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This is a list of various things that took place in 1966.

Significant events[]

January

  • 7 - Lou Thesz loses the NWA World Heavyweight Championship to Gene Kiniski in the main event of a show in St. Louis. It is Thesz's last reign as NWA World Champion over a 29-year period, and he will be one of the final pre-World War II wrestlers to have held a specific major promotion world title (although not continuously) well into the Vietnam War-era. After losing several rematches, Thesz would continue to wrestle on a part-time basis and held his last significant championship -- the Universal Wrestling Association World Heavyweight Championship in Mexico -- in 1977.

September

Births[]

January

  • 3 - Huracán Jr.
  • 4 - La Parka AAA
  • 29 - Macho Pump
  • 30 - Jeque

February

  • 4 - Fuerza Chicana
  • 9 - Muerte Subita
  • 12 - Mongolian Yuga

March

  • 24 - Danger Matsunaga
  • 26 - Tania

April

May

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August

  • 15 - Nitro
  • 16 - Rayo Tapatío II

September

October

November

December

Deaths[]

August

Debuts[]

February


Events[]

Title changes[]

January

February

March

May

June

July

  • 4 - Don Leo Jonathan and Haystacks Calhoun win the NWA Canadian Tag Team title from John Tolos and Tony Borne in Vancouver
  • 7 - Hans Schmidt regains the ASW World title from Édouard Carpentier in Chicoutimi, Quebec
  • 10 - Whipper Billy Watson and Bulldog Brower win the NWA Toronto International Tag Team title from the Masked Yankees in Toronto
  • 11 - John Tolos and Tony Borne regain the NWA Canadian Tag Team title from Don Leo Jonathan and Haystacks Calhoun in Vancouver
  • 31 - Tiger Jeet Singh and Fred Atkins win the NWA Toronto International Tag Team title from Whipper Billy Watson and Bulldog Brower in Toronto

August

September

October

  • 3 - Dutch Savage and Don Jardine win the NWA Vancouver World Tag Team title from John Tolos and Tony Borne in Vancouver; Fabulous Moolah regains the NWA World Women's title from Bette Boucher in Vancouver (WWE does not recognize this title change); Édouard Carpentier regains the ASW World title from Hans Schmidt in Montreal, Quebec
  • 31 - Don Leo Jonathan and Dominic DeNucci win the NWA Canadian Tag Team title from Dutch Savage and Don Jardine in Vancouver

November

December

  • 8 - Spiros Arion and Antonio Pugliese win the WWWF United States Tag Team title from Baron Mikel Scicluna and Smasher Sloan in Washington, D.C.
  • 9 - Pat Patterson wins the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Tony Borne in Portland
  • 17 - Tony Borne regains the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Pat Patterson in Portland
  • 26 - Don Leo Jonathan and Dominic DeNucci win the NWA Vancouver World Tag Team title from Dutch Savage and Don Jardine in Vancouver
  • 29 - Paul Jones wins the NWA Pacific Northwest title from Tony Borne in Salem

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