| January 1 | CRU becomes the CAFA and turns over the Grey Cup trophy to the CFL |
| January 1 | Day's play in the Calcutta Test vs. West Indies cancelled by riots |
| January 1 | FCC requires AM-FM sister stations to be at least 50% different |
| January 1 | Green Bay Packers beat Dallas Cowboys 34-27 in NFL championship game |
| January 1 | Kansas City Chiefs beat Buffalo Bills 31-7 in AFL championship game |
| January 1 | St. Helena adopts constitution |
| January 1 | Tonga revises constitution |
| January 1 | WABW TV channel 14 in Pelham, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 3 | Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion |
| January 3 | "Tonight Show" is shortened from 105 to 90 minutes |
| January 3 | WJAN TV channel 17 in Canton, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 5 | KLXA (now KTBN) TV channel 40 in Fontana-San Ana, California (IND) begins |
| January 6 | 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 |
| January 6 | KHTV TV channel 39 in Houston, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 6 | "Milton Berle Show" last airs on ABC-TV |
| January 7 | "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV |
| January 9 | Georgia legislature seats Rep. Julian Bond |
| January 9 | NFL New Orleans' franchise takes name "Saints" |
| January 10 | Dutch Princess Margret marries Pieter van Vollenhoven |
| January 10 | Lester Maddox inaugurated as governor of Georgia |
| January 10 | PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network |
| January 10 | Princess Margret marries Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven |
| January 11 | Romeinse Curie installs Council for Pontifical Study commission |
| January 12 | Louisville, Kentucky, draft board refuses exemption for boxer Muhammad Ali |
| January 13 | Coup in Togo |
| January 13 | Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| January 14 | 20,000 attend Human Be-In, SF |
| January 14 | Earthquake in Sicily kills 231 |
| January 14 | New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments |
| January 14 | Sonny and Cher release "Beat Goes On" |
| January 15 | Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback |
| January 16 | 1st black government installed in Bahamas |
| January 16 | Lucius Amerson, becomes 1st southern (Ala) black sheriff in 20th cent |
| January 18 | 20th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 3-0 at Montreal |
| January 18 | Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison |
| January 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 18 | Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of NW Territories, Canada |
| January 19 | Herr Karl Tausch writes shortest will "Vse Zene" (All to wife) |
| January 21 | AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 30-23 |
| January 21 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| January 21 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti |
| January 22 | NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 20-10 |
| January 23 | Stan Musial is named General Manager of Cards |
| January 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| January 27 | Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee |
| January 27 | Beatles sign a 9 year worldwide contract with EMI records |
| January 27 | New Orleans Saints sign their 1st player (Paige Cothren-kicker) |
| January 27 | Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed |
| January 28 | Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together" |
| January 29 | Branch Rickey and Lloyd Waner elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 29 | Kees Verkerk becomes European skating champ |
| January 29 | "Let's Sing Yiddish" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 107 performances |
| January 29 | WDAZ TV channel 8 in Devils Lake, ND (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| February 1 | Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives |
| February 1 | WCLP TV channel 18 in Chatsworth, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | Bolivia adopts its constitution |
| February 2 | Formation of American Basketball Association is announced |
| February 3 | "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix |
| February 4 | U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 3 |
| February 4 | "Wild Thing" hits #20 on the pop singles chart by Senator Bobby |
| February 5 | Anastasio Somoza elected president of Nicaragua |
| February 5 | Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren |
| February 5 | "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC) |
| February 6 | Cultural Revolution in Albania |
| February 6 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay beats Ernie Terrell in Houston |
| February 6 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Ernie Terrell in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 8 | Longest losing streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (10 games) |
| February 8 | Peter (Asher) and Gordon (Waller) discontinue their singing partnership |
| February 8 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| February 10 | 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect |
| February 12 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champ all round skater |
| February 12 | Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs |
| February 14 | Aretha Franklin records "Respect" |
| February 14 | Latin American nuclear free zone proposal drawn up |
