September 1966

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September 6, 1966: South African Prime Minister Verwoerd stabbed to death
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September 8, 1966: Star Trek and That Girl premiere on same night
September 12, 1966: Gemini 11's Gordon and Conrad reach 850 miles altitude, higher than anyone had gone before
September 29, 1966: The Chevy Camaro goes on sale nationwide

The following events occurred in September 1966:

September 1, 1966 (Thursday)

  • Red Guards to stop their attacks on Mrs. Soong Ching-ling, the widow of the founder of China's republic and first President, Sun Yat-sen. Chou informed them that Mrs. Soong (who had parted ways with her sister Soong Mei-ling, the wife of Taiwan's President Chiang Kai-shek) had been designated as "a heroine of the Chinese Communist revolution" and that disrespect to her would not be tolerated. In addition, Chou told the Red Guards to halt their violence against Chinese citizens and to quit destroying artwork, noting that "objects of no use for China" could still be exported and sold to pay for technical equipment. His speech would be published nationwide on September 16, bringing some control over the violence of the Cultural Revolution.[1]
  • While waiting at a bus terminal, Ralph H. Baer, an inventor with Sanders Associates, wrote a four-page document which laid out the basic principles for creating a video game to be played on a television set.[2] As Baer, a division manager for Sanders Associates, described it, he had been on New York City's East Side, waiting to board a bus to Boston, when he noticed an advertisement for TV Guide on the wall.[3] Contemplating what a viewer could do with a television set if there was nothing worth watching, he remembered an idea that had occurred to him in 1951, the possibility of playing a game on a TV set, and realized that he now had the resources to develop the concept. His idea would become the Magnavox Odyssey home entertainment system, introduced on January 27, 1972.
  • Color television was introduced to Canada at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time as the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) presented the one-hour special Color Preview '66, followed by its documentary series Telescope. At the time, an estimated 50,000 of the five million sets in Canada were color TVs, so 99 percent of viewers continued to see the programming in black and white.[4] CBC would be followed on September 6 by the CTV Television Network, with the new series Star Trek broadcast in color.[5]
  • Britannia Airways Flight 105, a chartered plane, crashed as it was making the approach to the city of Ljubljana, in Yugoslavia, killing 98 people, nearly all of them British tourists who had departed, the night before, from the Luton Airport near London.[6] A later investigation would conclude that the pilot had failed to adjust the altimeter setting to reflect the QFE directions from the controller on the elevation of the airfield, and came in 125 feet (38 m) lower than the instruments showed.[7]
  • United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declared that he would not seek re-election, because of the failure of U.N. efforts to end the Vietnam War. "Today it seems to me, as it has seemed for many months, that the pressure of events is remorselessly leading toward a major war... In my view the tragic error is being repeated of relying on force and military means in a deceptive pursuit of peace."[8]
  • The
    Cleveland, Ohio. The guest of honor was L. Sprague de Camp and the toastmaster was Isaac Asimov.[9]
  • KUAM-FM, Guam's first FM radio station, began broadcasting under the name FM94.[10]
  • Born: Tim Hardaway, American NBA player; in Chicago

September 2, 1966 (Friday)

  • Alabama Governor
    U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Governor Wallace said that he had pushed the bill "in the interest of preserving the freedoms and rights of our people to make the decisions that determine the destiny of their children".[11] Less than three hours earlier, the measure had been approved, 70–18, by the Alabama House of Representatives,[12] after passing the state Senate, 28–7.[13] "The governor's effort only delayed the inevitable", an author would note later, but would note that even in December, after the school segregation was no longer legal, only 2.4% of black students in Alabama were attending formerly all-white schools.[14]
  • The United States expelled Soviet diplomat Valentin A. Revin, the Third Secretary of the USSR's embassy in Washington, after accusing him of trying to steal American missile secrets.[15] Twelve days later, the Soviet Union would expel the Second Secretary of the American Embassy in Moscow, Donald R. Lesh, on accusations of espionage.[16]
  • Born: Salma Hayek, Mexican-born American film and television actress; in Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state
  • Died:
    U.S. Attorney General
    and former Governor and U.S. Senator for Rhode Island; of a heart attack

September 3, 1966 (Saturday)

September 4, 1966 (Sunday)

