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1966 was a year of war and
peace in which the major war
was the growing conflict in
'Viet Nam, the major peace the
; achievement of truce between
-India and Pakistan. It was a
year of great U. S. advance
in space, little advance on
the civil righrs front, and it
; was a year of continuing pros
perity and higher prices. Here
'.is a chronology of some of the
1966 highlights:
Jan. 1 Pope Paul VI appeals
.;.to Peking, Moscow, Hanoi,
.' Saigon and Washington to
.. move toward peace in Viet
Nam War.
Jan 2 New York transit strike
halts buses and subways;
Soviet Premier Aleksei N.
Kosygin flies to Tashkent to
H act as peacemaker between
.p. -India and-Pakistan; '-' -rr-o-x
Jan. 8 Thousands of U. - S.
troops open largest offensive
. operation in Viet Nam War
. to sweep forest stronghold
n near Saigon.
Jan. 10 Prime Minister Lai
Bahadur Shastri of India
dies of heart attack hours
r. after signing troop-withdraw-
-., al pact with Pakistan.
:Jan. 12 President Johnson
- pledges in state of union
- message to stay in Viet Nam
v until aggression stopped.
Jan. 13 President Johnson
: names Robert C. Weaver, a
L Negro, to be secretary of
v. new Department of Housing
and Urban Development.
Jan. 15 Nigerian army coup
topples government with
Maj. Gen. Johnson Aguiyi-
" Ironsi heading provisional
'; government; South Viet
' ' Nam's Premier Ky promises
that nation will have new
: constitution by October, na
r tional elections in 1967.
Jan. 19 Mrs. Indira Gandhi
becomes India's third prime
minister.
Jan. 22 Vietnamese officials
acknowledge U. S., South
Vietnamese planes bombing
Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos.
Jan. 23 Red China reported
sending jet fighters to North
Viet Nam; 72 - hour lunar
year cease fire ends with
U. S., Vietnamese troops re
suming offensive.
Jan. 24 Air India jetliner
crashes near summit of
Mont Blanc in France kill
ing all 117 persons aboard.
Jan. 26 President Johnson pro
poses $2.3 billion, six-year
plan to rebuild slums.
Jan. 29 Pope Paul VI endors
es U. S. peace bid for Viet
Nam, suggests neutral ar
bitration under U. N. spon
sorship. Feb. 1 Buster Keaton, poker-
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faced comedian, dies' of lung
cancer in Hollywood.
Feb. 4 Jet airliner crashes into
Tokyo bay, all 133 aboard
die.
Feb. 8 President Johnson,
South Viet Nam leaders is
sue "Declaration of Hono
lulu" emphasizing combined
military action and expand
ed civil reform programs in
Viet Nam.
Feb. 9 Sophie Tucker, "last of
the red hot mamas," dies in
New York.
Feg. 10 Showman Billy Rose
dies of pneumonia in Ja
maica. Feb. 12 Pope Paul VI reaffirms
ban on all forms of me
chanical or chemical contra
ception. Feb. 13 Indonesia recalls its
ambassador to Communist
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Feb. 20 Admiral of the Fleet
Chester W. Nimitz dies at 81
in San Francisco.
Feb. 21 President de Gaulle
says France withdrawing
from NATO by April 4, 1969,
wants foreign troops out of
country by then.
Feb. 24 Ghana's army takes
control of Accra, ousting
President Kwame Nkrumah.
Feb. 26 Saturn 1-B rocket hurls
Apollo spacecraft on success
ful unmanned test flight 5,500
miles down Atlantic.
Feb. 28 Gemini 9 astronauts,
Elliott M. See Jr. and Maj.
Charles A. Bassett killed
when jet trainer crashes.
March 1 Unmanned Soviet
spacecraft crashes onto sur
face of Venus, first contact.
March 5 British jetliner catch
es fire, crashes into Japan's
Mt. Fuji, all 124 persons
aboard die.
March 7 U. S. Supreme Court
upholds major provisions of
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
March 15 Congress approves
$6 billion tax rise, President
Johnson signs bill; hundreds
riot in Los Angeles' Watts
District, two killed.
