| January 1 | Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's Los Angeles Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee |
| January 2 | "Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 4 performances |
| January 2 | Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted and Black," premieres in New York City |
| January 2 | "Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy |
| January 3 | Rep Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. seated by Congress |
| January 4 | "Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst New York City after 4 performances |
| January 4 | France begins arms embargo against Israel |
| January 5 | Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman and Karl Shapiro |
| January 5 | "Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 82 performances |
| January 5 | Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed |
| January 5 | U.S.S.R. Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
| January 6 | Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" |
| January 6 | WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 7 | U.S. Congress doubles president salary |
| January 9 | Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England |
| January 10 | Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam |
| January 10 | U.S.S.R.'s Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus |
| January 11 | "Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 |
| January 11 | Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts |
| January 12 | "Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 355 performances |
| January 12 | Superbowl III: New York Jets beat Baltimore Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, New York Jets, quarterback |
| January 13 | Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album |
| January 14 | 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers |
| January 14 | Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later |
| January 15 | Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| January 15 | Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union |
| January 16 | Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space |
| January 17 | Beatles release Yellow Submarine album in UK |
| January 17 | Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US |
| January 17 | Soyuz 5 lands |
| January 18 | Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris |
| January 19 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25 |
| January 19 | Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
| January 19 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7 |
| January 20 | Richard M. Nixon inaugurated as president |
| January 20 | University of Arizona reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) |
| January 21 | 22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal |
| January 22 | Billy Preston becomes 5th Beatle |
| January 22 | "Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater New York City for 110 performances |
| January 22 | Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit |
| January 22 | Roy Campanella and Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
| January 23 | Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" |
| January 24 | Queen Juliana appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa |
| January 24 | Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency |
| January 25 | US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris |
| January 26 | "Red, White, and Maddox" opens at Cort Theater New York City for 41 performances |
| January 27 | 14 spies hung in Baghdad |
| January 27 | 9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria |
| January 27 | Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack and she dies Feb 5th |
| January 27 | Noordiers vicar Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years |
| January 28 | 2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville |
| January 28 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America |
| January 29 | Jimi Hendrix and Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars |
| January 29 | Sheahan and Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia vs. W Indies |
| January 30 | Beatles perform their last gig together, a free concert |
| January 30 | U.S. / Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere |
| January 31 | Beatles perform last live gig (42-minute concert on roof of Apple HQs) |
| January 31 | Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
| February 1 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
| February 1 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
| February 1 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
| February 1 | WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (IND) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 2 | Stan Coveleski and Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame |
| February 3 | "Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 122 performances |
| February 3 | The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO |
| February 4 | 41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cincinnati - Detroit, San Diego - Boston |
| February 4 | Beatles appoint Eastman and Eastman, as general cousel to Apple |
| February 4 | John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders |
| February 4 | Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in New York City |
| February 4 | Yassar Arafats takes over as chairman of PLO |
| February 5 | "Turn-On," debuts and cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly |
| February 5 | Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, Vice President, General Manager and head coach of Redskins |
| February 6 | "Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 132 performances |
| February 6 | Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in New York City |
| February 7 | Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
| February 7 | Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah) |
| February 7 | "This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV |
| February 8 | Last edition of Saturday Evening Post |
| February 8 | Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico |
| February 9 | KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| February 10 | LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94 |
| February 11 | Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah |
| February 11 | Dorey Funk, Jr. beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ |
| February 13 | Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
| February 13 | Suriname government of Pengel resigns |
| February 17 | Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album (never released) |
| February 17 | Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister |
| February 18 | Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st |
| February 18 | PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland |
| February 19 | 1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet |
| February 21 | 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) |
| February 21 | Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Washington Senators |
| February 22 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major U.S. track |
| February 23 | Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine |
| February 23 | WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| February 24 | Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby |
| February 25 | Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album |
| February 25 | Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars |
| February 25 | Pension plan for baseball is agreed to |
| February 27 | General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via miltary coup |
| February 27 | President Nixon visits West-Berlin |
| February 28 | Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Springs won by Towler and Ford of GBR |
| February 28 | Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Rodnina and Ulanov of URS |
