| January 1 | ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp and FM) |
| January 1 | Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain |
| January 1 | Netherlands gets color TV |
| January 1 | WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 2 | Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant |
| January 2 | KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, California (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 2 | "Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 49 performances |
| January 4 | Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas |
| January 4 | Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million |
| January 5 | Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law |
| January 5 | Dubcek succeeds President Novotny as party leader of Czechoslovakia |
| January 6 | Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 8 weeks |
| January 6 | Dr. N E Shumway performs 1st U.S. adult cardiac transplant operation |
| January 6 | Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by U.S. for soft-landing on Moon |
| January 7 | 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents |
| January 7 | "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV |
| January 8 | Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV |
| January 9 | 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana |
| January 9 | Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon |
| January 10 | U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho |
| January 11 | Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km) |
| January 12 | Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd |
| January 12 | Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV |
| January 13 | Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam |
| January 13 | "Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 293 performances |
| January 13 | "Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 320 performances |
| January 13 | Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) |
| January 14 | Superbowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback |
| January 15 | KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 16 | 21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto |
| January 16 | Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in New York City |
| January 17 | Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft |
| January 18 | "Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 286 performances |
| January 18 | Hester and Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in New York City |
| January 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| January 19 | WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| January 20 | Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 |
| January 20 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| January 20 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| January 21 | AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 |
| January 21 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 |
| January 21 | U.S. B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb crashes in Greenland |
| January 22 | Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made |
| January 22 | NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee and Phoenix |
| January 22 | "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC |
| January 23 | Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 23 | Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea |
| January 25 | Risse St. in Bronx named |
| January 25 | Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in New York City |
| January 26 | Israeli submarine Dakar crashes in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die |
| January 27 | "Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 31 performances |
| January 28 | 29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper |
| January 28 | Goose Goslin and Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 29 | Nauru adopts constitution |
| January 30 | Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" |
| January 30 | Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on U.S. embassy in Saigon |
| January 31 | Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 vs. India in his last Test for ten years |
| January 31 | Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia |
| January 31 | Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, U.S.S.R. |
| January 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 31 | Viet Cong's Tet offensive begins |
| February 1 | Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
| February 1 | Former Vice President Richard Nixon announces candidacy for presidency |
| February 1 | Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers |
| February 1 | World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi |
| February 2 | Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed |
| February 4 | Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball |
| February 4 | "Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 355 performances |
| February 5 | KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas (IND) begins broadcasting |
| February 5 | Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
| February 6 | 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France |
| February 6 | Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns U.S. bombing of North Vietnam |
| February 6 | Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one |
| February 6 | KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 7 | Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in New York City |
| February 7 | Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls |
| February 7 | WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 8 | Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in South Carolina State (Orangeburg) |
| February 9 | Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
| February 10 | Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France |
| February 10 | "Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 |
| February 11 | Israeli-Jordan border fight |
| February 11 | Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Washington Bridge, Hudson River New York |
| February 11 | Madison Square Garden III closes MSG IV opens (New York City) |
| February 13 | U.S. sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam |
| February 14 | Pennsylvania Railroad/New York City Central merge into Penn Central |
| February 14 | WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, North Carolina (IND) begins broadcasting |
| February 15 | Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver |
| February 15 | WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 16 | Beatles George Harrison and John Lennon and wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
| February 16 | Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala |
| February 16 | Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" |
| February 17 | Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Massachusetts, opens |
| February 18 | 10,000 demonstrators against U.S. in Vietnam War in West-Berlin |
| February 18 | 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France |
| February 18 | British adopts year-round daylight savings time |
| February 18 | David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd |
| February 19 | 1st U.S. Teachers strike in Florida |
| February 20 | John Cleese (Monty Python) marries Connie Booth |
| February 20 | State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A and M |
| February 21 | 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin |
| February 21 | Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 |
| February 22 | Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun" |
