April 1966

==[[April 19]], 1966 (Tuesday)==

==[[April 19]], 1966 (Tuesday)==

*[[Roberta Gibb]] of San Diego became the first woman to run in the [[Boston Marathon]], though unofficially, because the foot race was officially limited to men at the time. Gibb had applied to the [[Boston Athletic Association]] in 1965 to run for that year's Marathon, and was rejected with a letter explaining that it was "not physiologically possible for a woman" to run the distance of more than 26 miles. On the day of the 1966 race, Gibb dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants, hid near the starting line, then jumped in with the other runners as the race began in [[Hopkinton, Massachusetts|Hopkinton]]."Gibb, Roberta", in ''A to Z of American Women in Sports'', by Paula Edelson (Infobase Publishing, 2014) p88 Unofficially, Gibb (whose married name was Mrs. Roberta Bingay) finished in 124th place in the field of more than 500 contestants, completing the course in 3 hours, 21 minutes and 25 seconds."She Outruns Males— Bride 124th in Marathon", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', April 20, 1966, p2-2 Winning the laurels in first place was [[Kenji Kimihara]], who, as with the finishers in second ([[Beppu-Ōita Marathon#Past winners|Seiichiro Sasaki]]), third ([[Toru Terasawa]]) and fourth place (Hikokoaru Okabe) was from Japan."Japanese Runners Sweep Boston Marathon", ''Montreal Gazette'', April 20, 1966, p35

*[[Roberta Gibb]] of San Diego became the first woman to run in the [[Boston Marathon]], though unofficially, because the foot race was officially limited to men at the time. Gibb had applied to the [[Boston Athletic Association]] in 1965 to run for that year's Marathon, and was rejected with a letter explaining that it was "not physiologically possible for a woman" to run the distance of more than 26 miles. On the day of the 1966 race, Gibb dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and sweatpants, hid near the starting line, then jumped in with the other runners as the race began in [[Hopkinton, Massachusetts|Hopkinton]]."Gibb, Roberta", in ''A to Z of American Women in Sports'', by Paula Edelson (Infobase Publishing, 2014) p88 Unofficially, Gibb (whose married name was Mrs. Roberta Bingay) finished in 124th place in the field of more than 500 contestants, completing the course in 3 hours, 21 minutes and 25 seconds."She Outruns Males— Bride 124th in Marathon", ''Milwaukee Sentinel'', April 20, 1966, p2-2 Winning the laurels in first place was [[Kenji Kimihara]], who, as with the finishers in second ([[Beppu-Ōita Marathon#Past winners|Seiichiro Sasaki]]), third ([[Toru Terasawa]]) and fourth place (Hikokoaru Okabe) was from Japan."Japanese Runners Sweep Boston Marathon", ''Montreal Gazette'', April 20, 1966, p35

*Véronique Neyrinck is born in France.

*[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] went on trial at [[Chester Crown Court]], before Mr Justice [[Fenton Atkinson]], for the murders of three children who had vanished between [[November 1963]] and [[October 1965]]. They would be convicted two weeks later.{{cite ODNB |last=Davenport-Hines |first=Richard |contribution=Hindley, Myra (1942–2002) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/77394 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77394 |access-date=5 July 2009}}

*[[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] went on trial at [[Chester Crown Court]], before Mr Justice [[Fenton Atkinson]], for the murders of three children who had vanished between [[November 1963]] and [[October 1965]]. They would be convicted two weeks later.{{cite ODNB |last=Davenport-Hines |first=Richard |contribution=Hindley, Myra (1942–2002) |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/77394 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/77394 |access-date=5 July 2009}}

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