1966

1966 in pop culture:

Music:

Singles:

Literature:
 * God Only Knows The Beach Boys
 * These Boots Are Made for Walkin' Nancy Sinatra
 * Good Vibrations The Beach Boys
 * Paperback Writer The Beatles
 * Paint It Black The Rolling Stones
 * 19th Nervous Breakdown The Rolling Stones
 * Hold On! I'm A Comin' Sam & Dave
 * Sloop John B The Beach Boys
 * Sunday Morning The Velvet Underground & Nico
 * Michelle The Beatles
 * Monday, Monday The Mamas & the Papas
 * All Tomorrow's Parties The Velvet Underground and Nico
 * Friday on My Mind The Easybeats
 * Hey Joe Jimi Hendrix

Books released: Films: Television: Art Architecture
 * Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes
 * The Master and Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov
 * The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress Robert Heinlein
 * The Magic Finger Roald Dahl
 * The Fixer Bernard Malamud
 * The proud Tower Barbara Tuchman
 * Octopussy and The Living Daylights Ian Fleming
 * Asterix and the Normans René Goscinny
 * We Can Remember It for You Wholesale Philip K. Dick
 * Nooit meer slapen Willem Frederik Hermans
 * Conan the adventurer Robert E. Howard
 * The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
 * Persona
 * La battaglia di Algeri
 * Au hasard Balthazar
 * Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 * Blowup
 * Seconds
 * Closely Watched Trains
 * The Round-Up
 * Daisies
 * Masculin, féminin
 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
 * La Grande Vadrouille
 * Grand Prix
 * A Man for All Seasons
 * El Dorado
 * Tokyo Drifter
 * Batman
 * Cathy Come Home
 * Daktari
 * Dark Shadows
 * The Green Hornet
 * Mission:Impossible
 * Softly, Softly
 * Star Trek
 * Shopping (1966), Kees Verkade, Big Houtstraat, Haarlem
 * Gwendolyn (1966), Niki de Saint Phalle, Tinguely Museum, Basel
 * Buildings completed
 * Helsinki University of Technology (1966) Alvar Aalto
 * October 28 - The Gateway Arch in St Louis, Missouri, USA, designed by Eero Saarinen
 * Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, by Marcel Breuer