1966 in India
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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.
Incumbents
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President of India | Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan |
| Prime Minister of India | Lal Bahadur Shastri (11 January) | |
| Gulzarilal Nanda until 24 January (acting Prime Minister) | ||
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Indira Gandhi |
Events
- 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.[1]
- 11 January - Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.[1]
- 19 January - Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
- 28 March - Indira Gandhi visits Washington, D.C..
- 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
- 12 July - Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.
- 27 August - Eighteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[2]
- 17 November - Reita Faria, Femina Miss India is crowned Miss World 1966, the first Indian to win the title.
- 11 December - Nineteenth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[2]
- 22 December - Twentieth Amendment of the Constitution of India takes effect.[2]
- 29 December - Enactment of Seeds Act, creating central administration to oversee and certify seeds.[3]
Sport
- Krishan Lal, (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.
Births
- 11 January - Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated (d.2007).
- 3 May - Firdous Bamji, actor.
- 14 July - Sachin Puthran, entrepreneur.
- 28 August - Priya Dutt, politician.
- September - Faisal Khan, actor.
- 5 December - Dayanidhi Maran, politician.
Full date unknown
- Raj Kamal Jha, novelist and journalist.
Deaths
- 11 January - Lal Bahadur Shastri, politician and 2nd Prime Minister of India (b. 1904).
- 21 January - Dr. Manubhai P. Vaidya, Educationist and recipient of Best Teacher Award from Dr. S. Radhakrishnan, The President of India (b. 1905).
- Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (b. 1921).
- 24 January - Homi J. Bhabha, Indian nuclear physicist.
See also
References
- ^ a b Anton Vereshchagin, "Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions" ([www.webcitation.org/6WmcYM836 archived]), Russia & India Report, 2 October 2013.
- ^ a b c R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.
- ^ N. T. Krishna Kishore, "Enhancement of Production by Development of Resources in Critical Production Operations in Multi Crop Seed Conditioning Unit"; International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications 2.3, March, 2012.