March 16 Gemini 8 astronauts
lose maneuverability of craft
after first docking in space,
ordered to emergency land
ing in Western Pacific.
March 18 Vatican eases inter
marriage rules between Ro
man Catholics and persons
of other faiths.
March 23 Red Chinese reject
invitation to attend 23rd Con
gress of Soviet Communist
Party in Moscow.
April 1 British Labor Party
scores heavy victory in elec
tions. April 2 Author C. S. Forester
dies at 66 in Fullerton, Calif.
April 7 Missing U. S. hydro
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gen bomb recovered intact
off coast of Spain after 80
day search.
April 10 Evelyn Waugh, 62,
British satirist, dies in Lon
don. April 14 South Viet Nam's rul
ing junta agrees to holfl
elections for constituent as
sembly in three to five
months amid continuing Bud
dhist demonstrations.
April 17 U. S. planes attack
missile sites 20 miles from
Hanoi, closest to city so far.
May 5 Leaders of eight ma
jor U. S. Protestant denom
inations reach agreement on
principles for merger.
May 6 Four major U. S. auto
mobile manufacturers dis
close they have called in 8.7
million passenger autos
since late 1959 for possible
. defects. .
May 9 Red China says it has
detonated device containing
"thermonuclear material."
May 10 Egyptians cheer So
viet Premier Aleksei N. Ko
sygin's arrival in Cairo.
May 18 Secretary of Defense
McNamara proposes all U.S.
youth give country two
years of service, either mil
itary or civilian.
May 24 U Thant calls for
scaled down military opera
tions in Viet Nam and direct
negotiations among all pow
ers concerned.
May 27 Buddhist students sack
and burn U. S. cultural cen
ter and library in Hue, South
Viet Nam.
June 1 U. S. Surveyor 1 space
craft makes historic first
soft landing on moon.
June 2 Joaquin Balaguer wins
Dominican Republic's pres
idential election.
June 3 Gemini 9 astronauts
orbit but fail in rendezvous
with target vehicle.
June 6 James H. Meredith,
Negro who desegregated the
University of Mississippi in
1962, shot on Mississippi
highway.
June 7 Principal NATO part
ners take stand against par
ley with Eastern Europe on
European security.
June 8 Hurricane Alma lash
es Florida coastline; XB70A
experimental jet bomber and
air force jet fighter crash
after collision over Mohave
Desert.
June 13 U. S. Supreme Court
announces sweeping limita
tions on police in question
ing of suspects in their cus
tody. June 19 Comedian Ed Wynn,
79, dies in Beverly Hills.
June 21 French President de
Gaulle on visit to Russia
calls for individual consul
tations between eastern and
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June 28 Three - man military
junta overthrows Argentine
civilian government of Pres
ident Arturo U. Mia.
July 1 Medicare program for
Americans over 65 officially
under way.
July 2 French detonate atomic
device southeast of Tahiti.
July 4 Congress of Racial
Equality adopts "black pow
er" resolution at Baltimore
convention.
July 5 Indonesia strips Sukar:
no of title "president f o f
life;" U. S. launches 29-ton
satellite, heaviest yet.
July 7 Leaders of Warsaw Pact
nations say they are ready
to send "volunteers" to fight
in Viet Nam if Hanoi re
quests it.
July 14 Secretary of State
Rusk warns North Viet Nam
not to try captured Ameri
' can pilots as "war crimi
nals." July 16 National Guard troops
help quell Chicago West
Side riots.
July 17 Richard Speck,. 24-year-old
ex-convict, arrest
ed on charges of killing
eight student nurses in Chi
cago. July 19 Gemini 10 astronauts
link up with unmanned sat
ellite, maneuver to record
depth in space; National
Guard called out to quell
Cleveland race riots.
July 24 "Champagne" Tony.
Lema, golf star, killed with
wife and two others in small
plane crash in Indiana.
July 30 U. S. planes bomb de
militarized zone between
North and South Viet Nam
for first time; Britain cap
tures world soccer cup in
4-2 win over Germany.
Aug. 1 Honor student Charles
Whitman, 25, kills 12 per
sons, wounds 33 from Texas
University tower after slay
ing wife and mother before
being killed by police; Chief
of Staff of Nigeria's army
takes over government after
army mutiny.
Aug. 3 Steel companies boost
prices.
Aug. 4 Secretary of Agricul
ture Orville Freeman asks
Federal Trade Commission
to investigate food price
increases.
Aug. 6 Luci Johnson marries
Patrick Nugent in huge wed
ding ceremony in Washing
ton; Cassius Clay retains
world championship by
knocking out Brian London
in London.
Aug. 7 Jet airliner falls in
flames near Falls City, Neb.,
killing all 42 persons aboard.
Aug. 10 British prime minister
reshuffles cabinet, announc
es drastic wage, price
freeze.
Aug. 15 New York Herald
Tribune dies.
Aug. 16 Major banks boost
lending rates on business
borrowing to 6 per cent,
highest level since 1920s
and fourth rise in nine
months.
Aug 17 House follows Senate
in passing auto safety bill
requiring federal standards
for 1968 model cars.
Aug. 18 U. S. Spacecraft Lun
ar Orbiter 1 sends to earth
first pictures of moon's sur
face taken from vehicle in
lunar orbit.
Aug. 19 Longest, costliest air
line strike ends after 43
days as machinists union
approves contract with five
U. S. airlines.
Aug. 21 President John
By PETE IVEY
The 10 "most colossal" stor-
es of the year at the Universi
V j1 ty in Chapel Hill have been se
a lected.
Atier examining news stor-
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big stories and little, odd and
off beat, sensational and or
dinary the 10 foremost hap
penings in the -news for Cha
pel Hill were weighed on im
age - making scales, measur
ed with calipers and assessed
on a public opnion meter. The
news was divided into categor
ies. The unique stories follow:
Biggest windfall The Ke--nan
Foundation gave $5 mil
lion to the University to boost
faculty salaries.
Antiquity Distinction Old
East was dedicated as a na
tional shinre.
New Chancellor J. Car
lyle Sitterson was named and
installed Chancellor of the Uni
versity at Chapel Hill.
Top ranking The Ameri
can Council on Education de
signated UNC in Chapel Hill
son meets Canadian Prime
Minister Lester Pearson at
Campobello Island, N. B.,
for talks including Viet
Nam.
Aug. 23 Red China's Red
.Guard cultural revolution
sweeps on as teen - agers
attack all "bourgeois ten
dencies;" Francis X. Bush-
-f man, romantic hero of silent
;! screen, dies at 83 at Pacific
Palisades, Calif.
Aug. 29 Soviet moonship Luna
i II transmits pictures on or
rbital flight.
Aug. 30 President de Gaulle
on Cambodian visit calls for
: neutralization of South East
Asia.
Sept. 1 British ' airliner carry
ing 110 crashes on approach
to Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, 95
killed; U Thant announces
he ., will, not ' ' ' seek; second
term as U. N.. "secretary
general. Sept. 4 Two-hour march for
open housing in Cicero, 111.,
ends in violence; Red China
defense minister Lin Piao
takes over Red Guard move
ment. Sept. 6 Hendrik Verwoerd,
prime minister of South
Africa, stabbed to death by
Greek - Portuguese immi
grant; four-and-a-half -month
strike of New York World
Journal Tribune, Inc. ends;
Margaret Sanger, birth con
trol pioneer, dies at 82 near
Tucson, Ariz.; Dr. William
C. Menninger, world famous
psychiatrist, dies of cancer
at 66 in Topeka, Kan.
Sept. 11 Cassius Clay retains
world heavyweight champ
ionship against Karl Mil
denberger, European
champ, in Frankfurt; South
Vietnamese elect national
assembly to draft constitu
tion leading to democratic
government; President de
Gaulle witnesses firing of
French nuclear device near
Tahiti.
Sent. 12 Gemini 11 astronauts
link with target satellite on
first orbit for first time.
Sept 14 Senate kills civil
rights bill by filibuster.
Sept. 18 Valerie Percy, 21-year-old
daughter of U. S. Senate
Republican nominee Charles
Percy, killed by unknown
slayer in suburban Chicago
home.