| February 15 | 1st anti-bootleg recording laws enacted |
| February 15 | D66 (D'66) wins 7 seats in Dutch 2nd Chamber |
| February 15 | Longest dream (REM sleep) on record, Bill Carskadon, Chicago (2:23) |
| February 16 | Red Ruffing selected to Hall of Fame |
| February 17 | Beatles release "Penny Lane" and "Strawberry Fields" |
| February 17 | Kosmos 140 (Soyuz Test) launches into Earth orbit |
| February 18 | Bob Seagren sets pole vault record at 17'3" |
| February 18 | Softball pitcher Eddie Feigner strikes out 6 straight major leaguers |
| February 19 | Stien Kaiser becomes world champion lady's skater |
| February 22 | 25,000 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border |
| February 22 | Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in New York City |
| February 22 | Sling-shot goal post and 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL |
| February 23 | 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified |
| February 23 | John Herbert's "Fortune and Men's Eyes," premieres in New York City |
| February 23 | Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner |
| February 23 | U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War |
| February 26 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| February 26 | Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| February 27 | Antigua and St. Christopher-Nevis become associated states of UK |
| February 27 | Dominica gains independence from England |
| February 27 | Pink Floyd release their 1st single "Arnold Layne" |
| February 27 | Rio de la Plata Treaty |
| February 28 | Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal |
| March 1 | Dominica and St. Lucia gain independence from Britain |
| March 1 | House of Representatives expels Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (307 to 116) |
| March 1 | Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London |
| March 1 | WMET (now WHSW) TV channel 24 in Baltimore, MD (IND) 1st broadcast |
| March 2 | 9th Grammy Awards: Strangers in Night, Michele wins |
| March 2 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 3 | Grenada gains partial independence from Britain |
| March 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 3 | White Sox given permission to use semi-DH in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same game) |
| March 4 | Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| March 4 | Ice Pairs Championship at Vienna won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| March 4 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| March 4 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Vienna won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| March 5 | WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 6 | 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards |
| March 6 | Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison |
| March 6 | Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted |
| March 6 | Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US |
| March 6 | WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 7 | Clark Gesner's musical "You're a Good Man, premieres in New York City |
| March 7 | Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971) |
| March 8 | New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day) |
| March 9 | Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West |
| March 11 | Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne) |
| March 12 | Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet |
| March 12 | Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority |
| March 13 | Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death |
| March 13 | Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in New York City |
| March 14 | 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Baltimore Colts pick Bubba Smith |
| March 14 | John F. Kennedy's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial |
| March 15 | AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum |
| March 15 | Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil |
| March 15 | WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, Tennessee (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| March 18 | Beatles' "Penny Lane," single goes #1 |
| March 18 | Oil tanker Torrey Canyon hits a rock and spills oil |
| March 19 | French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France |
| March 19 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Golf Classic |
| March 20 | Supremes release "The Happening" |
| March 20 | WOET (now WPTD) TV channel 16 in Dayton, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 22 | Muhammad Ali KOs Zora Folley in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 24 | University of Michigan holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam |
| March 25 | 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64 |
| March 25 | The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1 |
| March 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 25 | Who and Cream make U.S. debut at Murray the K's Easter Show |
| March 26 | 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming and Cabaret win |
| March 26 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open |
| March 26 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio |
| March 28 | "Sherry!" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| March 28 | U.N. Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam |
| March 29 | WCMU TV channel 14 in Mount Pleasant, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 30 | Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's" is photographed |
| March 31 | 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London) |
| April 1 | 1st British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work |
| April 2 | Actress Lynn Redgrave marries John Clark |
| April 2 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
| April 3 | 113 East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for political asylum |
| April 3 | WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 4 | Amsterdam Marines chase out "nozems" of Central Station |
| April 4 | Dutch De Young government forms |
| April 4 | Marines chase "Nozems" out of Amsterdam Central Station |
| April 5 | 76er Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record of 41 rebounds |
| April 5 | ATS II launched but fails to reach orbit |
| April 6 | Premier Pompidou forms new French government |
| April 7 | Israeli/Syrian border fights |
| April 7 | Tom Donahue, San Francisco dj begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM) |
| April 9 | 1st Boeing 737 rolls out |
| April 9 | 31st Golf Masters Championship: Gay Brewer, Jr. wins, shooting a 280 |
| April 9 | "At the Drop of Another Hat" closes at Booth New York City after 105 performances |
| April 9 | Shortwave broadcaster Radio New York Worldwide's transmitter burns down |
| April 10 | 39th Academy Awards - "Man For All Seasons," E Taylor and P Scofield win |
| April 11 | Harlem (New York City) voters defy Congress and reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr |
| April 11 | "Illya Darling" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 320 performances |
| April 11 | Tom Stoppard's "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead," premieres |
| April 14 | General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes president of Togo |
| April 14 | In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time |
| April 14 | Red Sox rookie Billy Rohome comes within 1 strike of a no hitter at |
| April 14 | Yankee Stadium, Elston Howard singles on a 3-2 pitch |
| April 15 | "Wait A Minim!" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 457 performances |
| April 16 | "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 161 performances |
| April 16 | Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings |
| April 17 | Shortwave Radio New York Worldwide goes back on the air after a week off |
| April 17 | Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20 |
| April 19 | 71st Boston Marathon won by Dave McKenzie of New Zealand in 2:15:45 |
| April 19 | Beatles sign a contract to stay together for 10 years |
| April 19 | "Casino Royale" premieres |
| April 19 | U.S. Surveyor III lands on Moon |
| April 19 | Yugoslav author Mihaljo Mihaljov sentenced 4 years |
| April 20 | French author Regis Debray caught in Bolivia |
| April 20 | New York Met Tom Seaver's 1st victory, beats Cubs, 6-1 |
| April 20 | U.S. planes bomb Haiphong for 1st time during Vietnam War |
| April 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 21 | Dodgers 1st rain out in Los Angeles (after 737 consecutive games) |
| April 21 | EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands |
| April 21 | Josef Stalin's daughter, Svetlana Alliluyeva, defects to U.S. |
| April 21 | Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier |
| April 21 | Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in New York City |
| April 22 | Martial Law goes into effect in Greece |
| April 23 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| April 23 | Soyuz 1 launched; Vladimir Komarov becomes 1st in-flight casualty |
| April 24 | 21st NBA Championship: Philadelphia 76ers beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
| April 25 | Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland |
| April 25 | Jules Feiffer's "Little Murders," premieres in New York City |
| April 26 | "Hallelujah, Baby!" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 293 performances |
| April 26 | KSPS TV channel 7 in Spokane, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 26 | San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch) |
| April 27 | Expo '67 opens in Montreal |
| April 27 | Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated boxing champ |
| April 27 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 28 | Expo 67 opens in Montreal |
| April 28 | Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title |
| April 29 | Aretha Franklin releases "Respect" |
| April 30 | Highest tower to the world finished, 537m (U.S.S.R.) |
| April 30 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| April 30 | New York Met pitcher Tom Seaver wins hist 1st game |
| April 30 | Orioles' Stu Miller and Steve Barber lose 2-1 despite no-hitting Tigers |
| May 1 | Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes president of Nicaragua |
| May 1 | Elvis Presley and Pricilla Beaulieu wed |
| May 1 | Jelle Zijlstra becomes president of Netherlands Bank |
| May 1 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer) |
| May 2 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Montreal Canadiens, 4 games to 2 |
| May 3 | Black students seize finance building at Northwestern University |
| May 4 | Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7 |