  • After having marched for civil rights in the South, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) challenged racism in the northern United States, with a 250-person march through the streets of the Chicago suburb of Cicero, Illinois. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley dispatched 50 Chicago police to accompany the marchers as far as the boundary with Cicero, and a contingent of Cicero city police took over the rest of the way, assisted by Illinois state troopers, Cook County Sheriff's deputies and 2,700 troops of the Illinois National Guard. A crowd of 200 white people began following the marchers and heckling them at Cicero Avenue, and at the intersection with Cermak Road, a larger mob of 500 confronted the marchers, and rocks and bottles were hurled. By the time the procession made it back to Chicago, 14 people had been injured (including one heckler who was clubbed and six teenagers who were bayoneted, and 32 whites and 7 blacks were arrested).[21][22]
  • The first telecast of The Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon concluded as comedian Jerry Lewis raised over one million dollars for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, with $1,002,114 in pledges in the New York City area alone.[23] Gradually, more television stations would begin showing the annual live broadcast, and more celebrities would join Lewis to perform for charity.[24] In its peak year, 2008, the event would bring in $65,031,393.
  • The
    Nép Stadium, Budapest, Hungary, with the Men's marathon.[25]
  • Born:

September 5, 1966 (Monday)

  • Thermus aquaticus, a previously unknown species of bacteria that could tolerate high temperatures, was first gathered by scientists who were researching water samples from the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming. The source was collected from Mushroom Spring, in the Park's Lower Geyser Basin, by microbiologist Thomas D. Brock of Indiana University, and he and Hudson Freeze successfully isolated cultures from the spring. From T. aquaticus, the heat-resistant enzyme Taq polymerase (or Taq) would be developed, revolutionizing genetic engineering.[27]
  • Darel Dieringer won the 1966 Southern 500 NASCAR race held at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. Richard Petty, who had avoided a pit stop to replace his car's right-side tires, had maintained a lead until seven laps remained. Then, having raced for several miles "on the cord", he suffered a blowout.[28][29]
  • Flying a
    U.S. Air Force Captain Wilfred K. Abbott, ejected to safety, but was captured and would spend more than six years as a prisoner of war.[31]

September 6, 1966 (Tuesday)

September 7, 1966 (Wednesday)

  • In Grenada, Mississippi, Martin Luther King Jr. was being driven through town along with other Southern Christian Leadership Conference leaders, including Bernard Lee and Andrew Young, when a middle-aged white gas pump attendant recognized him when the car was stopped at a traffic light. According to SCLC education director Robert L. Green, who was also in the car, James Belk "began to stride quickly and deliberately to the car... Suddenly, he pulled a pistol from his pocket. Before we could respond, he planted the pistol on Dr. King's temple. 'Martin Luther King!' he shouted, 'I will blow your brains out!'". Green noted later, "Dr. King did not flinch. Instead, he turned to the potential assailant, the gun still on his temple, and said in his always resonant voice, 'Brother, I love you.' The man displayed a look of stunned disbelief. Slowly, he lowered his weapon and walked away." After they drove on, Andrew Young said, "Martin, we've asked you, for safety reasons, to sit in the back seat, in the middle," and King replied that John F. Kennedy "had the Army, Navy, the Air Force, Coast Guard and the Secret Service, and they killed him. When they are ready, they will get me."[40][41]
  • The profession of clinical pharmacy, a branch of pharmacy medicine where a certified pharmacist works with the physician in planning the optimum use of medicines in the prevention and treatment of illness, was launched. According to the University of California, San Francisco, on the 8th Floor of the UCSF Medical Science Building, "it was here... that clinical pharmacy officially came in the world", the product of an effort between three UCSF College of Medicine professors and UCSF Chief Pharmacist Eric Owyang.[42]
  • The
    U.S. Department of Defense announced what would be the largest draft call of the Vietnam War, calling for 49,200 registered men to be inducted into military service for the month of October, the highest numbers since the Korean War.[43]
  • Born:

September 8, 1966 (Thursday)

