| January 1 | 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway |
| January 1 | All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health" |
| January 1 | Military coup by Col Jean-Bedel Bokassa in Central African Republic |
| January 1 | Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 |
| January 2 | 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion |
| January 2 | Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game |
| January 3 | Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE |
| January 4 | Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test |
| January 4 | WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 7 | Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts |
| January 7 | Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ |
| January 8 | Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| January 8 | Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| January 8 | Georges Pompidou appointed French premier |
| January 8 | Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC |
| January 9 | Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism |
| January 10 | India and Pakistan sign peace accord |
| January 10 | Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War |
| January 11 | 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain |
| January 11 | "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV |
| January 12 | 12 day New York City transit strike ends |
| January 12 | "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV |
| January 12 | Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends |
| January 12 | Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics |
| January 13 | 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) |
| January 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 14 | David Bowie releases his 1st record 'Can't Help Thinking About Me' |
| January 15 | AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 |
| January 15 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 |
| January 16 | Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US |
| January 16 | Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center |
| January 17 | B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die |
| January 17 | Martin Luther King, Jr. opens campaign in Chicago |
| January 18 | Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) |
| January 19 | Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister |
| January 19 | Neil Simons, Coleman and Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres |
| January 19 | Tippetts cantate "Vision of St. Augustine," premieres in London |
| January 21 | Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd |
| January 24 | WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| January 25 | WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, New Jersey (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| January 26 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2) |
| January 27 | Wisc State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W. Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisconsin an expansion team for 1966 |
| January 29 | Lawry and Simpson complete 244 opening stand vs. England, Adelaide |
| January 29 | Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165 |
| January 29 | "Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 608 performances |
| January 29 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| January 29 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
| January 30 | -19 degrees F (-28 degrees C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record) |
| January 30 | -27 degrees F (-33 degrees C), New Market, Alabama (state record) |
| January 30 | Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) |
| January 30 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet |
| January 31 | Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers |
| January 31 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
| February 3 | 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S. |
| February 3 | 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
| February 4 | All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
| February 5 | BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
| February 7 | KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 9 | Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
| February 10 | Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
| February 11 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year |
| February 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 14 | Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps |
| February 14 | Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points |
| February 14 | Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty |
| February 15 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| February 16 | Bob Cowper makes 307 vs. England at the MCG, 727 minutes, 20 fours |
| February 16 | End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Australia WK |
| February 16 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| February 17 | French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
| February 20 | Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R. |
| February 21 | Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution |
| February 22 | Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew |
| February 23 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government |
| February 23 | Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government |
| February 23 | Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda |
| February 24 | Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana |
| February 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 25 | Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad |
| February 26 | KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 27 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB |
| February 27 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of URS |
| February 27 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of U.S. |
| February 27 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT |
| February 28 | Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes |
| February 28 | Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers |
| March 1 | Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria |
| March 1 | Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) |
| March 2 | 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam |
| March 3 | Buffalo Springfield form, Steven Stills, Neil Young |
| March 3 | James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in New York City |
| March 3 | Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee |
| March 3 | Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms |
| March 3 | Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die |
| March 3 | WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, Virginia (IND) begins broadcasting |
| March 4 | Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die |
| March 4 | John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" |
| March 4 | North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum |
| March 5 | 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die |
| March 5 | Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record |
| March 5 | Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association |
| March 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 6 | Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) |
| March 7 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 7 | "Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater New York City for 457 performances |
| March 8 | An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin |
| March 8 | Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| March 8 | "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 569 performances |
| March 9 | Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board |
| March 10 | 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires |
| March 10 | Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg |
| March 10 | North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
| March 11 | Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out |
| March 12 | Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record |
| March 12 | Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) |
| March 12 | Love's 1st album released "Love" |
| March 12 | Pioneer Plaza dedicated |
| March 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 13 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational |
| March 15 | 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Striesand |
| March 15 | Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles |
| March 16 | Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits |
| March 16 | Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London |
| March 17 | South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund |
| March 17 | U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean |
| March 18 | General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
| March 18 | "Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| March 18 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 |
| March 19 | 28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Kentucky 72-65 |
| March 19 | Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins |
| March 19 | "Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| March 20 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| March 21 | Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene |
| March 23 | 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church |
| March 24 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
| March 25 | Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled |
| March 25 | U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional |
| March 27 | Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia |
| March 27 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational |
| March 29 | "It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin New York City for 129 performances |
| March 29 | Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 30 | Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS |
| March 31 | 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City |
| March 31 | Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
| March 31 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter |
| April 1 | 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) |
