeland

The 1966 New Zealand rugby league season was the 59th season of rugby league that had been played in New Zealand.

Rocky Bleier 9-yard run

University of Nebraska

St. John's University

Gladieux 1-yard run

New York University

Bowl Game

1966 Nigerian coup d'etat

1966 NSWRFL Premiership

The 1966 NFL expansion draft was a National Football League (NFL) draft in which a new expansion team, named the Atlanta Falcons, selected its first players. On June 30, 1965, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle So that the Falcons could become competitive with existing teams, the league awarded the Falcons the first pick in the 1966 NFL Draft, supplemented with the final pick in the first five rounds. The NFL also gave the new team the opportunity to select current players from existing teams.

Florida State Seminoles

Spartans

1966 Nemzeti Bajnokság I (women's handball)

1966 NHL Entry Draft

NYG 34–31

ND 14-0

Astronauts Elliot See and Charles Bassett

Jones 75 yard pass from Morrall

Oct 17

Tied 8-8

Bergner recovered blocked punt in end zone

The 1966 Ohio Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Ohio University in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) during the 1966 college football season.

1966 NASA T-38 crash

Oct 31

Mike Vachon 43-yard field goal

Northeastern Huskies

The 1966 National Challenge Cup was the 53rd edition of the USSFA's annual open soccer championship. The Philadelphia Ukrainians defeated the Orange County F.C. to win.

(Firestone CC)

Elgin Baylor

BYU

Cincinnati Bearcats

1966 New York Jets season

Nov 21

Jets seasons

Mongolia National Championship

Larry Conjar 2-yard run

The 1966 Northern Illinois Huskies football team represented Northern Illinois University during the 1966 college football season. The Huskies were led by eleventh year head coach Howard Fletcher.

Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman

Florida

OSU 15-14

Accident

Fredrikstad won the Norwegian Cup after beating Lyn 3-2 on 30 October. The goal scorers for Fredrikstad were Bjørn Borgen in the 33rd and 59th minute, and Arne Pedersen in the 89th minute. For Lyn, Harald Berg scored in the 54th minute and Ole Stavrum scored in the 57th minute.This was Fredrikstad's ninth cup. 30 355 spectators attended Ullevål stadion. The referee was Hans Granlund .Fredrikstad's winning team: Per Mosgaard, Kjell Andreassen, Jan Hermansen, Arne Pedersen, Hans Jacob Mathisen, Roar Johansen, Bjørn Borgen, Tore Hansen, Per Kristoffersen, Thor Spydevold and Jan Aas.

Valparaiso Crusaders

Albuquerque

McDonnell Aircraft Building 101, adjacent to Lambert Field,

1966 NFL draft

Albright

Dave Martin 33-yard interception return

Orange Bowl

Fredrikstad won the Norwegian Cup after beating Lyn 3-2 on 30 October. The goal scorers for Fredrikstad were Bjørn Borgen in the 33rd and 59th minute, and Arne Pedersen in the 89th minute. For Lyn, Harald Berg scored in the 54th minute and Ole Stavrum scored in the 57th minute.This was Fredrikstad's ninth cup. 30 355 spectators attended Ullevål stadion.

1966 NCAA Men's Division II Basketball Tournament

Northwestern

The 1966 NASA T-38 crash occurred when a NASA Northrop T-38 Talon crashed at Lambert Field in St. Louis, Missouri, on February 28, 1966, killing two Project Gemini astronauts, Elliot See and Charles Bassett. The aircraft, piloted by See, crashed into the McDonnell Aircraft building where their Gemini 9 spacecraft was being assembled. The weather was poor with rain, snow, fog, and low clouds. A NASA panel, headed by the Chief of the Astronaut Office, Alan Shepard, investigated the crash. While the panel considered possible medical issues or aircraft maintenance problems, in addition to the weather and air traffic control factors, the end verdict was that the crash was caused by pilot error.In the aftermath of the crash, the backup crew of Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan were moved up to the primary position for the Gemini 9 mission, scheduled for early June. Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, who had formerly been the backup for Gemini 10, became the mission's backup crew, and through the normal rotation were assigned as prime crew for Gemini 12. Without the Gemini experience, it is unlikely that Aldrin would have been assigned to the Apollo 11 mission, during which he became the second man to walk on the Moon.

The 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship Game was the final of the 1966 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament and determined the national champion in the 1965–66 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The game was held on March 19, 1966 at Cole Field House in College Park, Maryland. The Kentucky Wildcats, the number one ranked team in men's college basketball, faced the Texas Western Miners, who were ranked third in the nation. Texas Western's starting lineup of five African-Americans was the first all-black lineup in an NCAA title game; their opponents, by contrast, fielded an all-white squad. The Miners won 72–65, claiming the school's first national championship in men's college basketball. Their victory challenged assumptions widely held about black players at the time, and major college programs intensified their recruiting efforts towards African-American players in the years following the game.