| May 6 | 400 students seize administration building at Cheyney State College |
| May 6 | 93rd Kentucky Derby: Bobby Ussery on Proud Clarion wins in 2:00.6 |
| May 6 | Maureen Wilton runs female world record marathon (3:15:22) |
| May 6 | Zakir Hussain elected 1st Moslem president of India |
| May 7 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| May 8 | Muhammad Ali is indicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army |
| May 9 | 1st flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship |
| May 9 | Gijsbert van Hall resigns as mayor of Amsterdam |
| May 10 | Foundation Arizona soccer team forms in Alkmaar |
| May 10 | Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning) |
| May 10 | Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges |
| May 10 | Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares U.S. aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia |
| May 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 11 | 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected |
| May 11 | Great Britain, Ireland and Denmark apply for Common Market membership |
| May 11 | "Sing, Israel Sing" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater New York City for 14 performances |
| May 12 | H Rap Brown replaces Stokely Carmichael as chairman of Student |
| May 12 | Provo disbands in Netherlands Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| May 13 | New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller |
| May 13 | Octagonal boxing ring is tested to avoid corner injuries |
| May 14 | Mickey Mantle's 500th HR off Oriole's Stu Miller |
| May 15 | Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 15 | Paul McCartney meets his future wife Linda Eastman |
| May 16 | Philadelphia voters approve a $13 million bond issue to build a new stadium |
| May 17 | Dylan's 1965 U.K. Tour is released as film "Don't Look Back" |
| May 18 | Silver hits record $1.60 an ounce in London |
| May 18 | Tennessee Governor Ellington repeals "Monkey Law," upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial |
| May 19 | U.S. bombs Hanoi |
| May 19 | U.S.S.R. ratifies treaty with England and U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space |
| May 20 | 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
| May 20 | 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2 |
| May 20 | BBC bans Beatle's "A Day in the Life" (drug references) |
| May 21 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| May 21 | "Sing, Israel Sing" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 14 performances |
| May 22 | Egyptian president Nassar closes Straits of Tiran to Israel |
| May 22 | Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium) |
| May 22 | "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS) |
| May 23 | Government bans submarines near South Africa |
| May 24 | AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals |
| May 25 | Celtic wins 12th Europe Cup 1 in Lisbon |
| May 25 | John Lennon takes delivery of his psychedelic painted Rolls Royce |
| May 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 27 | "Sherry!" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 65 performances |
| May 28 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Violin concert |
| May 28 | Francis Chichester arrives home at Plymouth from Round-the-world trip |
| May 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 29 | Australian Paul McManus water skis barefoot for 1:30:19 |
| May 29 | Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow, who later became Pope John Paul II |
| May 30 | Biafra declares independence from Nigeria |
| May 30 | King Hussein of Jordan visits Cairo |
| May 30 | Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles |
| May 30 | Yankee Whitey Ford, nearing 41, announces his retirement from baseball |
| May 31 | Bayern Munchen wins 7th Europe Cup II at Neurenberg |
| June 1 | Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in U.S. and goes gold |
| June 1 | Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, D.C. |
| June 2 | Race riots in Roxbury section of Boston |
| June 3 | 99th Belmont: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 2:28.8 |
| June 3 | Aretha Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1 |
| June 4 | 19th Emmy Awards: Mission Impossible, Monkees, Don Knotts and Lucy Ball |
| June 4 | Curt Flood's record 568 straight chances without an error ends (227 straight games) |
| June 4 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
| June 4 | KTVN TV channel 2 in Reno, NV (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 4 | Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series |
| June 5 | 6 day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begin |
| June 5 | Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair |
| June 5 | Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent and 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible |
| June 5 | WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 6 | Israeli troops occupy Gaza |
| June 7 | 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors |
| June 7 | Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho and Bethlehem |
| June 7 | New York Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1 |
| June 8 | Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen |
| June 9 | Boycott scores 246* vs. India, Leeds, 573 minutes, 29 fours 1 six |
| June 9 | Israeli troops reach Suez Canal |
| June 9 | Monkees appear at Hollywood Bowl |
| June 10 | 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California |
| June 10 | Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help |
| June 10 | U.S.S.R. drops diplomatic relations with Israel |
| June 11 | A. J. Foyt and Dan Gurney drove a Ford to victory in Le Mans |
| June 11 | Chicago Cubs (7) and New York Mets (4) tie record of 11 home runs in a game |
| June 11 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| June 11 | Race riot in Tampa Florida; National Guard mobilizes |
| June 12 | Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested |
| June 12 | Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages |
| June 12 | U.S.S.R. launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus |
| June 12 | Washington Senators beat Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 22 innings |
| June 13 | Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st black Supreme Court justice |
| June 13 | "You Only Live Twice" premieres in U.S. |
| June 14 | Mariner 5 Launch, Venus Flyby |
| June 14 | Steve Allen Show," premieres on CBS-TV |
| June 14 | U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit |
| June 16 | 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival |
| June 17 | 1st Chinese hydrogen bomb explodes |
| June 17 | Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park performed |
| June 17 | Longest doubleheader 9:15 (Tigers and Athletics) |
| June 17 | "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5 |
| June 18 | 67th U.S. Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 275 at Baltusrol Golf Club New Jersey |
| June 18 | Houston Don Wilson no-hits Atlanta Braves, 2-0 |
| June 18 | Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California |
| June 18 | Susie Maxwell wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| June 19 | Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army |
| June 19 | Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD |
| June 20 | Phillies Larry Jackson beats New York Mets for 18th straight time |
| June 21 | Yankees take 5-3 lead in 11th and lose 6-5, in 2nd game Red Sox lead 3-2 in 9th and Yankees beat them 6-3 |
| June 23 | Jim Ryun sets mile record (3:51.1, Bakersfield CA) |
| June 23 | John Entwistle of rock group Who weds Alison Wise |
| June 23 | Lyndon Baines Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold 1st of 2 summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey |
| June 23 | U.S. Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds |
| June 24 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus |
| June 24 | Zaire adopts constitution |
| June 25 | 400 million watch Beatles "Our World" TV special |
| June 25 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| June 25 | KPBS TV channel 15 in San Diego, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 25 | Mohammed Ali, Cassius Clay, sentenced to 5 years |
| June 26 | Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals |
| June 27 | Race riot in Buffalo New York (200 arrested) |
| June 28 | George Harrison is fined 6 pounds for speeding |
| June 28 | Israel annexes East Jerusalem |
| June 29 | Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem |
| June 29 | Keith Richards is sentenced to 1 year in jail on drugs charge |
| June 30 | Major Robert H Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut |
| June 30 | Moise Tsjombe kidnapped to Algeria |
| June 30 | Phillies Cookie Rojas pitches, plays 9th position since joining Phils |
| July 1 | 1st British color TV broadcast, on BBC 2 |
| July 1 | BBC starts their World Radio Club |
| July 1 | Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band," goes #1 for 15 weeks |
| July 1 | "Funny Girl" closes at Winter Garden Theater New York City after 1348 performances |
| July 2 | 22nd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Catherine Lacoste |
| July 2 | Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) and 1st amateur to U.S. Women's open golf tournament |
| July 3 | "News at 10" premieres on English TV |
| July 4 | Opening ceremony of Tassajara Zen Mountain Center |
| July 4 | Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader |
| July 5 | Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme |
| July 6 | Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade |
| July 7 | 81st Wimbledon Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats W Bungert (63 61 61) |
| July 7 | Beatles' "All You Need is Love" is released |
| July 7 | Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1 |
| July 8 | 74th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats A Jones (63 64) |
| July 8 | Helen Weston of Detroit rolls a record 4,585 in 24 games |
| July 9 | 13th LPGA Championship won by Kathy Whitworth |
| July 9 | WRET TV channel 36 in Charlotte, North Carolina (NBC/CBS) begins broadcasting |
| July 10 | Bobbie Gentry records "Ode to Billie Joe" |
| July 11 | 38th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 15 at Anaheim Stadium, CA |
| July 11 | All star MVP: Tony Perez (Cincinnati Reds) |
| July 11 | Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition |
| July 12 | 23 die in Newark race riot |
| July 12 | 5th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-0 |
| July 12 | Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested |
| July 12 | Greek regime deprives 480 Greeks of their citizenship |
| July 13 | Race riots break out in Newark, 27 die |