  • Angry over being denied a governmental post after leading a 1966 coup d'état in Syria, Colonel Salim Hatum attempted to take control of the nation by taking several of the nation's leaders hostage while they were at Ba'athist Party Headquarters in the Druze Muslim city of As-Suwayda. The military strongman, General Salah Jadid, and President Nureddin al-Atassi, were taken hostage while Hatum made his demands and threatened to execute them. Defense Minister Hafez al-Assad, however, was still in Damascus, and, after warning Hatum and his mutineers to lay down their weapons, bombed the city's citadel, and sent tanks and men of the 70th Armored Command to retake the city. Hatum was able to flee to neighboring Jordan, and 400 Syrian Army officers were dismissed. Assad consolidated further power as the guarantor of the regime's safety and would seize control of Syria in 1970. As for the notoriously ruthless Colonel Hatum, he would be sentenced to death in absentia but would make the mistake of returning to Syria in 1967, where he would be arrested and shot shortly after crossing the border.[45][46]
  • Star Trek, the new science fiction television series from NBC, was broadcast for the first time on American television, with its first episode "The Man Trap" showing at 8:30 p.m. Eastern time, following the premiere of NBC's Tarzan (two seasons), starring Ron Ely.[47] (However, Star Trek, which starred Canadian-born William Shatner, had actually been televised first in Canada two days earlier, at 7:30 p.m. on the CTV network.)[39] The show was the first in what would become an ongoing franchise active more than 50 years later, and the basis for films and for eleven additional shows, as well as books, games and memorabilia.
  • Premiering on the same evening was That Girl, which would last for five seasons, an ABC sitcom starring Marlo Thomas.[48] Initial reaction to That Girl was generally positive, while UPI critic Rick Du Brow said that "'Star Trek', a science fiction opus centering around a mammoth space ship, is so absurd that it is almost entertaining."[49] Two unsuccessful shows introduced that evening were The Hero, an NBC sitcom starring Richard Mulligan, which would be canceled in mid-season; and The Tammy Grimes Show, an ABC sitcom airing at 8:30 p.m., which would be canceled after four episodes.
  • The
    Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
    hailed it as the dawn of a new economic era for South Wales.
  • International Literacy Day, proclaimed by UNESCO to be celebrated annually each September 8, was observed for the first time in events worldwide.
  • Born: Carola Häggkvist, Swedish pop singer; in Stockholm

September 9, 1966 (Friday)

  • The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act became law after the signing of two bills (the Traffic Safety Act and the Highway Safety Act) by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson at a ceremony at the White House Rose Garden.[50] Johnson commented, "The automobile industry has been one of our nation's most dynamic and inventive industries. I hope— and I believe— that its skill and imagination will be able to build in more safety without building on more costs; for safety is no luxury item, no optional extra. It must be the normal cost of doing business."[51] The bills had passed unanimously in the U.S. Senate on June 24 (76–0) and in the House of Representatives on August 17 (371–0).
  • According to a complaint registered by the People's Republic of China on September 16, two American F-105 jets strayed from North Vietnam and into the
    U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said that he had no information about such an encounter and said that the U.S. was "looking into it".[52]
  • The television series, The Green Hornet, had its first episode broadcast on ABC.[53] Based on the radio series of the same name, the series starred Van Williams as the titled character and Bruce Lee as Hornet's crime-fighting sidekick Kato. Despite it only lasting one season, the series has gained a cult following from Bruce Lee fans and is credited for introducing Asian-style martial arts to an American audience.[54]
  • China detonated its third nuclear weapon, a 100-kiloton
    hydrogen bomb. China's "H-bomb" would be exploded nine months later, on June 17, 1967.[55]
  • The scheduled launch of Gemini 11 was postponed when a pinhole leak was discovered in the stage I oxidizer tank of the launch vehicle shortly after propellants had been loaded. The decision to repair the leak required rescheduling the launch for September 10.[56]
  • NATO moved the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) to Belgium, after the organization was evicted from France, and made plans to build a permanent headquarters at the village of Casteau.
  • Born:

September 10, 1966 (Saturday)

September 11, 1966 (Sunday)

September 12, 1966 (Monday)

September 12, 1966: Gordon and Conrad in the Gemini 11 spacecraft
  • The crew of
    Chris Kraft, "Would you believe... M equals one?"[72] The two vehicles docked nine minutes later.[56]
Jones, Tork, Nesmith and Dolenz as The Monkees

September 13, 1966 (Tuesday)

September 13, 1966: Richard F. Gordon Jr. during EVA

September 14, 1966 (Wednesday)

September 15, 1966 (Thursday)

