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1966 in India
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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
| Photo | Post | Name |
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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) | ||
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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
| Photo | Post | Name |
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| Andhra Pradesh | ||
| Assam | ||
| Bihar | ||
| Gujarat | ||
| Haryana | ||
| Himachal Pradesh | ||
| Jammu and Kashmir | ||
| Karnataka | ||
| Kerala | ||
| Madhya Pradesh | ||
| Maharashtra | ||
| Nagaland | ||
| Odisha | ||
| Punjab | ||
| Rajasthan | ||
| Uttar Pradesh |
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
- Krishan Lal, (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).
- 21 January – Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya, Educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, The President of India (b. 1905).
- 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
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Anton Vereshchagin, "Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions" ([www.webcitation.org/6WmcYM836 archived]), Russia & India Report, 2 October 2013.
- ↑ "Explained: Why a melting French glacier has thrown up decades-old Indian newspapers". The Indian Express. 16 July 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.
- ↑ 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.
