Editing 1966 (section)

===July===
{{main|July 1966}}
* [[July 1]] – [[Joaquín Balaguer]] becomes president of the [[Dominican Republic]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Kenneth Ruddle |author2=Philip Gillette |author3=Philip S. Gillette |title=Latin American Political Statistics: Supplement to the Statistical Abstract of Latin America |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UNYOAAAAYAAJ |year=1972 |publisher=Latin American Center, University of California |isbn=978-0-87903-221-0 |page=36}}</ref>
* [[July 3]]
**31 people are arrested when a demonstration by approximately 4,000 anti-[[Vietnam War]] protesters in front of the [[United States Embassy in London]] in [[Grosvenor Square]] turns violent.
**[[René Barrientos]] is elected [[President of Bolivia]].
* [[July 6]] – [[Malawi]] becomes a republic.
* [[July 7]] – A [[Warsaw Pact]] conference ends with a promise to support North Vietnam.
* [[July 8]] – King [[Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi]] is deposed by his son [[Ntare V]], who is in turn deposed by prime minister [[Michel Micombero]].
* [[July 11]] – The [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] begins in England.
* [[July 12]] – [[Zambia]] threatens to leave the [[Commonwealth of Nations]] because of British peace overtures to [[Rhodesia]].
* [[July 13]] – In [[Chicago]], United States, [[Richard Speck]] breaks into a nurses' dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there.<ref>Fornek, Scott. [http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1662933/posts"'They're all dead!': 40 years ago this week, Richard Speck killed 8"]. ''Chicago Sun-Times''. July 9, 2006.</ref><ref>''The Murder Almanac'' {{ISBN|978-1-897-78404-4}} p. 149</ref>
* [[July 14]]
** [[Israel]]i and [[Syria]]n jet fighters clash over the [[Jordan River]].
** [[Gwynfor Evans]], President of [[Plaid Cymru]], the Welsh nationalist party, becomes Member of the United Kingdom Parliament for [[Carmarthen (UK Parliament constituency)|Carmarthen]], taking the previously Labour-held Welsh seat at a by-election with a majority of 2,435 on an 18% swing and giving his party its first representation at Westminster in its forty-one year history.
* [[July 18]]
** [[Gemini 10]] ([[John Young (astronaut)|John Young]], [[Michael Collins (astronaut)|Michael Collins]]) is launched from the United States. After docking with an [[Agena target vehicle]], the astronauts set a world altitude record of 474 miles (763&nbsp;km).
** The [[International Court of Justice]] rules in favour of South Africa in a case on the administration of [[South West Africa]] which has been brought before them by [[Ethiopia]] and [[Liberia]].
* [[July 22]] – Following the [[death of Hsu Tsu-tsai]], a visiting engineer, in The Hague under suspicious circumstances, the Chinese government declares Dutch diplomat G. J. Jongejans [[persona non grata]], but tells him not to leave China before Hsu's Chinese associates have been permitted to leave the Netherlands.
* [[July 23]] – [[Katanga Province|Katangese]] troops in [[Kisangani|Stanleyville]], [[Democratic Republic of the Congo|Congo]], revolt for several weeks in support of the exiled minister [[Moise Tshombe]].
* [[July 24]]
** U.N. Secretary General [[U Thant]] visits Moscow.
** A USAF [[McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II|F-4C Phantom]] #63-7599 is shot down by a North Vietnamese [[S-75 Dvina|SAM-2]] {{convert|45|mi}} northeast of [[Hanoi]], the first loss of a U.S. aircraft to a Vietnamese [[surface-to-air missile]] in the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite book |last=Van Staaveren |first=Jacob |title=Gradual Failure: The air war over North Vietnam 1965-1966 |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Lk6CdTcReLgC |publisher=DIANE Publishing |year=2002 |isbn=9781428990180 |pages=163–4}}</ref>
* [[July 26]] – Lord Gardiner issues the [[Practice Statement]] in the [[House of Lords]] of the United Kingdom, stating that the House, when acting in a judicial capacity, is not bound to follow its own previous [[precedent]].
* [[July 28]] – The U.S. announces that a [[Lockheed U-2]] reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba.
* [[July 29]]
** [[1966 Nigerian counter-coup]]: Army officers from the north of [[Nigeria]] execute head of state General [[Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi|Aguiyi-Ironsi]] and install [[Yakubu Gowon]].
** ''[[La Noche de los Bastones Largos]]'': Junta takes over Argentine universities.
** [[Bob Dylan]] is injured in a motorcycle accident near his home in [[Woodstock, New York]]. He is not seen in public for over a year.
* [[July 30]] – [[England national football team|England]] beats [[Germany national football team|West Germany]] 4–2 to win the [[1966 FIFA World Cup]] at [[Wembley Stadium (1923)|Wembley]] after [[extra time]].
* [[July 31]] – [[Loss of MV Darlwyne|Loss of MV ''Darlwyne'']]: a pleasure cruiser disappears off the [[Cornwall]] coast of England with the loss of all 31 aboard.<ref>'{{cite book |last=Banks |first=Martin |title=The Mysterious Loss of the Darlwyne |publisher=Tamar Books |location=Exeter |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9574742-1-5 |pages=29&ndash;31, 47}}</ref>