Notable Historical Events - 1968
1968 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
ABC radio splits into 4 networks (Info, Entertainment, Contemp & FM) |
Jan 1 |
Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain |
Jan 1 |
Netherlands gets color TV |
Jan 1 |
WDCO TV channel 15 in Cochran, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 2 |
"Zizi" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 49 performances |
Jan 2 |
Christian Barnard performs 2nd heart transplant |
Jan 2 |
KBHK TV channel 44 in San Francisco, CA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 4 |
Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas |
Jan 4 |
Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million |
Jan 5 |
Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law |
Jan 5 |
Alexander Dubček succeeds Antonín Novotný as communist party leader of Czechoslovakia |
Jan 6 |
Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks |
Jan 6 |
Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation |
Jan 6 |
Surveyor 7 (last of series) launched by US for soft-landing on Moon |
Jan 7 |
"GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 7 |
1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents |
Jan 8 |
Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV |
Jan 8 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, travelles to Dublin to meet with Jack Lynch, Irish Prime Minister, to continue discussions on matters of joint interest to Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland |
Jan 9 |
1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana |
Jan 9 |
Surveyor 7 space probe soft lands on Moon |
Jan 10 |
US Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho |
Jan 11 |
Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km) |
Jan 12 |
Beatles Film Production Ltd changes name to Apple Film Production Ltd |
Jan 12 |
Nighttime version of "Hollywood Squares" premieres on NBC TV |
Jan 13 |
"Hallelujah, Baby!" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 293 perfs |
Jan 13 |
"Illya Darling" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 320 perfs |
Jan 13 |
Minn North Stars center Bill Masterton fatally injured (dies on 15th) |
Jan 14 |
Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB |
Jan 15 |
KDCD TV channel 18 in Midland, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 16 |
21st NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All-Stars 4-3 at Toronto |
Jan 16 |
Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," premieres in NYC |
Jan 16 |
The Youth International Party is founded. |
Jan 18 |
"Happy Time" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 286 performances |
Jan 18 |
Hester & Appolinar's musical "Your Own Thing," premieres in NYC |
Jan 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jan 19 |
WKBF TV channel 61 in Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 19 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, calls for "a new endeavour by organisations in Northern Ireland to cross denominational barriers and advance the cause of better community relations" |
Jan 20 |
Houston ends UCLA's 47-game basketball winning streak, 71-69 |
Jan 20 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
Jan 20 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
Jan 20 |
The Houston Cougars defeat the UCLA Bruins 71-69 to win the Game of the Century. |
Jan 21 |
AFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 25-24 |
Jan 21 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-20 |
Jan 21 |
US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland |
Jan 21 |
Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh - One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins. |
Jan 22 |
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC |
Jan 22 |
Apollo 5 launched to Moon; unmanned lunar module tests made |
Jan 22 |
NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix |
Jan 23 |
Joe Medwick elected to Baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 23 |
Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea |
Jan 25 |
Risse St in Bronx named |
Jan 25 |
Robert Anderson's "I Never Sang for My Father," premieres in NYC |
Jan 26 |
Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die |
Jan 27 |
"Darling of the Day" opens at George Abbott Theater NYC for 31 perfs |
Jan 28 |
29th PGA Seniors Golf Championship: Chandler Harper |
Jan 28 |
Goose Goslin & Kiki Cuyler elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 29 |
Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) adopts constitution |
Jan 30 |
Bobby Goldsboro records his biggest hit, "Honey" |
Jan 30 |
Vietcong launches Tet offensive on US embassy in Saigon |
Jan 31 |
Bobby Simpson takes 5-59 v India in his last Test for ten years |
Jan 31 |
Nauru (formerly Pleasant Island) declares independence from Australia |
Jan 31 |
Record high barometric pressure (1083.8 mb, 32"), at Agata, USSR |
Jan 31 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 31 |
Viet Cong Tet offensive begins |
Feb 1 |
Former US VP Richard Nixon announces candidacy for president |
Feb 1 |
Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers |
Feb 1 |
World trade conference Unctad 2 opens in New Delhi |
Feb 1 |
Famous photo: Saigon police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to head |
Feb 2 |
Springer Publishers in West Berlin, bombed |
Feb 4 |
"Golden Rainbow" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 355 performances |
Feb 4 |
Bowie Kuhn replaces William Eckert as 5th commissioner of baseball |
Feb 5 |
KDTV TV channel 39 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins broadcasting |
Feb 5 |
Skater Kees Verkerk wins olympic gold in the 1500m |
Feb 5 |
Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh begins. |
Feb 6 |
10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France |
Feb 6 |
Dutch 2nd Chamber condemns US bombing of North Vietnam |
Feb 6 |
Former Pres Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one |
Feb 6 |
KESD TV channel 8 in Brookings, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 7 |
