43 years ago...

Yep...I made an appearance. Happy birthday to me LOL

In 1966...

World~

• Population: 3.415 billion
• France withdraws its forces from NATO. President De Gaulle visits the USSR (June 20).
• Sukarno leaves office in Indonesia; Suharto assumes power.
• Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana become independent states within the British Commonwealth.
• India suffers the worst famine in 20 years; Lyndon Johnson asks for $1 billion in aid to the country.
  

US~

• President: Lyndon B. Johnson
• Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
• Population: 196,560,338
• Life expectancy: 70.2 years
• Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 26.7
• Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 24.5
• Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.9
• Medicare begins (July 1).
• Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona, protecting rights of the accused.
• Stokeley Carmichael elected president of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).
  

Economics~

• Federal spending: $134.53 billion
• Federal debt: $328.5 billion
• Consumer Price Index: 32.4
• Unemployment: 4.5%
• Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

Sports~

• World Series: Baltimore d. LA Dodgers (4-0)
• NBA Championship: Boston d. LA Lakers (4-3)
• Stanley Cup: Montreal d. Detroit (4-2)
• Wimbledon:
  Women: Billie Jean King d. M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
  Men: Manuel Santana d. D. Ralston (6-4 11-9 6-4)
• Kentucky Derby Champion: Kauai King
• NCAA Basketball Championship: Texas Western d. Kentucky (72-65)
• NCAA Football Champions: Notre Dame (AP, UPI, FW, NFF-tie) (9-0-1) & Michigan St. (NFF-tie) (9-0-1)
• World Cup: England d. W. Germany (4-2)

Entertainment~
Events~

• The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8. The plot concerns a creature that sucks salt from human bodies.
• CBS backs out of plans to broadcast Psycho, deeming the movie too violent for at-home viewing.
• The old Metropolitan Opera House is abandoned as the company moves to Lincoln Center. The new Metropolitan Opera opens with Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra.

Movies~

• A Man for All Seasons
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Alfie, A Man and a Woman

Books~

• John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
• Paul Bowles, Up Above the World
• Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
• Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists
• Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
• Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Entertainment Awards~

• Pulitzer Prizes~
  Fiction: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
  Music: Variations for Orchestra, Leslie Bassett
• Oscars awarded~
  Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)
• Nobel Prize for Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
• Grammys awarded~
  Record of the Year: "A Taste of Honey," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
  Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
  Song of the Year: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, songwriters
• Miss America: Deborah Irene Bryant (KS)

Science~

• Insulin is first synthesized in China.
• MIT biochemist Har Khorana finishes deciphering the DNA code.
• The Food and Drug Administration declares "the Pill" safe for human use.

Nobel Prizes in Science~

• Chemistry: Robert Sanderson Mulliken (US), for research on bond holding atoms together in molecule.
• Physics: Alfred Kastler (France), for work on energy levels inside atom.
• Physiology or Medicine: Charles Brenton Huggins (US), for studies in hormone treatment of cancer of prostate; Francis Peyton Rous (US), for discovery of tumor-producing viruses.

And sadly, Walt Disney passed away.

A rather busy year...