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| 1966 |
| | | Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, becomes India's prime minister as leader of the Congress party | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Robert Menzies retires as Australian prime minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 9 is the first to achieve a soft-landing on the moon and to send back photographic data from the surface | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Kwame Nkrumah, the founding father of Ghana, is toppled in a coup while away on a state visit to China | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Jean-Bedel Bokassa takes power in a coup in the Central African Republic | |
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| c. 1966 |
| | | Scientists at the US Geological Survey develop the theory of plate tectonics as the explanation of continental drift | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Real-life husband and wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as the married couple in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Austrian author Peter Handke provokes interest with his first play Offending the Audience | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 orbits the moon and broadcasts the Internationale to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party | |
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| 1966 |
| | | Suharto forces the Indonesian president, Achmed Sukarno, to hand over to him all executive powers | |
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