1966 in India
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{{Year in India|1966}}
Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
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| rowspan=3|Prime Minister of India | Lal Bahadur Shastri |
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| Gulzarilal Nanda |
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| | rowspan=3|Chief Justice of India
| P. B. Gajendragadkar |
| | Amal Kumar Sarkar 15 March – 29 June |
| | Koka Subba Rao starting 30 June |
= Governors =
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| Andhra Pradesh |
| Assam |
| Bihar |
| Gujarat |
| Haryana
| Dharma Vira (starting 1 November) |
| Jammu and Kashmir |
| Karnataka |
| Kerala
| Ajith Prasad Jain (until 6 February) |
| Madhya Pradesh
| K. Chengalaraya Reddy (until 2 February) |
| Maharashtra |
| Nagaland |
| Odisha
| Ajudhia Nath Khosla (until 5 August) |
| Punjab
| Sardar Ujjal Singh (until 26 June) |
| Rajasthan |
| Uttar Pradesh |
Events
- National income - {{INR}}321,058 million
= January - May =
- 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.{{cite web |last=Vereshchagin |first=Anton |title=Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions |work=Russia & India Report |date=2 October 2013 |access-date=2024-04-01 |url=https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/10/02/lal_bahadur_shastris_death_in_tashkent_still_raises_questions_29837 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428160916/https://www.rbth.com/arts/2013/10/02/lal_bahadur_shastris_death_in_tashkent_still_raises_questions_29837 |archive-date=2019-04-28 |url-status=live}}
- 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
- 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.{{Cite web|date=2020-07-16|title=Explained: Why a melting French glacier has thrown up decades-old Indian newspapers|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/melting-french-glacier-copies-of-decades-old-indian-newspapers-6507243/|access-date=2021-07-29|website=The Indian Express|language=en}}
- 5 March - Indian Air Force bombs Aizawl following Mizo National Front uprising.{{Cite news |title=Air attacks in Mizoram, 1966 - our dirty, little secret |work=The Economic Times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-commentary/air-attacks-in-mizoram-1966-our-dirty-little-secret/articleshow/18565883.cms |access-date=2022-04-13}}{{Cite web |last=Buhril |first=David |title=50 years ago today, Indira Gandhi got the Indian Air Force to bomb its own people |url=http://scroll.in/article/804555/50-years-ago-today-indira-gandhi-got-the-indian-air-force-to-bomb-its-own-people |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}
- 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
- 20 April – Lumding Train Bombing occurs on the North-East Frontier Railway.Members from all sections of the Lok Sabha express deep concern (April 21, 1966) - The Times of India
= June - December =
- 6 June - First Indira Gandhi ministry devalues Indian rupee by 57%.{{Cite web |last=Dugal |first=Ira |date=2016-06-06 |title=Why 6/6/’66 was a devilish day for the rupee |url=https://www.livemint.com/Money/3wTK1Nm9I1fVeyHUIO5FAK/6-June-1966-A-date-to-remember-in-the-rupees-history.html |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=mint |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=June 7, 2016 |first=Sujay |last=Gupta |title=Forgotten legacy of 6/6/66 |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/forgotten-legacy-of-6/6/66/articleshow/52629071.cms |access-date=2022-04-13 |website=The Times of India |language=en}}
- 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.{{Cite web |date=2022-03-12 |title=How Nehru’s friend Jayanti Dharma Teja went from Lutyens’ darling to international fugitive |url=https://theprint.in/past-forward/how-nehrus-friend-jayanti-dharma-teja-went-from-lutyens-darling-to-international-fugitive/867452/ |access-date=2022-04-28 |website=ThePrint |language=en-US}}
- 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.
Law
- 27 August – Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.
- 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
- 22 December – Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
- 29 December – Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.N. T. Krishna Kishore, "[http://www.ijsrp.org/research_paper_mar2012/ijsrp-Mar-2012-70.pdf 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.
Sport
- Krishan Lal, (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
Births
- 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 {{ndash}} Vikraman, film director.
- File:Vikram at the ‘Kadaram Kondan’ Press Meet.jpg]]17 April – Vikram, actor.
- 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
- 15 May – M. Kumaran, politician.
- 30 May – Rajinder Garg, politician.
- 8 July {{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 {{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.
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- 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 (b. 1883).
See also
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