| January 1 | International Cooperation Year begins |
| January 1 | Palestinian al-Fatah organization forms |
| January 2 | Martin Luther King, Jr. begins a drive to register black voters |
| January 2 | New York Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath |
| January 2 | Obverse design of all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day |
| January 4 | Lyndon Baines Johnson's "Great Society" State of the Union Address |
| January 6 | Geoff Boycott takes 3-47 against South Africa, his best Test bowling |
| January 7 | France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold |
| January 8 | Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower |
| January 8 | Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History |
| January 9 | "Beatles' '65" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| January 10 | Bollingen prize for poetry awarded to Horace Gregory |
| January 10 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 34-14 |
| January 10 | WKBD TV channel 50 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 12 | At 10:58 am PST burn up a nuclear rocket in Nevada |
| January 12 | "Hullabaloo" premieres on NBC-TV |
| January 15 | Rock group Who releases 1st album "I Can't Explain" |
| January 15 | Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms |
| January 16 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-14 |
| January 16 | "Oh What a Lovely War" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 125 performances |
| January 16 | "Outer Limits" last airs on ABC-TV |
| January 16 | Searchers' "Love Potion #9" peaks at #3 |
| January 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| January 18 | H L de Vries appointed Dutch governor of Suriname |
| January 20 | Beatles appear on Shindig (ABC-TV) |
| January 20 | Byrds record "Mr Tambourine Man" |
| January 20 | Generalissimo Francisco Franco meets with Jewish representatives to discuss legitimizing Jewish communities in Spain |
| January 20 | JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return |
| January 21 | Persians premier Ali Mansoer injured |
| January 22 | U.S. launches TIROS 9 weather satellite |
| January 23 | Boston Celtic center Bill Russell misses all 14 shots in loss to Philadelphia Warriors led by Wilt Chamberlain |
| January 23 | BPAA All-Star Tournament won by Dick Weber |
| January 23 | "King Family Show" (musical variety) premieres on ABC TV |
| January 26 | South Vietnam military coup under general Nguyen Khanh |
| January 27 | 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite |
| January 27 | Ground breaking for "Dragon Gateway" at Grant Avenue |
| January 28 | The Who make their 1st appearance on British TV |
| January 30 | State funeral of Winston Churchill |
| January 30 | "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis hits #3 |
| January 31 | Pud Galvin elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 1 | Dutch Queen Juliana opens Brienenoord Bridge in Rotterdam |
| February 1 | Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama |
| February 1 | NL adopts emergency team replacement plan to restock any club struck by disaster |
| February 1 | Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news |
| February 2 | Joe Ortons "Loot," premieres in Brighton |
| February 3 | 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams |
| February 3 | Braves offer Milwaukee $500,000 to terminate their lease a year earlier, the proposal is turned down |
| February 3 | Geraldine McCullough wins Widener Gold Medal for Sculpture |
| February 3 | Orbiting Solar Observatory 2 launches into Earth orbit (552/636 km) |
| February 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 5 | Beursschouwburg opens in Brussels |
| February 6 | "Kelly" opens and closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City |
| February 6 | Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1 |
| February 7 | George Harrison has his tonsils removed |
| February 7 | Operations begin at Grupo Folklorico Antiyano on Curacao |
| February 7 | U.S. begins regular bombing and strafing of North Vietnam |
| February 7 | WVIZ TV channel 25 in Cleveland, Ohio (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 8 | Eastern DC-7B crashes into Atlantic off Jones Beach NJ, kills 84 |
| February 8 | Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" |
| February 11 | Beatle Ringo Starr marries Maureen Cox |
| February 11 | Braves propose to pay 5 cents from each ticket to bring a new team to Milwaukee |
| February 12 | KHFI (now KBVO) TV channel 42 in Austin, Texas (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 12 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| February 13 | Peggy Fleming, 16, wins ladies senior figure skating title |
| February 13 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| February 13 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
| February 15 | John Lennon passes his driving test |
| February 16 | "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 313 performances |
| February 16 | Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors |
| February 17 | U.S. - Japan baseball relations suspended over Masanori Murakami dispute |
| February 17 | U.S. Ranger 8 launched, will transmit 7,137 lunar pictures |
| February 18 | 27 copper miners die in avalanche, Granduc Mountain, British Columbia |
| February 18 | "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| February 18 | Frank Gifford announces his retirement from football for broadcasting |
| February 18 | Gambia gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| February 19 | NFL adds 6th official |
| February 20 | Beatles record "That Means a Lot" |
| February 20 | Ranger 8 makes hard landing on the Moon, returns photos, other data |
| February 20 | Turkish government of Uerguplu forms |
| February 22 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test) |
| February 23 | Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president |
| February 24 | Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas |
| February 24 | East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt |
| February 26 | Dutch Government of Marijnen falls |
| February 26 | West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania |
| February 27 | Dutch Marijnen government resigns |
| February 27 | France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| February 27 | "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 375 performances |
| March 1 | Australia suspends champ swimmer Dawn Fraser for 10-yrs for misconduct |
| March 1 | Gas explosion kills 28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Quebec) |
| March 1 | WPSX TV channel 3 in Clearfield, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 2 | Montcalm Community College in Sidney, Michigan, founded |
| March 2 | "Sound Of Music" opens |
| March 3 | Temptations' "My Girl" reaches #1 |
| March 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 3 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 4 | David Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2 |
| March 5 | 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony |
| March 5 | Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 6 | 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford |
| March 6 | Bruce Taylor hits 105 for New Zealand vs. India in 1st Test Cricket innings |
| March 6 | "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St. New York City after 1415 performances |
| March 7 | Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma |
| March 7 | Bruce Taylor takes 5-86 in debut innings for New Zealand after ton |
| March 7 | Christian-democrats win parliament in Chile |
| March 8 | 1st U.S. combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines) |
| March 10 | Dutch Princess Margriet and Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged |
| March 11 | Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto |
| March 13 | Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| March 13 | Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds |
| March 14 | Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany |
| March 15 | Lyndon Baines Johnson asks congress to ensure everybody's right to vote |
| March 15 | T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in New York City |
| March 15 | WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 17 | Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help) |
| March 18 | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 220 performances |
| March 18 | Rolling Stones fined 5 pounds each for public urination |
| March 18 | U.S.S.R. launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes) |
| March 19 | Indonesia nationalizes all foreign oil companies |
| March 19 | Stoica becomes president and Ceausescu party leader of Romania |
| March 20 | 27th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Michigan 91-80 |
| March 20 | Venkataraghavan takes 8-72 vs. New Zealand at Delhi |
| March 21 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Golf Open |
| March 21 | Martin Luther King, Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama |
| March 21 | U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact |
| March 22 | D Senanayake wins general elections in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) |
| March 22 | U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong |
| March 23 | Gemini 3 launched, 1st U.S. 2-man space flight (Grissom and Young) |
| March 23 | Moroccan army shoots on demonstrators, about 100 killed |
| March 24 | U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus |
| March 25 | Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama |
| March 25 | West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution |
| March 28 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA All State Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| March 31 | U.S. ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam |
| April 1 | South Africa worker's union leader Henry Fazzie sentenced to 10 years |
| April 1 | Syncom 3, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, passes from civilian to military control |
| April 2 | Hochhuths play "Stellvertreter" banned in Italy |
| April 3 | 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched |
| April 4 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Baton Rouge Golf Invitational |
| April 5 | 37th Academy Awards - "My Fair Lady," Rex Harrison and J Andrews win |
| April 5 | Lava Lamp Day celebrated |
| April 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 6 | Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st coml geosynchronous communication satellite |
| April 7 | Bevan Congdon makes a stumping as 12th man New Zealand vs. Pakistan |
| April 9 | 1st game at Astrodome, Houston beats Yankees 2-1 in exhibition as Mickey Mantle hits 1st indoor homerun |
| April 9 | Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in U.K. |
| April 9 | India and Pakistan engage in border fight |
| April 11 | 29th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 271 |
| April 11 | 40 tornadoes strike U.S. midwest killing 272 and injuring 5,000 |
| April 12 | 1st NL game at Houston's Astrodome (Phillies beat Astros 2-0) |
| April 13 | 1st U.S. Senate black page, Lawrence W. Bradford, Jr., 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits |
| April 13 | Beatles record "Help" |
| April 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 15 | James Baldwin's "Amen Corner," premieres in New York City |
| April 15 | NFL changes penalty flag from white to bright gold |
| April 16 | Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket |
| April 19 | 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating |
| April 19 | 69th Boston Marathon won by Morio Shigematsu of Japan in 2:16:33 |
| April 19 | At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die |
| April 19 | T.A.M.I. Show premieres in London |
