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1966

January 14th

Soviet space 'Chief Designer' Sergei Korolev died suddenly, and the Soviet Space programme suffered and started to slip, and lose ground on the American Space programme.

January 31st

Soviet probe Luna 9 became the first soft landing on the Moon.

February 18th

Soviet cosmonaut Grigory Nelyubov was killed by a train. Nelyubov served as back-up for Yuri Gagarin and the Vostok 1 mission.

February 28th

NASA astronaut Elliott See died. He was the back-up crew for the Gemini 5 mission, and the command pilot for the Gemini 9 flight. But was killed in St. Louis, Missouri, in the crash of a T-38 jet.

July 31st

England won the World Cup trophy by beating West Germany 4-2 at Wembley, London. England striker Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick, with Martin Peters the other scorer of England's goal.

The 'Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution' began in China.

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