What Happened in Jul 1966

United States Navy Formalizes the 'Positive Identification Radar Advisory Zone' Known as PIRAZ

PIRAZ is a United States Navy acronym for Positive Identification RADAR Advisory Zone. The zone is defined by the air search RADAR coverage of a... Read more

FDA Approves Sanofi-Aventis's Lasix

Lasix is a loop diuretic (water pill) that prevents your body from absorbing too much salt, allowing the salt to instead be passed in your... Read more

Dedication of the Yad Kennedy Memorial

Yad Kennedy, located in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council near Jerusalem, Israel, is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, President of the United States,... Read more

Apollo 2 Mission

Apollo 2 is the informal name of the launch of AS-203. The main purpose of the AS-203 flight was to investigate the effects of weightlessness on... Read more

Operation Hastings

Operation Hastings was an American military operation in the Vietnam War. Having been threatened by numerous encounters with enemy troops in the... Read more

England Defeats West Germany to Win 1966 FIFA World Cup

The host of the World Cup 1966 was England (mainly because of a centennial of The Football Association falling in 1963). FIFA made a controversial... Read more

Batman: The Movie released

Batman (also known as Batman: The Movie) was the first full-length theatrical adaptation of the DC Comics character. The 20th Century Fox release... Read more