1966 THINGS OF NOTE

The year before the Summer of Love and the Monterey Pop Festival sweep the nation in a counter culture revolution and a year after America loses Malcolm X, here are a few items of note and particular influence for 1966.

01.3 - The first Acid Test is conducted at the Fillmore, San Francisco. LSD is legal until October of this year and is still being used in American psychiatry.

03.1 - Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

03.4 - The Beatles; in The London Evening Standard, John Lennon makes the comment, "We're more popular than Jesus now".

05.16 - The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released.

06.8 - Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5".

06.13 - Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them.

06.30 - France formally leaves NATO.

08.8 - The Beatles release the Revolver album in the United States

09.29 - The Beatles play their very last concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, California.

10.8 - Star Trek, the classic science fiction television series, debuts with its first episode titled, The Man Trap.

11.? - Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party.

12.15 - In Los Angeles, the death of Walt Disney, he is 65.

Not sure where my need for all things 1966 came from, but it has given me plenty of food for thought and awesome new useless knowledge to be used in my next trivia challenge! My cultural icons for the year are posted below. Could they be more different? Or more the same?