Editing 1966 (section)

===April===
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* [[April 2]] – The [[Indonesia]]n army demands that the country rejoin the [[United Nations]].
* [[April 3]] – [[Luna 10]] is the first manmade object to enter lunar orbit.
* [[April 5]] &ndash; During the [[Buddhist Uprising]], South Vietnamese military prime minister [[Nguyễn Cao Kỳ]] personally attempts to lead the capture of the restive city of [[Da Nang|Đà Nẵng]] before backing down.<ref>{{cite book |title=Intervention : how America became involved in Vietnam |last=Kahin|first=George McT. |location=New York City |publisher=Knopf |year=1986 |pages=423&ndash;424 |isbn=0-394-54367-X |author-link=George McTurnan Kahin |url=https://archive.org/details/intervention00geor}}</ref>
* [[April 7]] – The United Kingdom asks the [[United Nations Security Council]] for authority to use force to stop [[oil tanker]]s that violate the embargo against [[Rhodesia]] (authority is given [[April 10]]).
* [[April 8]]
** Buddhists in [[South Vietnam]] protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for [[Free and fair election|free elections]].
** [[Leonid Brezhnev]] becomes General Secretary of the [[Soviet Union]], as well as Leader of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R.
* [[April 14]] 
** Kenyan Vice President [[Oginga Odinga]] resigns, saying "invisible government" representing foreign interests now runs the country. He will head a new party, the [[Kenya People's Union]]. 
**The [[South Vietnam]]ese government promises free elections in 3–5 months.
* [[April 15]] – An anti-[[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] conspiracy is exposed in [[Egypt]].
* [[April 18]]
** China declares that it will stop economic aid to [[Indonesia]].
** The [[38th Academy Awards]] ceremony is held in [[Santa Monica, California]]: ''[[The Sound of Music (film)|The Sound of Music]]'' wins [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].
* [[April 19]] – [[Moors murders]]: [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] go on trial at [[Chester Crown Court]] in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November [[1963]] and October [[1965]].
* [[April 21]]
** An [[artificial heart]] is installed in the chest of Marcel DeRudder in a [[Houston, Texas]], hospital.
** The opening of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] is televised for the first time.
** [[Haile Selassie]] visits [[Jamaica]] for the first time, meeting with [[Rastafari movement|Rasta]] leaders.
* [[April 24]] – [[Uniform Time Act|Uniform]] [[daylight saving time]] is first observed in most parts of North America.
* [[April 26]] 
** A new government is formed in the [[Republic of the Congo]], led by [[Ambroise Noumazalaye]].
** The magnitude 5.1 [[1966 Tashkent earthquake|Tashkent earthquake]] affects the largest city in [[Soviet Central Asia]] with a maximum [[Medvedev–Sponheuer–Karnik scale|MSK intensity]] of VII (''Very strong''). [[Tashkent]] is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
* [[April 27]] – [[Pope Paul VI]] and Soviet Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] meet in the [[Vatican City|Vatican]] (the first meeting between leaders of the [[Roman Catholic Church]] and the [[Soviet Union]]).
* [[April 28]] – In [[Rhodesia]], security forces kill seven [[ZANLA]] men in combat; ''[[Chimurenga]]'', the [[ZANU]] rebellion, begins.
* [[April 30]] – Regular [[hovercraft]] service begins over the [[English Channel]] (discontinued in 2000).