The following events occurred in January 1966: January 1, 1966 (Saturday) A military coup brought Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa into power in the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. Bokassa would name himself as President on January 4, and crown himself as Emperor Bokassa I of the Central African Empire on December 4, 1977. Captain Alexandre Banza, the co-leader of the coup, would be accused of treason and executed by Bokassa in 1969. In college football, the #1 Michigan State Spartans were upset by the #5 UCLA Bruins, 14-12, in the Rose Bowl, and the #2 Arkansas Razorbacks were toppled, 14-7, by the unranked LSU Tigers in the Cotton Bowl, setting up that evening's Orange Bowl game between the #3 Nebraska Cornhuskers and the #4 Alabama Crimson Tide as the game that was likely to determine the unofficial national champion in the final poll of the season. Alabama won convincingly, 39-28, and would be voted #1 in the final Associated Press poll of sportswriters. A strike of the 36,000 public transportation workers in New York City began at 5:00 in the morning, as the New York City Transit Authority's subway trains and buses halted service. It was the first time in the city's history that the commuters were without either bus or subway service at the same time, and the full effect would be felt on Monday morning, when six million people would have to find alternate transportation. Two separate Garuda Airlines DC-3 airplanes took off from Jakarta, Indonesia, both due to make their first stop at the island of Sumatra at Palembang, but neither arrived. The wreckage of the first plane was spotted from the air in a jungle, 63 miles south of Palembang, but the other was not found. In all, 34 people died in the crashes. In the Soviet Union, Aeroflot Flight 185, a twin-engine Ilyushin Il-14 en route from the east coast city of Magadan to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, crashed into a mountain on the Kamchatka peninsula after engine trouble and icing on the wings caused it to lose altitude. The New Zealand Australia Free Trade Agreement came into force. It would be superseded in 1983 by the new Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement. Died: Vincent Auriol, 81, French politician, President of the Fourth Republic from 1947 to 1954 January 2, 1966 (Sunday) The Green Bay Packers won the NFL Championship at home, beating the