Sept. 19 Papal encyclical ap
peals for peace.
Sept. 20 U. N. General Assem
bly opens 21st session.
Sept. 23 President Johnson
signs laws raising minimum
wage to $1.60 an hour in
1968.
Sept. 25 Two typhoons rip
across Japan, 174 dead and
182 missing.
Sept. 28 U. S. Marine Corps
pilots bomb friendly South
Viet Nam village by mis
take, killing 28 and wound
ing 17.
Sept. 30 African republic of
Botswana created.
Oct. 1 Nazi leaders Albert
Speer and Baldur von Schi
rach released from Spandau
Prison; Hurricane Inez
smashes into Haiti, 1,000
feared dead.
Oct. 4 New African state of
Lesotho born, formerly Brit
ish Basutoland.
. Oct. 5 Texas Appelate court
reverses murder conviction
of Jack Ruby and orders re
trial. Oct. 7 Soviet Union expels
Chinese students.
Oct. 9 Baltimore Orioles win
World Series from Los An
one of three universities in the
South with recognized ranking,
and nine departments at Cha
pel Hill were noted as distinc
tive in national stature: bot
any, history, English, classics,
Spanish, psychology, sociolo
gy, French, political science.
Embarrassing moment
The Coy Mistress "Caper"
was noted as an awkward in
cident in the life of the Uni
versity, with a part - time fa
culty member investigated and
"acquitted" and restored to his
class after a faculty commit
tee ruled he had not, as alleg
ed, assigned his class to write
a theme on "how I would se
duce a girl."
Good faculty recognized
These faculty members won
national prominence: Prof.
James P. Collman of Chemis
try discovered accidentally a
way of obtaining nitrogen di
rectly from the air to fertilize
the soiL The U. S. Public
Health Service gave Prof. Ber
nard Greenbert of biochemis
try a $5,000 prize for "crea
geles Dodgers in four
games.
Oct. 13 Nobel Prize for medi
cine awarded to two U. S.
researchers in cancer.
Oct. 15 President Johnson
signs bill creating 12th cab
inet post of Department of
Transportation.
Oct. 17 Earthquakes kill 55
in Peru.
Oct. 20 President Johnson re
ceives tumultous welcome
during three-day Australian
visit.
Oct. 21 Collapsing mountain of
slag engulfs town of Aber
fan, Wales, killing 137 chil
dren and seven adults!-
Oct. 22 89th Congress ad
journs. Oct 25 President Johnson and
South Viet Nam allies at
Manila Conference pledge to
pull troops. -out- of - country-;
within six months if , North
Viet Nam withdraws forces,
stops infiltration.
Oct. 26 President Johnson pays
surprise visit to South Viet
Nam; fire sweeps aircraft
carrier Oriskany, killing 43.
Oct. 27 Red China announces
it has successfully exploded
nuclear weapon carrier by
guided missile.
Oct. 30 Housewives across
country begin picketing mar
kets in protest against .high
food prices.
Nov. 3 "United Arab Republic
and Syria agree to resume
diplomatic relations and es
tablish joint defense com
mand. Nov. 4 Winds and rain storm
batter southern Europe kill
ing many; floods sweep
through Italian cities des
troying art treasures.
Nov. 6 Red China's represen
tatives walk out of Kremlin
rally after Soviet leaders de
nounce Chinese policy.
Nov. 8 Republicans gain in
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tive brilliance in solving health
riddles." Statistics Professor
George Nicholson who has aid
ed NATO and the U. S. War
effort in Viet Nam was given
the U. S. Defense Depart
ment's "Exceptional Civilian
Service" decoration. Prof.
O. B. Hardison, English facul
ty member, was honored by
TIME Magazine (in a cover
picture) as typical of the best
in teaching and learning in un
iversity education today. Ke
nan Professor Oscar K. Rice
won the "North Carolina
Award" for his work on Elec
tronic Structure and Chemical
Binding.
Cultural note: The UNC Glee
Club toured Europe and sang
to thousands.
