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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents[]

Photo Post Name
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)
Indira Gandhi in 1967.jpg Indira Gandhi
Chief Justice of India P. B. Gajendragadkar
until 24 January
Amal Kumar Sarkar
15 March – 29 June
Koka Subba Rao
starting 30 June

Governors[]

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

Events[]

  • 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.[1]
  • 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.[1]
  • 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.[2]
  • 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
  • 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
  • 12 July – Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
  • 27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[3]
  • 17 November – Reita Faria, Femina Miss India is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.
  • 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[3]
  • 22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[3]
  • 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.[4]

Sport[]

  • , (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

Births[]

  • 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
  • 24 March - Galla Jayadev, politician and member of parliament from Guntur.
  • 17 April – Vikram, actor.
  • 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
  • 14 July – Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
  • 28 August – Priya Dutt, politician.
  • 1 September - Sonam Wangchuk, Indian engineer, innovator and education reformist
  • 30 October – K. V. Anand, cinematographer and film director (d. 2021)
  • 5 December – Dayanidhi Maran, politician.

Full date unknown[]

  • Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and journalist.
  • September – Faisal Khan, actor.

Deaths[]

  • 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, Extremist (b. 1883).

See also[]

  • Bollywood films of 1966
  • Category:1966 establishments in India

References[]

  1. ^ a b Anton Vereshchagin, "Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions" ([www.webcitation.org/6WmcYM836 archived]), Russia & India Report, 2 October 2013.
  2. ^ "Explained: Why a melting French glacier has thrown up decades-old Indian newspapers". The Indian Express. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
  3. ^ a b c R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.
  4. ^ 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.
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