1966 - Roger Ward beats favorite Mario Andretti in an Indy 500 qualifying race at the Trenton Speedway.
1966 - Buddhist monks stage a hunger strike at a shrine in Saigon, protesting Premier Ky's government and the Vietnam War.
1966 - Wreckage in the aftermath of a deadly plane crash at the Tokyo Airport.
1966 - A rocket is successfully launched by French space travel forces in Algeria.
1966 - The Defense Communications Agency works within NORAD headquarters.
1966 - Pedestrians cross wet, slushy streets as snow is plowed in New York City, New York.
1966 - The Apollo Saturn 1B rocket is seen ascending through the night sky, and then successfully staging and re-entering the Earth's atmosphere.
1966 - Firemen work to put out the blaze after a disastrous car-truck collision.
1966 - Greek sailors evacuate wounded survivors of a sunken ship in the Aegean Sea.
1966 - The Grand National Steeplechase begins on a track in Aintree, England.
1966 - Billie Jean King defeats Maria Bueno at Wimbledon, and receives her trophy from Princess Marina.
1966 - Elephants, hippos, clowns, and all manner of horses appear in a circus parade held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
1966 - A circus parade begins in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, featuring clowns and animals.
1966 - Secretary McNamara holds a press conference about the bombing of military targets in Hanoi and Haiphong, and USAF airmen load bombs onto jets.
1966 - Charlie Chaplin celebrates his birthday on the set of "A Countess From Hong Kong," celebrating with Sophia Loren, Tippi Hedren, John Huston, and family members Oona, Josephine, Victoria and Sydney Chaplin.
1966 - Producer Robert Radnitz and child actor Pat Cardi ride the Sandia Peak Tramway outside Albuquerque, New Mexico, and the next day attend the premiere in the city of their movie "And Now Miquel."
1965 - Astronaut Ed White becomes the first American to perform a space walk.
1966 - Women model fashionable new swim caps by a pool in Jamaica.
1966 - Miss Oklahoma, Jane Anne Jayroe, wins the Miss America pageant.
1966 - Paramount Pictures, Desilu studios, and the El Taco restaurant are seen in Hollywood.
1966 - Troops quell anti-government and anti-America demonstrations in Saigon.
1966 - LBJ's speech on foreign policy in Vietnam is received well by students and faculty of Princeton University's new School of Public and International Affairs.
1966 - U Thant is unanimously reappointed Secretary-General of the UN.
1966 - The Green Bay Packers defeat the Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship game.
1966 - A jalopy race begins on England's Brands Hatch racetrack.
1966 - American soldiers host radio broadcasts and form military parades while stationed in France, which may end soon as President de Gaulle has called for the removal of all NATO forces.
1966 - The Northwestern Wildcats defeat the Minnesota Golden Gophers in football.
1966 - A football game between the Northwestern Wildcats and Minnesota Golden Gophers begins.
1966 - Student airmen watch a film of the Northrop F-5A warplane bombing jungle targets during the Vietnam War.
1966 - Intercontinental and anti-aircraft missiles are driven through Red Square in Moscow, Russia as part of a military parade celebrating May Day.
1966 - NASA Astronauts Tom Stafford and Gene Cernan are driven across Cape Kennedy and helped into their Gemini IX space capsule.
1966 - NORAD headquarters operates within the Cheyenne Mountain range.
1966 - Men go surfing in Hawaii.
1966 - Spectators get to watch German car tests where the automobiles get totaled, crashed, and burned.
1966 - LBJ welcomes Vice President Humphrey back to the White House after Humphrey's tour of southeast Asia. Then the President accepts the Freedom House Award.
1966 - Miss California, Maria Remenyi, wins the Miss USA beauty pageant.
1966 - The issue of Rhodesian independence from Britain is brought before the UN.
1966 - The Metropolitan Opera Company performs its last show in the Metropolitan Opera House, which is to be torn down days later.
1966 - A democratic election is held in south Vietnam.
1966 - Kauai King and his jockey Don Brumfield win the Preakness Stakes.
1966 - Men go surfing in Hawaii, and many slip in the waves.
1966 - Prime Minister Nkrumah of Ghana is welcomed to India by Indira Gandhi, unaware that a military coup is planning to overthrow him back at home.
1966 - An enormous crawler brings the Project Apollo capsule to a launch pad at Cape Kennedy for a lunar mission test launch.
1966 - Student pilots attend a military orientation briefing welcoming them to a supersonic jet school.
1966 - UN Secretary General U Thant meets with President de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France to discuss the Vietnam War.
1966 - Women modeling fashionable clothes visit Universal Studios, including the set of the TV show "Laredo."
1966 - Israel's John F. Kennedy memorial is officially dedicated.
1966 - LBJ and Mexico's President Ordaz tour a new US-Mexican dam in Mexico.