| January 1 | G Woods succeeds Eugene Black as president of the World Bank |
| January 1 | WTEV (now WLNE) TV channel 6 in Providence RI begins broadcasting |
| January 3 | WOUB TV channel 20 in Athens, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 4 | Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon |
| January 5 | "Camelot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 873 performances |
| January 5 | "Carnival!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 719 performances |
| January 5 | San Diego beats Boston 51-10 in AFL championship game |
| January 6 | "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" with Marlin Perkins begins on NBC |
| January 6 | "Oliver!" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 774 performances |
| January 7 | 1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents |
| January 8 | Dmitri Shostakovich' Katharina Ismailova, premieres in Riga |
| January 8 | "Mona Lisa," on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art |
| January 9 | Mao Tse-tung writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo" |
| January 11 | 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA |
| January 11 | Beatles release "Please Please Me" and "Ask Me Why" |
| January 12 | "Go Away Little Girl" by Steve Lawrence peaks at #1 |
| January 12 | Spin bowler Bobby Simpson takes 5-57 for Australia vs. England |
| January 13 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 21-14 |
| January 13 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-20 |
| January 14 | George C. Wallace sworn in as governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" |
| January 16 | Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb |
| January 16 | Tennessee Williams' "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore," premieres |
| January 17 | Joe Walker takes X-15 to altitude of 82 km |
| January 17 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 67 points vs Los Angeles |
| January 18 | Reinier Paping wins Dutch 11-Cities Skating Race (10:59) |
| January 22 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Naples Professional Golf Tournament |
| January 24 | Buddy Rogers and Lou Thesz wrestle in Toronto, Rogers becomes WWF wrestling champ and Thesz becomes NWA champ |
| January 26 | Major League Rules Committee votes to expand strike zone |
| January 26 | "Milk and Honey" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 543 performances |
| January 27 | Jevgeni Grishin skates world record 500m in 39.6 sec |
| January 27 | Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, and John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 28 | -34 degrees F (-37 degrees C), Cynthiana, Kentucky (state record) |
| January 29 | Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and George Halas elected to football hall of fame |
| January 31 | Tony Sheridan and Beat Brothers record "What'd I Say" and "Ruby Baby" |
| February 1 | Nyasaland (now Malawi) becomes self-governing under Hastings Banda |
| February 2 | Helen Shapiro begins tour (Beatles are part of undercard) |
| February 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sea Island Women's Golf Invitational |
| February 5 | Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars |
| February 5 | Soviet lunar probe failure |
| February 8 | 1st transmission of Clandestine Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) |
| February 8 | AFL's Dallas Texans become Kansas City Chiefs |
| February 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 9 | 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet |
| February 9 | 7th largest snowfall in New York City history (42.4 cm, 16.7") |
| February 10 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| February 10 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Lorraine Hanlon |
| February 10 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Thomas Litz |
| February 11 | Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album |
| February 11 | CIA Domestic Operations Division created |
| February 12 | Argentina asks extraditon of ex-president Peron |
| February 14 | U.S. launches communications satellite Syncom 1 |
| February 15 | 1st U.S. female world figure skating champ (Tenley Albright) |
| February 15 | Ken Lynch records "Misery," 1st Lennon-McCartney song by someone else |
| February 16 | 1st round-trip swim of Strait of Messina, Italy (Mary Revell of U.S.) |
| February 16 | Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me" |
| February 16 | C and A Building in Amsterdam burns down |
| February 17 | Toru Terasawa runs world record marathon 2:15:15.8 |
| February 19 | Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize |
| February 19 | U.S.S.R. informs John F. Kennedy it's withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba |
| February 20 | End of the Test Cricket careers of Neil Harvey and Alan Davidson |
| February 20 | Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants signs a record $100,000 per year contract |
| February 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 22 | Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs) |
| February 25 | Beatles release their 1st single in U.S. "Please Please Me" |
| February 27 | Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000 |
| March 1 | 200,000 French mine workers strike |
| March 3 | Senegal adopts constitution |
| March 5 | Beatles record "From Me to You" and "Thank You Girl" |