| April 20 | People's Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid |
| April 21 | New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd and final season |
| April 23 | Launch of 1st Soviet communications satellite |
| April 24 | "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden New York City after 192 performances |
| April 24 | Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic |
| April 24 | New York Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager |
| April 25 | 19th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 1 |
| April 25 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Pensacola Golf Invitational |
| April 26 | Ives' 4th Symphony premieres |
| April 27 | "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| April 27 | RC Duncan patents "Pampers" disposable diaper |
| April 28 | Barbra Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS |
| April 28 | Lindsey Nelson broadcasts game at Astrodome from a hanging gondola |
| April 28 | Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA |
| April 28 | U.S. Marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966 |
| April 28 | William F. Raborn, Jr. replaces John A. McCone as 7th head of CIA |
| April 29 | Australian government announces it would send troops to Vietnam |
| April 29 | Earthquake hits Seattle; 5 die |
| April 29 | Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe |
| May 1 | 91st Kentucky Derby: Bill Shoemaker on Lucky Debonair wins in 2:01.2 |
| May 1 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Chicago Blackhawks, 4 games to 3 |
| May 1 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 5; later impacts on Moon |
| May 2 | Early Bird satellite goes into commercial service |
| May 2 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Golf Invitational |
| May 2 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Open |
| May 2 | "New Faces of 1965" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 52 performances |
| May 3 | 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite |
| May 3 | 3rd Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 2-1 in 10 |
| May 3 | Cambodia drops diplomatic relations with the U.S. |
| May 3 | KTCI TV channel 17 in St. Paul-Minneapolis, MN (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| May 3 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era) |
| May 4 | Willie Mays 512th home run breaks Mel Ott's 511th NL record |
| May 5 | 1st large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam |
| May 6 | Lawry and Simpson complete opening stand of 382 against W Indies |
| May 7 | WAOW TV channel 9 in Wausau, Wisconsin (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 8 | 1st shut put over 70' (Randy Matson 70' 7") |
| May 9 | Beatles attend a Bob Dylan concert |
| May 9 | Luna 5 launched (U.S.S.R.) 1st attempt to soft land on Moon (fails) |
| May 11 | 1st of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000 (India) |
| May 11 | Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000 |
| May 11 | Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument |
| May 11 | "Flora, the Red Menace" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 87 performances |
| May 11 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 11 | West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy |
| May 12 | Israel and West Germany exchange letters beginning diplomatic relations |
| May 13 | Rolling Stones record "Satisfaction" |
| May 13 | Several Arab nations break ties with West Germany after it established diplomatic relations with Israel |
| May 14 | 2nd Chinese atom bomb explodes |
| May 14 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 15 | 91st Preakness: Ron Turcotte aboard Tom Rolfe wins in 1:56.2 |
| May 15 | Canadian Football Players Association organizes |
| May 15 | Igor Vodic beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| May 16 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer's pitching debut, beats Yankees 7-5 and homers |
| May 16 | Bomb destroys USAF base Bien Hoa South Vietnam |
| May 16 | "Roar of the Greasepaint" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances |
| May 16 | Spaghetti-O's 1st sold |
| May 16 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open |
| May 16 | WNJU TV channel 47 in NY-Linden, New York (TEL) begins broadcasting |
| May 18 | Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Captain |
| May 18 | WTAF TV channel 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| May 19 | Patricia R. Harris named 1st U.S. black female ambassador (Luxembourg) |
| May 19 | West Ham United wins 5th Europe Cup II |
| May 20 | Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121 |
| May 20 | Yorkshire all out for 23 vs. Hampshire at Middlesbrough |
| May 22 | Beatles' "Ticket to Ride," single goes #1 |
| May 22 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Igor Vodic in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| May 22 | "Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious" hits #66 |
| May 23 | Franz Jonas elected president of Austria |
| May 23 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 23 | Pontoon ferry overturned on Shire River Malawi, kills 150 |
| May 24 | Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional |
| May 25 | Dave Davies of Kinks stumbles and is knocked unconscious on stage |
| May 25 | India and Pakistan border fights |
| May 25 | Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 25 | Roel van Duyn, Martijn Ananar and Rob Faado align in Provo |
| May 26 | Dutch Voting Rights Bill passes |
| May 26 | Revised International Convention on Safety of Life at Sea takes effect |
| May 27 | Inter Milan wins 10th Europe Cup 1 in Milan |
| May 28 | Fire and explosion at Dhori mine in Dhanbad India kills 400 |
| May 29 | Phillies Dick Allen hits 529' home run out of Connie Mack Stadium |
| May 30 | France performs nuclear test at Ecker Algeria (Underground) |