| July 14 | Astro Eddie Matthews hits his 500th HR off San Francisco Giant Juan Marichal |
| July 14 | Surveyor 4 launched to Moon; explodes just before landing |
| July 14 | The Who, opening for Herman's Hermits begin a U.S. tour |
| July 15 | L.A. Wolves beat Washington Whips 6-5 in OT to be United Soccer Association champs |
| July 15 | Roberto DeVicenzo of Argentina wins golf's British Open |
| July 15 | "Sweet Charity" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 608 performances |
| July 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 16 | Mickey Wright wins Lady Carling Golf Open |
| July 16 | Prison brawl ignites barracks, killing 37 (Jay, Florida) |
| July 17 | Monkees perform at Forest Hills, New York, Jimi Hendrix is opening act |
| July 17 | Race riots in Cairo, Illinois |
| July 18 | Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in New York |
| July 19 | 1st air conditioned New York City subway car (R-38 on the F line) |
| July 19 | Race riots in Durham, North Carolina |
| July 19 | U.S. launches Explorer 35 for lunar orbit (800/7400 km) |
| July 20 | Pablo Neruda receives 1st Viareggio-Versile prizes |
| July 20 | Race riots in Memphis, Tennessee |
| July 22 | Atlanta Braves use a record 5 pitchers in 9th inning |
| July 22 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Ladies' Golf Open |
| July 22 | Jimi Hendrix quits as opening act of the Monkees' tour |
| July 23 | 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires) |
| July 24 | 49th PGA Championship: Don January shoots a 281 at Columbine CC Colorado |
| July 24 | Beatles sign a petition in Times to legalize marijuana |
| July 24 | Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!' |
| July 24 | Chinese army/air force/fleet repress uprising in Wuhan City |
| July 24 | Norway requests European Common Market membership |
| July 24 | Race riots in Cambridge Maryland |
| July 24 | Race riots in Detroit force postponement of Tigers-Orioles game |
| July 25 | Construction begins on San Francisco MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) |
| July 26 | Twins beat Yankees 3-2 in 18 |
| July 27 | Arabs Federation premier Hoesein Al Bayoomi resigns |
| July 27 | Helmond Sport soccer team forms |
| July 27 | Lyndon Baines Johnson sets up commission to study cause of urban violence |
| July 27 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 29 | Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134 |
| July 29 | Moderate quake (6.5) strikes Caracas Venezuela causing severe damage |
| July 30 | Clifford Ann Creed/Margie Masters wins Yankee Ladies' Team Golf Champ |
| July 30 | Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed) |
| July 31 | Rolling Stone Mick Jagger and Keith Richards end 1 month jail sentence |
| August 1 | Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam |
| August 1 | WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 2 | New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 16-77 |
| August 2 | U.S.'s Lunar Orbiter 5 launched; enters lunar orbit Aug 5 |
| August 3 | 45,000 U.S. soldiers sent to Vietnam |
| August 3 | James Law rides entire New York City subway in 22 hours 12 minutes |
| August 4 | 34th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 27, All-Stars 0 (70,934) |
| August 4 | Shortwave group ANARC's 1st convention (Chicago) |
| August 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 5 | 1st time an AFL team beats an NFL team, Broncos beats Detroit 13-7 |
| August 5 | Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode to Billy Joe" |
| August 6 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| August 6 | Minnesota Twin Dean Chance perfect games Boston Red Sox, 2-0 in 5 innings |
| August 6 | Oriole Brooks Robinson hits into a record 4th triple play |
| August 6 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Pro comperto sane |
| August 8 | Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand meet to form Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) |
| August 9 | Biafran offensive against Nigerian army |
| August 9 | KYAY TV channel 39 in West Monroe, LA (IND) begins broadcasting |
| August 11 | Al Downing becomes 12th to strike-out side on 9 pitches |
| August 12 | New Orleans Saints 1st pre-season victory, beat St. Louis 23-14 |
| August 13 | WQLN TV channel 54 in Erie, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 14 | Belgian embassy in Kinshasa, Congo, plundered |
| August 14 | Radio Scotland and Radio Swinging Holland go off the air |
| August 15 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Regimini Ecclesiae Universae |
| August 16 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney retires 19 Pirates, then gets injured and leaves |
| August 16 | WFIQ TV channel 36 in Florence, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 18 | Red Sox Tony Conigliaro is beaned by Angels Jack Hamilton |
| August 18 | Rolling Stones release "We Love You" |
| August 18 | WCBS radio in New York City goes all-news |
| August 19 | Beatles' "All You Need is Love," single goes #1 |
| August 20 | Alvin Dark (52-69) is fired, rehired, and fired again as manager of A's |
| August 20 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
| August 21 | China reports downing of 2 U.S. bombers |
| August 21 | Ken Harrelson becomes baseball's 1st free agent |
| August 21 | Liquid gas tanker explodes in Martelange Belgium, 22 killed |
| August 21 | Mikis Theodorakis arrested in Greece |
