meeting with Rasta leaders. Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965. April 24 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America. April 26 A new government is formed in the Republic of the Congo, led by Ambroise Noumazalaye. The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed. April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union). April 28 – In Rhodesia, security forces kill seven ZANLA men in combat; Chimurenga, the ZANU rebellion, begins. April 30 – Regular hovercraft service begins over the English Channel (discontinued in 2000). May May 4 Fiat signs a contract with the Soviet government to build a car factory in the Soviet Union. May 1966 lunar eclipse: A penumbral lunar eclipse takes place, the 64th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 111. May 5 – The Montreal Canadiens defeat the Detroit Red Wings to win the Stanley Cup in ice hockey. May 6 – The Moors murders trial ends in the UK with Ian Brady being found guilty on all three counts of murder and sentenced to three concurrent terms of life imprisonment. Myra Hindley is convicted on two counts of murder and of being an accessory in the third murder committed by Brady, receiving two concurrent terms of life imprisonment and a seven-year fixed term for being an accessory. May 7 – Irish bank workers go on strike. May 12 African members of the UN Security Council say that the British army should blockade Rhodesia. Radio Peking claims that U.S. planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan (the U.S. denies the story the next day). May 14 – Turkey and Greece intend to start negotiations about the situation in Cyprus. May 15 Indonesia asks Malaysia for peace negotiations. The South Vietnamese army besieges Da Nang. Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the White House, then rally at the Washington Monument. May 16 The Chinese Communist Party issues the 'May 16 Notice', marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.