1966 in India

From MedBib.com - Medicine & Nature

See also: 1965 in India, other events of 1966, 1967 in India and the Timeline of Indian history.

Events

• 3 January - Prime Minister of India Lal Bahadur Shastri and President of Pakistan Ayub Khan sign a Soviet-mediated peace pact in Tashkent, Uzbek S.S.R.
• 11 January - Prime Minister Shastri dies of heart attack in Tashkent.
• 19 January - Supported by provincial Congress chief ministers, Indira Gandhi becomes prime minister.
• 28 March - Indira Gandhi visits Washington, DC.
• 19 June: Shiv Sena founded by Bal Thackeray.
• 12 July - Indira Gandhi visits Moscow.

Full date unknown

• Reita Faria, Femina Miss India is crowned Miss World, the first Indian to win the title.

Sport

• Krishan Lal, (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.

Births

• 11 January - Sunil Kumar Mahato, politician, assassinated (d.2007).
• 3 March - Amira Abraham, novelist.
• 3 May - Firdous Bamji, actor.
• 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).
• Devarakonda Balagangadhara Tilak, poet, novelist and short story writer (b.1921).