| May 30 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| May 30 | Viet Cong offensive against U.S. base Da Nang, begins |
| May 30 | Vivian Malone, is 1st black to graduate from University of Alabama |
| May 31 | Jim Clark becomes 1st foreigner in 49 years to win Indy |
| June 1 | A Penzias and R Wilson detect 3 degrees K primordial background radiation |
| June 1 | coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Japan kills 236 |
| June 2 | 2nd of 2 cyclones in less than a month kills 35,000, Ganges R India |
| June 3 | Gemini 4 launched; 2nd U.S. 2-man flight, McDivitt and White |
| June 4 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" |
| June 5 | 97th Belmont: John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6 |
| June 5 | Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras |
| June 5 | "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham and Pharaohs hits #2 |
| June 6 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Blue Grass Golf Invitational |
| June 6 | Yankees Tom Tresh bangs 3 consecutive home runs beating White Sox 12-0 |
| June 7 | Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits |
| June 7 | Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power |
| June 7 | Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995 |
| June 7 | Supreme Court rules 1879 Connecticut law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional |
| June 8 | A's draft Rick Monday #1 |
| June 8 | U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam |
| June 8 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 6; missed Moon |
| June 9 | Frenchman, Machal Jazy, runs record mile in 3:53.6 |
| June 12 | "Bajour" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 232 performances |
| June 12 | Beatles are awarded MBE |
| June 12 | Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies |
| June 12 | "I Had a BaIl" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 199 performances |
| June 12 | Morio Shigematsu runs world record marathon (2:12:00) |
| June 12 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" |
| June 12 | Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand" |
| June 12 | South Vietnam General Nguyen Cao Kentucky succeeds Phan Huy Quat as premier |
| June 12 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 540 performances |
| June 13 | 19th Tony Awards: Subject Was Roses and Fiddler on the Roof win |
| June 13 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Western Golf Open |
| June 14 | Beatles release album "Beatles VI" |
| June 14 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney no-hits New York Mets but loses in 11, 1-0 |
| June 14 | John Lennon's 2nd book "A Spaniard in the Works" is published |
| June 15 | Bob Dylan records "Like a Rolling Stone" |
| June 15 | Denny McLain in relief strikesout 1st 7 batters faced and record 14 in 6 2/3 innings, Bill Freehan ties catcher record of 19 putouts |
| June 15 | South Africa begins economic boycott of Dutch products |
| June 17 | 11.08" (28.14 cm) of rainfall, Holly, Colorado (state 24-hour record) |
| June 17 | 1st bombing by B-52 (50 km north of Saigon) |
| June 17 | Kinks arrive in New York City beginning their 1st U.S. tour |
| June 19 | Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, President Ben Bella fired |
| June 19 | KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia |
| June 20 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open |
| June 21 | 65th U.S. Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 282 at Bellerive CC in St. Louis |
| June 22 | Freddie Trueman ends his Test cricket career, vs. New Zealand at Lord's |
| June 25 | Gyula Kallai succeeds Janos Kadar as premier of Hungary |
| June 26 | Wallon party forms in Belgium |
| June 27 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open |
| June 28 | 1st U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam authorized by President Johnson |
| June 28 | Princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg announce engagement |
| June 29 | USAF Captain Joseph Henry Engle reaches 85,530 m in X-15 |
| June 30 | NFL grants Atlanta Falcons a franchise |
| July 1 | FC Twente '65 Enschede soccer team forms in Enschede |
| July 1 | Kinderstraf trial starts |
| July 1 | KUID TV channel 12 in Moscow, Idaho (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 2 | 79th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Fred Stolle (62 64 64) |
| July 3 | 72nd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats M Fraiser (64 75) |
| July 3 | Phillies Dick Allen and Frank Thomas get into a fight during practice |
| July 3 | U.S.S.R. and Persia sign dam building and economic aid pact |
| July 4 | 20th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Carol Mann |
| July 6 | Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms |
| July 7 | Otis Redding records "Respect" |
| July 8 | Joe Morgan is 1st Houston player with 6 hits in a game |
| July 9 | 94th British Golf Open: Peter Thomson shoots a 285 at Royal Birkdale |
| July 9 | John Edrich completes 310* vs. New Zealand in 532 minutes, 52 fours 5 sixes |
| July 9 | Senators Frank Howard ties record with 7 strikeouts in DH |
| July 10 | Beatles' "Beatles' "VI," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| July 10 | Rolling Stones score their 1st #1, "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" |
| July 11 | Israeli Mapai-party nominates David Ben-Gurion |
| July 11 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Midwest Golf Open |
| July 13 | 36th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 6-5 at Metropolitan Stadium, Minn |
| July 13 | All star MVP: Juan Marichal (SF Giant) |
| July 14 | Australian Ronald Clarke runs world record 10k (27:39.4) |
| July 14 | Israeli/Jordanian border fights |
| July 14 | U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km) |
| July 15 | Athanassiades Novas succeeds Papandreo as premier of Greece |
| July 15 | "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars |
| July 16 | Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens |
| July 17 | WLCY (now WTSP) TV channel 10 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (ABC) begins |
| July 18 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Yankee Golf Open |
| July 18 | Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit |
| July 19 | Shooting begins on Star Trek 2nd pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" |
| July 20 | 18.18" (46.18 cm) of rainfall, Edgarton, Missouri (state 24-hour record) |
| July 20 | New York Yankee pitcher Mel Stottlemyre hits an inside-the-park grand slam |
| July 21 | Pakistan, Iran and Turkey sign Regional Co-Operation pact |
| July 22 | Edward Heath succeeds Alec Douglas-Hume as leader of British Cons party |
| July 23 | Beatles "Help" is released in UK |
| July 23 | Dick Stuart homers in a major league-record 23rd different park |
| July 24 | Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" |
| July 24 | Casey Stengel resigns as manager of New York Mets |
| July 24 | "Flora, the Red Menace" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 87 performances |
| July 24 | Rock group "Animals" 1st time on British charts |
| July 25 | Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar |
| July 25 | Folk-rock begins, Dylan uses electricity at Newport Folk Festival |
| July 25 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Tournament |
| July 26 | Republic of Maldives gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| July 27 | Pierre Harmel forms Belgium government |
| July 27 | President Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking |
| July 28 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam |
| July 29 | Beatles movie "Help" premieres, Queen Elizabeth attends |
| July 29 | Gemini 5 returned after 12d 7h 11m 53s |
| July 29 | Major league record 26 strikeouts, Phillies (16), Pirates (10) |
| July 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 30 | Charles Ives' "From the Steeples and the Mountains," premieres |
| July 30 | Duke Ellington's "Golden Brown and the Green Apple," premieres |
| July 30 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 |
| July 30 | Milwaukee manager Bobby Bragan says his pitchers threw 75 to 80 spitballs in a 9-2 loss to the Giants |
| July 31 | Cigarette Ads banned on British TV |
| August 1 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open |
| August 2 | Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating we are losing |
| August 4 | Cook Islands enters into free association with New Zealand |
| August 5 | Dave Marr wins PGA title |
| August 6 | 32nd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Cleveland 24, All-Stars 16 (68,000) |
| August 6 | Beatles release "Help" album in U.K. |
| August 6 | Federal Voting Rights Act guarantees black voting rights |
| August 6 | Indian troops invade Pakistan |
| August 6 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing voting rights for blacks |
| August 8 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Milwaukee Golf Open |
| August 8 | Singapore leaves Malaysian Federation |
| August 9 | Fire in Titan II silo in Searcy Arkansas, 53 die |
| August 9 | Singapore gains independence from Malaysia, National Day |
| August 10 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 82 km |
| August 11 | 6 day insurrection starts in Watts section of Los Angeles |
| August 11 | Beatles movie "Help" opens in New York City |
| August 11 | Watts riots begin in Southeast LA, lasts 6 days |
| August 12 | Elizabeth Lane becomes 1st female British supreme court justice |
| August 12 | Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club, Inc applies for a NL franchise |
| August 14 | Beatles tape an appearance for Ed Sullivan Show |
| August 14 | Continental Football League plays 1st games |
| August 14 | Sonny and Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1 |
| August 15 | 47th PGA Championship: Dave Marr shoots a 280 at Laurel Valley Golf Club Pennsylvania |
| August 15 | Beatles play to 55,000 at Shea Stadium |
| August 15 | Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues |
| August 15 | Mary Mills wins LPGA St. Louis Golf Open |
| August 16 | AFL awards its 1st expansion franchise (Miami Dolphins) |
| August 18 | Hank Aaron loses a home run, because he hit it out of batter's box |
| August 18 | Orioles' Brooks Robinson hits into his record tying (George Sisler) |
| August 19 | Auschwitz trials end with 6 life sentences |
| August 19 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 2nd no-hitter of year beats Chicago Cubs, 1-0 |
| August 20 | Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron (1954 - 1965) pass Babe Ruth-Lou Gehrig hitting 772 home runs while playing together on the same team |
| August 20 | Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 U.S. hit) |
| August 21 | Gemini 5 launched into Earth orbit (2 astronauts) |
| August 21 | Romania adopts constitution |
| August 21 | The Crusher beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| August 22 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open |
| August 27 | Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley |
| August 27 | WTVI TV channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 29 | Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 |
| August 29 | Willie Mays sets NL record for home runs in a month with his 17th of August |
| August 30 | Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball |
| August 30 | Section of Allalin glacier wipes out construction site at Mattmark Dam near Saas-Fee, Switzerland |
| August 31 | House of Representatives joins Senate establish Department of Housing and Urban Develop |
| September 1 | India and Pakistan border fights |
| September 2 | Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hits his 400th home run off Curt Simmons |
| September 2 | Treblinka trial in Dusseldorf ends |
| September 3 | Curt Flood's record of 568 straight chances without an error begins |