Arthur Miller's "Price," premieres in NYC |
Feb 7 |
Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants falls |
Feb 7 |
WLED TV channel 49 in Littleton, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 8 |
Officers kill 3 students demonstrating in SC State (Orangeburg) |
Feb 9 |
Rotterdam metro opened by princess Beatrix |
Feb 10 |
"Spooky" by Classics IV hits #3 |
Feb 10 |
Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France |
Feb 11 |
Israeli-Jordan border fight |
Feb 11 |
Jeffrey Kramer survives 76-m jump, Wash Bridge, Hudson River NY |
Feb 11 |
Madison Square Garden III closes Madison Square Garden IV opens (NYC) |
Feb 13 |
US sends 10,500 additional soldiers to Vietnam |
Feb 14 |
Pennsylvania Railroad/NYC Central merge into Penn Central |
Feb 14 |
WHKY TV channel 14 in Hickory, NC (IND) begins broadcasting |
Feb 15 |
Anaheim's Les Salvage scores 10, 3-pt baskets in ABA game vs Denver |
Feb 15 |
WVUT TV channel 22 in Vincennes, IN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 16 |
US 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala |
Feb 16 |
Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art" |
Feb 16 |
Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and their wifes fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi |
Feb 17 |
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Springfield Mass, opens |
Feb 18 |
10,000 demonstrators against US in Vietnam War in West-Berlin |
Feb 18 |
10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France |
Feb 18 |
British adopts year-round daylight savings time as a trial |
Feb 18 |
David Gilmour joins rock group Pink Floyd |
Feb 19 |
1st US Teachers strike (Florida) |
Feb 20 |
State troopers used tear gas to stop demonstration at Alcorn A & M |
Feb 21 |
150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin |
Feb 21 |
Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000 |
Feb 22 |
Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun" |
Feb 23 |
Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points |
Feb 24 |
"Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs |
Feb 24 |
Discovery of 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish) |
Feb 24 |
Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games |
Feb 24 |
US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam |
Feb 25 |
430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea |
Feb 25 |
Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus |
Feb 26 |
Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission |
Feb 28 |
Pirate Radio Hauraki, off NZ, returns to the air |
Feb 29 |
1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge) |
Feb 29 |
Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" wins Grammy |
Feb 29 |
Howard Hanson's 6th Symphony, premieres |
Feb 29 |
US end regular flights with nuclear bombs |
Feb 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 29 |
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Comm) reports against racism & demands aid given to blacks |
Mar 1 |
NBC's unprecedented on-air announcement, Star Trek will return |
Mar 1 |
Pirate Radio Atlantis South (England) begins test transmitting |
Mar 1 |
Political Party Radikalen (PPR) established in Netherlands |
Mar 1 |
Vatican City's Apostolic Constitution of 1967 goes into effect |
Mar 2 |
Ice Dance Championship at Geneva won by Towler & Ford (GRB) |
Mar 2 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Geneva won by Belousova & Protopopov (USSR) |
Mar 2 |
Men's Figure Skating Champions in Geneva won by Emmerich Danzer (AUT) |
Mar 2 |
USAF displays Lockheed C-5A Galaxy, biggest plane in the world |
Mar 2 |
USSR launches space probe Zond 4; fails to leave Earth orbit |
Mar 2 |
Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Geneva won by Peggy Fleming (US) |
Mar 3 |
"Here's Where I Belong" opens/closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC |
Mar 3 |
Greece, Portugal & Spain's embassies bombed in the Hague |
Mar 3 |
Jean Beliveau (Mont) becomes 2nd NHLer to score 1,000 pts |
Mar 3 |
In a blockbuster trade, the Toronto Maple Leafs send hall of fame forward Frank Mahovlich to the rival Detroit Red Wings |
Mar 4 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Buster Mathis in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 4 |
Martin Luther King Jr. announces plans for Poor People's Campaign |
Mar 4 |
Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched |
Mar 5 |
US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun |
Mar 7 |
The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television. |
Mar 8 |
6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md) |
Mar 8 |
Fillmore East opens |
Mar 8 |
Students demonstrate in Warsaw |
Mar 9 |
10th Grammy Awards: Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4 |
Mar 11 |
Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting |
Mar 11 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet |
Mar 11 |
Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay" |
Mar 12 |
Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Mar 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 13 |
Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK |
Mar 14 |
CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA |
Mar 15 |
Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4") |
Mar 15 |
British Foreign Secretary George Brown resigns |
Mar 15 |
LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world" |
Mar 15 |
US Mint stops buying & selling gold |
Mar 15 |
Uprising in South Yemen |
Mar 15 |
Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept", but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri |
Mar 16 |
My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die |
Mar 16 |
robert kennedy announces presidential campaign |
Mar 16 |
General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. |
Mar 17 |
2-tiered gold price negotiated in Wash DC by US & 6 European nations |
Mar 17 |
Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open |
Mar 18 |
Congress repeals requirement for a gold reserve |