1966 New York Yankees season

1966 Oscars

Drexel

ncg

TEX

Joe Azzaro 32-yard field goal

Pacific League Pennant

Cornhuskers

The 1966 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships were the 28th annual cross country meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate cross country running in the United States. Held on November 21, 1966, the meet was hosted for the second straight year by the University of Kansas at Rim Rock Farm in Lawrence, Kansas. The distance for this race was 6 miles (9.7 kilometers).All NCAA University Division members were eligible to qualify for the meet. In total, 25 teams and 189 individual runners contested this championship.The team national championship was won by the Villanova Wildcats, their first team title. The individual championship was won by Gerry Lindgren, from Washington State, with a time of 29:01.04. Lindgren's time set the new event distance record, breaking the record set the previous year by John Lawson. Lindgren's time would hold until 1969, when he himself would break it during his senior year.

WPIX

1966 Norwegian First Division

Dayton

1966 Northern Nigeria pogrom

The 1966 NBA Expansion Draft was the second expansion draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held from April 30 to May 1, 1966, so that the newly founded Chicago Bulls could acquire players for the upcoming 1966–67 season. Chicago had been awarded the expansion team on January 16, 1966.

NBA Finals
Baltimore

The 1966 NCAA University Division Swimming and Diving Championships were contested in March 1966 at the Cadet Gymnasium at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado at the 43rd annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of University Division men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.USC topped the team standings for the fourth consecutive year, once again finishing ahead of Indiana. This was the Trojans' fifth title in program history (and fifth title in six years).

Louisville

Navy–Marine Corps Memorial Stadium

Second round

Lenny Wirtz

The 1966 NBA draft was the 20th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 11 and 12, 1966 before the 1966–67 season. In this draft, ten NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated.

National Semifinals

Indiana State

Leroy Keyes 94-yard fumble return

1966 Navy Midshipmen football team

Orange County

San Diego

NCAA Tournament

The 1966 New York Yankees season was the 64th season for the Yankees. The team finished with a record of 70–89, finishing 26.5 games behind the Baltimore Orioles. New York was managed by Johnny Keane and Ralph Houk. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium. Keane managed his final MLB game in early-May, and died the following January at the age of 55.The Yankees finished in 10th place, although arguably a "strong" tenth. It was the first time they had finished in last place since 1912, their last year at the Hilltop.On September 22, paid attendance of 413 was announced at the 65,000-seat Yankee Stadium. WPIX announcer Red Barber asked the TV cameras to pan the empty stands as he commented on the low attendance. Although denied the camera shots on orders from the Yankees' head of media relations, he said, "I don't know what the paid attendance is today, but whatever it is, it is the smallest crowd in the history of Yankee Stadium, and this crowd is the story, not the game." By a horrible stroke of luck, that game was the first for CBS executive Mike Burke as team president. A week later, Barber was invited to breakfast where Burke told him that his contract wouldn't be renewed.

1966 NBA All-Star Game

Henry Wagner

Norm Drucker and John Vanak

The 1966 New York City transit strike was a strike in New York City called by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) and Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) after the expiration of their contract with the New York City Transit Authority (TA). It was the first strike against the TA; pre-TWU transit strikes in 1905, 1910, 1916 and 1919 against the then-private transit companies had all failed. There had also been some partial TWU strikes in the 1930s, but no citywide actions. The strike led to the passage of the Taylor Law, which redefined the rights and limitations of unions for public employees in New York.The strikers were led initially by the Irish-born Michael J. "Mike" Quill, the TWU's founder, who had been the union's president since its founding. The strike effectively ended all service on the subway and buses in the city, affecting millions of commuters. It was an ominous beginning for the mayoralty of John V. Lindsay, but is perhaps better remembered for the jailing of Quill and for his death only weeks afterwards.

Southern State (Ark.)

Fighting Irish

1966 NSWRFL season

1966 National Invitation Tournament

Nick Eddy 9-yard run

NYG

Finals

Consensus national champion

1966 NAIA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

First round

1966 NFL season

Oklahoma State University

Bob Warmack 1-yard run

1966 National Basketball Association Finals

The 1966 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Eight Conference (Big 8) during the 1966 college football season. The team compiled a 6–3–1 record (4–2–1 against Big 8 opponents), finished in a tie for third place in the Big 8, and outscored opponents by a combined total of 121 to 116. Dan Devine was the head coach for the ninth of 13 seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.The team's statistical leaders included Charlie Brown with 576 rushing yards, Gary Kombrink with 433 passing yards and 645 yards of total offense, Chuck Weber with 157 receiving yards, and Bill Bates with 27 points scored.

Bowling Green Falcons

Clark 25 yard field goal
NYG 17–14

Japan Series MVP Award

The Nigerian counter-coup of 1966, or the so-called "July Rematch", was the second of many military coups in Nigeria. It was masterminded by Lt Colonel Murtala Muhammed and many northern military officers.

Saint Mary's Cardinals

Central League Pennant

1966 NHL Draft

Carroll

Notre Dame Fighting Irish

1966 NASCAR Grand National Series

1966 NCAA College Division Men's Basketball Tournament

Lewis Field

The 1966 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association's 1965–66 season. The tournament concluded with the Eastern Division champion Boston Celtics defeating the Western Division champion Los Angeles Lakers 4 games to 3 in the NBA Finals.The Celtics won their eighth consecutive NBA title and ninth overall, defeating the Lakers in the Finals for a fifth straight time.This was the last NBA playoffs under the "top team in each division gets a first-round bye" format established in the 1955 NBA Playoffs; the 1967 NBA Playoffs featured an eight-team tournament with no first-round byes.

1966 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Ohio State Buckeyes

Earl Strom

Lafayette

MSU 10-7

NASA 901

The 1966 NBA draft was the 20th annual draft of the National Basketball Association (NBA). The draft was held on May 11 and 12, 1966 before the 1966–67 season. In this draft, ten NBA teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players. A player who had finished his four-year college eligibility was eligible for selection. If a player left college early, he would not be eligible for selection until his college class graduated. The first two picks in the draft belonged to the teams that finished last in each division, with the order determined by a coin flip. The New York Knicks won the coin flip and were awarded the first overall pick, while the Detroit Pistons were awarded the second pick. This draft was the first to use the coin flip method, which replace the territorial pick rule. The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season. An expansion franchise, the Chicago Bulls, took part in the NBA Draft for the first time and were assigned the last pick of each round. The draft consisted of 19 rounds comprising 112 players selected.

Oct 3

The 1966 NCAA University Division baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1966. The season progressed through the regular season and concluded with the 1965 College World Series.

Michigan St

Men's College Cup

Ronnie Johnson 10-yard run

Race 1 of 8 in 1966 Tasman Series

Red Auerbach

University of Kentucky

Jim Seymour 39-yard pass from Coley O'Brien

1966 National Football League season

1966 NCAA University Division Men's Cross Country Championships

1966 NCAA University Division Cross Country Championships

Ron Shotts 1-yard run

Big Eight champion

Wichita State

East Regional Third Place

Dornblaser Field

Division Finals

Valparaiso University

Team Champions: Kansas

Rockhurst (Mo.)

1966 NFL playoff

Miners

Fresno State Bulldogs

Xavier University

OSU

Kent State University

Gogolak 26 yard field goal

The 1966 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team represented the University of Notre Dame during the 1966 college football season. The Irish, coached by Ara Parseghian, ended the season undefeated with nine wins and one tie, winning a national championship. The Fighting Irish earned a consensus title after beating No. 10 Oklahoma 38–0 in Norman, tying unbeaten and No. 2 Michigan State 10–10, and ending the season defeating No. 10 USC, 51–0, in the Coliseum The 1966 squad became the eighth Irish team to win the national title and the first under Parseghian. The Irish outscored its opponents 362–38. The 10–10 tie between The Spartans and the Irish remains one of the controversial games of college football, and is considered today to be one of the great "games of the century".

Michigan State Spartans

OU 12-3

Bill Russell

Sep 26

1966 Ohio State Buckeyes baseball team

Rutgers

1966 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans

1966 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series

USA

1966 Nigerian counter-coup

1966 Nemzeti Bajnoksag I (women's handball)

Western Michigan University

1966 New York Mets season

Potsdam State

Jim Seymour 13-yard pass from Coley O'Brien

Al Tucker

TEX 3-0
Texas Longhorns vs. Oklahoma Sooners

1966 Mosport Can-Am

Saint Louis Billikens

John Thompson

University of Indiana

1966 Nemzeti Bajnokság I

Wisconsin Badgers

George Benitez

The 1966 Open Championship was the 95th Open Championship, held 6–9 July at Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, East Lothian, Scotland. Jack Nicklaus won the first of his three Claret Jugs, one stroke ahead of runners-up Doug Sanders and Dave Thomas. It was the sixth of eighteen major titles for Nicklaus and marked the completion of the first of his three career grand slams.The 1966 Open was the first to be scheduled over four days, with one round each day, finishing on Saturday. Previous Opens had played the third and fourth rounds on Friday. The U.S. Open changed to a four-day schedule the previous year in 1965, moving its final round from Saturday afternoon to Sunday. The Open Championship operated on a Wednesday through Saturday schedule through 1979.It was the final Open for 1964 champion Tony Lema, who died in a plane crash two weeks later, hours after the PGA Championship.Nicklaus has described Muirfield as "the best golf course in Britain." He later developed a championship golf course and community in Dublin, Ohio, a suburb north of his hometown of Columbus. Opened in 1974, Nicklaus named it Muirfield Village and it hosts his Memorial Tournament, a top invitational event on the PGA Tour since 1976.