September 15, 1966: Gemini 11 approaches splashdown
  • The Gemini 11 crew accomplished a rerendezvous with the Agena target vehicle at 66 hours 40 minutes ground elapsed time, and then prepared for reentry. The spacecraft landed less than 3 miles (4.8 km) from the planned landing point at 71 hours 17 minutes after liftoff. The crew was retrieved by helicopter, and the spacecraft was brought aboard the prime recovery ship, the amphibious assault ship USS Guam (LPH-9), about an hour after landing.[56]
  • The Royal Navy launched its first submarine capable of firing nuclear missiles, as the United Kingdom's new Polaris sub, HMS Resolution, departed from the shipyard at Barrow-in-Furness.[88] HMS Resolution would fire its first test missile on February 15, 1968, and begin patrols later that year. Capable of carrying 16 nuclear-tipped Polaris missiles, each with a range of 2,500 miles (4,000 km), the sub was soon joined by HMS Repulse, HMS Renown and HMS Revenge.[89]
  • Died: Leonard Brockington, 78, Chairman of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1936 to 1939

September 16, 1966 (Friday)

September 17, 1966 (Saturday)

  • The American television show Mission: Impossible made its debut, appearing on the CBS network. The premise was that a U.S. intelligence agency, the Impossible Mission Force, would secretly intervene against hostile foreign governments. "As the Vietnam protests mounted in strength," an observer would write later, "the idea of American agents toppling foreign governments became less popular, and the scripts changed, with the team now attacking organized crime."[99] The "missions" of the IMF would continue for seven seasons, until 1973.
  • cult favorite, the German show would run for only seven episodes.[100]
  • The 1966 International Gold Cup motor race was won by Jack Brabham in a Brabham BT19. Denny Hulme crossed the line a fraction of a second behind Brabham, driving a slightly newer Brabham model, the BT20.
  • Born: Doug E. Fresh, Barbados-born American beat-box rapper; as Douglas E. Davis in Christ Church, Barbados
  • Died: Fritz Wunderlich, 35, German operatic tenor; after falling from a stairway during a hunting vacation.[101] A biographer would later note that "[H]e was struck down in his prime by an avoidable accident. Had he lived longer, he might have become one of the great lyric tenors of the century."[102]

September 18, 1966 (Sunday)

  • Valerie Percy, 21, daughter of U.S. Senate candidate Charles H. Percy, was murdered in the family mansion in the Chicago suburb of Kenilworth, Illinois. She had been stabbed to death in her bed.[103][104] Percy would win election to the Senate in November, but nobody would ever be charged with the murder, and the crime would remain unsolved at the time of his death 45 years later. In 2014, a new book on the murder would identify the late William Thoresen III, who lived with his wealthy family less than two blocks from the Percy home, as the likely suspect.[105] Ironically, Thoresen suffered a fate similar to that of Miss Percy, murdered while lying in his bed.[106]
  • The Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966 was passed into law in India, separating the Hindi language population in the southern portion of the Punjab state from the Punjabi language speakers. On November 1, Haryana would become the 17th state of India.[107][108]
  • President Muhammad Ayub Khan
    .

September 19, 1966 (Monday)

September 20, 1966 (Tuesday)

  • The
    Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) adopted a new code for film production, eliminating many of the prohibitions that had been in effect for 36 years. MPAA President Jack Valenti initially said that there would be two levels of classification, one ("G") for general releases, and another one ("M") for "mature audiences". "What we are saying," Valenti commented, "is 'Look, Mr. Parent, this may not be a picture you want your child to see!'".[118] In a break from the past, the new Production Code declared that "Censorship is an odious enterprise. We oppose censorship and classification by law because they are alien to the American tradition of Freedom." Ten new standards were now applied in judging a film, including "The basic dignity and value of human life shall be respected and upheld."; "Evil, sin, crime and wrongdoing shall not be justified."; "Detailed and protracted acts of brutality, cruelty, physical violence, torture and abuse shall not be presented."; "Indecent or undue exposure of the human body shall not be presented." "Obscene speech, gestures or movements shall not be presented." and "Excessive cruelty to animals shall not be portrayed and animals shall not be treated inhumanely."[119]
  • The American probe Surveyor 2 was launched toward the Moon for purposes of making a soft landing there, but began tumbling out of control after one of its three thruster rockets failed to ignite for a 10-second course alteration.[120] Rather than making the soft landing that had been planned for, the Surveyor probe crashed into the lunar surface on September 23.[121]
  • Abdul Rahman Pazhwak of Afghanistan was elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly by a vote of 112–1. The lone dissenting vote was for Salvador P. Lopez of the Philippines.[122]
  • Died:

