1966 in India

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See also:	List of years in India; Timeline of Indian history

Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.

IncumbentsEdit

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

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]

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.

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).

↑ ^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.

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