| February 23 | Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points |
| February 24 | 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) |
| February 24 | "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott New York City after 31 performances |
| February 24 | Discovery of 1st pulsar announced |
| February 24 | Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games |
| February 24 | Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar |
| February 24 | U.S. troops reconquer Hue Vietnam |
| February 25 | 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea |
| February 25 | Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus |
| February 26 | Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission |
| February 29 | 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) |
| February 29 | Beatles' "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy |
| February 29 | Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres |
| February 29 | National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism and demands aid given to blacks |
| February 29 | U.S. end regular flights with nuclear bombs |
| February 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 1 | NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return |
| March 1 | Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands |
| March 1 | Singers Johnny Cash (36) and June Carter (38) wed |
| March 1 | Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect |
| March 2 | Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler and Ford (GRB) |
| March 2 | Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova and Protopopov (U.S.S.R.) |
| March 2 | Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
| March 2 | U.S.S.R. launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
| March 2 | USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world |
| March 2 | Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (U.S.) |
| March 3 | Greece, Portugal and Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague |
| March 3 | "Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City |
| March 3 | Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts |
| March 4 | Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| March 4 | Martin Luther King, Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign |
| March 4 | Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched |
| March 5 | U.S. launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun |
| March 8 | 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Maryland) |
| March 8 | Fillmore East opens |
| March 8 | Students demonstrate in Warsaw |
| March 9 | 10th Grammy Awards: Up Up and Away, Sgt. Pepper's wins 4 |
| March 11 | Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting |
| March 11 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 12nd string quartet |
| March 11 | Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for 'Dock of the Bay' |
| March 12 | Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| March 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 13 | Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK |
| March 14 | CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA |
| March 14 | POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia |
| March 15 | Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27' 2.75") |
| March 15 | British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns |
| March 15 | Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri |
| March 15 | LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" |
| March 15 | U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold |
| March 15 | Uprising in South Yemen |
| March 16 | My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die |
| March 16 | Robert F. Kennedy announces presidential campaign |
| March 17 | 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington D.C. by U.S. and 6 European nations |
| March 17 | Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St. Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open |
| March 18 | Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
| March 18 | WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 18 | WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 19 | Howard University students seize administration building |
| March 20 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill removing gold backing from U.S. paper money |
| March 20 | Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) |
| March 21 | Hill, Hawkins and Coghill's musical premieres in London |
| March 21 | Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases |
| March 21 | Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tome |
| March 21 | "Royals" chosen as the name of new Kansas City AL franchise |
| March 22 | Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia |
| March 22 | Lynda Johnson ordered off San Francisco cable car for eating an ice cream cone |
| March 22 | Student riot in Nanterre near Paris |
| March 23 | 30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats North Carolina 78-55 |
| March 23 | Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC |
| March 24 | Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
| March 25 | KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, Nevada (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 25 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 27 | Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco |
| March 27 | Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia |
| March 29 | Students seize building at Bowie State College |
| March 30 | General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia |
| March 31 | Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he will not seek re-election |
| March 31 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open |
| March 31 | Seattle's AL club is named Pilots |
| April 1 | KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast |
| April 2 | Beatles form Python Music Ltd. |
| April 2 | Chad creates Union of Central African States |
| April 2 | Senator Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin |
| April 3 | North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks |
| April 4 | Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned |
| April 4 | "Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| April 5 | Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens |
| April 5 | U.S. marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled |
| April 6 | 94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution |
| April 6 | Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis |
| April 6 | Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) |
| April 6 | HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas |
| April 8 | 40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| April 8 | Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King assassination |
| April 8 | Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms |
| April 8 | New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect |
| April 8 | WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 9 | East Germany adopts constitution |
| April 9 | Martin Luther King, Jr., buried in Atlanta |
| April 9 | Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference |
| April 9 | Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
| April 10 | 40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night," Rod Steiger and K Hepburn win |
| April 10 | Ferry boat sinks in harbor of Wellington, New Zealand, 51 died |
| April 10 | "George M!" opens at Palace Theater New York City for 435 performances |
| April 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 11 | Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president |
| April 11 | President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act |
| April 11 | West Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration |
| April 11 | WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 14 | 1st NBA game at Madison Square Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers |
| April 14 | 32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277 |
| April 14 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open |
| April 14 | Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card |
| April 15 | Houston Astros beat New York Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings |
| April 17 | A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Baltimore Orioles |
| April 17 | "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| April 18 | 178,000 employees of U.S. Bell Telephone System go on strike |
| April 18 | 1st ABA basketball championship began |
| April 18 | Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms |
| April 18 | London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona |
| April 18 | Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band," premieres in New York City |
| April 18 | Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII," premieres in London |
| April 18 | San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished |
| April 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 19 | 72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Connecticut in 2:22:17 |
| April 19 | Belgian construction workers strike |
| April 19 | NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams |
| April 20 | Pierre Elliott Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM |
| April 20 | South Africa Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed |
| April 21 | 22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz and Guilderstern and Hallelujah Baby! win |
| April 21 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| April 23 | 1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 and 10 pence) |
| April 23 | "I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| April 23 | United Methodist Church forms |
| April 24 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas |
| April 24 | Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City |
| April 24 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| April 25 | "Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 512 performances |
| April 26 | Students seize administration building at Ohio State |
| April 26 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| April 26 | U.S. underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device |
| April 27 | Baltimore Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0 |
| April 27 | Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands |
| April 27 | "Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin New York City after 28 performances |
| April 28 | 11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old |
| April 28 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| April 29 | "Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 1750 performances |
| April 30 | 3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 New York Yankees in a 9 inning game |
| May 1 | "Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 215 performances |
| May 1 | Phillies J Boozer is ejected for throwing spitballs during his warmup |
| May 2 | 1st performance of Roger Sessions' 8th Symphony |
| May 2 | 22nd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
| May 2 | Gold reaches then record high ($39.35 per ounce) in London |
| May 2 | Israeli television begins transmitting |
| May 4 | 1st ABA championship: Pitts Pipers beat NO Buccaneers, 4 games to 3 |
| May 4 | 94th Kentucky Derby: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins |
| May 4 | Dancer Image DQ due to drugs after winning 94th Kent Derby in 2:02 |
| May 5 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| May 6 | Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured |
| May 6 | Giants reliever Lindy McDaniel sets NL record of 225th consecutive errorless game (108 chances consecutively since June 16, 1964) |
| May 6 | Spain closes border to Gibraltar except to Spaniards |
| May 8 | Jim (Catfish) Hunter of Oakland pitches perfect game vs Twins (4-0) |
| May 8 | Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner) |
| May 10 | Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam |
| May 11 | Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park" |
| May 11 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| May 11 | Students and police battle in Paris, 100s injured |
| May 12 | "March of Poor" under Reverend Abernathy reach Washington, D.C. |
| May 12 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| May 12 | WSKG TV channel 46 in Binghamton, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 13 | 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou |
| May 14 | Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp |
| May 14 | Czechoslovakian government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubcek |
| May 14 | RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin |
| May 15 | 1st AL game played in Milwaukee, is a 4-2 California win against Chicago |
| May 15 | A tornado strikes Jonesboro Arkansas at 10 PM, killing 36 |
| May 15 | Paul McCartney and John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host |
| May 15 | "Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival |
| May 16 | Earthquake kills 47 in Japan |
| May 17 | European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
| May 17 | Frank Howard belts record 8th home run in 5th straight game |
| May 17 | U.S. performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 18 | 94th Preakness: Ismael Valenzuela aboard Forward Pass wins in 1:56.8 |
| May 18 | AL Kaline hits his 307th home run, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger |
| May 18 | Frank Howard ties AL record with home run in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games |
| May 19 | 20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible and Barbara Bain |
| May 19 | Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games |
| May 21 | Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game |
| May 21 | Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores |
| May 21 | Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert |
| May 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground) |
| May 21 | WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 22 | Pittsburgh Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 home runs, a double and a single |
| May 23 | A. C. Milan wins 8th Europe Cup II in Rotterdam |
| May 23 | Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London |
| May 24 | Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days |
| May 24 | Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession |
| May 24 | President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse |
| May 25 | BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich |
| May 25 | BPAA U.S. Women's Bowling Open won by Dotty Fothergill |
| May 25 | Gateway Arch in St. Louis dedicated |
| May 25 | Rolling Stones release "Jumping Jack Flash" |
| May 25 | Unicorn by The Irish Rovers hits #7 |
| May 26 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 27 | 6th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 4-3 |
| May 27 | NL awards Montreal and SD major league franchises |
| May 27 | Nuclear submarine Scorpion is lost |
| May 28 | AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions |
| May 28 | NL grants San Diego Padres a franchise |
| May 28 | Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democrate primary in Oregon |
| May 29 | Manchester United wins 13rd Europe Cup 1 in London |
| May 29 | Truth in Lending Act signed into law |
| May 29 | U.N. resolves sanctions on white-minority-ruled Rhodesia |
| May 30 | Beatles begin work on their only double album "Beatles" |
| May 30 | President De Gaulle disbands French parliament |
| May 30 | University church in Leipzig, East Germany, blown up |
| May 30 | West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law |
| June 1 | 100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 |
| June 1 | Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1 |
| June 2 | Canadians must get government permission to export silver |
| June 2 | WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, Kentucky (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| June 3 | Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins |
| June 3 | Poor Peoples March on Washington |
| June 3 | Yankees turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins |
| June 4 | Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings |
| June 5 | Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day |
| June 6 | WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 7 | Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination |
| June 8 | Bermuda adopts its constitution |
| June 8 | Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning |
| June 8 | Gary Puckett and Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" |
| June 8 | James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, Jr., captured |
| June 8 | New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted |
| June 8 | Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
| June 9 | 38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62) |
| June 9 | 38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61) |
| June 9 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
| June 9 | Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms |
| June 10 | AL games at Baltimore and Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy |
| June 10 | "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV |
| June 10 | KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| June 10 | WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast |
| June 12 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St. Theater New York City after 540 performances |
| June 14 | Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing |
| June 15 | 15th Curtis Cup: U.S., 10 -7 |
| June 15 | "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City after 220 performances |
| June 15 | "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 561 performances |
| June 15 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral |
| June 15 | "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater New York City after 52 performances |
| June 15 | Yummy Yummy Yummy by Ohio Express hits #4 |
| June 16 | 68th U.S. Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY |
| June 16 | Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's U.S. open under par |
| June 16 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic |
| June 17 | Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms |
| June 17 | KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| June 17 | Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold |
| June 18 | Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing |
| June 19 | 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign |
| June 20 | Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds |
| June 21 | Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
| June 22 | "Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88 |
| June 24 | 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post |
| June 24 | Australia all out for 78 vs. England at Lord's |
| June 24 | Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion |
| June 24 | Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleveland 14-3 |
| June 24 | Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 24 | Resurrection City in Washington D.C. closed permanently |
| June 25 | Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants) |
| June 26 | Executive Council decides both AL and NL to divide into 2 divisions |
| June 26 | Iwo Jima and Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US |
| June 27 | Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague |
| June 28 | Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers |
| June 29 | "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17 |
| June 30 | E German party leader Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
| June 30 | Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 chairs |
| June 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| July 1 | Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch |
| July 1 | Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard |
| July 1 | John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here) |
| July 1 | U.S., Britain, U.S.S.R. and 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
| July 1 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| July 3 | 41 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
| July 3 | Cleveland Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins |
| July 4 | Arthur Kopit's "Indians," premieres in London |
| July 4 | Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched (o 450 m) |
| July 5 | 82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (63 64 62) |
| July 5 | John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce |
| July 5 | "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague |
| July 5 | Philadelphia 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to Los Angeles Lakers |
| July 6 | 75th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75) |
| July 6 | Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words" |
| July 7 | 23rd U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
| July 7 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| July 7 | Rock group "Yardbirds" disband |
| July 8 | Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal |
| July 9 | 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) |
| July 9 | 39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston |
| July 9 | All star MVP: Willie Mays for the San Francisco Giants |
| July 10 | NL announces break into 2 divisions for 1969 |
| July 11 | Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles |
| July 11 | Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so |
| July 12 | Couve de Murville forms government in France |
| July 12 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 13 | 97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland |
| July 13 | French government-Couve de Murville forms |
| July 14 | Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th home run off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick |
| July 14 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
| July 14 | Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1 |
| July 14 | WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 15 | Commercial air travel begins between U.S. and U.S.S.R. |
| July 15 | France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
| July 15 | New Jersey Americans moved to Comack and become New York Nets (ABA) |
| July 15 | "One Life to Live" premieres on TV |
| July 15 | Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres |
| July 17 | Beatle's animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London |
| July 18 | Intel incorporates |
| July 20 | Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117 |
| July 20 | Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV |
| July 21 | 50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley, Texas |
| July 21 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| July 21 | Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman |
| July 23 | Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt |
| July 23 | PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane |
| July 23 | Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 cops killed |
| July 24 | Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances |
| July 25 | Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth |
| July 27 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open |
| July 27 | Race Riot in Gary, Indiana |
| July 29 | Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 |
| July 29 | Gram Parson refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa |
| July 29 | Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption |
| July 29 | Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited |
| July 29 | Washington D.C. Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs. Cleveland |
| July 30 | Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away |
| July 30 | Washington Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years |
| July 31 | Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free |
| August 1 | Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins |
| August 1 | Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo |
| August 1 | WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| August 2 | 35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) |
| August 3 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| August 4 | 100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, California |
| August 4 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open |
| August 4 | WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, New York (UNI) begins broadcasting |
| August 5 | WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, Tennessee (IND) 1st broadcast |
| August 8 | Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos |
| August 8 | Race riot in Miami, Florida |
| August 8 | Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for president |
| August 9 | Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague |
| August 10 | Race riot in Miami, Chicago and Little Rock |
| August 10 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open |
| August 11 | Beatles launch "Apple Records" label |
| August 11 | Satchel Paige, 62, and needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves |
| August 14 | Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| August 14 | Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL |
| August 15 | Romanian president Ceausescu visits Prague |
| August 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| August 17 | Dick Beyers (Dr. X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ |
| August 18 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic |
| August 20 | 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia |
| August 20 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| August 21 | After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio |
| August 21 | Democratic Convention opens in Chicago |
| August 21 | Marine James Anderson, Jr. is 1st black Medal of Honor winner |
| August 21 | Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia at 12:50 AM announces a soviet led invasion |
| August 21 | Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement |
| August 21 | William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) |
| August 22 | 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota) |
| August 22 | Cynthia Lennon sues John Lennon for divorce on adultry |
| August 22 | Pope Paul VI opens Eucharistic congress in Bogota |
| August 23 | Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily |
| August 23 | Yankees and Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew |
| August 24 | France became world's 5th thermonuclear power, explodes on Mururoa |
| August 25 | Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship |
| August 25 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf |
| August 25 | New York Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game and homered |
| August 28 | Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Conven |
| August 29 | 1st U.S. Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr. Vija Vuskains) |
| August 29 | Democratics nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago) |
| August 29 | Norwegian king Harald V marries Sonja |
| August 30 | 1st record under Apple label, Beatle's Hey Jude |
| August 30 | John and Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at MSG |
| August 31 | 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran |
| August 31 | 68th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher |
| August 31 | Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover |
| August 31 | Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club |
| August 31 | Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr. X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
| September 1 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational |
| September 1 | Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed |
| September 2 | Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 3 | Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run |
| September 4 | Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
| September 5 | 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan |
| September 5 | 82nd U.S. Womens Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (64 64) |
| September 5 | 88th U.S. Mens Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker |
| September 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 6 | Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| September 8 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| September 8 | "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| September 8 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic |
| September 8 | Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant |
| September 9 | 1st U.S. Open, held as an "open" (Arthur Ashe-wins) |
| September 9 | Arthur Ashe defeats Tom Okker to win U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 9 | Minn Tommy Krammer passes for 6 touchdowns vs Green Bay (42-7) |
| September 9 | WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 9 | WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 12 | Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact |
| September 13 | Albania leaves Warsaw pact |
| September 14 | 1st broadcast of 60 Minutes on CBS-TV |
| September 14 | Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season |
| September 14 | Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow |
| September 14 | U.S.S.R.'s Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
| September 15 | "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV |
| September 15 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
| September 15 | Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry |
| September 15 | Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) |
| September 15 | WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 15 | WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
| September 16 | KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins |
| September 16 | Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" |
| September 17 | Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St. Louis Cardinals, 1-0 |
| September 17 | Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon |
| September 18 | Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits San Francisco Giants 2-0 |
| September 19 | Denny McLain's 31st win and Mickey Mantle's 535th home run |
| September 20 | Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 |
| September 22 | Iraq adopts constitution |
| September 22 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open |
| September 22 | KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast |
| September 22 | Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning and plays all 9 positions |
| September 22 | Zond 5 completes flight |
| September 23 | WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 23 | WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 24 | "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV |
| September 24 | New York Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack |
| September 24 | "That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show |
| September 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| September 26 | 1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV |
| September 26 | Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal |
| September 26 | St. Louis Cardinals' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout, ends with 1.12 ERA |
| September 26 | Theatre censorship ends in Britain |
| September 27 | Cardinal's super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year |
| September 27 | France refuses U.K. entry into common market |
| September 27 | "Hair" opens in London |
| September 28 | Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hour |
| September 28 | Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship |
| September 28 | Beatles' "Hey Jude," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| September 28 | Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes |
| September 28 | "Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 286 performances |
| September 28 | "Hey Jude" by Beatles peaks at #1 |
| September 28 | Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother and Holding Co" |
| September 28 | Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hour |
| September 28 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore New York City for 17 performances |
| September 29 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| September 29 | Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown |
| September 29 | Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts) |
| September 30 | 1st Boeing 747 rolls out |
| September 30 | AL and NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires |
| September 30 | Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
| September 30 | Supremes release "Love Child" |
| October 1 | "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh |
| October 2 | 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented |
| October 2 | 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 |
| October 2 | Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts |
| October 2 | Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed |
| October 2 | Peru coup under General Velasco Alvarado, President Belaunde Terry flees |
| October 2 | Republic Guinea forms (day of republic) |
| October 3 | Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in New York City |
| October 3 | Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru |
| October 3 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 5 | Battles between Catholic demonstrators and police in Londonderry |
| October 5 | KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, California (ABC) begins |
| October 7 | Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system |
| October 8 | Aircraft carrier Charles Doorman sold to Argentina |
| October 9 | Government seizes oil fields in Peru |
| October 9 | WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 10 | Detroit Tigers beat St. Louis Cardinals, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series |
| October 10 | George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd. |
| October 10 | Lee Evans of U.S. sets 400 meter record at 43.86 |
| October 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 11 | Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours |
| October 11 | Billy Martin named manager of Twins |
| October 11 | Panama revolts |
| October 12 | 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico |
| October 12 | Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain |
| October 12 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore New York City after 17 performances |
| October 12 | Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame |
| October 13 | Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated |
| October 14 | 1st live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7) |
| October 14 | Beatles "White Album" completed |
| October 14 | Gruener and Watson (U.S.) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas |
| October 14 | In NL expansion draft, Expos and Padres choose 30 players each |
| October 14 | J R Hines of U.S. runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec |
| October 15 | AL expansion draft, Kansas City pick Roger Nelson and Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st |
| October 16 | China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji |
| October 16 | Czechoslovakia and Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces |
| October 16 | During Olympics Tommie Smith and John Carlos give black power salute |
| October 16 | Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 minutes on 9 penalties in a game and 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period) |
| October 16 | Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls |
| October 18 | Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29'2 ") in Mexico City |
| October 18 | Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas |
| October 18 | Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash |
| October 18 | U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony |
| October 19 | Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars |
| October 20 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| October 20 | "Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 17 performances |
| October 20 | Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis |
| October 20 | Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) |
| October 22 | Apollo 7 returns to Earth |
| October 23 | Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 minutes 34.9 seconds) |
| October 23 | "Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater New York City for 82 performances |
| October 25 | Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler |
| October 25 | Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby |
| October 26 | 1st European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy |
| October 26 | KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, California (NBC) begins broadcastng |
| October 26 | Soyuz 3 launched |
| October 27 | 19th Olympic games close at Mexico City, Mexico |
| October 27 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Golf Invitational |
| October 29 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R. |
| October 30 | Jaqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis on the island of Scorpios |
| October 30 | Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics) |
| October 30 | Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber) |
| October 30 | Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam |
| October 31 | Linda Eastman moves to U.K. permanently |
| October 31 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game) |
| October 31 | President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam |
| October 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 1 | Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| November 1 | Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X) |
| November 1 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| November 1 | U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team |
| November 1 | University of Suriname opens |
| November 2 | "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 17 performances |
| November 3 | Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon |
| November 3 | Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta |
| November 3 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic |
| November 3 | New York Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 |
| November 4 | Battles between Jordan army and Al Fatah-arm forces |
| November 4 | WRDU (now WPTF) TV chan 28 in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| November 4 | WTOG TV channel 44 in St. Petersburg-Tampa, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| November 5 | 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, Denny McLain (wins unanimously) |
| November 5 | Nixon (R) beats Vice President Humphrey (D) and George C. Wallace for presidency |
| November 6 | Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey |
| November 6 | Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike |
| November 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| November 8 | Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John |
| November 9 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 10 | Judy Rankin wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| November 10 | Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar and return flight |
| November 10 | Portuguese socialist Mario Soares freed |
| November 11 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album |
| November 11 | Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic |
| November 11 | Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England |
| November 12 | KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 12 | Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools unconstitutional |
| November 13 | Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP |
| November 14 | 1st European lung transplant |
| November 14 | "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning |
| November 14 | Yale University announces it is going co-educational |
| November 15 | 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four" |
| November 17 | John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in New York City |
| November 17 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational |
| November 17 | KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 17 | NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32 |
| November 17 | "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 305 performances |
| November 18 | Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted |
| November 19 | Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees |
| November 19 | Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year |
| November 20 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 21 | Cincinnati trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt |
| November 21 | Supremes and Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" |
| November 21 | Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage |
| November 22 | 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura |
| November 22 | Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album |
| November 22 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 23 | Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson |
| November 23 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances |
| November 24 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational |
| November 26 | 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O J Simpson, Southern California (RB) |
| November 28 | John Lennon is fined 150 pounds for unauthorized drug possession |
| November 29 | John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK |
| November 30 | 56th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Calgary Stampeder, 24-21 |
| December 1 | Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical premieres in New York City |
| December 1 | Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela |
| December 1 | "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 1281 performances |
| December 2 | President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor |
| December 3 | Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters |
| December 5 | Rolling Stones release "Beggar's Banquet" LP |
| December 6 | Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years |
| December 6 | PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn |
| December 6 | WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast |
| December 7 | M Dodd returns a library books his Great grandfather took out in 1923 |
| December 7 | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit |
| December 7 | Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandad took out in 1823 |
| December 9 | KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 10 | Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| December 11 | KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, California (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| December 11 | U.S. Soccer Football Assoc refuses to let NASL disband |
| December 12 | Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to be ranked #1 in tennis |
| December 12 | Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock 'n Roll Circus"-never aired |
| December 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 13 | Playland at Beach reopens |
| December 13 | President Da Costa e Silva disbands parliament/grabs power |
| December 16 | KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin begins broadcasting |
| December 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 19 | WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, Georgia (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| December 21 | Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage |
| December 21 | David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California |
| December 22 | Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower |
| December 23 | 1st U.S. case of space motion sickness |
| December 23 | 82 members of U.S. intelligence ship 'Pueblo' released by North Korea |
| December 23 | Borman, Lovell and Anders become 1st men to orbit Moon |
| December 23 | North Korea releases Pueblo crew |
| December 24 | Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis |
| December 24 | WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 25 | Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting Moon |
| December 26 | Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1 |
| December 26 | Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors and 2 game misconducts in a game against New York Rangers in New York's MSG |
| December 26 | Jay Allens "Forty Carats," premieres in New York City |
| December 26 | Led Zeppelin's concert debut in Boston as opener for Vanilla Fudge |
| December 27 | Apollo 8 returns to Earth |
| December 27 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| December 28 | 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival |
| December 28 | 57th Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (4-1) |
| December 28 | Beatles' "Beatles-White Album," goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
| December 28 | Israeli assault on Beirut Airport |
| December 28 | KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in SF, California (IND) 1st broadcast |
| December 29 | Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game |
| December 29 | Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes |
| December 29 | New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game |
| December 30 | -48 degrees F (-44 degrees C), Mazama and Winthrop, Washington (state record) |
| December 31 | 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144) |
| December 31 | 1st test flight of Tupolev TU 144 |
| December 31 | New York Jets win AFL championship |
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