| April 1 | China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" |
| April 2 | Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon |
| April 2 | WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, Pennsylvania (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| April 3 | Luna 10 orbits Moon |
| April 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open |
| April 3 | Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus |
| April 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 5 | WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft. Pierce-Vero Beach, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| April 6 | Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India |
| April 7 | U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor |
| April 8 | AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner |
| April 8 | Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party |
| April 8 | OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched |
| April 9 | Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens |
| April 9 | Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris |
| April 11 | 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 |
| April 11 | Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire |
| April 12 | 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam |
| April 12 | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2 |
| April 12 | Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck |
| April 13 | Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s |
| April 15 | KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 15 | Rolling Stones release "Aftermath" |
| April 16 | Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain |
| April 17 | 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1) |
| April 17 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| April 18 | Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics) |
| April 19 | 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11 |
| April 19 | In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic |
| April 19 | Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon |
| April 20 | WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, D.C. (IND) begins broadcasting |
| April 21 | Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica |
| April 22 | Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4 |
| April 22 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| April 24 | Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee) |
| April 24 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
| April 25 | Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium |
| April 26 | Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach |
| April 27 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd cello concert |
| April 28 | 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| April 28 | 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win |
| April 28 | Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day |
| April 28 | OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms |
| May 1 | Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) |
| May 1 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| May 1 | Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
| May 1 | U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia |
| May 2 | Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) |
| May 3 | WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 4 | Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R. |
| May 5 | Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II |
| May 5 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 |
| May 6 | Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin |
| May 6 | Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7 |
| May 7 | 92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02 |
| May 7 | Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 |
| May 7 | Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene |
| May 8 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| May 8 | Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF |
| May 8 | Only home run ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) |
| May 9 | 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) |
| May 9 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| May 11 | Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I |
| May 12 | St. Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns |
| May 13 | Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| May 13 | Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" |
| May 14 | A Lover's Concerto by Mrs. Miller hits #95 |
| May 15 | 1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex vs. Somerset |
| May 15 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational |
| May 15 | South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
| May 16 | Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released |
| May 16 | National Welfare Rights Organization organizes |
| May 16 | Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating |
| May 17 | KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 21 | 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4 |
| May 21 | "Downtown" by Mrs. Miller hits #82 |
| May 21 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London |
| May 21 | Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97 |
| May 21 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
| May 21 | "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| May 22 | 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore |
| May 22 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| May 23 | Beatles release "Paperback Writer" |
| May 24 | "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1508 performances |
| May 25 | Peru and Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die |
| May 26 | Buddhist sets self on fire at U.S. consulate in Hue South-Vietnam |
| May 26 | Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK |
| May 27 | 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes |
| May 27 | 6 French fighters crash above Spain |
| May 28 | "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 |
| May 28 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet, premieres in Leningrad |
| May 29 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational |
| May 30 | 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
| May 30 | Graham Hill wins Indianapolis 500 car race (232.2 kph) |
| May 30 | U.S. launches Surveyor 1 to Moon |
| June 1 | 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights |
| June 1 | George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London |
| June 1 | Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
| June 1 | Shortwave station Radio New York Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW |
| June 2 | U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
| June 3 | European DX Council forms in Copenhagen, shortwave listeners |
| June 3 | Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan |
| June 4 | 98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 |
| June 4 | "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 |
| June 4 | Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras |
| June 5 | Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| June 5 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational |
| June 6 | Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
| June 6 | Claus Von Bulow and Martha (Sunny) Crawford wed |
| June 6 | Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" |
| June 6 | NFL and AFL announce their merger |
| June 6 | Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
| June 7 | New York Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1 |
| June 8 | NFL and AFL announce plans to become NFC and AFC in 1970 |
| June 9 | 5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, and Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4 |
| June 10 | Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in U.K. |
| June 10 | Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes |
| June 10 | Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Washington Senator, 2-0 |
| June 10 | Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco |
| June 10 | Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday" |
| June 11 | French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
| June 11 | "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3 |
| June 11 | "(I'm A) Road Runner" by, Jr. Walker and The All-Stars peaks at #20 |
| June 11 | Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig in San Francisco |
| June 11 | "On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 280 performances |
| June 11 | "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 |
| June 11 | "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 248 performances |
| June 11 | "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.K. |
| June 12 | Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan |
| June 12 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
| June 13 | Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
| June 14 | Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured |
| June 14 | Miami beats St. Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball |
| June 16 | 20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade and Man of La Mancha win |
| June 16 | "Rowan and Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| June 17 | Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers |
| June 19 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| June 20 | 66th U.S. Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF |
| June 20 | Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman |
| June 21 | Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam |
| June 22 | "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens |
| June 24 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die |
| June 24 | Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I |
| June 25 | Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| June 25 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
| June 25 | Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched |
| June 26 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| June 26 | Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
| June 26 | "Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| June 27 | 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV |
| June 27 | 4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yankees beat Mets 5-2 |
