1966

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	19th century – 20th century – 21st century
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s – 1960s – 1970s 1980s 1990s
Years:	1963 1964 1965 – 1966 – 1967 1968 1969

1966 in other calendars
Gregorian calendar	1966 MCMLXVI
Ab urbe condita	2719
Armenian calendar	1415 ԹՎ ՌՆԺԵ
Assyrian calendar	6716
Bahá'í calendar	122–123
Balinese saka calendar	1887–1888
Bengali calendar	1373
Berber calendar	2916
British Regnal year	14 Eliz. 2 – 15 Eliz. 2
Buddhist calendar	2510
Burmese calendar	1328
Byzantine calendar	7474–7475
Chinese calendar	乙巳年 (Wood Snake) 4662 or 4602 — to — 丙午年 (Fire Horse) 4663 or 4603
Coptic calendar	1682–1683
Discordian calendar	3132
Ethiopian calendar	1958–1959
Hebrew calendar	5726–5727
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	2022–2023
- Shaka Samvat	1887–1888
- Kali Yuga	5066–5067
Holocene calendar	11966
Igbo calendar	966–967
Iranian calendar	1344–1345
Islamic calendar	1385–1386
Japanese calendar	Shōwa 41 (昭和４１年)
Javanese calendar	1897–1898
Juche calendar	55
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 13 days
Korean calendar	4299
Minguo calendar	ROC 55 民國55年
Nanakshahi calendar	498
Thai solar calendar	2509
Tibetan calendar	ཤིང་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Wood-Snake) 2092 or 1711 or 939 — to — མེ་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Fire-Horse) 2093 or 1712 or 940

Events

January 8 – Shindig! airs for the last time on ABC, with musical guests the Kinks and the Who.
January 12 – Batman debuts on ABC (1966-1968).
February 23 – Television is first broadcast in Greece when ERT went on the air.
April 5 – The Money Programme debuts on BBC2 (1966-present).
June 27 – The first episode of the supernatural soap opera Dark Shadows airs on ABC, introducing Victoria Winters (Alexandra Moltke) to the viewing audience as she applies for a job at the Collinwood Manor.
July 1 – First Canadian color television broadcast.
September – ABC switches to the color standard, meaning that all three US networks are now broadcasting in color regularly.
September 3 – The last new episode of the television series The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet airs.
September 7 – The final episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961).
September 8 – The first episode of Star Trek airs (1966-1969).
September 12 – The Monkees premieres (1966-1968).
October 2 – The four-part serial Talking to a Stranger, acclaimed as one of the finest British television dramas of the 1960s, begins transmission in the Theatre 625 strand on BBC2.
October 27 – It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.
November 16 – Cathy Come Home, possibly the best-known play ever to be broadcast on British television, is transmitted in BBC1's The Wednesday Play anthology strand.
December 15 – Walt Disney, founder of Disney Brothers Studios, dies from lung cancer at the age of 65.
December 18 – Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, narrated by Boris Karloff, airs for the first time on CBS. It became a Christmas tradition.