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Released in 1963, *Straight No Filter* showcases tenor saxophonist Hank Mobley’s mature and lyrical style within a hard bop framework, featuring notable contributions from John Coltrane and Tommy Flanagan.

The Battle of Long Tan was a military engagement fought on August 18, 1966, during the Vietnam War in a rubber plantation near Nui Dat. A dispersed company of 108 Australian soldiers from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, encountered and resisted a vastly superior force of Viet Cong and...

Published in 1966 by Conrad Richter, *A Country of Strangers* is a historical fiction novel that serves as the concluding volume of his Awakening Land trilogy. The narrative explores the profound cultural divides of the American frontier through the story of Gwendolyn, a white woman raised by the De...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Betrayal is a 1966 Japanese chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi and distributed by Daiei Film. It is an installment in the ongoing series adapting the Nemuri Kyoshiro novels by Renzaburo Shibata. Actor Raizo Ichikawa stars as the titular character, a nihilistic, half-Western...

Psychotic Reaction is the 1966 debut album by The Count Five, a garage rock band from San Jose, California. The title track, anchored by its fuzz-toned guitar riff and propulsive rhythm, reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100 and became one of the era's defining garage punk songs. The album re...

Turn On the Music Machine is the 1966 debut album by the Music Machine, an American garage rock band led by songwriter and vocalist Sean Bonniwell. It includes the band's best-known single, "Talk Talk," a compact recording marked by distorted guitar, organ, a driving bass line, and Bonniwell's clipp...

Antony and Cleopatra is an opera in three acts by American composer Samuel Barber, with a libretto by Franco Zeffirelli based on Shakespeare's tragedy. Commissioned to inaugurate the Metropolitan Opera's new house at Lincoln Center, it premiered there in 1966 with Leontyne Price as Cleopatra. Barber...

The Wrong Box is a 1966 British black comedy directed and produced by Bryan Forbes. Its screenplay by Larry Gelbart and Burt Shevelove adapts the 1889 novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Osbourne, using a Victorian-era tontine dispute as the basis for a chain of mistaken identities, competing...

96 Tears is the 1966 debut album by the Mexican-American garage rock band ? and the Mysterians. It is centered on the organ-heavy title track, which became a charting hit and helped define the group's garage-rock identity. The album is associated with the mid-1960s garage and organ-rock sound and is...

Wild Thing is a 1966 album by the English rock band the Troggs, issued in the United States under that title and related to the British album From Nowhere. Its defining recording is the Troggs' version of “Wild Thing,” a Chip Taylor composition that became a number-one single in the United States an...

Daimajin is a 1966 Japanese period fantasy film produced by Daiei Film and directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. It combines a feudal samurai setting with kaiju-style destruction: a stone guardian figure, worshiped as a local deity, awakens when villagers are threatened by a tyrannical lord. The film is dis...

A Woman of the People is a historical Western novel by Benjamin Capps, first published in 1966. It follows a young white girl who is taken by Comanches and grows up within their society, learning its language, customs, and survival practices before coming to identify with the people who raised her....

Gloria is the 1966 debut studio album by The Shadows of Knight, a Chicago garage-rock band. Its title refers to the group's recording of “Gloria,” the song written by Van Morrison and first recorded by Them, which became the Shadows of Knight's best-known single. The album places that track within a...

Delta G was an American Delta rocket variant of the mid-1960s configured without strap-on boosters, optimized for delivering lighter payloads to low Earth orbit.

Return of Daimajin is a 1966 Japanese period fantasy film produced by Daiei Film and the second installment in the Daimajin trilogy. Set in a feudal society, it follows villagers suffering under oppressive rule until the dormant stone deity Daimajin is awakened, combining jidaigeki drama with the sc...

Back Door Men is the second studio album by the American garage-rock band The Shadows of Knight. It was released in 1966 on Dunwich Records after the group's debut album, Gloria, and was recorded at Universal Recording in Chicago. The album reflects the band's connection to Chicago's garage-rock sce...

Mustang Man is a Western novel by Louis L'Amour, first published in 1966. The story follows a man fleeing from trouble who becomes involved in the capture and handling of wild horses in the American West. Its setting connects frontier travel, outlaw pursuit, and horse culture, while the central char...

From Nowhere is the 1966 debut studio album by the English rock band The Troggs. The record was released in the United Kingdom and appeared in the United States under the same title during the group’s early period of success. It draws on the direct, compact sound associated with British garage rock...

Daimajin Strikes Again is the third and final film in Daiei Film's Daimajin trilogy, released in 1966. Like the other entries, it combines the setting and conflicts of a Japanese period samurai drama with the appearance of a giant supernatural stone deity. The trilogy is distinguished by treating th...

Time Won't Let Me is the 1966 debut studio album by The Outsiders, a rock band from Cleveland, Ohio. Its title song became a national hit and gives the record its central pop-rock identity. The album combines garage-rock energy with concise, melodic arrangements typical of mid-1960s American rock. I...

The Ballad of Smokey the Bear is a 1966 American stop-motion television special produced by Rankin/Bass. It tells a family-oriented story involving Smokey Bear, the wildfire-prevention mascot created by the United States Forest Service and introduced in 1944. The special used the Animagic stop-motio...

The Daydreamer is a 1966 American fantasy musical film produced by Rankin/Bass. It combines live-action scenes with stop-motion Animagic sequences to present stories and characters associated with Hans Christian Andersen, including a young dreamer who encounters figures from fairy tales. The film is...

What We Want, What We Believe is the Black Panther Party's Ten-Point Program, adopted in 1966 as a statement of the organization's political demands. It called for Black self-determination and addressed employment, housing, education, military service, police conduct, prisons, and the right to a tri...