Editing 1966 (section)

===March===
{{main|March 1966}}
* March – The [[DKW]] automobile ceases production in Germany.<ref name="motorbase.com">{{Cite web |url=http://www.motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/555 |title=DKW F102 |access-date=October 14, 2012 |work=motorbase.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120609173001/http://motorbase.com/vehicle/by-id/555/ |archive-date=June 9, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[March 1]]
**The British Government announces plans for the [[decimalisation]] of the [[pound sterling]] (hitherto denominated in 20 shillings and 240 pence to the £), to come into force on 15 February 1971 ([[Decimal Day]]).
**Soviet [[space probe]] ''[[Venera 3]]'' crashes on [[Venus]], becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
**The [[Ba'ath Party]] takes power in [[Syria]].
* [[March 2]] – [[Kwame Nkrumah]] arrives in [[Guinea]] and is granted [[right of asylum|asylum]].
* [[March 4]]
**[[Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402]] crashes during a night landing in poor visibility at [[Haneda Airport|Tokyo International Airport]] in Japan, killing 64 of 72 people on board.
**In an interview with ''[[London Evening Standard]]'' reporter [[Maureen Cleave]], [[John Lennon]] of [[The Beatles]] states: "We're [[more popular than Jesus]] now."
* [[March 5]]
**[[BOAC Flight 911]] crashes in severe [[clear-air turbulence]] over [[Mount Fuji]] soon after taking off from Tokyo International Airport in Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
**"[[Merci, Chérie]]" by [[Udo Jürgens]] (music by Udo Jürgens, lyrics by Jürgens and Thomas Hörbiger) wins the [[Eurovision Song Contest 1966]] (staged in Luxembourg) for Austria.
* [[March 7]] – [[Charles de Gaulle]] asks U.S. President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] for negotiations about the state of [[NATO]] equipment in France.
* [[March 8]]
**Anti-communist demonstrations occur at the [[Indonesia]]n Foreign Ministry.
**[[Vietnam War]]: The U.S. announces it will substantially increase the number of its troops in [[Vietnam]].
**[[Nelson's Pillar]] in [[O'Connell Street]], [[Dublin]], is clandestinely blown up by former [[Irish Republican Army (1922–69)|Irish Republican Army]] volunteers marking this year's 50th anniversary of the [[Easter Rising]].
* [[March 10]] – [[Crown Prince]]ss [[Beatrix of the Netherlands]] marries [[Claus von Amsberg]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Frederick Martin |author2=Sir John Scott Keltie |author3=Isaac Parker Anderson Renwick |author4=Mortimer Epstein |author5=Sigfrid Henry Steinberg |author6=John Paxton |author7=Brian Hunter (Librarian) |author8=Barry Turner |display-authors=3 |title=The Statesman's Year-book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lyk1AAAAIAAJ |year=1975 |publisher=Palgrave |page=1167}}</ref> Some spectators demonstrate against the groom because he is German.
* [[March 11]]
**[[Transition to the New Order]] in [[Indonesia]]: President [[Sukarno]] gives all [[executive power]]s to General [[Suharto]] by signing the "[[Supersemar]]" order.
**French President [[Charles de Gaulle]] states that French troops will be taken out of [[NATO]] and that all French NATO bases and headquarters must be closed within a year.
* [[March 16]] – [[NASA]] spacecraft [[Gemini 8]] ([[David Scott]], [[Neil Armstrong]]) conducts the first docking in space, with an [[Agena target vehicle]].
* [[March 20]] – Football's [[FIFA World Cup Trophy]] is stolen while on exhibition in London; it is found seven days later by a mongrel dog named "[[Pickles (dog)|Pickles]]" and his owner David Corbett, wrapped in newspaper in a south London garden.
* [[March 22]] – in the Chinese city of [[Xingtai]] a magnitude [[1966 Xingtai earthquakes|6.8 earthquake]] leaves more than 8,000 dead and 38,000 injured.
* [[March 24]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] meets [[Michael Ramsey]], the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.<ref>{{cite web |first=John L. |last=Allen Jr. |date=10 October 2003 |url=http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word101003.htm |title=No Nobel of John Paul; Catholics, Anglicans determined to keep talking; An interview with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick; Personnel changes in the curia |publisher=[[National Catholic Reporter]] |access-date=February 22, 2021}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] – Demonstrations are held across the United States against the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Mary Ann Robinson |author2=United States Air Force Academy. Library |title=The Home Front and War in the Twentieth Century |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EZ5o7qZ1bIC&pg=PA58 |year=1982 |publisher=United States Air Force Academy, Library |pages=58}}</ref>
* [[March 28]] – [[Cevdet Sunay]] becomes the fifth president of [[Turkey]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Stanford J. Shaw |author2=Ezel Kural Shaw |title=History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 2, Reform, Revolution, and Republic: The Rise of Modern Turkey 1808-1975 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AIET_7ji7YAC&pg=PA440 |date=27 May 1977 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-29166-8 |pages=440}}</ref>
* [[March 29]] – The [[23rd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union]] is held: [[Leonid Brezhnev]] demands that U.S. troops leave Vietnam, and announces that [[Sino-Soviet split|Chinese-Soviet relations]] are not satisfactory.<ref>{{cite book |first=Christian F. |last=Ostermann |title=Inside China's Cold War |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IjzAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA370 |year=2008 |publisher=Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars |pages=370}}</ref>
* [[March 31]]
**The British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] led by [[Harold Wilson]] wins the [[1966 United Kingdom general election]], gaining a 96-seat majority (compared with a single seat majority when the election was called on February 28).<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm |work=BBC News |title=1966: Harold Wilson wins sweeping victory |date=March 31, 1966 |access-date=October 3, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080307123541/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/31/newsid_4693000/4693142.stm |archive-date=March 7, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref>
** The [[Soviet Union]] launches [[Luna 10]], which becomes the first [[space probe]] to enter orbit around the Moon.