1966 in India

IncumbentsEdit

Photo	Post	Name
File:Photograph of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan presented to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1962.jpg	President of India	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
	Prime Minister of India	Lal Bahadur Shastri (Prime Minister until 11 January)
		Gulzarilal Nanda until 24 January (acting Prime Minister)
File:Indira Gandhi in 1967.jpg		Indira Gandhi
	Vice President of India	Zakir Husain
	Chief Justice of India	P. B. Gajendragadkar until 24 January
		Amal Kumar Sarkar 15 March – 29 June
		Koka Subba Rao starting 30 June

Post	Name
Andhra Pradesh	Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
Assam	Vishnu Sahay
Bihar	M. A. S. Ayyangar
Gujarat	Nityanand Kanungo
Haryana	Dharma Vira (starting 1 November)
Jammu and Kashmir	Bhagwan Sahay
Karnataka	V. V. Giri
Kerala	Ajith Prasad Jain (until 6 February) Bhagwan Sahay (starting 6 February)
Madhya Pradesh	K. Chengalaraya Reddy (until 2 February) P. V. Dixit (2 February-9 February) K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February)
Maharashtra	P V Cherian
Nagaland	Vishnu Sahay
Odisha	Ajudhia Nath Khosla (until 5 August) Khaleel Ahmed (5 August-11 September) Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 11 September)
Punjab	Sardar Ujjal Singh (until 26 June) Dharma Vira (starting 26 June)
Rajasthan	Sampurnanand
Uttar Pradesh	Bishwanath Das

3 January – Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan agree to the Tashkent Declaration, a peace pact mediated by the Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R.<ref name="Vereshchagin2Oct2013">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.<ref name="Vereshchagin2Oct2013" />
19 January – Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
24 January - Air India Flight 101 crashed into Mont Blanc killing the 117 passengers including Homi J. Bhabha who was in the flight. There was a similar aviation accident in the same spot in 1950.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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5 March - Indian Air Force bombs Aizawl following Mizo National Front uprising.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
20 April – Lumding Train Bombing occurs on the North-East Frontier Railway.<ref name="TheHindu">Members from all sections of the Lok Sabha express deep concern (April 21, 1966) - The Times of India</ref>

6 June - First Indira Gandhi ministry devalues Indian rupee by 57%.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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10 June - President of India promulgates Jayanti Shipping Company (Taking Over of Management) Ordinance, 1966 to take over shipping company owned by Jayanti Dharma Teja.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
12 July – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
7 November - 1966 anti-cow slaughter agitation and ensuing violence took place.
17 November – Reita Faria, [Eve's Weekly Miss India] is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.

27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995>R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.</ref>
11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995 />
22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.<ref name=Bhardwaj1995 />
29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.<ref>N. T. Krishna Kishore, "Enhancement of Production by Development of Resources in Critical Production Operations in Multi Crop Seed Conditioning Unit"; International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications 2.3, March, 2012.</ref>

3 January – Chetan Sharma, cricketer
11 January – Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated (d.2007).
22 January - Kesineni Srinivas, politician and member of parliament from Vijayawada.
28 January – Anjani Kumar, 1990 batch IPS officer
22 February – Babu Antony, actor and martial artist.
24 March - Galla Jayadev, politician and member of parliament from Guntur.
30 March Template:Ndash Vikraman, film director.
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Vikram
17 April – Vikram, actor.
3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
15 May – M. Kumaran, politician.
30 May – Rajinder Garg, politician.
8 July Template:Ndash Revathi, actress.
14 July – Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
28 August – Priya Dutt, politician.
1 September - Sonam Wangchuk, Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist.
12 September - Pramod Kureel, politician
26 September - Pujya Gurudevshri Rakeshji, Spiritual leader
24 October Template:Ndash Nadhiya, actress.
30 October – K. V. Anand, cinematographer and film director (d. 2021)
28 November – P. Ravi Shankar, actor, dubbing artist, director and writer.
5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician.

11 January – Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904).
Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (b. 1921).
24 January – Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist.
26 February - Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Indian Freedom Fighter (b. 1883).