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1966 was the 966th year of the 2nd millennium, the 66th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1960s decade.

Art and culture

• The The UFO (Underground Freak Out) club is founded
• Timothy Leary premiers the counterculture phrase Turn on, tune in, drop out
• Swinging London Time magazine cover, the UK underground is happening.

Visual arts

• Hon - en katedral exhibited
• Equivalent VIII by Carl Andre

Morality

• Human Sexual Response, a book by Masters and Johnson
• "Is God Dead?", the April 8 cover story for the news magazine Time
• Fanny Hill is legalized in the USA, see Memoirs v. Massachusetts
• Abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum

Architecture and design

• Superarchitettura exhibition in Italy
  • Superstudio is founded
  • Archizoom is founded
• The New Brutalism by Reyner Banham
• Superboxes by Ettore Sottsass first shown in Milan

Fashion

• "Le Smoking", designed by YSL, photographed by Helmut Newton

Theatre

• Offending the Audience, a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke

Film

• Blowup by Antonioni
• Chelsea Girls by Warhol/Morrissey
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Leone
• Le Streghe by Various Directors
• The Wild Angels by Corman
• Persona by Ingmar Bergman
• King of Hearts by Philippe de Broca
• Cul-de-sac by Roman Polanski
• Morgan! by Karel Reisz
• Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut
• The Pornographers by Shohei Imamura
• What's Up, Tiger Lily? by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
• Seconds by John Frankenheimer
• Trans-Europ-Express by Alain Robbe-Grillet
• Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein
• The Embryo Hunts in Secret by Koji Wakamatsu

Music

• Deram Records founded
• ESP-Disk founded
• Sly & the Family Stone formed

Albums

• Freak Out! by Frank Zappa
• The in Sound from Way Out! by Perrey & Kingsley
• Colors by Ken Nordine

Singles

• Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
• Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Cher
• Psychotic Reaction by Count Five
• Baby Come Back by Eddy Grant
• Se telefonando by Mina
• These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
• Girl I've Got a Date by Alton Ellis
• Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You by Jimmy Castor
• Fattie Fattie by The Heptones
• I'm Your Puppet by James & Bobby Purify
• Sunshine Superman by Donovan
• Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis
• Roda by Gilberto Gil
• It'll Never Happen Again by Tim Hardin
• Footprints by Wayne Shorter
• La Bohème by Charles Aznavour
• Un homme et une femme by Francis Lai
• Pretty Ballerina by the Left Banke
• Crickets Sing for Anamaria by Marcos Valle

Compositions

• Musique pour les soupers du Roi Ubu by Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Literature

Fiction

• Les aventures de Jodelle, graphic novel by Guy Peellaert
• Valley of the Dolls, novel by Jacqueline Susann
• Ma mère, novella by Georges Bataille
• Gordon, novel by Edith Templeton
• The 120 days of Sodom and other writings, The 120 days of Sodom in English

Non-fiction

• Against Interpretation, essays (including Notes on "Camp") by Susan Sontag
• The Art of Memory by British historian Frances Yates
• Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
• "On the Poverty of Student Life" by Mustapha Khayati

Births

• September 9 - Tommy Guerrero, American composer and musician
• Zack Snyder, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer
• Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian popular singer
• Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
• John Cusack, American actor
• Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
• Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
• Sophie Marceau, French actress
• Vincent Cassel, French actor
• Sinéad O'Connor, Irish pop singer

Deaths

• André Breton (1896 - 1966)
• Siegfried Kracauer (1889 - 1966)
• Irving Klaw (1911 - 1966)