| March 8 | Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day - Military coup in Syria |
| March 9 | Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe and Chris Montez |
| March 10 | Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training |
| March 10 | Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 70 points vs. Syracuse |
| March 11 | Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain |
| March 12 | Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold |
| March 12 | Bob Dylan cancels "Ed Sullivan Show" television appearance |
| March 13 | 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska |
| March 13 | Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in New York City |
| March 13 | Indonesia and Netherlands recover diplomatic relations |
| March 14 | SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists |
| March 15 | WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting |
| March 17 | Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game |
| March 17 | Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975) |
| March 17 | Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,900 Balinese |
| March 18 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| March 18 | Supreme Court's Miranda Decision; defendants must have lawyers |
| March 18 | "Tovarich" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 264 performances |
| March 18 | WGSF TV channel 28 in Newark, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 20 | 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (New York City) |
| March 20 | Sikkim crown prince Paldan Thondup Namgyal marries Hope Cooke |
| March 21 | Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed |
| March 21 | David Hendon and Douglas Cross' musical premieres in London |
| March 22 | Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me" |
| March 22 | British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler |
| March 22 | Oregon State's Terry Baker becomes 1st and only Heisman Trophy winner |
| March 23 | 25th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Loyola beats Cincinnati 60-58 (OT) |
| March 23 | Rolf Hochhuth's "Der Stellvertreter," premieres in Berlin |
| March 25 | KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| March 28 | AFL's New York Titan's become the New York Jets |
| March 29 | Final episode of soap opera "Young Doctor Malone" |
| March 30 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| March 31 | Los Angeles ends streetcar service after 90 years |
| April 1 | New York City's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike |
| April 1 | New York Mets purchase Duke Snider from the Dodgers for $40,000 |
| April 1 | Soap operas "General Hospital" and "Doctors" premier on TV |
| April 2 | Explorer 17 attains Earth orbit (254/914 km) |
| April 2 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 4; missed Moon by 8,500 km |
| April 5 | Beatles receive their 1st silver disc (Please Please Me) |
| April 5 | Susuga Malietoa Tanumafili II becomes chief of Western Samoa |
| April 7 | 27th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 286 |
| April 7 | Public stock offering of 115,000 shares in Milwaukee Braves withdrawn after only 13,000 shares are sold to 1,600 new investors |
| April 7 | Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic |
| April 8 | 35th Academy Awards - "Lawrence of Arabia," A Bancroft and G Peck win |
| April 8 | Tigers claim young pitcher Denny McLain from the White Sox for $25,000 |
| April 9 | Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary U.S. citizen, posthumously |
| April 10 | Thresher, U.S. atomic-powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston |
| April 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 11 | John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty |
| April 11 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 11 | Warren Spahn beats Mets 6-1 for his 328th win (most by a lefty) |
| April 12 | Beatles "From Me to You" is released in UK |
| April 12 | Birmingham police use dogs and cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators |
| April 13 | Pete Rose triples for his 1st major league base hit |
| April 13 | Pirate's Bob Friend balks 4 times in a game |
| April 14 | George Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones" |
| April 15 | "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| April 18 | Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant |
| April 18 | "Sophie" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| April 18 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 1 |
| April 19 | 67th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:18:58 |
| April 19 | "Hot Spot" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 43 performances |
| April 20 | All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda |
| April 20 | "Sophie" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| April 21 | Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time |
| April 21 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sunshine Women's Golf Open |
| April 23 | Jerry Bock and S Harnick's musical "She Loves Me," premieres in New York City |
| April 23 | "She Loves Me" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 302 performances |
| April 24 | 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
| April 24 | English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy |
| April 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 27 | Cuban premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow |
| April 27 | "Jopie" Pengel forms government in Suriname |
| April 28 | 17th Tony Awards: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum win |
| April 28 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| April 29 | KRE-AM in Berkeley, California changes call letters to KPAT |
| May 1 | 1st American, James Whittaker, conquers Mount Everest |
| May 1 | Indonesia takes control of Irian Jaya (west New Guinea) from Netherlands |
| May 3 | Leslie Narum is only Baltimore Oriole to homer on his 1st at bat |
| May 4 | 89th Kentucky Derby: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:01.8 |
| May 4 | Pitcher Bob Shaw sets record of 5 balks in a game |
| May 5 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| May 6 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August) |
| May 7 | Bruno Sammartino becomes WWF champ |
| May 7 | SETC Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 miles (10,800 km)) |
| May 8 | "Dr. No" premieres in U.S. |
| May 8 | John F. Kennedy offers Israel assistance against aggression |
| May 9 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 10 | Decca signs Rolling Stones on advice of Beatle George Harrison |
| May 11 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 2nd no-hitter beats New York Giants, 8-0 |
| May 11 | "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul and Mary hits #2 |
| May 11 | Racial bomb attacks in Birmingham Alabama |
| May 12 | Bob Dylan walks off Ed Sullivan Show |
| May 12 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Alpine Civitan Golf Open |
| May 12 | Race riot in Birmingham Alabama |
| May 14 | Kuwait is 111th member of the United Nations |
| May 15 | Last Project Mercury flight, L Gordon Cooper in Faith 7, launched |
| May 15 | Peter, Paul and Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer) |
| May 15 | Tottenham Hotspur wins 3rd Europe Cup II at Rotterdam |
| May 16 | "Beast in Me" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| May 16 | Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury |
| May 17 | Bruno Sammartino beats Buddy Rogers in New York, to become WWF champ |
| May 17 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 18 | 89th Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Candy Spots wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 18 | "Beast in Me" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| May 18 | "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul hits #1 |
| May 19 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| May 20 | Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia |
| May 22 | A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup 1 at London |
| May 22 | Greek parliament leader Lambrakis injured |
| May 22 | Mickey Mantle hits a ball off Yankee Stadium's facade |
| May 23 | NBC purchases 1963 AFL championship game TV rights for $926,000 |
| May 24 | 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely |
| May 25 | Early Wynn wins his 300th baseball game |
| May 25 | Great Britain ends its amateur-professional classes in cricket |
| May 25 | "Hot Spot" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 43 performances |
| May 25 | Organization for African Unity formed by Chad, Mauritania and Zambia |
| May 26 | 15th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, E G Marshall and Shirley Booth |
| May 26 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 26 | Organization of African Unity forms |
| May 26 | Wes Stock becomes only Baltimore Oriole to win a doubleheader |
| May 27 | 3 New Jersey businessman purchase NHL Colorado Rockies, and get approval to move them to New Jersey Meadowlands (Devils) |
| May 27 | Jomo Kenyatta elected 1st prime minister of Kenya |
| May 28 | Cyclone hits Chittagong, Bangladesh; about 1 million houses destroyed |
| May 28 | Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India) |
| May 28 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st Prime Minister of Kenya |
| June 1 | "El Watusi" by Ray Barreto hits #17 |
| June 1 | Jomo Kenyatta becomes 1st premier of Kenya |
| June 1 | King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, becomes Emperor of Ethiopia |
| June 2 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| June 4 | 1st transmission of "Pop Go the Beatles" on BBC radio |
| June 4 | British Minister of War John Profumo resigns due to Christine Keeler |
| June 5 | Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina |
| June 5 | State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested |
| June 8 | 95th Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Chateaugay wins in 2:30.2 |
| June 8 | American Heart Association is 1st agency to campaign against cigarettes |
| June 8 | "Mr. President" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 265 performances |
| June 9 | 1st Sunday night game in baseball San Francisco Giants lose to Houston Colts 3-0 |
| June 9 | Barbara Romack wins LPGA Rock City Ladies Golf Open |
| June 9 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| June 9 | Colt .45s beat Giants 3-0 in major leagues' 1st Sunday night game |
| June 9 | Equal Pay Act enacted |
| June 9 | John F. Kennedy names Winston Churchill U.S. honorary citizen |
| June 9 | Movie "Cleopatra" opens in New York |
| June 10 | John F. Kennedy signs law for equal pay for equal work for men and women |
| June 11 | Governor Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama |
| June 11 | Greek government of Karamanlis resigns |
| June 11 | John F. Kennedy says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act" |
| June 12 | "Cleopatra" premieres in New York City |
| June 13 | Vostok 6 launched, pilot is 1st woman cosmonaut |
| June 14 | New York Met Duke Snider hits his 400th home run |
| June 14 | Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days |
| June 15 | Buddy Nobles runs world record marathon (2:14:28) |
| June 15 | Israeli premier David Ben-Gurion resigns |
| June 15 | San Francisco Giants Juan Marichal no-hits Houston Colt .45s, 1-0 |
| June 15 | "Sound of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 1443 performances |
| June 16 | Levi Eshkol replaces David Ben-Gurion as Israeli PM |
| June 16 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
| June 16 | Valentina Tereshkova (U.S.S.R.) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6 |
| June 17 | British House of Commons debates Profumo-Christine Keeler affair |
| June 17 | Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools |
| June 18 | 3,000 blacks boycott Boston public school |
| June 19 | 2 Russian space missions return to Earth |
| June 19 | Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen |
| June 19 | Greek government of Pipinolis forms |
| June 19 | Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth |
| June 20 | 1st Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 6-2 |
| June 20 | Beatles form "Beatles Ltd" to handle their income |
| June 20 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. agree to set up Hot Line |
| June 21 | Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII |
| June 22 | "Little" Stevie Wonder (13) releases "Fingertips" |
| June 23 | 63rd U.S. Golf Open: Julius Boros shoots a 293 at The Country Club Mass |
| June 23 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| June 23 | New York Mets Jimmy Piersall, hits his 100th home run, he circles bases backwards |
| June 23 | President Kennedy tours West-Europe |
| June 24 | 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London |
| June 24 | Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
| June 24 | Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain |
| June 25 | Famous cricket draw at Lord's as England hang on against the Windies |
| June 25 | John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt |
| June 25 | South Africa worker's union leader Curnick Ndlovu arrested |
| June 26 | Alfons Gorbach forms Austrian government |
| June 26 | Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns commercial TV |
| June 26 | Kennedy visits W Berlin "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) |
| June 27 | Bill J Kramer and Dakotas record Lennon and McCartney "I Call Your Name" |
| June 27 | Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games |
| June 27 | President Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland |
| June 27 | USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m |
| June 28 | Belaunde Terry inaugurated as President of Peru |
| June 28 | Khrushchev visits East-Berlin |
| June 29 | Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits U.K. charts |
| June 29 | "Little Me" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 257 performances |
| June 29 | SVB, Students Unions, established under Barrel Regtien |
| June 30 | Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church |
| June 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Carvel Ladies Golf Open |
| July 1 | Beatles record "She Loves You" and "I'll Get You" |
| July 1 | President Kennedy arrives in Rome |
| July 1 | U.S. postal service institutes zip code system, Zone Improvement Plan |
| July 2 | Giant Willie Mays' home run in 16th inning gives them a 1-0 win over Braves |
| July 2 | Juan Marichal (Giants) beats Warren Spahn (Braves), 1-0 in 16 innings |
| July 5 | 1st Beatle tune to hit U.S. charts, Del Shannon "From Me to You" at #87 |
| July 6 | 70th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: M Smith beats Billie J King (63 64) |
| July 6 | 77th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: C McKinley beats Fred Stolle (97 61 64) |
| July 6 | South African worker's union leader Billy Nair arrested |
| July 7 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
| July 8 | Reports of Charlie Finley's intention to move Kansas City A's to Oakland |
| July 8 | U.S. bans all monetary transactions with Cuba |
| July 9 | 34th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 5-3 at Municipal Stadium, Cleveland |
| July 9 | All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants |
| July 9 | Crusher Lisowski beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| July 9 | Federation of Malaysia forms |
| July 11 | South African ANC Walter Sisulu/Andrew Mlangeni/Govan Mbeki arrested |
| July 13 | Early Wynn, wins his 300th and last game at 43 |
| July 14 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Sight Golf Open |
| July 15 | KAIT TV channel 8 in Jonesboro, AR (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 16 | Amazon carries 190,000 m3/sec (record) |
| July 17 | Telstar soccer team forms in Ijmuiden |
| July 18 | Failed military coup in Syria |
| July 19 | NASA civilian Test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 105 km |
| July 19 | Philadelphia Phillies Roy Siever hits home run # 300 |
| July 20 | 17 African states and Madagascar sign peace treaty with EC |