| February 28 | Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colorado Springs won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR |
| February 28 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colorado Springs won by Tim Wood USA |
| March 1 | After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts |
| March 1 | Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium |
| March 1 | New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires |
| March 1 | "Red, White, and Maddox" closes at Cort Theater New York City after 41 performances |
| March 2 | 1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde |
| March 2 | Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) |
| March 2 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 14th Symphony |
| March 2 | Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season |
| March 3 | Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) |
| March 5 | Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris |
| March 5 | Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany |
| March 5 | Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London |
| March 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 8 | Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo |
| March 10 | James Earl Ray pleads guilty in murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| March 12 | 11th Grammy Awards: Mrs. Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins |
| March 12 | Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London |
| March 13 | Apollo 9 returns to Earth |
| March 14 | Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct |
| March 14 | Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI vs. New Zealand |
| March 15 | U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns |
| March 15 | Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute |
| March 16 | "1776" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1217 performances |
| March 16 | Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
| March 16 | Peter Stone and Sherman Edward's "1776," premieres in New York City |
| March 16 | Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 |
| March 17 | Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM |
| March 17 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open |
| March 18 | "Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| March 19 | British invade Anguilla |
| March 19 | Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention |
| March 20 | Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa |
| March 20 | Beatle John Lennon marries Yoko Ono in Gibraltar |
| March 20 | U.S. president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 |
| March 21 | John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton) |
| March 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 22 | 31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years |
| March 22 | "Billy" opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City after 1 performance |
| March 22 | "Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| March 23 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational |
| March 23 | Rally for Decency (Miami) |
| March 25 | Andes Pact signed in Peru |
| March 25 | John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) |
| March 25 | Pakistan General Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as president |
| March 26 | Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV |
| March 26 | Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Netherlands goes into use |
| March 26 | Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched |
| March 27 | Black Academy of Arts and Letters forms in Boston |
| March 27 | Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars |
| March 28 | Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal |
| March 29 | Communist New People's Army found in Philippines |
| March 30 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
| March 31 | George Harrison and Patti Boyd are fined 250 pounds each for illegal drugs |
| April 1 | Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corp |
| April 1 | Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals |
| April 2 | Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) |
| April 4 | Denton Cooley implanted 1st temporary artificial heart |
| April 7 | Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds |
| April 7 | Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material |
| April 7 | Ted Williams begins managing Washington Senators, they lose to Yankees 8-4 |
| April 8 | 1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats New York Mets 10-9 |
| April 8 | Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres and Pilots win their 1st games |
| April 9 | 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) |
| April 9 | Chicago Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3 |
| April 11 | South African president Frederik de Klerk marries Marike Willemse |
| April 12 | Simon and Garfunkel releases "Boxer" |
| April 13 | 33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281 |
| April 14 | 1st major league baseball game outside U.S. played (Montreal Canada) |
| April 14 | 41st Academy Awards - "Oliver," C Robertson and K Hepburn/Striesand win |
| April 14 | KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| April 14 | Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College |
| April 14 | Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540 |
| April 15 | North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea |
| April 17 | Bernadette Devlin elected to British house of commons |
| April 17 | Czechoslovakia's Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed |
| April 17 | Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0 |
| April 17 | Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy |
| April 17 | The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert |
| April 18 | Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund |
| April 20 | 23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope and 1776 win |
| April 20 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| April 21 | 73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49 |
| April 22 | 1st human eye transplant performed |
| April 22 | Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
| April 22 | Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing |
| April 23 | ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney |
| April 23 | Los Angeles Laker Jerry West scores 53 points |
| April 23 | Over 1000 mi flooded on Shantung Province China |
| April 23 | Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy |
| April 24 | General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded |
| April 24 | Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians |
| April 24 | Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead |
| April 24 | U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary |
| April 25 | BBC Radio serial "Dales" 5,400th and last episode |
| April 25 | Last radio broadcast of "Mrs Dale's Diary" on BBS |
| April 26 | "Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 110 performances |
| April 26 | Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman |
| April 26 | "George M!" closes at Palace Theater New York City after 435 performances |
| April 27 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| April 28 | Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
| April 28 | King Crismson with Greg Lake and Ian McDonald debuts |
| April 29 | "Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 7 performances |
| April 30 | Cincinnati Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0 |
| April 30 | WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| May 1 | 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City |
| May 1 | Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cincinnati Reds, 4-0 |
| May 1 | Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000 |
| May 2 | British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to New York |