| June 28 | Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 29 | In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time |
| June 29 | KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, California begins |
| June 29 | U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities |
| June 30 | Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour |
| June 30 | Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa |
| June 30 | Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA |
| June 30 | Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, vs. WI Trent Bridge, wicketless |
| June 30 | Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA |
| July 1 | 80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64) |
| July 1 | Construction crews begin tearing up Market St. to build BART |
| July 1 | Explorer 33 launched |
| July 1 | Medicare goes into effect |
| July 1 | VVV soccer team forms in Venlo |
| July 2 | 73rd Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie J King beats Frasier (63 36 61) |
| July 2 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 3 | 21st U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich |
| July 3 | Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game |
| July 3 | Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska |
| July 4 | Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos |
| July 4 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act |
| July 5 | National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting |
| July 5 | New York City transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents |
| July 5 | Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy |
| July 6 | Malawi becomes a republic, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president |
| July 8 | U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th |
| July 9 | 95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane |
| July 10 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| July 10 | U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon |
| July 12 | 10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record) |
| July 12 | 37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St. Louis |
| July 12 | All star MVP: Brooks Robinson for the Baltimore Orioles |
| July 12 | Race riot in Chicago |
| July 12 | U.S. Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints |
| July 13 | Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago |
| July 16 | "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 512 performances |
| July 17 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| July 17 | Indians set club record by hitting 7 home run in 15-2 win over Detroit |
| July 17 | "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin New York City after 129 performances |
| July 17 | Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) |
| July 17 | Pioneer 7 launched |
| July 18 | Gemini 10 launched (John Young and Michael Collins) |
| July 19 | 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas |
| July 19 | France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island |
| July 19 | Governor James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot |
| July 21 | Gemini X returns to Earth |
| July 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 23 | Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens |
| July 23 | John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) |
| July 23 | Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" |
| July 24 | 48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron |
| July 24 | Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
| July 25 | Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone |
| July 25 | Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." |
| July 25 | Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River |
| July 25 | Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
| July 25 | Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
| July 26 | WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, New Hampshire (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| July 29 | Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York |
| July 29 | Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup |
| July 30 | Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| July 30 | England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London |
| July 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open |
| July 30 | U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
| July 31 | Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark |
| July 31 | Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas |
| August 1 | Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead |
| August 1 | Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas |
| August 2 | Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting |
| August 3 | South African government bans Beatle records |
| August 5 | 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000) |
| August 5 | Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK |
| August 5 | Beatles' "Revolver" album is released |
| August 5 | Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title |
| August 5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march |
| August 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 6 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London |
| August 6 | Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| August 6 | Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) |
| August 6 | U.S. citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
| August 7 | Race riot in Lansing, Michigan |
| August 8 | South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
| August 10 | 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S. |
| August 10 | Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again |
| August 10 | Phillies and Expos play a doubleheader that ends at 3:23 AM |
| August 11 | Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins |
| August 14 | 1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon |
| August 14 | Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles |
| August 14 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| August 15 | Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
| August 17 | Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
| August 17 | Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time home run list |
| August 19 | Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed |
| August 20 | Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert |
| August 21 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| August 22 | Beatles arrive in New York City |
| August 23 | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon |
| August 24 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon |
| August 26 | Baltimore Orioles Roznovsky and B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch home runs |
| August 26 | KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 27 | Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world |
| August 27 | Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak |
| August 27 | Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois |
| August 27 | Sir Francis Chichester begins 1st solo ocean voyage around the world |
| August 28 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic |
| August 29 | Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) |
| August 31 | Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria) |
| September 1 | KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 2 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| September 3 | 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry |
| September 3 | Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" |
| September 4 | Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 |
| September 4 | Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 |
| September 5 | WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 7 | KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 8 | Star Trek premieres on NBC-TV |
| September 8 | "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV |
| September 10 | Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
| September 10 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
| September 10 | Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) |
| September 11 | 80th U.S. Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) |
| September 11 | 86th U.S. Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) |
| September 11 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| September 11 | Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a home run on his 1st at bat |
| September 11 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic |
| September 11 | Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show |
| September 12 | Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight |
| September 12 | KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 12 | "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV |
| September 12 | Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan begins teaching |
| September 12 | WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 12 | WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St. Petersburg, Florida (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| September 13 | Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
| September 15 | 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched |
| September 15 | Dutch political party (D'66) forms |
| September 15 | Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth |
| September 16 | Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center |
| September 17 | Cleveland pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings |
| September 18 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| September 20 | U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 |
| September 21 | 5" of rain falls on New York City |
| September 21 | Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi |
| September 22 | Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance," premieres in New York City |
| September 22 | KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 22 | Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game |
| September 22 | Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant |
| September 22 | Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon |
| September 24 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
| September 24 | Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida and Mexico |