September 21, 1966 (Wednesday)

  • Prompted by recent operational difficulties involving extravehicular activity during Gemini flights 9A, 10, and 11, Deputy Project Manager Kenneth S. Kleinknecht recommended to Saturn/Apollo Applications Program officials in Washington a redesigned forward dome hatch in the S-IVB hydrogen tank; i.e., one that could be more readily removed. He urged installing a flexible type of airlock seal prior to launch of the stage. These changes, Kleinknecht said, would go far toward minimizing astronaut workload for activating the spent stage once in orbit.[79]
  • By a vote of 49–37, the United States Senate failed to give the necessary two-thirds approval for a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would have permitted voluntary prayer in public schools. The resolution had been proposed by Senator Everett Dirksen of Illinois and would have required yes votes from 58 of the 86 Senators present before it could be sent to the individual states for ratification.[123]
  • UEFA Cup
    , was set up to promote the concept of international trade fairs. Played between 1955 and 1971, the series consisted of exhibition games ("friendlies") between teams from cities holding trade fairs.
  • The last peacekeeping forces from the
    U.S. Army's intervention in the Dominican Civil War on April 30, 1965. The last troop contingents had been from the United States, Brazil, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Paraguay.[124]
  • Died: Paul Reynaud, 87, Prime Minister of France during the surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940

September 22, 1966 (Thursday)

September 23, 1966 (Friday)

  • The
    George E. Mueller, NASA Associate Administrator for Manned Space Flight, felt that more work was required on EVA fundamentals - the performance of easily monitored and calibrated basic tasks. On this flight, the pilot would remove, install, and tighten bolts, operate connectors and hooks, strip velcro, and cut cables.[56]
  • U.S. President Johnson signed the
    Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1966 into law, extending a minimum wage (of at least $1.00 per hour) for the first time to workers on farms, in restaurants, hotels and motels, laundries and dry cleaners, and to state and local government employees of schools, hospitals and nursing homes, effective February 1, 1967. The raise had been approved by the U.S. House of Representatives, 259–89, and on September 14 by the U.S. Senate, 55–38.[128] In addition, the minimum wage for other occupations would be raised 28% over the next 17 months, from $1.25 an hour to $1.40 in 1967, and $1.60 in 1968.[129]
  • The British cargo airline ACE Freighters ceased operations and was placed in liquidation after having run up large debts for fuel.[130]
  • Born: Janet Albrechtsen, Australian journalist; in Adelaide, South Australia

September 24, 1966 (Saturday)

September 25, 1966 (Sunday)

  • The rivalry between the American film industry and American television reached a major turning point when an estimated 60,000,000 viewers (a 38.3 rating and a 61 share) tuned in to ABC Sunday Night at the Movies to watch The Bridge on the River Kwai, more than had ever seen a feature film on TV.[140] ABC had paid Columbia Pictures two million dollars for the rights for two showings of the 1957 hit film (which had had a second successful run in cinemas in 1964) and reaped $1.8 million in commercials on the first night, as the Ford Motor Company sponsored the entire film.[141][142] The result was that the three American networks entered a bidding war as they sought to get the rights to as many motion pictures as possible.[143] The ailing film industry, which had steadily lost customers to television, found the TV networks to be a major source of revenue, and began to budget more for its productions than ever before.[144]
  • The city of Kisangani was reclaimed from separatist rebels by troops of the Congolese Army after nearly two months of fighting that had started on July 29.[145] During nearly two months of fighting, more than 3,000 people had been killed.[146]
  • Gloria Ehret won the 1966 LPGA Championship golf tournament, played at the Stardust Country Club in Las Vegas. With a score of 282 for 72 holes, she finished three strokes ahead of four-time champion Mickey Wright.[147]
  • Jubilee, a Civil War novel by African-American author Margaret Walker, was first published, as an imprint by Houghton Mifflin.[148]
  • Born: Jason Flemyng, English actor; in Putney
  • Died:

September 26, 1966 (Monday)