Publications milestone: The
UNC Press published more
books than ever before in a
year's time now in excess
of 50, or about a book a week
rolling off the press.
Excellent student accom
plishment One hundred sen
iors of the class of 1966 won
national and state elections,
picking up three Senate
seats, 47 House seats and six
governorships.
Nov. 13 Israeli and Jordanian
soldiers fight fierce battle
during Israeli retaliation
raid.
Nov. 14 Bulgarian Commu
nist Party issues formal call
for world Communist confer
ence to deal with Red Chi
nese "heresy;" Cassius Clay
retains title with TKO over
Cleveland Williams in Hous
ton. Nov. 15 Gemini 12 astronauts
end successful Gemini pro
gram with splashdown in
Atlantic after four-day flight.
Nov. 16 Surgeons successfully
remove nonmalignant polyp
from President Johnson's
throat and then repair small
. hernia p.n.pjd scar.
? Nov. 18 American R o in a n
Catholics no longer required
to abstain from eating meat
on Friday except during
Lent.
Nov. 21 German rightists cap
ture 15 out of 204 seats In
Bavarian legislature; For
mer Gov. David L. Lawr
ence dies at 77 in Pittsburgh.
Nov. 23 Red China denounces
Italian proposal for estab
lishment of U. N. commit
tee to find solution to ques
tion of Peking's membership.
Nov. 25 U. N. Security Coun
cil censures Israel for Jor
dan raid.
Nov. 26 Viet Cong announces
guerrillas will observe 48
hour cease fires at Christ
mas and New Year's.
Nov. 28 U. S. raises its diplo
matic relations with Hunga
ry and Bulgaria to ambas
sadorial level.
Nov. 29 National Traffic Safe
ty Agency proposes 23 auto
mobile safety standards for
all autos sold in U. S. U. N.
General Assembly defeats
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scholarships or fellowships in
national competition Ful
brights, Woodrow Wilsons, De
fense Education Fellows,
Moreheads, Danforth and oth
ers. The average college board
score for the 1969 class is 1132.
More students made Phi Beta
Kappa, the Deans' lists, and
were chosen for honors pro
grams. Training and reserach sup
port and special projects
Funds awarded for special
research projects, contract
grants for training and spe
cial programs not supported by
state funds reached over $22,
000,000 for the year. Over $18
million came from federal
and private foundation grants
for training and research ac
tivates that harmonize with
teaching and public service.
Over $4 million came from
alumni, North Carolina foun
dations and bequests for "un
restricted" and other uses of
the University. This was a
new high record.
resolution to seat Communist
China.
Nov. 30 South Vietnam ac
cepts Christmas, New Year's
48-hour truce proposal.
Dec. 1 Kurt Georg Kiesinger
named chancellor of West
Germany as head of coali
tion of Christian Democrats
and Social Democrats; 5,000
University of California stu
dents strike at Berkeley to
protest Navy recruitment on
campus.
Dec. 2 U Thant unanimously
reelected to another team as
U. N. secretary-general.
Dec. 8 U. S. U. S. S. R.
agree to terms of treaty to
bar nuclear weapons from
space.
Dec. 12 U. S. pledges full sup
port for Britain's U. N. pro
posal of sanctions against
Rhodesia; U. S. Supreme
or1 Court rules tne Georgia leg
' islature has constitutional
rights to elect state's next
governor.
Dec. 13 Communists charge
U. S. bombers struck resi
dential areas of Hanoi;
U. S. officials deny it.
Dec. 14 Bill Moyers resigns
as President Johnson's press
secretary.
Dec. 15 Franco government
announces new constitution
overwhelmingly approved by
Spanish voters; Walt Dis
ney, creator of Mickey
Mouse and Donald Duck,
dies at 65 in Los Angeles.
Dec. 16 Mrs. John F. Kenne
dy starts legal action to pre
vent publication of book on
husband's assassination.
Dec. 17 U. N. General Assem
bly political committee votes
unanimously to approve
treaty barring nonpeaceful
activities in space.
Dec. 18 Leonid I. Brezhnev,
Soviet Communist Party's
general secretary, acclaim
ed hero of Soviet Union.
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