1966 in India

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Events in the year 1966 in the Republic of India.

Incumbents

Photo	Post	Name
	President of India	Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
	Prime Minister of India	Lal Bahadur Shastri (11 January)
		Gulzarilal Nanda until 24 January (acting Prime Minister)
		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).

See also

• Bollywood films of 1966
• Category:1966 establishments in India

References

1. Anton Vereshchagin, "Lal Bahadur Shastri’s death in Tashkent still raises questions" ([www.webcitation.org/6WmcYM836 archived]), Russia & India Report, 2 October 2013.
2. R. C. Bhardwaj, Constitution Amendment in India; New Delhi: Lok Sabha Secretariat, January 1995; pp. 37–39.
3. 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.