| September 25 | 12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret |
| September 25 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow |
| September 25 | Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 |
| September 26 | "Staten Island," 1st icebreaker to enter San Francisco bay |
| September 29 | Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana |
| September 29 | Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season |
| September 30 | Botswana (Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| September 30 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 1 | Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times" |
| October 1 | WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins |
| October 2 | Los Angeles Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd Los Angeles pennant in 4 years |
| October 2 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| October 3 | Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
| October 4 | Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism |
| October 4 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| October 4 | Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| October 6 | Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout |
| October 6 | Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor |
| October 8 | Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yards (54, 54, 52) |
| October 9 | Baltimore Orioles sweep Los Angeles Dodgers, in 63rd World Series |
| October 9 | Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It" |
| October 12 | Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell |
| October 13 | 173 U.S. airplanes bomb North-Vietnam |
| October 13 | Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| October 14 | 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
| October 14 | Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer |
| October 15 | Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene" |
| October 15 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT) |
| October 16 | Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland |
| October 18 | "Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 463 performances |
| October 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 19 | Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City) |
| October 21 | 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales |
| October 22 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
| October 23 | Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig and Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf |
| October 25 | 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam |
| October 26 | 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 |
| October 26 | U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die |
| October 27 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| October 27 | U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia |
| October 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 28 | Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour |
| October 29 | Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E |
| October 29 | National Organization of Women founded |
| October 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open |
| November 1 | Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created |
| November 1 | NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day) |
| November 1 | Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner |
| November 1 | William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km |
| November 2 | KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 4 | Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 |
| November 5 | Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained |
| November 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 6 | 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) |
| November 6 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
| November 6 | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched |
| November 7 | Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in New York City |
| November 7 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| November 7 | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US |
| November 8 | Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California |
| November 8 | Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate |
| November 8 | President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger |
| November 9 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at a London art gallery |
| November 9 | "Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 107 performances |
| November 9 | Oakland Coliseum Arena opens |
| November 10 | Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier |
| November 10 | Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon |
| November 11 | Gemini 12 (Lovell and Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight |
| November 11 | Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church |
| November 12 | Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| November 12 | Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record |
| November 12 | High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame |
| November 13 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
| November 14 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title |
| November 15 | Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth |
| November 16 | Dr. Sam Sheppard freed after 9 years in jail, by a jury |
| November 16 | Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP |
| November 17 | Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) |
| November 18 | Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow |
| November 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 18 | U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays |
| November 19 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| November 20 | "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1166 performances |
| November 20 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open |
| November 20 | Dallas sacks Pittsburgh quarterbacks an NFL record 12 times |
| November 20 | Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage |
| November 21 | Dutch government of Zijlstra forms |
| November 22 | 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (quarterback) |
| November 23 | Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year |
| November 24 | 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire) |
| November 24 | 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer New York City smog |
| November 24 | The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper" |
| November 25 | Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year |
| November 25 | Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club |
| November 26 | 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
| November 26 | 54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14 |
| November 26 | "Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 161 performances |
| November 27 | In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41 |
| November 27 | Uruguay adopts constitution |
| November 28 | Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared |
| November 28 | Dominican Republic adopts constitution |
| November 29 | 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101 |
| November 30 | Barbados gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| November 30 | Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland |
| December 1 | Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
| December 1 | Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colorado |
| December 2 | Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East |
| December 3 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi |
| December 4 | KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 4 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational |
| December 5 | "I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 561 performances |
| December 6 | Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
| December 8 | A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith |
| December 8 | U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| December 10 | Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| December 10 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken |
| December 11 | Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards |
| December 12 | U.S. Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
| December 13 | 1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam |
| December 13 | 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi |
| December 13 | Test debut of Clive Lloyd, vs. India Bombay, 82 and 78 |
| December 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 15 | Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
| December 15 | John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
| December 15 | "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| December 16 | Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK |
| December 16 | Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK |
| December 18 | Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS |
| December 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 20 | Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established |
| December 20 | NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season |
| December 20 | Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels |
| December 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 21 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
| December 22 | WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 23 | Britains rock TV show, "Ready Steady Go," last program |
| December 24 | "Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 12 performances |
| December 24 | Luna 13 lands on Moon |
| December 24 | USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 |
| December 26 | Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday |
| December 27 | "At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 105 performances |
| December 28 | 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass |
| December 28 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| December 31 | Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks |
| December 31 | Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India vs. WI Calcutta, 2-92 |
| December 31 | Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks |
