Video: '1966 NCAA Basketball Championship'
(Saturday, March 19, 1966, at approximately 11:30 p.m. EST); during the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1954–68)) — The Texas Western Miners, the first basketball team to start five black players in a national title game, defeated the heavily favored all-white Kentucky Wildcats, 72-65, tonight to win the NCAA Championship played in College Park, Maryland.
(Saturday, March 19, 1966) — “19th Nervous Breakdown” by The Rolling Stones peaked at #2 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for three consecutive weeks (Mar. 19/26, Apr. 2, 1966).
(Saturday, March 19, 1966) — “Husbands and Wives” by Roger Miller peaked at #26 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
(Saturday, March 19, 1966) — “What Goes On” by The Beatles peaked at #81 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
Video: 'The Beatles Cartoons Episode 26'
(Saturday, March 19, 1966, 10:30 a.m. EST) — Before returning to England, the Beatles decide to have a quick look around (for old times sake), and later, mistaken for a string quartet, the band is invited to give a performance at a party for a royal Duke on this morning’s season one finale episode of The Beatles, a weekly cartoon television series on ABC.