  • In a protest over the continuing administration of South West Africa by the apartheid government of South Africa, only 28 of the 118 members of the United Nations had representatives who listened to the address given by South Africa's ambassador, D. P. de Villiers. The boycott began with a walkout by the delegations of 32 of the 36 African nations. However, four of the five members of the UN Security Council— the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and France, as well as the African nations of Ethiopia and Liberia (which had sponsored the resolution to end South Africa's mandate), and Malawi and Mauritania, remained to listen to de Villiers.[150]
  • Prescott College, a private liberal arts college in Prescott, Arizona, held its first classes, opening with a student body of 80.[151]
  • Died:

September 27, 1966 (Tuesday)

  • Francisco Cuevas Garcia, a 17-year-old boy from
    Bogota, Colombia, to Mexico City, but he did it by hiding in the wheel well of the Boeing 707 jet before the plane took off. Cuevas was found by airport workers who arrived to service the plane when it landed, and they pried his leg loose. "The wheels started coming up and I thought I was going to be crushed," the teenager told reporters, and explained that he had been homesick. The jet flew to an altitude as high as 34,000 feet (10,000 m) during the four-hour flight, and Cuevas endured thin air and a lack of heat, with outside temperatures as low as -45 °F (-43 °C).[153] After being turned over by doctors to immigration authorities, who verified his citizenship, Cuevas was placed on a bus for Queretaro.[154] Other young men who read of his story attempted to imitate Cuevas, with one dying in a fall from the wheel well of a jet,[155] and another who would fly from Havana to Madrid in 1969.[156]
  • Nien Cheng, a 51-year-old adviser to the British managers of the recently closed Royal Dutch Shell oil company in Shanghai, was arrested and placed in the city's prison, the "Number One Detention House", where she would spend the next six and a half years. As she would recount more than 20 years later in her best-selling memoir of the Cultural Revolution, Life and Death in Shanghai, she would be told upon her release that her offense had been that she had "divulged the grain supply situation in Shanghai" in a letter written in 1957 to a friend in England, and had "defended the traitor Liu Shaoqi".[157]
  • A
    Richmond Flowers, Sr. had prosecuted the case personally, but had elected not to call the state's two star witnesses.[158]
  • A three-day riot broke out at Hunter's Point in San Francisco when a white police officer, Alvin Johnson, shot and killed a 16-year-old African-American boy, Matthew Johnson, who was fleeing the scene of a stolen car.[159] The teenager reportedly was left bleeding for more than an hour, and was dead before an ambulance arrived; over the next three days, 31 police cars and 10 fire department vehicles were damaged or destroyed, and 146 rioters were arrested, 42 of whom were injured in the process, including 10 who were shot by the police.[160]
  • Two U.S. Marine jets mistakenly bombed a village in the mountains of South Vietnam's
    Montagnard civilians and wounding 17 others. During the war, the Montagnards were staunch allies of the American fight against the Viet Cong.[161]
  • Born: Stephanie Wilson, American engineer and astronaut; in Boston

September 28, 1966 (Wednesday)

Maddox
  • Lester G. Maddox, a restaurant operator and a hardline supporter of racial segregation, scored a surprise victory in a runoff election to determine the Democratic nomination for Governor of Georgia, a guarantee of the governorship in the state when there were few Republican voters. The win was seen as an upset, because Maddox's opponent, former Governor Ellis Arnall, had finished ahead of Maddox while running on a liberal platform, with a plurality of the votes in the September 14 primary.[162]
  • hijacking of Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 648 en route from Buenos Aires to the resort of Río Gallegos.[163] Of the 32 passengers on board, 19 were members of the extremist group "Operativo Cóndor", who diverted the plane to land on a horse racing track in Stanley, Falkland Islands, where they took several islanders hostage before addressing an assembled crowd to denounce British administration of the islands. According to reports later, the mostly British crowd "found the ceremony entertaining, although few of them spoke Spanish."[164] After 36 hours, the hijackers freed the hostages and surrendered to a Roman Catholic priest who gave them sanctuary in St. Mary's Church.[165] They were extradited to Argentina on 1 October.[166]
  • Gunmen in Argentina fired machine guns at the British ambassador's residence in Buenos Aires while Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was preparing for a dinner held for the diplomats of the British Commonwealth embassies. According to Argentine press reports, an extremist group planned to kidnap Prince Philip, with the ransom being the Falkland Islands, claimed by Argentina, but governed as a British colony since 1833.[167]
Eric Fleming

September 29, 1966 (Thursday)

September 30, 1966 (Friday)

Botswana, formerly Bechuanaland

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