Editing 1966 (section)

===September===
{{main|September 1966}}
[[File:Flag of Botswana.svg|thumb|September 30: [[Botswana]] becomes independent]]
* [[September 1]]
** [[United Nations Secretary-General]] [[U Thant]] declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.
** 98 British tourists die when [[Britannia Airways Flight 105]] crashes in [[Ljubljana]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]].
* [[September 6]] – South African Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] is stabbed to death in Parliament by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]].
* [[September 9]] – [[NATO]] decides to move [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe]] to Belgium.
* [[September 12]] – [[B. J. Vorster]] becomes the new [[Prime Minister of South Africa]].
* [[September 13]] – [[Cultural Revolution]] in China: Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported by [[Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union|TASS]] in the Soviet Union.
* [[September 16]]
** In South Vietnam, [[Thích Trí Quang]] ends a 100-day hunger strike.
** The [[Metropolitan Opera House (Lincoln Center)|Metropolitan Opera House]] opens at [[Lincoln Center]] in New York City with the world premiere of [[Samuel Barber]]'s opera ''[[Antony and Cleopatra (1966 opera)|Antony and Cleopatra]]''.
* [[September 19]] – Indonesian military commander (later President) [[Suharto]] announces the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations.
* [[September 29]] – [[Hurricane Inez]] strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in the [[Dominican Republic]] and [[Haiti]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Longshore |first=David |title=Encyclopedia of hurricanes, typhoons, and cyclones |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York |year=2008 |isbn=9781438118796 |page=239}}</ref>
* [[September 30]]
** The [[Bechuanaland Protectorate]] in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as [[Botswana]], with [[Seretse Khama]] as its first [[President of Botswana|President]].
** [[Baldur von Schirach]] and [[Albert Speer]] are released from [[Spandau Prison]] in West Berlin.