Editing 1966 (section)

===February===
{{main|February 1966}}
* [[February 1]] – Around 2,600 [[political prisoner]]s are released by [[East Germany]], in return for "donations" worth approximately $10,000 a head from [[West Germany]].<ref>{{cite book |title=U.S. News & World Report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=47tVAAAAYAAJ |year=1966 |publisher=U.S. News Publishing Corporation |page=19}}</ref>
* [[February 3]] – The unmanned Soviet [[Luna 9]] spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the [[Moon]].
* [[February 4]] – [[All Nippon Airways Flight 60]] plunges into Tokyo Bay; 133 people are killed.
* [[February 7]]
** The [[1966 Iloilo City fire |Great Fire of Iloilo]], Philippines, breaks out in a lumber yard and burns for almost half a day, destroying nearly three-quarters of the [[Iloilo City Proper|City Proper]] area and causing 50 million pesos in total property damage.<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Heritage Community Resilience: The Experience of Stakeholders in Calle Real, Iloilo City, Philippines |doi=10.1088/1755-1315/1091/1/012011 |date=2022 |last1=Ibabao |first1=Rhodella A. |last2=Balinas |first2=Vicente |last3=Camena |first3=Jerilee |last4=Trance |first4=Rene |last5=Defiesta |first5=Gay |last6=Grio |first6=Mary Earl |last7=Oreta |first7=Andres Winston |last8=Penaredondo |first8=Suzette |journal=IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science |volume=1091 |issue=1 |page=012011 |bibcode=2022E&ES.1091a2011I |doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 18, 1966 |title=Official Week in Review: February 16 ─ March 29, 1966 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/1966/04/18/official-week-in-review-february-16-march-29-1966/ |access-date=February 7, 2024 |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2023-02-01 |title=Sta. Teresita del Niño Church in Iloilo City |url=https://www.theoldchurches.com/philippines/iloilo/iloilo-city/sta-teresita-del-nino-church-iloilo-city/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=THEOLDCHURCHES |language=en-US}}</ref>
** [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of the United States and [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] of South Vietnam convene with other officials in a [[Declaration of Honolulu, 1966|summit]] in [[Honolulu, Hawaii]] to discuss the course of the [[Vietnam War]].<ref>David C. Humphrey & David S. Patterson (eds), [https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 "January 31–March 8: The Honolulu Conference; Congressional Hearings on the War] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216202803/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v04/ch2 |date=February 16, 2015 }}", ''Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume IV, Vietnam, 1966'', 1998.</ref> 
* [[February 14]] – The [[Australian dollar]] is introduced at a rate of 2 dollars per pound, or 10 shillings per dollar.
* [[February 19]] – The naval minister of the United Kingdom, [[Christopher Mayhew]], resigns over defence policy.
* [[February 20]] – While Soviet author and translator [[Valery Tarsis]] is abroad, the [[Soviet Union]] negates his citizenship.
* [[February 23]] – [[1966 Syrian coup d'état]]: An intra-party military coup in [[Syria]] replaces the previous government of [[Amin al-Hafiz]] by one led by [[Salah Jadid]].
* [[February 24]] – A coup led by the police and military of [[Ghana]] raises the [[National Liberation Council]] to power while president [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is abroad.
* [[February 28]] – British Prime Minister [[Harold Wilson]] calls a General Election in the United Kingdom, to be held on March 31.