| July 20 | 18th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mary Mills |
| July 20 | Verne Gagne beats Crusher Lisowski in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| July 21 | 45th PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 279 at Dallas AC Dallas |
| July 22 | Beatles release "Introducing the Beatles" |
| July 22 | Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 24 | 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea |
| July 24 | Dutch government of Marijnen forms |
| July 25 | Belgian Senate accept Law on language regulations |
| July 25 | U.S., Russia and England sign nuclear Test ban treaty |
| July 26 | Skopje, Yugoslavia, destroyed by earthquake, kills 1,000+ |
| July 26 | U.S. Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched |
| July 27 | Fritz Von Erich beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| July 27 | General Amin al-Hafez becomes president of Syria |
| July 28 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open |
| July 30 | British spy Kim Philby found in Moscow |
| July 31 | Arturo Illia elected president of Argentina |
| July 31 | Cleveland ties record of 4 consecutive home runs (Held, Ramos, Francona, Brown) |
| July 31 | Indians' Woodie Held, Pedro Ramos, Tito Francona, and Larry Brown hit consecutive home runs in one inning (vs California Angels) |
| August 1 | Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale |
| August 1 | Germany FR annexes Elten village |
| August 1 | WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| August 2 | 30th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: All-Stars 20, Green Bay 17 (65,000) |
| August 3 | Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" |
| August 3 | Beatles final performance at Cavern Club in Liverpool |
| August 3 | Great Train Robbery - 2.5 M pounds ($3.25 M) robbed |
| August 3 | "No Strings" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 580 performances |
| August 4 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| August 5 | Britain, U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign nuclear test ban treaty |
| August 5 | Craig Breedlove sets world auto speed record at 407.45 MPH |
| August 5 | U.S., U.S.S.R. and Great Britain agree to discuss banning nuclear testing |
| August 7 | Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st, 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland |
| August 8 | Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene |
| August 8 | Los Angeles Dodgers F Howard and B Skowron are 3rd to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| August 8 | Verne Gagne beats Fritz Von Erich in Amarillo, to become NWA champ |
| August 9 | Britains rock TV show, Ready Steady Go, premieres |
| August 9 | New York Met Roger Craig's NL record-tying 18-game losing streak ends |
| August 11 | Kingston Trio are mystery guest on "What's My Line?" |
| August 11 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| August 12 | Portuguese dictator Salazar firm on African colonization |
| August 12 | Stan Musial announces he will retire at end of year |
| August 13 | Custom agents confiscate 21 gold coins from Witte Museum |
| August 13 | Warren Spahn sets left-hander strike out mark at 2,382 |
| August 15 | Fulbert Youlou, resigns as President of Congo-Brazzaville |
| August 16 | Independence is restored to Dominican Republic |
| August 17 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit for cycle |
| August 17 | Oriole's Dick Hall retires his 28th consecutive player in relief |
| August 18 | James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi |
| August 18 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Albuquerque Swing Parade Golf Tournament |
| August 19 | NAACP Youth Council begins sit-ins at lunch counters, Oklahoma City |
| August 21 | Jerry Lynch's record 15th pinch-hit home run gives Pirates a 7-6 win |
| August 21 | Martial law declared in South Vietnam, following raids on Buddhist pagodas |
| August 22 | NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker in X-15 reaches 67 miles (106 km) |
| August 23 | Beatles release "She Loves You" in UK |
| August 23 | Ringo admits he wrote a song "Don't Pass Me By" |
| August 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 24 | 1st 200 meter freestyle swum under 2 minutes (Don Schollander 1:58) |
| August 24 | John Pennel is 1st to pole-vault 17' |
| August 25 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ogden Ladies' Golf Open |
| August 25 | Paul McCartney is fined 31 pounds and his license is suspended for one year for speeding |
| August 26 | W I beat England 2-1 in series, 1st holders of Wisden Cricket Trophy |
| August 28 | 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C. |
| August 28 | Evergreen Point Floating Bridge connecting Seattle and Bellevue opens |
| August 28 | Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial |
| August 29 | Harmon Killebrew (Twins) home runs off Pete Burnside (Senators) in DH |
| August 30 | Hot Line communications link between Washington D.C. and Moscow begins |
| September 1 | Language laws in Belgium goes into effect causing a riot |
| September 1 | St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Curt Simmons steals home plate |
| September 1 | WCTI TV channel 12 in New Bern, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 2 | Alabama Governor George C. Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS |
| September 2 | CBS and NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes |
| September 2 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Idaho Centennia Golf Tournament |
| September 6 | Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history |
| September 6 | Jerry Lee Lewis quits Sun Records |
| September 6 | Major league baseballs 100,000th game |
| September 7 | American Bandstand moves to California, and airs once a week on Saturday |
| September 7 | Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in Canton, Ohio |
| September 8 | 77th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Margaret Smith Court (75 64) |
| September 8 | 83rd U.S. Mens Tennis: R H Osuna beats Frank Froehling III (75 64 62) |
| September 8 | Algerian population accepts constitution |
| September 8 | Braves Warren Spahn ties Christy Mathewson with 13 20-win seasons |
| September 8 | Ines Cuervo de Priete, 34, gives birth to quintuplets, all boys |
| September 8 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Spokane Women's Golf Open |
| September 9 | Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools |
| September 9 | Landslide into Vaiont Dam emptys lake, kills 3-4,000 (Italy) |
| September 10 | 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama |
| September 10 | Phillies beat Houston Colt .45s, 16-0 |
| September 10 | Stan Musial hits a home run in his 1st at bat as a grandfather |
| September 12 | WHYY TV channel 12 in Wilmington, DE (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 13 | Barbra Striesand and Elliot Gould marry |
| September 13 | Jim Bouton's 20th win clinches Yankees 28th pennant |
| September 13 | "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC TV |
| September 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 14 | Mary Ann Fischer, Aberdeen, South Dakota, gave birth to America's 1st surviving quintuplets, 4 girls and a boy |
| September 15 | 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham |
| September 15 | Alou brothers-Felipe, Matty, and Jesus-appear in San Francisco outfield for 1 inn |
| September 15 | Ben Bella elected 1st president of Algeria |
| September 15 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
| September 15 | WNTV TV channel 29 in Greenville, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | Malaysia formed from Malaya, Singapore, Br No Borneo and Sarawak |
| September 16 | "Outer Limits" premieres on ABC-TV |
| September 16 | WVAN TV channel 9 in Savannah, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 17 | "Fugitive" premieres on ABC TV |
| September 17 | Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32 |
| September 18 | Final game at Polo Grounds, 1,752 see Phillies beat Mets 5-1 |
| September 18 | U.S.S.R. orders 58.5 million barrels of cereal from Australia |
| September 22 | Czechoslovakian premier Sikory deposed by Josef Lenart |
| September 22 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
| September 23 | Georgette Ciselet is 1st woman on Belgian Council of State |
| September 23 | WMEB TV channel 12 in Orono, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 24 | Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards |
| September 24 | Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and U.S.S.R. limit nuclear testing |
| September 26 | 1st edition of New York City Review of Books |
| September 27 | At 10:59 AM census clock, records U.S. population at 190,000,000 |
| September 28 | Giuseppe Cantarella roller-skates record 25.78 mph (415 k) for 440 yards |
| September 28 | "King Leonardo," cartoon last airs on NBC-TV |
| September 28 | "Little Deuce Coupe" by The Beach Boys peaks at #15 |
| September 28 | "Martian Hop" by The Ran-Dells peaks at #1 |
| September 28 | Murray The K, a New York DJ plays "She Loves You" on the radio |
| September 28 | "New Phil Silvers Show," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 28 | "Nick Teen and Al K Hall" by Rolf Harris peaks at #95 |
| September 28 | "Sally, Go 'Round The Roses" by Jaynetts peaks at #2 |
| September 28 | "Shari Lewis Show," last airs on NBC-TV |
| September 28 | "Surfer Joe" by Surfaris peaks at #62 |
| September 28 | "Tennessee Tuxedo," cartoon debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | 2nd session of Ecumenical council, 'Vatican II,' opens in Rome |
| September 29 | Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,629th and 3,630th hit |
| September 29 | Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game |
| September 29 | "Judy Garland Show," debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| September 29 | "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV |
| September 29 | Pope Paul opens 2nd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
| September 29 | Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley and Everly Bros) |
| September 29 | Stan Musial Day in St. Louis |
| September 30 | 56th Postmaster General: John A Gronouski of Wis takes office |
| September 30 | "Student Gypsy" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| October 1 | 1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game |
| October 1 | Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
| October 2 | Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees |
| October 2 | West German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to U.S.S.R. |
| October 3 | "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 338 performances |
| October 3 | Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured |
| October 4 | Gambia achieves full internal self-government |
| October 4 | Hurricane Flora, kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti |
| October 5 | 17th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-3 at Toronto |
| October 5 | Hyde St. Pier re-opens as State Historical Park |
| October 5 | Little Richard joins Everly Brothers Tour |
| October 6 | Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show" |
| October 6 | Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series |
| October 7 | Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary |
| October 7 | Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190 |
| October 7 | John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty |
| October 8 | Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya |
| October 9 | British premier Harold MacMillan, resigns |
| October 9 | Dam in Piave valley Italy, breaks' about 2,000 die |
| October 9 | French air force gets 1st nuclear weapons |
| October 9 | Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba and Haiti, kills 6,000 |
| October 9 | Uganda becomes a republic within British Commonwealth |
| October 10 | Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die |
| October 10 | Netherland population hits 12,000,000 |
| October 10 | Treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by U.S., UK, U.S.S.R. |
| October 12 | Archaeological digs begin at Masada, Israel |
| October 12 | At 4 AM, traffic on Bay Bridge is 1-way on each deck |
| October 12 | "Student Gypsy" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| October 13 | 15th Ryder Cup: U.S. beats 23-9 at East Lake CC Ga |
| October 13 | 9th LPGA Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| October 13 | "Beatlemania" is coined after Beatles appear at Palladium |
| October 14 | Algeria and Morocco border conflict |
| October 14 | WGHP TV channel 8 in Greensboro-High Point, North Carolina (ABC) begins |
| October 15 | Ludwig Erhard follows Conrad Adenauer as West German Chancellor |
| October 16 | 2 secret U.S. military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral |
| October 16 | New York newspaper "Mirror" last edition |
| October 17 | "Jennie" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 82 performances |
| October 18 | IOC votes Mexico City to host 1968 Olympics |
| October 19 | Beatles record "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
| October 20 | Alec Douglas-Home forms British government |
| October 20 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| October 20 | Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 8,390 yards |
| October 20 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Hillside Golf Open |
| October 20 | South Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela and 8 others on conspiracy |
| October 20 | WITV TV channel 7 in Charleston, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 22 | 225,000 students boycot Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest |
| October 23 | Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in New York City |
| October 24 | "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 330 performances |
| October 24 | KRO shows 1st Bonanza |
| October 24 | Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award |
| October 25 | Anti-Kennedy "WANTED FOR TREASON" pamphlets scattered in Dallas |
| October 25 | Beatles begin their 1st full foreign tour in Sweden |
| October 26 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Fallon Nevada |
| October 27 | Bob Simpson completes 359 for NSW vs. Qld at Gabba |
| October 27 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
| October 29 | "Meet the Beatles" booklet is published |
| October 30 | Morocco and Algeria signs cease fire |
| October 30 | Sandy Koufax wins NL MVP award |
| October 31 | Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport |
| October 31 | J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy |
| October 31 | Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana) |
| November 2 | Only 1st-class cricket game played in Uganda, MCC vs. E African XI |
| November 2 | "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater New York City for 24 performances |
| November 3 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open |
| November 4 | John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line |
| November 5 | U.S. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson visits Netherlands |
| November 7 | Carole Joan Crawford, 20, of Jamaica, crowned 13th Miss World |
| November 7 | New York Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP |
| November 9 | 2 high-speed commuter trains collided with a derailed freight train |
| November 9 | 450 die in a coal-dust explosion and 160 die in train crash (Japan) |
| November 9 | "Tovarich" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 264 performances |
| November 10 | Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545 |
| November 10 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
| November 11 | Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for Beatles |
| November 11 | Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record |
| November 12 | Train crash in Japan, kills 164 |
| November 16 | Toledo, OH newspaper strike began |
| November 16 | Touch-tone telephone introduced |
| November 17 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
| November 18 | Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone |
| November 18 | England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens |
| November 18 | King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco |
| November 19 | Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal |
| November 21 | John F. Kennedy flies to Texas |
| November 22 | Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK |
| November 22 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president |
| November 23 | "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England |
| November 23 | Horatio Alger Society founded |
| November 23 | John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House |
| November 23 | Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy) |
| November 23 | "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater New York City after 24 performances |
| November 24 | 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald |
| November 25 | John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery |
| November 26 | 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (quarterback) |
| November 26 | Cincinnati 2nd baseman Pete Rose wins NL Rookie of Year |
| November 26 | Explorer 18 launched |
| November 28 | 1st million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
| November 28 | Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on U.K. record chart |
| November 28 | Crusher beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| November 28 | WHNT TV channel 19 in Huntsville, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 29 | Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand" |
| November 29 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up Warren Commission to investigate assassination of John F. Kennedy |
| November 30 | 51st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats BC Lions, 21-10 |
| November 30 | Martin Walser's "oberlebensgross Herr Krott," premieres in Stuttgart |
| December 1 | Nagaland becomes a state of Indian union |
| December 1 | New York Jets 1st shutout, beat Kansas City 17-0 |
| December 2 | 1st Dutch rocket launched/reaches height of 10 km |
| December 2 | ML Rules Committee bans oversized catcher's mitts, effective in 1965 |
| December 4 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government |
| December 4 | Pope Paul VI closes 2nd session of 2nd Vatican Council |
| December 6 | Beatles begin a tradition of releasing a Christmas record for fans |
| December 6 | Test Cricket debut of Graeme Pollock at the Gabba |
| December 7 | Ian Meckiff no-balled for throwing against the South Africans |
| December 8 | 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, Maryland-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die |
| December 8 | "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 112 performances |
| December 8 | Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan, Jr. wins LPGA Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Golf |
| December 9 | Frank Sinatra, Jr. is kidnapped |
| December 9 | Zanzibar gains independence from Britain |
| December 10 | 6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show |
| December 10 | Zanzibar becomes independent within British Commonwealth |
| December 12 | Argentina asks for extradition of ex-president Peron |
| December 12 | Frank Sinatra, Jr. returned after being kidnapped |
| December 12 | Kenya (formerly British East Africa) declares independence from UK |
| December 13 | Capital records signs right of 1st refusal agreement with Beatles |
| December 14 | Verne Gagne beats The Crusher in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| December 17 | Tsjoi Doo Sun forms government in South Korea |
| December 17 | West and East Berlin sign accord about travel rules |
| December 18 | Clarke runs world record 10k (28:15.6) |
| December 18 | Muskegon, Michigan gets 3' of snow |
| December 19 | Zanzibar becomes independent from UK |
| December 20 | Berlin Wall opens for 1st time to West Berliners |
| December 20 | Massemba-Debate elected President of Congo-Brazzaville |
| December 20 | Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins |
| December 22 | Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49) |
| December 22 | Official 30-day mourning period for President John F. Kennedy ends |
| December 23 | Beach Boys 1st appearance on "Shindig" |
| December 23 | Fire on Greek ship Laconia, 128 die |
| December 24 | Greek and Turks riot in Cyprus |
| December 25 | Walt Disney's "The Sword in the Stone" is released |
| December 26 | Beatles release "I Want To Hold Your Hand"/"I Saw Her Standing There" |
| December 26 | "Double Dublin" opens at Little Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| December 26 | U.S. furnishes cereal to U.S.S.R. |
| December 28 | "Double Dublin" closes at Little Theater New York City after 4 performances |
| December 28 | "Jennie" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 82 performances |
| December 28 | Merle Haggard 1st appearance on country chart with "Sing a Sad Song" |
| December 29 | 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2) |
| December 30 | Congress authorizes Kennedy half dollar |
| December 30 | Green Bay Packers win NFL championship |
| December 30 | "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV |
| December 31 | Chicago Bears win NFL championship |
| December 31 | Dear Abby show premieres on CBS radio (runs 11 years) |
| December 31 | Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time |
