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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
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| President of India
| Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
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| rowspan=3|Prime Minister of India
| Lal Bahadur Shastri<br />(Prime Minister until 11 January)
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| Gulzarilal Nanda<br />until 24 January (acting Prime Minister)
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| Indira Gandhi
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| Vice President of India
| Zakir Husain
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| P. B. Gajendragadkar<br />until 24 January
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| Amal Kumar Sarkar<br />15 March – 29 June
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| Koka Subba Rao<br />starting 30 June
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Governors
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| Andhra Pradesh
| Pattom A. Thanu Pillai
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| Assam
| Vishnu Sahay
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| Bihar
| M. A. S. Ayyangar
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| Gujarat
| Nityanand Kanungo
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| Haryana
| Dharma Vira (starting 1 November)
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| Jammu and Kashmir
| Bhagwan Sahay
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| Karnataka
| V. V. Giri
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| Kerala
| Ajith Prasad Jain (until 6 February)<br/>Bhagwan Sahay (starting 6 February)
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| Madhya Pradesh
| K. Chengalaraya Reddy (until 2 February)<br/>P. V. Dixit (2 February-9 February)<br/>K. Chengalaraya Reddy (starting 10 February)
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| Maharashtra
| P V Cherian
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| Nagaland
| Vishnu Sahay
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| Odisha
| Ajudhia Nath Khosla (until 5 August)<br/>Khaleel Ahmed (5 August-11 September)<br/>Ajudhia Nath Khosla (starting 11 September)
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| Punjab
| Sardar Ujjal Singh (until 26 June)<br/>Dharma Vira (starting 26 June)
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| Rajasthan
| Sampurnanand
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| Uttar Pradesh
| Bishwanath Das
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Events
- National income - 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.
- 11 January – Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
- 5 March - Indian Air Force bombs Aizawl following Mizo National Front uprising.
- 28 March – Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C.
- 20 April – Lumding Train Bombing occurs on the North-East Frontier Railway.
June - December
- 6 June - First Indira Gandhi ministry devalues Indian rupee by 57%.
- 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.
- 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.
- 11 December – Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.
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 Vikraman, film director.
- thumb|135x135px|[[Vikram (actor)|Vikram]]17 April – Vikram, actor.
- 3 May – Firdous Bamji, actor.
- 15 May – M. Kumaran, politician.
- 30 May – Rajinder Garg, politician.
- 8 July 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 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.
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).
- 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
- Bollywood films of 1966
- :Category:1966 establishments in India