1966

1966

MCMLXVI
 * FA Cup Winners: Evenrton (beat Sheffield Wednesday 3-2, 14 May)
 * Christmas Number One: Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass of Home
 * Eurovision Song Contest: Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, 05 March
 * UK Eurovision Entry: Kenneth McKellar - A Man Without Love (9th)
 * Contest Winner: Udo Juergens - Merci, Chérie (Austria)


 * Blue Peter Team: Christopher Trace, Valerie Singleton, John Noakes
 * Doctor Who: William Hartnell (S3, until 29 October) then Patrick Troughton (S4 from 05 November)
 * Radio 1 Breakfast Show DJ:  -
 * Big Christmas Day Film On BBC1: The Comancheros (a western starring John Wayne)

Main events

 * UK General Election (31 March), decimalisation announced for 1971,
 * The Beatles play last conventional live concert in the UK (01 May)
 * England win the FIFA World Cup, with a record UK television audience (30 July),

TV
(channel and first broadcast date in brackets)

New shows
full list
 * Till Death Us Do Part (BBC1, 06 June), Cathy Come Home (BBC1, 16 November)

Shows ending
full list

Music

 * Biggest selling singles:
 * Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass of Home, Frank Sinatra - Strangers In The Night, The Beatles - Yellow Submarine / Eleanor Rigby, The Four Tops - Reach Out I'll Be There.
 * Biggest selling albums (no list available, popular no.1s include):
 * The Who - My Generation, Rolling Stones - Aftermath, The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds, The Beatles - Revolver,
 * Compilation albums: Dusty Springfield - Golden Hits, The Beach Boys - Best of.., The Animals - The Most of Animals,
 * Debut albums: Nancy Sinatra - Boots, Los Bravos - Black is Black, Cream - Fresh Cream, The Troggs - From Nowhere
 * Eponymous debuts - Small Faces, The Monkees, Love, Tim Buckley,

Films
UK premiere or general release
 * Dracula - Prince of Darkness, The Glass Bottom Boat, Stagecoach, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Batman, Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D., Doctor Zhivago, Fantastic Voyage, Chelsea Girls (Andy Warhol), Fahrenheit 451, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Thunderbirds Are Go, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, One Million Years B.C.

Births

 * Rick Astley (06 February), Chris Evans (01 April), Lisa Stansfield (11 April), Samantha Fox (16 April), Helena Bonham Carter (26 May), Tamsin Greig (12 July), Davis Cameron (09 October), Gordon Ramsay (08 November)

Birthdays

 * 40: George Martin, Danny Blanchflower, Kenneth Williams, Jerry Lewis, Ian Paisley, Queen Elizabeth II, David Attenborough, Eric Morecambe, Stanley Baxter, Katie Boyle, Tony Bennett,
 * 50: Harold Wilson, Gregory Peck, Glenn Ford, Olivia de Havilland, Edward Heath, Roald Dahl, Francois Mitterand,
 * 60: Samuel Beckett, Catherine Cookson, Josephine Baker, Sir John Betjeman (poet laureate from 1972)
 * 70:

Deaths

 * Evelyn Waugh (10 April, 62), Alma Cogan (26 October, 34),