| May 3 | 95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 |
| May 3 | "Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 7 performances |
| May 4 | Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody," premieres in New York City |
| May 4 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
| May 4 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St. Louis Blues in 4 games |
| May 5 | 23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| May 5 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) |
| May 7 | 2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
| May 7 | Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA |
| May 8 | Cambodia recognizes East Germany |
| May 8 | Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation |
| May 9 | BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick |
| May 10 | Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space |
| May 10 | Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times |
| May 10 | U.S. troop begin attack on Hill 937/Hamburger Hill |
| May 11 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
| May 11 | Monty Python comedy troupe forms |
| May 12 | Kenneth H. Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH |
| May 14 | Abortion and contraception legalized in Canada |
| May 14 | Last Chevrolet Corsair built |
| May 15 | Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court |
| May 16 | Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute |
| May 16 | Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam |
| May 16 | U.S. nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off San Francisco |
| May 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 16 | Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere |
| May 16 | Who's Pete Townsend and Roger Daltrey charged with assault |
| May 17 | 95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
| May 17 | Baltimore, Cleveland and Pittsburgh agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
| May 17 | "My Wife, My Dog, My Cat," by Maskman and The Agents hits #92 |
| May 17 | Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
| May 18 | Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit |
| May 18 | "Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 122 performances |
| May 18 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St. Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
| May 20 | U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam |
| May 21 | After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets |
| May 21 | Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death |
| May 21 | Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel |
| May 22 | Stafford and Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface |
| May 23 | BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus |
| May 23 | Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes |
| May 23 | Who release rock opera "Tommy" |
| May 24 | Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| May 25 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
| May 25 | "Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating |
| May 25 | Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup |
| May 26 | Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth |
| May 26 | John and Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) |
| May 27 | Walt Disney World construction begins |
| May 28 | A. C. Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
| May 29 | Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice |
| May 30 | Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp |
| May 30 | Gibraltar adopts constitution |
| May 30 | People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao |
| May 31 | "Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 132 performances |
| May 31 | "Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 |
| May 31 | John Lennon and Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" |
| May 31 | Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" |
| June 1 | Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio and TV |
| June 2 | Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
| June 3 | Australian aircraft carrier "Melbourne" slices U.S. destroyer "Frank E. Evans" in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) |
| June 3 | Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder) |
| June 4 | 22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana and survives 9-hour flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft |
| June 4 | Beatles release Ballad Of John and Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US |
| June 4 | Nicky Hopkins quits rock and rolls, Jeff Beck Group |
| June 5 | Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns |
| June 5 | Race riot in Hartford Connecticut |
| June 6 | Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar |
| June 7 | 101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts and Letters wins in 2:28.8 |
| June 7 | Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special |
| June 7 | "Johnny Cash Show," debuts on ABC-TV |
| June 7 | Supergroup Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) 1st concert in Hyde Park, London |
| June 7 | Tommy James and Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion" |
| June 7 | Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1 |
| June 8 | 21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James |
| June 8 | Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones |
| June 8 | General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar |
| June 8 | KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
| June 8 | Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) |
| June 8 | Nixon says 25,000 U.S. troops would leave Vietnam by end of August |
| June 8 | Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones |
| June 8 | "Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 8 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| June 9 | Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems |
| June 9 | Warren Burger confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice |
| June 11 | "The Ballad Of John and Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK |
| June 13 | Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band and joins Rolling Stones |
| June 14 | John and Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show |
| June 14 | Oakland A's Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 |
| June 15 | 69th U.S. Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs Golf Club in Houston, Texas |
| June 15 | "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV |
| June 15 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
| June 15 | Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon |
| June 16 | Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. from House |
| June 19 | State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances |
| June 20 | 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear |
| June 20 | Georges Pompidou sworn in as president of France |
| June 20 | White Rhodesia agrees to race separation |
| June 21 | Dmitri Shostakovich's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
| June 21 | John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) |
| June 21 | Zager and Evans release "In the Year 2525" |
| June 22 | Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire |
| June 22 | Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
| June 23 | French government of Couve de Murville resigns |
| June 23 | Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
| June 23 | Warren E. Burger sworn in as Supreme Court Chief Justice |
| June 25 | Longest tennis match in Wimbledon history, Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon |
| June 27 | 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival |
| June 27 | Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match |
| June 27 | Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, New York, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days |
| June 28 | John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut vs. WI at Lord's |
| June 29 | 1st Jewish worship service at White House |
| June 29 | 24th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
| June 29 | On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896) |
| June 30 | Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 |
| June 30 | Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco |
| July 1 | Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales |
| July 1 | John and Yoko are hospitalized after a car crash |
| July 1 | Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips |
| July 2 | Ireland bowl out WI for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts |
| July 2 | Leslie West and Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain |
| July 3 | 78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, Rhode Island |
| July 4 | 140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep and Janis Joplin |
| July 4 | 76th Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62) |
| July 4 | "Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in U.K. |
| July 4 | Italian Rumor government resigns |
| July 4 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 5 | 83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64) |
| July 5 | Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park |
| July 6 | Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger |
| July 6 | Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao |
| July 7 | Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang |
| July 7 | Der Spiegel reveals Munich's Bishop Defregger is a war criminal |
| July 8 | Thor Heyerdahl and reed raft Ra II land in Barbados 57 days from Morocco |
| July 8 | U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam |
| July 9 | Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th |
| July 10 | Chilean Association of Librarians created |
| July 11 | David Bowie releases 'Space Oddity' |
| July 11 | Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" |
| July 12 | 98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham |
| July 13 | Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon |
| July 13 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open |
| July 14 | "Futbol War" between El Salvador and Honduras begins |
| July 14 | Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead) |
| July 14 | WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
| July 15 | Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 home runs in a doubleheader |
| July 15 | Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season |
| July 16 | Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched |
| July 18 | Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL |
| July 19 | Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit |
| July 20 | 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 |
| July 20 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open |
| July 20 | Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France |
| July 21 | Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT |
| July 21 | Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits |
| July 22 | Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing peace in Detroit |
| July 22 | U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 50 and Molniya 1-12 communications satellite |
| July 23 | 40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Washington D.C. |
| July 23 | All star MVP: Willie McCovey for the San Francisco Giants |
| July 23 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 24 | Apollo 11 returns to Earth |
| July 24 | Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game |
| July 24 | Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in U.S. Army on appeal |
| July 25 | 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York) |
| July 25 | 70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival |
| July 25 | Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne |
| July 26 | Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific |
| July 27 | 15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
| July 27 | Pioneer 10 launched |
| July 29 | Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars |
| July 30 | Astros Denis Menke and Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets |
| July 30 | Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas |
| July 30 | KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| July 30 | Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) |
| July 31 | KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting |
| July 31 | Mariner 6 flies past Mars |
| July 31 | National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| August 1 | 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival |
| August 1 | 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) |
| August 1 | Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars |
| August 2 | Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minnesota 10th reunion |
| August 2 | President Nixon visits Romania |
| August 3 | Reds beats Phillies 19-17 |
| August 3 | Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
| August 4 | Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a home run outside of Dodger Stadium |
| August 5 | Mariner 7 flies past Mars |
| August 5 | Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium |
| August 6 | Baltimore Orioles pull their 3rd triple play, 5-4-3 vs Kansas City Royals |
| August 9 | Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders |
| August 9 | "Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 305 performances |
| August 10 | Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win |
| August 10 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open |
| August 11 | Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder |
| August 11 | Pittsburgh Steelers beat New York Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
| August 12 | Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million |
| August 13 | Baltimore Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
| August 13 | Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
| August 14 | British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland |
| August 14 | New York Mets fall 9 games back, later to win pennant |
| August 15 | Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) |
| August 16 | WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, Georgia begins broadcasting |
| August 16 | Woodstock rock festival begins in New York |
| August 17 | 51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR Golf Club Dayton, Ohio |
| August 17 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open |
| August 17 | New York Jets beat New York Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) |
| August 18 | Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" |
| August 19 | Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 |
| August 20 | 69 cm rainfall in Nelson Co., Virginia (state record) |
| August 21 | Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem |
| August 22 | Beatles record a video for "Long and Winding Road" |
| August 22 | Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America |
| August 23 | Audrey McElmory (U.S.) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno, |
| August 23 | France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) |
| August 24 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament |
| August 24 | Peru nationalizes U.S. oil interests |
| August 25 | Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
| August 27 | Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes |
| August 27 | Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs) |
| August 29 | Joe Pepitone quits Yankees after being fined $500 for leaving the bench |
| August 29 | KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, Montana (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| August 30 | 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival |
| August 30 | 25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash |
| August 30 | 69th U.S. Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk |
| August 30 | Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida |
| August 31 | 25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival |
| September 1 | Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
| September 1 | Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris |
| September 2 | New York Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated |
| September 2 | Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season |
| September 5 | Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
| September 6 | "Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 1166 performances |
| September 7 | 83rd U.S. Womens Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (62 62) |
| September 7 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open |
| September 7 | Rod Laver completes his 2nd grand slam winning U.S. Tennis Open |
| September 7 | U.S. amateur Womens Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) |
| September 8 | 2nd U.S. Tennis Open smallest session - 3708 (men's singles final-rain) |
| September 8 | 89th U.S. Mens Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) |
| September 8 | Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya |
| September 8 | U.S. amateur Mens Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) |
| September 9 | Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 |
| September 9 | Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 |
| September 9 | Smallest U.S. Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) |
| September 9 | WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, Kentucky (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 10 | New York Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time |
| September 10 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado |
| September 11 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| September 13 | Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title |
| September 13 | Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player |
| September 13 | Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko and Eric Clapton) 1st live performance |
| September 14 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
| September 14 | Males of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
| September 15 | Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 New York Mets in a game |
| September 18 | Tiny Tim and Miss Vicky get engaged |
| September 20 | 18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England |
| September 20 | Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 |
| September 20 | Pittsburgh Pirate Bob Moose no-hits New York Mets, 4-0 |
| September 21 | 58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0) |
| September 21 | Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| September 21 | New York Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos |
| September 21 | Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8) |
| September 22 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 22 | "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV |
| September 22 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, becomes 2nd player to hit home run number 600 off Mike Corkins |
| September 23 | 1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV |
| September 23 | "Clues Hint at Beatle's Death," reported in Illinois University newspaper, sparking widespread rumours of Paul McCartney's death |
| September 24 | 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati |
| September 24 | New York Mets clinch NL East pennant |
| September 24 | Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
| September 24 | Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins |
| September 26 | Beatles release "Abbey Road" album |
| September 26 | Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia |
| September 26 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| September 28 | Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Baltimore Colts (52-14) |
| September 28 | Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing! |
| September 28 | SPD wins West German Parliament elections |
| September 29 | 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yankees 7-6 |
| September 29 | "Bright Promise," TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 29 | Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" |
| September 29 | "Letters To Laugh-In," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV |
| September 29 | "Name Droppers," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th home run of season |
| September 29 | "Sale Of Century," debuts on NBC-TV |
| September 29 | Steve O'Neal of New York Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver |
| September 30 | Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant |
| October 1 | Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier |
| October 1 | Guernsey and Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps |
| October 1 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| October 2 | Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473 |
| October 2 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| October 4 | Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 and Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings |
| October 4 | Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach el |
| October 4 | U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters |
| October 5 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| October 5 | Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC |
| October 5 | Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal |
| October 6 | WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 7 | WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 9 | Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" |
| October 11 | Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 |
| October 11 | Rome: 2nd bishop synod |
| October 11 | Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days |
| October 12 | 1st time 5 people in space |
| October 12 | KDB-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KAPN |
| October 12 | KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, California (IND) begins |
| October 12 | Soyuz 7 is launched |
| October 12 | Yoko Ono suffers another miscarriage |
| October 13 | 1st time 7 people in space |
| October 13 | Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins |
| October 13 | Soyuz 8 is launched |
| October 14 | Palme government forms in Sweden |
| October 14 | T Agee and Ed Kranepool home run, Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win 5-0 |
| October 14 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 15 | Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated |
| October 15 | Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs. North Stars) |
| October 15 | New York Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st and 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game |
| October 15 | Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series |
| October 15 | Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war |
| October 16 | 100-1 shot New York Mets beat Orioles 5-3 and win 66th World Series in 5 |
| October 16 | Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a home run in World Series |
| October 16 | Soyuz 6 returns to Earth |
| October 17 | New York Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY |
| October 17 | Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK |
| October 17 | Soyuz 7 returns to Earth |
| October 18 | Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners |
| October 18 | Jefferson Airplanes Paul Kanter, arrested for marijuana possession |
| October 18 | Rod Stewart joins Small Faces |
| October 18 | Soyuz 8 returns to Earth |
| October 19 | J. Bock and S. Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in New York City |
| October 19 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
| October 19 | Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) |
| October 20 | WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 21 | Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) |
| October 21 | Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free," premieres in New York City |
| October 21 | Major General Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali |
| October 21 | Willy Burns elected chancellor of West Germany |
| October 22 | KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara, California changes call letters to KDB-AM |
| October 22 | Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death |
| October 23 | "Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 84 performances |
| October 24 | Hanif, Mushtaq and Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together |
| October 26 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
| October 26 | WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| October 27 | Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen |
| October 27 | Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders |
| October 27 | St. Vincent and Grenadines gains associated status with Britain |
| October 29 | Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award |
| October 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| October 29 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| October 30 | WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, New Hampshire (IND) 1st broadcast |
| October 31 | George Harrison's "Something" is released in the United Kingdom |
| October 31 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| November 1 | Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks |
| November 2 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open |
| November 2 | NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kramer and St. L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each |
| November 3 | Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium |
| November 6 | 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore and Denny McLain, Detroit) |
| November 7 | John and Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK |
| November 10 | "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV |
| November 11 | Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK |
| November 11 | Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness |
| November 12 | Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union |
| November 12 | Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP |
| November 12 | U.S. Army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 |
| November 12 | WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| November 13 | Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias and distortion |
| November 14 | 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US |
| November 14 | Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing |
| November 15 | 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) |
| November 15 | 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) |
| November 15 | 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War |
| November 15 | Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla |
| November 15 | Wendy's Hamburgers opens |
| November 16 | 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported |
| November 17 | SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland |
| November 19 | Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans on Moon |
| November 19 | WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 20 | Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans |
| November 20 | Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia Kanpur |
| November 20 | Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal |
| November 20 | San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP |
| November 21 | KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, Texas (ABC) 1st broadcast |
| November 21 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| November 22 | Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard |
| November 24 | Apollo 12 returns to Earth |
| November 24 | Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial |
| November 24 | West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands |
| November 25 | John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War |
| November 25 | KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year |
| November 26 | 35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB) |
| November 26 | Creams' final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
| November 26 | Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon |
| November 28 | Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year |
| November 29 | Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1 |
| November 30 | 57th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 29-11 |
| November 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 1 | U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II |
| December 2 | Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to New York City) |
| December 2 | "Buck White" opens at George Abbott Theater New York City for 7 performances |
| December 3 | John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar |
| December 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 6 | 300,000 attend Altamont California rock concert feature Rolling Stones |
| December 6 | "Buck White" closes at George Abbott Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| December 6 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| December 8 | Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed |
| December 8 | Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA |
| December 11 | Libya adopts constitution |
| December 12 | Bill Toomey achieves world record-score (8417 points) |
| December 12 | Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed |
| December 12 | "Hello Dolly" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
| December 13 | Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant" |
| December 13 | Billy Martin fired as Twins' manager |
| December 14 | Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) vs. Australia at Calcutta |
| December 14 | Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| December 14 | "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 1 performance |
| December 15 | Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom |
| December 15 | San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones |
| December 16 | British House of Commons votes 343-185 abolishing the death penalty |
| December 16 | "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John and Yoko" posters begin appearing |
| December 17 | 50m TV viewers saw singer Tiny Tim marry Miss Vicky, on Tonight Show |
| December 17 | USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings |
| December 18 | Britain abolishes death penalty |
| December 18 | "Coco" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 333 performances |
| December 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 19 | Beatle's 7th Christmas album is released |
| December 20 | Peter, Paul and Mary's "Leaving on a Jet Plane" reaches #1 |
| December 21 | Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme on theEd Sullivan Show |
| December 21 | Vince Lombardi (Redskins) coaches his last football game, losing |
| December 22 | Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots |
| December 25 | 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor |
| December 25 | India all out for 163 at Madras vs. Australia, Ashley Mallett 5-91 |
| December 28 | Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball |
| December 28 | Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," premieres in New York City |
| December 28 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 29 | New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball and challenge the reserve clause |
| December 30 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| December 31 | Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi |
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