Editing 1966 (section)

===June===
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* [[June 2]]
** [[Éamon de Valera]] is re-elected as Irish president, aged 84.
** [[Surveyor program]]: [[Surveyor 1]] lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the [[Moon]], becoming the first U.S. [[spacecraft]] to soft-land on another world.
** Four former cabinet ministers including [[Évariste Kimba]] are executed in the [[Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville)|Democratic Republic of the Congo]] for alleged involvement in a plot to kill [[Mobutu Sese Seko]].
* [[June 3]] – [[Joaquín Balaguer]] is elected president of the [[Dominican Republic]].
* [[June 5]] – [[Gemini 9A]]: [[Gene Cernan]] completes the second U.S. spacewalk (2 hours, 7 minutes).
* [[June 6]] – [[Civil rights movement|Civil rights]] activist [[James Meredith]] is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the [[March Against Fear]].
* [[June 8]]
** A [[North American XB-70 Valkyrie]] strategic bomber prototype is destroyed in a mid-air collision with an [[F-104 Starfighter]] chase plane during a photo shoot. [[NASA]] pilot [[Joseph A. Walker]] and [[USAF]] test pilot Carl Cross are both killed.
** [[1966 Topeka tornado]]: [[Topeka, Kansas]], is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the [[Fujita scale]], the first to exceed US$100&nbsp;million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed, and the campus of [[Washburn University]] suffers catastrophic damage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php |title=NOAA.gov |access-date=October 6, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141103201321/http://www.crh.noaa.gov/top/events/66tornado.php |archive-date=November 3, 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 12]] – Chicago's [[Division Street riots]] begin in response to police shooting of a young Puerto Rican man. 
* [[June 13]] – ''[[Miranda v. Arizona]]'': The [[Supreme Court of the United States]] rules that the police must inform [[suspect]]s of their rights before questioning them.
* [[June 14]] – The [[Holy See|Vatican]] abolishes the ''[[Index Librorum Prohibitorum]]''. 
* [[June 17]] – An [[Air France]] personnel strike begins.
* [[June 18]] – [[CIA]] chief [[William Raborn]] resigns; [[Richard Helms]] becomes his successor.
* [[June 28]] – [[Argentine Revolution]]: In [[Argentina]], a [[military dictatorship|military junta]] calling itself ''Revolución Argentina'' deposes president [[Arturo Umberto Illia]] in a [[coup]] and appoints General [[Juan Carlos Onganía]] to power.
* [[June 29]]
** [[Vietnam War]]: U.S. planes begin bombing [[Hanoi]] and [[Haiphong]].<ref>{{cite book |first=William |last=Stewart Logan |title=Hanoi: Biography of a City |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QiYG5lXd4XsC&pg=PA149 |year=2000 |publisher=UNSW Press |isbn=978-0-86840-443-1 |pages=149}}</ref>
** The strike by the [[National Union of Seamen]] in the United Kingdom is called off.<ref name=Seamenstrike/>
* [[June 30]]
** France formally leaves the military structure of [[NATO]].
** The [[National Organization for Women]] (NOW) is founded in Washington, D.C.