Mar 18 |
WVER TV channel 28 in Rutland, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 18 |
WVTA TV channel 41 in Windsor, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 19 |
Howard University students seize administration building |
Mar 20 |
LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money |
Mar 20 |
Military intervene in South-Yemen (leftist ministers resign) |
Mar 21 |
"Royals" chosen as the name of new KC AL franchise |
Mar 21 |
Hill, Hawkins & Coghill's musical premieres in London |
Mar 21 |
Israeli forces cross Jordan River to attack PLO bases |
Mar 21 |
Portuguese socialist Mario Soares banished to Sao Tomé |
Mar 22 |
Jarmila Novotna resigns presidency of Czechoslovakia |
Mar 22 |
Lynda Johnson ordered off SF cable car for eating an ice cream cone |
Mar 22 |
Student riot in Nanterre near Paris |
Mar 23 |
30th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats NC 78-55 |
Mar 23 |
Rev Walter Fauntroy, is 1st non-voting congressional delegate from DC |
Mar 24 |
Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
Mar 25 |
KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Mar 25 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 25 |
Members of the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland |
Mar 27 |
Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF |
Mar 27 |
Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia |
Mar 29 |
Students seize building at Bowie State College |
Mar 30 |
General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia |
Mar 31 |
LBJ announces he will not seek re-election |
Mar 31 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Palm Beach County Golf Open |
Mar 31 |
Pirate Radio Station Pegaus (NZ) begins transmitting |
Mar 31 |
Seattle's AL club is named Pilots |
Apr 1 |
KEMO (now KOFY) TV channel 20 in San Francisco, CA (IND) 1st broadcast |
Apr 2 |
Beatles form Python Music Ltd |
Apr 2 |
Chad creates Union of Central African States |
Apr 2 |
Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin |
Apr 2 |
Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Spacey Odyssey" is released |
Apr 3 |
N Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks |
Apr 4 |
"Education of Hyman Kaplan" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 28 perfs |
Apr 4 |
Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V; unmanned |
Apr 4 |
US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee |
Apr 5 |
Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego opens |
Apr 5 |
US marine base Khe San Vietnam, appalled |
Apr 6 |
94.5% of East German voters approve new socialist constitution |
Apr 6 |
Firestone World Tournament of Champions won by Dave Davis |
Apr 6 |
Gunpowder stocks at a sporting-goods store explode, killing 43 (Va) |
Apr 6 |
HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas |
Apr 6 |
In Richmond, Indiana's downtown district, a double explosion kills 41 and injures 150. |
Apr 8 |
40th Academy Awards postponed to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King |
Apr 8 |
Baseball's Opening Day is postponed because of Martin Luther King's assassination |
Apr 8 |
Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms |
Apr 8 |
New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect |
Apr 8 |
WKPI TV channel 22 in Pikeville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 8 |
Gangsters Henry Hill and Jimmy Burke commit the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000 |
Apr 9 |
German DR adopts constitution |
Apr 9 |
Martin Luther King Jr., buried in Atlanta |
Apr 9 |
Minn's Wayne Connelly is 1st to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
Apr 9 |
Ralph Aberbathy elected to head So Christian Leadership Conference |
Apr 10 |
Ferry Wahine sinks in Wellington harbour, New Zealand on route from Lyttelton (51 killed) |
Apr 10 |
"George M!" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 435 performances |
Apr 10 |
40th Academy Awards - "Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win |
Apr 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 11 |
Polish Marshal Spychalski succeeds Ochab as president |
Apr 11 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act |
Apr 11 |
W Berlin student Rudi Dutschke seriously wounded at demonstration |
Apr 11 |
WHED TV channel 15 in Hanover, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 12 |
Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah. |
Apr 14 |
1st NBA game at Madison Sq Garden, Knicks beat SD Clippers |
Apr 14 |
32nd Golf Masters Championship: Bob Goalby wins, shooting a 277 |
Apr 14 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA O'Sullivan Golf Open |
Apr 14 |
Roberto de Vicenzo loses Masters for signing an incorrect score card |
Apr 15 |
Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings |
Apr 17 |
"Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 72 perfs |
Apr 17 |
A's 1st game in Oakland-Alameda Stadium, lose 4-1 to Balt Orioles |
Apr 18 |
178,000 employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike |
Apr 18 |
1st ABA basketball championship began |
Apr 18 |
Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms |
Apr 18 |
London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona) |
Apr 18 |
Mart Crowley's "Boys in the Band" premieres in NYC |
Apr 18 |
Peter Luke's "Hadrian VII" premieres in London |
Apr 18 |
San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished |
Apr 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 19 |
72nd Boston Marathon won by Amby Burfoot of Conn in 2:22:17 |
Apr 19 |
Belgian construction workers strike |
Apr 19 |
NL owners approve expansion for 2 new teams |
Apr 20 |
S Afr Boeing 707 crashes at Windhoek, 122 killed |
Apr 20 |
English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech. |
Apr 20 |
Pierre Trudeau sworn in as Canada's 15th Prime Minister |
Apr 21 |
22nd Tony Awards: Rosencranz & Guilderstern & Hallelujah Baby! win |
Apr 21 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Apr 23 |
"I'm Solomon" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Apr 23 |
1st decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and two-shilling pieces) |
Apr 23 |
United Methodist Church forms |
Apr 24 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas |
Apr 24 |
Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC |
Apr 24 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Apr 24 |
Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. |
Apr 25 |
"Half a Sixpence" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 512 performances |
Apr 26 |
Students seize administration building at Ohio State |
Apr 26 |
US underground nuclear test, "Boxcar," 1 megaton device |
Apr 27 |
"Education of Hyman Kaplan" closes at Alvin NYC after 28 perfs |
Apr 27 |
Balt Oriole Tom Phoebus no-hits Boston, 6-0 |
Apr 27 |
Congress of Political Party Radicals (PPR) forms in Netherlands |
Apr 27 |
The Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) hold a rally to protest the banning of a Republican Easter parade |
Apr 28 |
11 year-old Mary Bell strangles 4 year-old |
Apr 28 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies' Golf Invitational |
Apr 29 |
"Hair" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances |
Apr 30 |
3 Oriole pitchers walk 14 NY Yankees in a 9 inning game |
May 1 |
"Ben Franklin in Paris" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 215 perfs |
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 LA 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 3 |
Holland Pirate Radio Station VRON becomes Radio Veronica Intl |
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 2:02½ |
May 5 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
May 6 |
Street battle between students & 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 US & 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 & police battle in Paris, 100s injured |
May 11 |
The Toronto Transit Commission opens the largest expansion of its Bloor-Danforth Line, going to Scarborough in the east, and Etobicoke in the west. |
May 12 |
"March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC |
May 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
May 12 |
WSKG TV channel 46 (PBS) in Binghamton, NY, begins broadcasting |
May 13 |
1,000,000 French demonstrate against Charles De Gaulle & Georges Pompidou |
May 14 |
Beatles announce formation of Apple Corp |
May 14 |
Czech government announces liberalizing reforms under Alexander Dubček |
May 14 |
RAF-leader Andreas Baader sentenced to 3 years in West Berlin |
May 15 |
"Wonderwall" with George Harrison premieres at Cannes Film Festival |
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 & John Lennon appear on Johnny Carson Show to promote Apple records, Joe Garagiola is substitute host |
May 16 |
Earthquake kills 47 in Japan |
May 16 |
In the Stormont (Northern Ireland parliament) by-election in the city of Londonderry (Derry) the Ulster Unionists retain the seat |
May 17 |
European Space Research Org launches 1st satellite |
May 17 |
Frank Howard belts record 8th HR in 5th straight game |
May 17 |
US 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 HR, surpassing Hank Greenberg as a Tiger |
May 18 |
Frank Howard ties AL record with HR in his 6th consecutive game his 10 home runs in the most in 6 games |
May 19 |
20th Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Mission Impossible & Barbara Bain win |
May 19 |
Frank Howard fails to homer, after hitting 10 in 6 consecutive games |
May 19 |
Pirate Radio Brumble of Northern England 1st heard |
May 20 |
Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, is showered with eggs, flour and stones after a meeting of the Woodvale Unionist Association, a loyalist vigilante group |
May 21 |
Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game |
May 21 |
Paul McCartney & Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert |
May 21 |
USSR performs nuclear test (underground) |
May 21 |
WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 21 |
Nuclear-powered sub USS Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing & is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores |
May 22 |
Pitts Pirate Willie Stargell hits 3 HRs, a double & a single |
May 23 |
AC 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 & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession |
May 24 |
French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse |
May 24 |
FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. |
May 25 |
BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Jim Stefanich |
May 25 |
BPAA US 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 Yanks 4-3 |
May 27 |
NL awards Montreal & SD major league franchises |
May 27 |
The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety. |
May 27 |
George Halas retires from coaching, finishing with 318 regular-season wins and 6 NFL titles |
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 |
US Truth in Lending Act signed into law |
May 29 |
UN 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, German DR, blown up |
May 30 |
West German Parliament accepts emergency crisis law |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Bobby Unser wins in 3:16:13.786 (246.040 km/h) |
May 31 |
American movie star Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after 27 years of service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan |
Jun 1 |
100th Belmont: Gus Gustines aboard Stage Door Johnny wins in 2:27.2 |
Jun 1 |
Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs Robinson" hits #1 |
Jun 2 |
Canadians must get government permission to export silver |
Jun 2 |
WBLG (now WTVQ) TV channel 62 in Lexington, KY (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Jun 3 |
Canada announces it will replace silver with nickel in coins |
Jun 3 |
Poor Peoples March on Washington |
Jun 3 |
Yanks turn 21st triple-play in their history lose 4-3 to Twins |
Jun 3 |
Valerie Solanas, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol by shooting him three times. |
Jun 4 |
Don Drysdale pitches his 6th straight shutout, en route to 58 innings |
Jun 5 |
12:16AM PST-Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day |
Jun 6 |
WKHA TV channel 35 in Hazard, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 6 |
Senator robert kennedy dies from his wounds after he was shot the previous night. |
Jun 7 |
Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination |
Jun 7 |
The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. |
Jun 8 |
Bermuda adopts its constitution |
Jun 8 |
Don Drysdale pitches a record 58th consecutive scoreless inning |
Jun 8 |
Gary Puckett & Union Gap release "Lady Will Power" |
Jun 8 |
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., captured |
Jun 8 |
New colonial constitution for Bermuda adopted |
Jun 8 |
Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash" |
Jun 8 |
The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. |
Jun 9 |
38th French Mens Tennis: Ken Rosewall beats R Laver (63 61 26 62) |
Jun 9 |
38th French Womens Tennis: Nancy Richey beats Anne H Jones (57 64 61) |
Jun 9 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
Jun 9 |
Yugoslav president Tito promises reforms |
Jun 10 |
"Danny Thomas Hour" last airs on NBC-TV |
Jun 10 |
AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy |
Jun 10 |
KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jun 10 |
WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast |
Jun 12 |
"What Makes Sammy Run?" closes at 84th St Theater NYC after 540 perfs |
Jun 14 |
Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing |
Jun 15 |
"How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC after 220 perfs |
Jun 15 |
"I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 561 performances |
Jun 15 |
"New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 52 performances |
Jun 15 |
15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern Ireland) |
Jun 15 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono plant an acorn at Conventry Cathedral |
Jun 15 |
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4 |
Jun 16 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA "500" Ladies Golf Classic |
Jun 16 |
68th US Golf Open: Lee Trevino shoots a 275 at Oak Hill CC NY |
Jun 16 |
Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's US open under par |
Jun 17 |
Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms |
Jun 17 |
KQEC TV channel 32 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jun 17 |
Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold |
Jun 18 |
Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing |
Jun 19 |
50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign |
Jun 20 |
Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds |
Jun 20 |
Catholic Irish Civil rights activists protest against discrimination in the allocation of housing by illegally occupying a house in Caledon, County Tyrone |
Jun 20 |
Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and a number of other people, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squating' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland |
Jun 21 |
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns |
Jun 22 |
"Here Come Da Judge" by The Buena Vistas peaks at #88 |
Jun 23 |
74 are killed and 150 injured in a football stampede towards a closed exit in a Buenos Aires stadium. |
Jun 24 |
14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post |
Jun 24 |
Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's |
Jun 24 |
Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion |
Jun 24 |
Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3 |
Jun 24 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 24 |
Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently |
Jun 25 |
Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (Giants) |
Jun 26 |
Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions |
Jun 26 |
Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US |
Jun 27 |
Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague |
Jun 28 |
Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers |
Jun 29 |
"Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17 |
Jun 30 |
East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution" |
Jun 30 |
Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats |
Jun 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jul 1 |
Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 inn scoreless streak ends on wild pitch |
Jul 1 |
Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard |
Jul 1 |
John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You are Here) |
Jul 1 |
US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty |
Jul 1 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Jul 1 |
The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established. |
Jul 1 |
Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO. |
Jul 2 |
An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) |
Jul 3 |
41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July |
Jul 3 |
Cleve Indian Luis Tiant strikes out 19 Minnesota Twins |
Jul 3 |
As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland |
Jul 4 |
Arthur Kopit's "Indians" premieres in London |
Jul 4 |
Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched |
Jul 5 |
"Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague |
Jul 5 |
82nd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche (6-3 6-4 6-2) |
Jul 5 |
John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce |
Jul 5 |
Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers |
Jul 6 |
75th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats J Tegart (97 75) |
Jul 6 |
Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words" |
Jul 7 |
23rd US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Susie Maxwell Berning |
Jul 7 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Jul 7 |
Rock group "Yardbirds" disband |
Jul 8 |
Israeli-Egyptian artillery duel along Suez Canal |
Jul 9 |
15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Miss (state 24-hour record) |
Jul 9 |
39th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 1-0 at Astrodome, Houston |
Jul 9 |
All star MVP: Willie Mays (SF Giants) |
Jul 10 |
US Major League baseball announces it will split into 2 divisions for 1969 |
Jul 11 |
Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles |
Jul 11 |
Start of Colin Cowdrey's 100th Test, 1st person to do so |
Jul 12 |
Couve de Murville forms government in France |
Jul 12 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 13 |
97th British Golf Open: Gary Player shoots 289 at Carnoustie Scotland |
Jul 13 |
French government-Couve de Murville forms |
Jul 14 |
Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick |
Jul 14 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
Jul 14 |
Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes-out 18, beats Reds 6-1 |
Jul 14 |
WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 15 |
"One Life to Live" premieres on TV |
Jul 15 |
Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR |
Jul 15 |
France performs nuclear Test at Muruora Island |
Jul 15 |
NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA) |
Jul 15 |
Soap opera "One Life To Live" premieres |
Jul 17 |
Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London |
Jul 17 |
Revolt in Iraq |
Jul 18 |
The Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California |
Jul 20 |
Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Paul McCartney on live TV |
Jul 20 |
Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117 |
Jul 21 |
50th PGA Championship: Julius Boros shoots a 281 at Pecan Valley TX |
Jul 21 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
Jul 21 |
Jan Janssen wins Tour de France: 1st Dutchman |
Jul 22 |
Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system |
Jul 23 |
Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt |
Jul 23 |
PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane |
Jul 23 |
Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed |
Jul 24 |
Hoyt Wilhelm's 907th breaks Cy Young's record for pitching appearances |
Jul 25 |
Pope Paul VI encyclical against On regulation of birth |
Jul 27 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Supertest Canadian Golf Open |
Jul 27 |
Race Riot in Gary Indiana |
Jul 29 |
Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1 |
Jul 29 |
Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa |
Jul 29 |
Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption |
Jul 29 |
Pope Paul VI, in an encyclical entitled "Humanae Vitae" (Of Human Life), declares any artificial forms of birth control prohibited |
Jul 29 |
Wash DC Ron Hansen makes unassisted triple play vs Cleve |
Jul 30 |
Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away |
Jul 30 |
Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years |
Jul 31 |
Beatles close Apple Boutique, giving clothes away for free |
Aug 1 |
Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins |
Aug 1 |
Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo |
Aug 1 |
WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
Aug 1 |
The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei. |
Aug 2 |
35th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17 (69,917) |
Aug 3 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Aug 4 |
100,000 attend Newport Pop Festival, Costa Mesa, Calif |
Aug 4 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Gino Paoli Golf Open |
Aug 4 |
WXTV TV channel 41 in New York-Paterson, NY (UNI) begins broadcasting |
Aug 5 |
WMCV (now WZTV) TV channel 17 in Nashville, TN (IND) 1st broadcast |
Aug 8 |
Jarry Park is approved by Mayor Jean Drapeau for interim use by Expos |
Aug 8 |
Race riot in Miami, Florida |
Aug 8 |
Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president |
Aug 9 |
Yugoslav president Tito visits Prague |
Aug 10 |
Race riot in Miami, Chicago & Little Rock |
Aug 10 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Concord Golf Open |
Aug 11 |
Beatles launch "Apple Records" label |
Aug 11 |
Satchel Paige, 62, & needing 158 days on a major league payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Braves |
Aug 11 |
The last steam passenger train service runs in Britain. A selection of British Rail steam locomotives make the 120-mile journey from Liverpool to Carlisle and returns to Liverpool before having their fires dropped for the last time - this working was known as the Fifteen Guinea Special. |
Aug 14 |
Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL |
Aug 15 |
Pirate Radio Free London, begins transmitting |
Aug 15 |
Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague |
Aug 15 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR |
Aug 17 |
Dick Beyers (Dr X) beats Verne Gagne, to become NWA champ |
Aug 18 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Holiday Inn Golf Classic |
Aug 20 |
During the night 200,00 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring |
Aug 20 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 21 |
After 5 years Russia once again jams Voice of America radio |
Aug 21 |
Democratic Convention opens in Chicago |
Aug 21 |
Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st African American to win Medal of Honor |
Aug 21 |
Radio Prague (Czechoslovakia) at 12:50 AM announces a Soviet led invasion |
Aug 21 |
Warsaw Pact forces contnue their invasion of Czechoslovakia to end the reform movement known as the Prague Spring |
Aug 21 |
William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight) |
Aug 22 |
1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress. |
Aug 22 |
The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists. |
Aug 23 |
Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement, temporarily |
Aug 23 |
Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew |
Aug 24 |
France became world's 5th thermonuclear power with detonation on Mururoa |
Aug 24 |
Northern Ireland's first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned |
Aug 25 |
Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship |
Aug 25 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ladies World Series of Golf |
Aug 25 |
NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches 2 2/3 innings & beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in 2nd game & homered |
Aug 27 |
The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) organise another protest in the Guildhall's council chamber; immediately after the protest Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) and invites them to organise a march in Derry |
Aug 28 |
Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Demcratic National Convention |
Aug 28 |
Gerry Fitt, MP, tables a House of Commons motion criticising Royal Ulster Constabulary action in Dungannon on 24 August 1968 and demands that: "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom" |
Aug 29 |
1st US Open tennis match (Billie Jean King beats Dr Vija Vuskains) |
Aug 29 |
Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US president (Chicago) |
Aug 30 |
1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude) |
Aug 30 |
John & Yoko's "One on One" benefit for children at Madison Square Garden |
Aug 31 |
12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran |
Aug 31 |
68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher |
Aug 31 |
Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on cover |
Aug 31 |
Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club |
Aug 31 |
Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ |
Aug 31 |
Garfield Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over. |
Sep 1 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Willow Park Ladies Golf Invitational |
Sep 1 |
Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed |
Sep 1 |
Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting |
Sep 2 |
Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 3 |
Chicago White Sox set AL record of 39 loses by 1 run |
Sep 4 |
Nigerian troops conquer Aba Biafra |
Sep 5 |
21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi Pakistan |
Sep 5 |
82nd US Women's Tennis: Virginia Wade beats Billie Jean King (6-4 6-4) |
Sep 5 |
88th US Men's Tennis: Arthur Ashe beats Tom Okker (1412 57 63 36 63) |
Sep 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 6 |
Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Sep 8 |
"Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand premieres |
Sep 8 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Sep 8 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pacific Ladies Golf Classic |
Sep 8 |
Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant |
Sep 9 |
1st US Open, held as an "open", Arthur Ashe wins, defeating Tom Okker |
Sep 9 |
WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 9 |
WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 11 |
Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew. |
Sep 12 |
Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact |
Sep 13 |
Albania leaves Warsaw pact |
Sep 14 |
Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 14 |
1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV |
Sep 14 |
Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season |
Sep 14 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow |
Sep 14 |
USSR's Zond 5 is launched on 1st circumlunar flight |
Sep 15 |
"Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" Show on CBS TV |
Sep 15 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
Sep 15 |
Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry |
Sep 15 |
NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada |
Sep 15 |
WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, OH (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 15 |
WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting |
Sep 15 |
Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8) |
Sep 16 |
KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins |
Sep 16 |
Richard Nixon appears on "Laugh-in" |
Sep 17 |
Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0 |
Sep 17 |
Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon |
Sep 18 |
Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0 |
Sep 19 |
Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR |
Sep 20 |
Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536 |
Sep 22 |
Iraq adopts constitution |
Sep 22 |
KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast |
Sep 22 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Kings River Golf Open |
Sep 22 |
Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions |
Sep 22 |
Zond 5 completes flight |
Sep 23 |
WKAS TV channel 25 in Ashland, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKGB TV channel 53 in Bowling Green, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKLE TV channel 46 in Lexington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKMA TV channel 35 in Madisonville, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKMR TV channel 38 in Morehead, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKON TV channel 52 in Owenton, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKSO TV channel 29 in Somerset, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 23 |
WKZT TV channel 23 in Elizabethtown, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 24 |
"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV |
Sep 24 |
"That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show |
Sep 24 |
NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack |
Sep 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Sep 26 |
1st broadcast of "Hawaii Five-O" on CBS-TV |
Sep 26 |
Marcelo Caetano elected premier of Portugal |
Sep 26 |
St Louis Cards' Bob Gibson's 13th shutout ends with 1.12 ERA |
Sep 26 |
Theatre censorship ends in Britain |
Sep 27 |
"Hair" opens in London |
Sep 27 |
Cardinals' super pitcher Bob Gibson's 13th shutout of year |
Sep 27 |
France denies UK entry into common market |
Sep 28 |
"Happy Time" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 286 performances |
Sep 28 |
"Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Barrymore NYC for 17 perfs |
Sep 28 |
Alberto Giolani of Italy roller skates record 23.133 miles in 1 hr |
Sep 28 |
Atlanta Chiefs beat San Diego Toros 3-0 for NASL championship |
Sep 28 |
Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
Sep 28 |
Chuck Hixson (Southern Methodist) completes 37 of record 69 passes |
Sep 28 |
Janis Joplin announces she's leaving "Big Brother & Holding Co" |
Sep 28 |
Marisa Danisi of West Germany roller skates record 21.995 miles in 1 hr |
Sep 29 |
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Sep 29 |
Carl Yastrzemski .3005 avg wins his 2nd straight batting crown |
Sep 29 |
Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts) |
Sep 30 |
1st Boeing 747 rolls out |
Sep 30 |
AL & NL umpires form a new Association of Major League Umpires |
Sep 30 |
Sharon Miller wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
Sep 30 |
Supremes release "Love Child" |
Oct 1 |
"Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh |
Oct 1 |
The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS). |
Oct 2 |
1st London performance of "Promises, Promises" presented |
Oct 2 |
Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts |
Oct 2 |
Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed |
Oct 2 |
Republic Guinea forms (day of republic) |
Oct 2 |
1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 |
Oct 3 |
Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope" premieres in NYC |
Oct 3 |
Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru |
Oct 3 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 3 |
The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister |
Oct 4 |
A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) delegation meet with the Derry March organisers and try to have the march cancelled; eventually it was decided to go ahead with the march. |
Oct 5 |
KPLM (now KESQ) TV channel 42 in Palm Springs, CA (ABC) begins |
Oct 5 |
Civil rights march in Derry is stopped by the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) before it had properly begun; clashes between RUC and protesters lead to two days of serious rioting-some consider this to be the beginning of 'the Troubles' in Northern Ireland |
Oct 7 |
Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system |
Oct 7 |
Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier |
Oct 8 |
Dutch aircraft carrier Karel Doorman (formerly Britsh HMS Venerable) sold to Argentina |
Oct 9 |
Government seizes oil fields in Peru |
Oct 9 |
WKMU TV channel 21 in Murray, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 9 |
About 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast tried to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality' on 5 October in Derry; the march was blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley and after the demonstration, a student civil rights group—People's Democracy—was formed |
Oct 10 |
Detroit Tigers beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 65th World Series |
Oct 10 |
George Harrison forms Singsong Ltd |
Oct 10 |
Lee Evans of US sets 400 metre record at 43.86 |
Oct 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 11 |
Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele & Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours |
Oct 11 |
Billy Martin named manager of Twins |
Oct 11 |
Panama revolts |
Oct 12 |
"Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Barrymore NYC after 17 perfs |
Oct 12 |
19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico |
Oct 12 |
Equatorial Guinea (Spanish Guinea) declares independence from Spain |
Oct 12 |
Norma Enriqueta Basilio Satelo is 1st woman to light Olympic flame |
Oct 13 |
Tinker Creek Gorge of Cleveland Metroparks is dedicated |
Oct 14 |
1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7) |
Oct 14 |
Beatles "White Album" completed |
Oct 14 |
Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas |
Oct 14 |
In NL expansion draft, Expos & Padres choose 30 players each |
Oct 14 |
J R Hines of US runs 100m in world record 9.95 sec |
Oct 14 |
A 6.8 earthquake wrecked the Australian town of Meckering, and also ruptured all major roads and railways nearby. |
Oct 14 |
The rebuilt Euston railway station in London is opened. |
Oct 15 |
AL expansion draft, KC pick Roger Nelson & Pilots pick Don Mincher 1st |
Oct 15 |
The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont |
Oct 16 |
China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji |
Oct 16 |
Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces |
Oct 16 |
During Olympics Tommie Smith & John Carlos give black power salute |
Oct 16 |
Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls |
Oct 16 |
Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period) |
Oct 16 |
The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland |
Oct 18 |
Bob Beamon of USA sets long jump record (29 ft. 2½ in.) in Mexico City |
Oct 18 |
Circus Circus opens in Las Vegas |
Oct 18 |
John Lennon & Yoko One fined £150 for marijuana possession |
Oct 18 |
Lee Evans sets world record of 43.8 seconds in 400 meter dash |
Oct 18 |
Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John & Yoko's apt |
Oct 18 |
US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony |
Oct 19 |
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars |
Oct 19 |
Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed on Oct 9, stage an illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign |
Oct 20 |
"Her 1st Roman" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 17 perfs |
Oct 20 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
Oct 20 |
Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4) |
Oct 22 |
Apollo 7 returns to Earth |
Oct 23 |
"Maggie Flynn" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 82 performances |
Oct 23 |
Kip Keino (Kenya) wins gold medal for 1,500m (3 min 34.9 sec) |
Oct 24 |
Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail |
Oct 24 |
The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Oct 25 |
Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler |
Oct 25 |
Longest Oly field hockey game, Hol beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT) |
Oct 25 |
Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby |
Oct 26 |
First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy |