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By Barry Boyce,
CyclingRevealed Historian |
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| Date |
Race |
Winner |
Distance |
| March 19, 1966 |
Milan-San Remo |
Eddy Merckx (Bel) |
288 km |
| April 9, 1966 |
Tour of Flanders |
Ward Sels (Bel) |
243 km |
| April 17, 1966 |
Paris-Roubaix |
Felice Gimonde (Ita) |
262 km |
| May 2, 1966 |
Liege-Bastogne-Liege |
Jacques Anquetil (Fra) |
253 km |
| April 28-May 15, 1966 |
Vuelta a Espana |
Francisco Gabica (Spa) |
18 Stages,
2,950 km |
| May 20-June 14, 1966 |
Giro d'Italia |
Felice Gimonde (Ita) |
22 Stages
3,572 km |
| June 21-July 14, 1966 |
Tour de France |
Lucien Aimar (Fra) |
22 Stages
4,322 km |
| August 28, 1966 |
World
Championships |
Rudi Altig (Ger) |
Nurburgring, Germany 274 km |
October 22, 1966 |
Giro
di Lombardia |
Felice Gimonde (Ita) |
Milan-Como,
266 km |
• France - President Charles de Gaulle supervised the testing of a nuclear bomb 10 times stronger than the Hiroshima bomb of WW2.
• Space - the Soviet Union successfully landed an unmanned spacecraft (Luna 9) on the moon.
• Vietnam War - President Lyndon Johnson, breaking a campaign promise, escalated the war in Vietnam.
• China - the Cultural Revolution begins in Communist China.
Notable Deaths - Mississippi John Hurt , 1893-1966, legendary, soft-spoken Delta Blues singer/guitarist rose from the obscurity of Mississippi cotton fields to a recording career in the 1920's. After early failure during the depression, he returned to the cotton fields before being re-discovered in 1963. Stardom graced Mississippi John after appearing at the 1963 Newport Folk Festival.
* Tour de France Champion: Sylvere Maes (Bel), 1909-1966, TdF champion in 1936 and 1939.
Walt Disney, 1901-1966, founder of the Walt Disney Corporation in Burbank, California, he created classic animated films starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. In 1955, Disney opened Disneyland in Anaheim, California.
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