| August 25 | Beatles go to Wales to study TM with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| August 25 | Minn Twin Dean Chance 2nd no-hitter of month beats Cleveland, 2-1 |
| August 25 | Paraguay accepts its constitution |
| August 25 | Train crash at Beesd, 2 die |
| August 26 | Beatles, Mick Jagger and Marienne Faithful meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| August 26 | Dean Chance pitches a 2-1 no-hitter, and Twins sweep Cleveland |
| August 26 | Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam |
| August 27 | Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times) |
| August 27 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
| August 28 | Asif Iqbal and Intikhab Alam make 190 stand for 9th wkt vs. Eng |
| August 28 | Boston signs 1st free-agent outfielder Ken Harrelson for $75,000 bonus |
| August 29 | Final TV episode of "Fugitive" |
| August 29 | Yankees longest day, Red Sox take 1st game 2-1 in 9, Yankees win 2nd game in 20, 4-3 a total of 8 hours and 19 minutes |
| August 30 | U.S. Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice |
| September 1 | KMNE TV channel 7 in Bassett, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 1 | San Francisco Giants beat Cincinnati Reds, 1-0, in 21 innings |
| September 1 | WIRT TV channel 13 in Hibbing, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 1 | WJRJ (WTCG, WTBS) TV channel 17 in Atlanta, Georgia (IND) begins |
| September 2 | KUHI (now KSNF) TV channel 16 in Joplin, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 3 | Final episode of "What's My Line?," hosted by John Charles Daly |
| September 3 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
| September 3 | Last broadcast of "What's My Line" on CBS TV |
| September 3 | Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution |
| September 3 | Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road |
| September 3 | WJPM TV channel 33 in Florence, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 4 | 6.5 earthquake of Kolya Dam India, kills 200 |
| September 4 | Jerry Lewis' 2nd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 4 | Train crash at Arnhem, Netherlands, kills 5 |
| September 5 | Hurricane Beuleah, kills 54 in Caribbean, Mexico and Texas |
| September 5 | KMEG TV channel 14 in Sioux City, IA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 5 | WEBA TV channel 14 in Allendale, South Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 8 | Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10 |
| September 8 | Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic |
| September 9 | 1st successful Test flight of a Saturn V |
| September 9 | Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas), 20, crowned 40th Miss America 1968 |
| September 9 | Uganda declares independence from Great Britain |
| September 10 | 81st U.S. Womens Tennis: Billie Jean M King beats Ann H Jones (119 64) |
| September 10 | 87th U.S. Mens Tennis: John Newcombe beats Clark Graebner (64 64 86) |
| September 10 | Chicago White Sox Joel Horlen no-hits Det Tigers, 6-0 |
| September 10 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Pacific Golf Classic |
| September 10 | Gibraltar votes 12,138 to 44 to remain British and not Spanish |
| September 10 | Joel Horlen revives Chicago's pennant hopes with a 5-0 no-hit win |
| September 10 | KVVU TV channel 5 in Henderson-Las Vegas, NV (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | A's drop grievance filed with National Labor Relations against C Finley |
| September 11 | Beatles' Magical Mystery Bus driven around England |
| September 11 | French president De Gaulle visits Poland |
| September 11 | Indian/Chinese border fights |
| September 11 | U.S. Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material |
| September 11 | WSRE TV channel 23 in Pensacola, Florida (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | WUNE TV channel 17 in Linville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | WUNF TV channel 33 in Asheville, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 11 | WUNG TV channel 58 in Concord, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 14 | Melville Abrams Ball Field in Bronx named |
| September 14 | Thomas Pell Wildlife Refuge and Sanctuary opens in Bronx |
| September 15 | KPOB TV channel 15 in Poplar Bluff, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | Anni Pede runs female world record marathon (3:07:26) |
| September 16 | KPAZ TV channel 21 in Phoenix, Arizona (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 17 | "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV |
| September 17 | Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 in New Hampshire |
| September 17 | New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 27-13 |
| September 17 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| September 18 | Intrepid (U.S.) beats Dame Pattie (Australia) in 21st America's Cup |
| September 19 | Nigeria begins offensive against Biafra |
| September 20 | Benin separates from Nigeria |
| September 20 | British liner Queen Elizabeth II launched at Clydebank, Scotland |
| September 20 | Hurricane Beulah hits Texas-Mexican border, kills 38 |
| September 20 | WCAE TV channel 50 in St. John, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 20 | WCIX TV channel 6 in Miami, Florida (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 22 | Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager |
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