| September 3 | Garcia Godoy forms government in Dominican Republic |
| September 3 | Jim Hickman becomes 1st New York Met to hit 3 home runs in a game |
| September 3 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Mysterium Fidei |
| September 3 | Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change their name from LA to California |
| September 4 | Beatles' "Help!," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| September 4 | KREZ TV channel 6 in Durango, CO (CBS/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 4 | Rock group Who's wan is vandalized with $10,000 in equipment stolen |
| September 6 | India invades West Pakistan |
| September 6 | KLNE TV channel 3 in Lexington, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 7 | Hurricane Betsy, kills 74 in Florida, Miss and La |
| September 8 | Hurricane Betsy kills 75 in Louisiana and Florida |
| September 8 | KC A's Bert Campaneris plays all 9 positions in a game |
| September 9 | Francois Mitterrand nominated for French presidency |
| September 9 | Sandy Koufax pitches his 4th no-hitter, a perfect game vs Cubs (1-0) |
| September 9 | Tibet is made an autonomous region of China |
| September 10 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 10 | Phillies 10,000th game to a decision since 1900, Phils beat Cards |
| September 10 | WUND TV channel 2 in Columbia, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | Beatles' "Help!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| September 11 | Braves 2nd straight one-hitter against the Mets |
| September 12 | 79th U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith beats Billie Jean King (86 75) |
| September 12 | 85th U.S. Mens Tennis: Manuel Santana beats Cliff Drysdale (62 79 75 61) |
| September 12 | Hurricane Betsy strikes Florida and Louisiana kills 75 |
| September 12 | Manuel Santana wins U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 12 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Golf Open |
| September 12 | WCEE TV channel 23 in Rockford, IL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 13 | Beatles release "Yesterday" |
| September 13 | Beatles win 1st Grammy, for Best Group of 1964 |
| September 13 | Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
| September 13 | Willie Mays's 500th home run (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win |
| September 14 | 4th meeting of 2nd Vatican council opened |
| September 14 | "F-Troop" premieres |
| September 15 | "Lost in Space" premieres |
| September 16 | Boston Red Sox Dave Morehead no-hits Cleveland Indians, 2-0 |
| September 16 | Sobibor trial opens in Hagen West Germany |
| September 17 | WPHL TV channel 17 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 18 | "Get Smart" premieres |
| September 18 | Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game |
| September 19 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Visalia Golf Open |
| September 19 | Erhards CDU wins West German parliament elections |
| September 20 | WXXW (now WYCC) TV channel 20 in Chicago, IL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 21 | O Kommissarova (U.S.S.R.) sets women's longest parachute jump (46,250') |
| September 22 | India and Pakistan ceases-fire goes into effect |
| September 24 | Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament |
| September 24 | Saudi-Arabian and Egyptian accord about Yemen |
| September 24 | Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government |
| September 25 | 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City A's pitches 3 scoreless innings |
| September 25 | Beatle cartoon show begins in U.S. |
| September 25 | Children find trunk with corpse in Amsterdam canal |
| September 25 | "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 220 performances |
| September 26 | 11th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Haynie |
| September 26 | Minnesota gains its 1st AL pennant by defeating Washington, 2-1 |
| September 26 | Queen Elizabeth decorates Beatles with Order of British Empire |
| September 28 | Jack McKay in X-15 reaches 90 km |
| September 28 | Lava flows kill at least 350 (Taal Philippines) |
| September 28 | Volcano explodes on Luzon Philippines; 500 killed |
| September 29 | Phillies catcher Pat Corrales sets record by reaching base twice on catcher's interference in one game and 6 times in one season |
| September 29 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4" |
| September 29 | St. L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleveland (49-13) |
| September 29 | WLVT TV channel 39 in Allentown, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 30 | Donovan's 1st U.S. TV appearance (Shindig) |
| September 30 | Los Angeles Dodger Don Drysdale (23-12) wins 13th straight game, 7 by shutouts |
| October 1 | Failed coup under Lieutenant Colonel Untung in Indonesia |
| October 1 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| October 2 | Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant |
| October 2 | Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
| October 2 | Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 New York Mets |
| October 2 | Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans |
| October 3 | Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season |
| October 3 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| October 3 | Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher |
| October 4 | "Pickwick" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 56 performances |
| October 4 | Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN) |
| October 4 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon |
| October 5 | Chuck Linster performs 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
| October 5 | Dick McInnes stays aloft almost 12 hours in a kite |
| October 6 | Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony" |
| October 6 | William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in New York City |
| October 7 | 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 |
| October 7 | Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
| October 7 | Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one |
| October 8 | Djakarta Moslems set fire to PKI-headquarter |
| October 8 | London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England |
| October 8 | Once-Hertogenbosch soccer team FC de Bosch forms |
| October 8 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 9 | 16th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 19 -12 at Royal Birkdale, England |
| October 9 | Beatles' "Yesterday," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 4 weeks |
| October 10 | "Drat! - The Cat!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 8 performances |
| October 10 | Supreme appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| October 10 | "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the 1st known map of America, drawn between 1423 and 1445 |
| October 14 | Joe Engle in X-15 reaches 80 km |
| October 14 | Sandy Koufax hurls his 2nd shutout of World Series beating Twins 2-0 |
| October 15 | Dodgers and Sandy Koufax win 7th game of 62nd World Series vs Twins |
| October 15 | WEMT (now WVII) TV channel 7 in Bangor, ME (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 16 | "Drat! - The Cat!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 8 performances |
| October 16 | Singer Leslie Uggams marries Grahame Pratt in New York City |
| October 17 | Largest newspaper-Sunday New York Times at 946 pages (50 cents ) |
| October 17 | "On A Clear Day You Can See Forever" opens in New York City for 280 performances |
| October 17 | WBMG TV channel 42 in Birmingham, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 20 | 19th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 5-2 at Montreal |
| October 20 | Beatles receive a gold record for "Yesterday" |
| October 20 | Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia |
| October 21 | KTWU TV channel 11 in Topeka, KS (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 21 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B Woodward |
| October 21 | Robert B. Woodward awarded Nobel prize for chemistry |
| October 21 | Vivian Beaumont Theater (New York City) opens |
| October 24 | Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today," premieres |
| October 24 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
| October 25 | Rolling Stones release "Get Off of My Cloud" |
| October 26 | Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace |
| October 26 | Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang |
| October 27 | WCFT TV channel 33 in Tuscaloosa, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 28 | 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis |
| October 28 | Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion |
| October 29 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| October 30 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Las Cruces Golf Open |
| October 30 | Fireworks explosions kill 50 in Cartagena, Colombia |
| November 1 | 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco |
| November 1 | Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing |
| November 1 | Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
| November 3 | Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously |
| November 4 | Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH) in Utah |
| November 7 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| November 8 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed |
| November 8 | "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV |
| November 9 | 1st New York Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St. Louis |
| November 9 | 5:16 PM, massive power failure in New Engl, and Ontario (New York blackout) |
| November 9 | Hurricane hits north east US/Canada |
| November 9 | Willie Mays named NL MVP |
| November 10 | Manneke Piss statue stolen in Brussels |
| November 10 | Netherlands 2nd Chamber accept marriage princess Beatrice and Claus von Amsberg |
| November 11 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas |
| November 11 | Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by Prime Minister Ian D Smith |
| November 11 | William Alfred's "Hogan's Goat," premieres in New York City |
| November 12 | Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines |
| November 12 | General strike in Morocco against disappearance of Ben Barka |
| November 12 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Crusher in Denver, to become NWA champ |
| November 12 | Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus |
| November 13 | "Skyscraper" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 248 performances |
| November 13 | "Yarmouth Castle" burns and sinks off Bahamas, killing 89 |
| November 14 | "Baker Street" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 313 performances |
| November 14 | George Abbott Theater (Adelphi, 54 St) at 152 W 54th New York City, demolished |
| November 14 | KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, California (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| November 14 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Alamo Golf Open |
| November 14 | U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam |
| November 15 | Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph) |
| November 16 | Venera 3 launched, 1st to land on another planet (crashes into Venus) |
| November 16 | Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow |
| November 17 | General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR |
| November 17 | William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball |
| November 18 | Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP |
| November 19 | ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report |
| November 19 | Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created |
| November 20 | "Pickwick" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 56 performances |
| November 20 | U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia |
| November 20 | WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 21 | 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel |
| November 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 22 | Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes |
| November 22 | "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 performances |
| November 22 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| November 23 | 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB) |
| November 23 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 24 | Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire |
| November 25 | Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown |
| November 26 | Dodgers 2nd baseman Jim Lefebvre is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| November 26 | France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Asterix) |
| November 27 | 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C. |
| November 27 | 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space |
| November 27 | 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16 |
| November 28 | Browns' Leroy Kelly sets club record for most punt return yards (109) |
| November 28 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| November 29 | "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 16 performances |
| November 29 | Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups |
| December 1 | Airlift of refugees from Cuba to U.S. began |
| December 1 | South Africa government says children of white fathers are white |
| December 3 | Beatles begin final U.K. concert tour in Glasgow |
| December 3 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 8; crashes on Moon |
| December 4 | 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Conn, 4 die |
| December 4 | 2nd New York Knick game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner) |
| December 4 | Gemini 7 (Borman and Lovell) launched |
| December 4 | "Roar of the Greasepaint" closes at Shubert New York City after 232 performances |
| December 4 | San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000 |
| December 6 | 2 trucks crashed into a crowd of dancers (Sotouboua Togo) kills 125 |
| December 7 | Pope Paul VI and Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras I simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that led to split of 2 churches in 1054 |
| December 8 | Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower," premieres in New York City |
| December 8 | Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as president of U.S.S.R. |
| December 8 | Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council |
| December 9 | "A Charlie Brown Christmas," premieres |
| December 9 | Frank Robinson is traded from Cincinnati to the Orioles |
| December 9 | Nikolai Podgorny replaces Anastas Mikoyan as president of Presidium |
| December 10 | Dutch ends economic boycott of Rhodesia |
| December 10 | Test Cricket debut of Doug Walters vs. England at the Gabba |
| December 10 | "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| December 11 | "Anya" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 16 performances |
| December 11 | "Yearling" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| December 12 | Beatles last Great Britain concert (Capitol Theatre in Cardiff Wales) |
| December 12 | Doug Walters makes maiden Test ton in 1st Test, goes on to 155 |
| December 12 | Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record |
| December 12 | Vivian Beaumont Theater opens at 65th St. and Amsterdam Ave New York City |
| December 13 | Algerian president Boumedienne visits Moscow |
| December 14 | "La Grusse Valise" opens at 54th St. Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| December 15 | 3rd cyclone of year kills another 15,000 at mouths of Ganges River |
| December 15 | Bangladesh windstorm kills 10,000 |
| December 15 | D Heneker and J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl," premieres in London |
| December 15 | Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7) |
| December 15 | Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde |
| December 15 | William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball |
| December 16 | Gemini 6 returns to Earth |
| December 16 | Pioneer 6 launched into solar orbit |
| December 16 | Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, becomes King of Tonga |
| December 17 | Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland and Supremes concert |
| December 17 | British government proclaims ends oil-embargo against Rhodesia |
| December 17 | David Levy begins his search for comets |
| December 17 | Dutch government shuts Limburgs coal mine |
| December 18 | Borman and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic ends 2 week Gemini VII mission |
| December 18 | Kenneth LeBel jumps 17 barrels on ice skates |
| December 18 | "La Grusse Valise" closes at 54th St. Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| December 19 | French president De Gaulle re-elected (Mitterrand gets 45%) |
| December 22 | Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine |
| December 22 | Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres |
| December 22 | Great Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH |
| December 22 | Radio Mil (Domincan Republic) transmitter blown up |
| December 26 | Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 23-0 in AFL championship game |
| December 26 | "Funny Girl" with Barbra Streisand closes on Broadway |
| December 29 | CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year |
| December 29 | Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You" |
| December 29 | "Thunderball" premieres in US |
| December 30 | Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines |
