Notable Historical Events - 1966
1966 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
12 day transit worker strike shuts down NYC subway |
Jan 1 |
Milt coup by Col Jean-Bédell Bokassa in Central African Republic |
Jan 1 |
Simon & Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 |
Jan 1 |
All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health" |
Jan 2 |
1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion |
Jan 2 |
Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game |
Jan 3 |
Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE |
Jan 4 |
Doug Walters scores second Test century in his second Test |
Jan 4 |
WFLD TV channel 32 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jan 7 |
Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts |
Jan 7 |
Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to become NWA champ |
Jan 8 |
Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
Jan 8 |
Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks |
Jan 8 |
Georges Pompidou re-appointed French Prime Minister and forms new government |
Jan 8 |
Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC |
Jan 9 |
Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism |
Jan 10 |
India & Pakistan sign peace accord |
Jan 10 |
Julian Bond denied seat in Ga legislature for opposing Vietnam War |
Jan 11 |
"Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV |
Jan 11 |
550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain |
Jan 12 |
"Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV |
Jan 12 |
12 day NYC transit strike ends |
Jan 12 |
LBJ says US should stay in S Vietnam until communist aggression ends |
Jan 12 |
Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics |
Jan 12 |
"Batman", starring Adam West as Batman, Burt Ward as Robin, and Cesar Romero as The Joker, debuts on ABC |
Jan 13 |
1st black selected for pres cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) |
Jan 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Jan 14 |
David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me) |
Jan 15 |
AFL Pro Bowl: All-Stars beats Buffalo 30-19 |
Jan 15 |
NFL Pro Bowl: East beats West 36-7 |
Jan 16 |
Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US |
Jan 16 |
Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center |
Jan 17 |
B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die |
Jan 17 |
Martin Luther King Jr. opens campaign in Chicago |
Jan 18 |
Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) |
Jan 19 |
Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister |
Jan 19 |
Neil Simons, Coleman & Fields' musical "Sweet Charity," premieres |
Jan 19 |
Tippetts cantate "Vision of St Augustine," premieres in London |
Jan 24 |
WDIO TV channel 10 in Duluth, MN (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jan 25 |
WCMC (now WMGM) TV channel 40 in Wildwood, NJ (NBC) 1st broadcast |
Jan 26 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:06.2) |
Jan 26 |
The Beaumont Children go missing from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia. |
Jan 27 |
Wisconsin State Circuit Court Judge Elmer W Roller rules either the Braves stay in Milwaukee or NL must promise Wisc an expansion team for 1966 |
Jan 29 |
"Sweet Charity" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 608 performances |
Jan 29 |
Lawry & Simpson complete 244 opening stand v England, Adelaide |
Jan 29 |
Snow storm in north east US kills 165 |
Jan 29 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
Jan 29 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
Jan 30 |
-19°F (-28°C), Corinth, Mississippi (state record) |
Jan 30 |
-27°F (-33°C), New Market, Alabama (state record) |
Jan 30 |
Ard Schenk skates world record 1500m (2:05.2) |
Jan 30 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 11th string quartet |
Jan 31 |
Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers |
Jan 31 |
USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
Feb 2 |
Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir dispute as number one item for the proposed Indo-Pak ministerial talks after 1965 war. |
Feb 3 |
1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched US |
Feb 3 |
1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
Feb 4 |
All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
Feb 5 |
BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
Feb 7 |
KWCM TV channel 10 in Appleton, MN (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 9 |
Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
Feb 10 |
Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
Feb 11 |
SF Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year |
Feb 13 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Feb 14 |
Australian currency is decimalised, and decimal currency postage stamps introduced |
Feb 14 |
Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points |
Feb 14 |
Writers Andrei Sinjavski & Joeij Daniel found guilty |
Feb 15 |
Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
Feb 16 |
Bob Cowper makes 307 v England at the MCG, 727 mins, 20 fours |
Feb 16 |
End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Aust WK |
Feb 16 |
France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
Feb 17 |
French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
Feb 20 |
Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR |
Feb 21 |
Indonesian president Sukarno dismisses General Nasution |
Feb 22 |
Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew |
Feb 23 |
Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government |
Feb 23 |
Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda |
Feb 24 |
Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana |
Feb 24 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Feb 25 |
Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad |
Feb 26 |
KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 27 |
Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB |
Feb 27 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova & Protopopov of URS |
Feb 27 |
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US |
Feb 27 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT |
Feb 28 |
Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes |
Feb 28 |
Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers |
Mar 1 |
Ba'ath-party takes power in Syria |
Mar 1 |
Venera 3 becomes 1st man-made object to impact on a planet (Venus) |
Mar 2 |
215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam |
Mar 3 |
Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al) |
Mar 3 |
James Goldman's "Lion in Winter," premieres in NYC |
Mar 3 |
Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee |
Mar 3 |
Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms |
Mar 3 |
Twister hits Jackson Miss; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die |
Mar 3 |
WRFT (now WVFT) TV channel 27 in Roanoke, VA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Mar 4 |
Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die |
Mar 4 |
John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" |
Mar 4 |
North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by BP |
Mar 5 |
75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die |
Mar 5 |
Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record |
Mar 5 |
Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec dir of Players' Association |
Mar 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 6 |
Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) |
Mar 7 |
"Wait A Minim!" opens at John Golden Theater NYC for 457 performances |
Mar 7 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 8 |
"Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances |
Mar 8 |
An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin |
Mar 8 |
Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
Mar 9 |
Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board |
Mar 10 |
5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires |
Mar 10 |
North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley |
Mar 11 |
Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out |
Mar 11 |
A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people. |
Mar 12 |
Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record |
Mar 12 |
Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins) |
Mar 12 |
Love's 1st album released "Love" |
Mar 12 |
Pioneer Plaza dedicated |
Mar 12 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 13 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational |
Mar 15 |
8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand |
Mar 15 |
Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles |
Mar 16 |
Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits |
Mar 16 |
Man From Uncle star David McCallum receives huge welcome in London |
Mar 17 |
South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund |
Mar 17 |
US sub locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean |
Mar 18 |
"Pousse Cafe" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 3 performances |
Mar 18 |
General Suharto forms government in Indonesia |
Mar 18 |
Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 |
Mar 19 |
"Pousse Cafe" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 3 performances |
Mar 19 |
28th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Texas Western beats Ky 72-65 |
Mar 19 |
Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins |
Mar 20 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA St Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
Mar 21 |
US preme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene |
Mar 23 |
1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church |
Mar 24 |
Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
Mar 25 |
US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional |
Mar 25 |
Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today" album, It is later pulled |
Mar 27 |
Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia |
Mar 27 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational |
Mar 29 |
"It's a Bird... It's Superman" opens at Alvin NYC for 129 perfs |
Mar 29 |
Muhammad Ali beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
Mar 30 |
Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS |
Mar 31 |
25,000 anti war demonstrators march in NYC |
Mar 31 |
Labour Party wins British parliamentary election |
Mar 31 |
USSR launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter |
Apr 1 |
1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) |
Apr 1 |
Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers |
Apr 2 |
Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon |
Apr 2 |
WJET TV channel 24 in Erie, PA (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Apr 3 |
Luna 10 orbits Moon |
Apr 3 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open |
Apr 3 |
Tom Seaver signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus |
Apr 4 |
Pirate Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland |
Apr 4 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Apr 5 |
WTVX TV channel 34 in Ft Pierce-Vero Beach, FL (IND) 1st broadcast |
Apr 6 |
Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka & India |
Apr 7 |
US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!) |
Apr 8 |
AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner |
Apr 8 |
Leonid Brezhnev elected secretary-general of communist party |
Apr 8 |
OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched |
Apr 9 |
Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens |
Apr 11 |
30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 |
Apr 11 |
Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire |
Apr 12 |
1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam |
Apr 12 |
Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2 |
Apr 12 |
Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck |
Apr 13 |
Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s |
Apr 15 |
KHET TV channel 11 in Honolulu, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 15 |
Rolling Stones release "Aftermath" |
Apr 16 |
Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain |
Apr 17 |
100th international soccer match between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1) |
Apr 17 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
Apr 18 |
Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics) |
Apr 19 |
In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chic |
Apr 19 |
70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11 |
Apr 19 |
Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon |
Apr 20 |
WDCA TV channel 20 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting |
Apr 21 |
Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica |
Apr 22 |
Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating NY Mets 8-4 |
Apr 22 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Apr 24 |
Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee) |
Apr 24 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
Apr 25 |
Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium |
Apr 26 |
Red Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach |
Apr 26 |
An earthquake of magnitude 7.5 destroys Tashkent, Uzbekistan |
Apr 27 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd cello concert |
Apr 28 |
20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
Apr 28 |
38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music", Julie Christie & Lee Marvin win |
Apr 28 |
Cleve ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day |
Apr 28 |
OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms |
May 1 |
Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) |
May 1 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
May 1 |
Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting |
May 1 |
US troops shooting targets in Cambodia |
May 2 |
Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days) |
May 3 |
WDHO (now WNWO) TV channel 24 in Toledo, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 4 |
Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR |
May 5 |
Borussia Dortmund wins 6th Europe Cup II |
May 5 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 |
May 5 |
Willie Mays hit his 512th HR |
May 6 |
Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin |
May 6 |
Most runs scored in 11th inning (9) Phils score 5 to beat Pirates 8-7 |
May 6 |
Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors Murders in England. |
May 7 |
92nd Kentucky Derby: Donald Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 2:02 |
May 7 |
Mamas & Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 |
May 7 |
Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene |
May 8 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
May 8 |
Last game at old Busch stadium, St Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF |
May 8 |
Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) |
May 9 |
1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) |
May 9 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
May 10 |
25°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in May |
May 11 |
Real Madrid wins 11th Europe Cup I |
May 12 |
St Louis' Busch Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 inns |
May 13 |
Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" |
May 13 |
US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
May 14 |
1st reported monitoring of pirate radio station WBBH (NJ) |
May 14 |
A Lover's Concerto by Mrs Miller hits #95 |
May 15 |
1st day of Sunday play in County Cricket, Essex v Somerset |
May 15 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Invitational |
May 15 |
South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die |
May 16 |
Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released |
May 16 |
National Welfare Rights Organization organizes |
May 16 |
Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating |
May 16 |
"May 16 Notification" released, Mao's offical justification for the Cultural Revolution |
May 17 |
KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
May 21 |
"Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82 |
May 21 |
"Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances |
May 21 |
92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4 |
May 21 |
Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97 |
May 21 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title |
May 21 |
A loyalist group calling itself the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) issued a statement declaring war on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) |
May 22 |
18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke & Mary Tyler Moore win |
May 22 |
Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Open |
May 23 |
The Beatles release "Paperback Writer" |
May 24 |
"Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances |
May 25 |
Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die |
May 26 |
Buddhist sets himself on fire at US consulate in Hué, South Vietnam |
May 26 |
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from UK |
May 27 |
55th German F-104 Starfighter crashes |
May 27 |
6 French fighters crash above Spain |
May 28 |
"Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 |
May 28 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad |
May 29 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies Golf Invitational |
May 30 |
300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Graham Hill wins (232.2 kph) |
May 30 |
US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon |
Jun 1 |
2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Rights |
Jun 1 |
George Harrison is impressed by Ravi Shankar's concert in London |
Jun 1 |
Joaquin Balaguer elected president of Dominican Republic |
Jun 1 |
Shortwave station Radio NY Worldwide changes calls from WRUL to WNYW |
Jun 2 |
US Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
Jun 3 |
European DX Council forms in Copenhagen (shortwave listeners) |
Jun 3 |
Gemini 9 launched; 7th US 2-man flight (Stafford & Cernan) |
Jun 4 |
"Batman & His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 |
Jun 4 |
-10] Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras |
Jun 4 |
98th Belmont: William Boland aboard Amberoid wins in 2:29.6 |
Jun 5 |
Cin Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
Jun 5 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational |
Jun 6 |
Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
Jun 6 |
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" |
Jun 6 |
NFL & AFL announce their merger |
Jun 6 |
Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
Jun 7 |
NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1 |
Jun 8 |
NFL & AFL announce plans to become NFC & AFC in 1970 |
Jun 8 |
Topeka, Kansas is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita Scale: the first to exceed US$100 million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed. |
Jun 9 |
5 Minnesota Twins (Rich Rollins, Zolio Versailes, Tony Oliva, Don Michner, & Harmon Killebrew) all homer in 7th inning to beat A's 9-4 |
Jun 10 |
Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK |
Jun 10 |
Beatles record "Rain" 1st to use reverse tapes |
Jun 10 |
Cleve Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0 |
Jun 10 |
Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF) |
Jun 10 |
Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday" |
Jun 11 |
"(I'm A) Road Runner" by Jr Walker & The All-Stars peaks at #20 |
Jun 11 |
"I Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3 |
Jun 11 |
"On A Clear Day You..." closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 280 perfs |
Jun 11 |
"Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 |
Jun 11 |
"Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 perfs |
Jun 11 |
"Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in UK |
Jun 11 |
French & German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
Jun 11 |
Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig (SF) |
Jun 12 |
Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan |
Jun 12 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Ladies Golf Invitational |
Jun 13 |
Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
Jun 14 |
Dutch police beat construction workers, 60 injured |
Jun 14 |
Miami beats St Petersburg (Florida State League) 4-3 in 29 innings longest uninterrupted game in organized baseball |
Jun 16 |
Rowan & Martin host The Dean Martin Show, Summer Series, on NBC-TV |
Jun 16 |
20th Tony Awards: Marat/Sade & Man of La Mancha win |
Jun 17 |
Peter Green joins John Mayall's Bluebreakers |
Jun 19 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
Jun 20 |
66th US Golf Open: Billy Casper shoots a 278 at Olympic CC in SF |
Jun 20 |
Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman |
Jun 21 |
Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam |
Jun 22 |
"Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens |
Jun 22 |
South African Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, is refused a passport and thus permission to attend an international church conference by the South African government |
Jun 24 |
Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die |
Jun 24 |
Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I |
Jun 25 |
Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks |
Jun 25 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 13th Symphony, premieres in Leningrad |
Jun 25 |
Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched |
Jun 26 |
"Time for Singing" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 41 perfs |
Jun 26 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
Jun 26 |
Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
Jun 27 |
1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV |
Jun 27 |
4th Mayor's Trophy Game; Yanks beat Mets 5-2 |
Jun 28 |
Ernie Terrel beats Doug Jones in 15 wba for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 29 |
In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time |
Jun 29 |
KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins |
Jun 29 |
US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities |
Jun 30 |
Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour |
Jun 30 |
Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa |
Jun 30 |
Richard Helms promoted from deputy director to 8th director of US Central Intelligence Agency |
Jun 30 |
Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, v WI Trent Bridge, wicketless |
Jun 30 |
Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA |
Jul 1 |
80th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: M Santana beats D Ralston (64 11-9 64) |
Jul 1 |
Construction crews begin tearing up Market St to build BART |
Jul 1 |
Explorer 33 launched |
Jul 1 |
Medicare goes into effect |
Jul 1 |
VVV soccer team forms in Venlo |
Jul 1 |
The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto. |
Jul 2 |
1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll |
Jul 2 |
73rd Wimbledon Women's Tennis Singles: Billie J King (Miss Moffat) beats Maria Bueno (63 36 61) |
Jul 3 |
21st US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Sandra Spuzich |
Jul 3 |
Brave pitcher Tony Cloninger, is 1st NL to hit 2 grand slams in a game |
Jul 3 |
Race riots in Omaha Nebraska |
Jul 4 |
Beatles attacked in Philippines after (unintentionally) insulting Imelda Marcos |
Jul 4 |
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act |
Jul 5 |
NYC transit fare rises from 15 cents to 20 cents |
Jul 5 |
National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting |
Jul 5 |
Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy |
Jul 6 |
Malawi becomes a republic, Dr Hastings Kamuzu Banda becomes president |
Jul 8 |
US airline strike (until Aug 19th) |
Jul 8 |
King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi. |
Jul 9 |
95th British Golf Open: Jack Nicklaus shoots 282 at Muirfield Gullane |
Jul 10 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
Jul 10 |
US launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon |
Jul 12 |
10.51" (26.70 cm) of rainfall, Sandusky Ohio (state record) |
Jul 12 |
37th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 2-1 in 10 at Busch Stad, St Louis |
Jul 12 |
All star MVP: Brooks Robinson (Balt Orioles) |
Jul 12 |
Race riot in Chicago |
Jul 12 |
US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia & Denver mints |
Jul 13 |
Richard Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago |
Jul 14 |
Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory |
Jul 16 |
"Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 perfs |
Jul 16 |
Number of banned persons in South Africa totals 936; the individuals are banned under various laws, most prominently the Suppression of Communism and Riotous Assembly Acts |
Jul 16 |
Nigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of European Economic Community |
Jul 17 |
"It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin NYC after 129 perfs |
Jul 17 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jul 17 |
Indians set club record by hitting 7 HR in 15-2 win over Detroit |
Jul 17 |
Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3) |
Jul 17 |
Pioneer 7 launched |
Jul 18 |
Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old |
Jul 18 |
Gemini 10 launched (John Young & Michael Collins) |
Jul 19 |
France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island |
Jul 19 |
Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland (race riot) |
Jul 21 |
Gemini X returns to Earth |
Jul 21 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 23 |
Cavern Club in Liverpool reopens |
Jul 23 |
John Pennel pole vaults record (5.34 m) |
Jul 23 |
Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" |
Jul 24 |
48th PGA Championship: Al Geiberger shoots a 280 at Firestone CC Akron |
Jul 24 |
Gloria Ehret/Judy Kimball wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
Jul 25 |
Brian Jones final perfomance as a Rolling Stone |
Jul 25 |
Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." |
Jul 25 |
Mao Zedong swims Yangtse River |
Jul 25 |
Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" |
Jul 25 |
Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame |
Jul 26 |
WRLH TV channel 31 in Lebanon, NH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 26 |
Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent. |
Jul 29 |
Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock NY |
Jul 29 |
Nigerians chief of staff Jakubu Gowon makes coup |
Jul 30 |
Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
Jul 30 |
England beats West Germany 4-2 for soccer's 8th World Cup in London |
Jul 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Supertest Ladies Golf Open |
Jul 30 |
US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam |
Jul 31 |
Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark |
Aug 1 |
Charles Whitman wounds 31 & kills 16 at University of Texas |
Aug 2 |
Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting |
Aug 3 |
South African government bans Beatle records |
Aug 5 |
33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000) |
Aug 5 |
Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title |
Aug 5 |
Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march |
Aug 5 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Aug 5 |
Beatles release "Revolver" album in US |
Aug 5 |
Beatles release single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" in UK |
Aug 6 |
Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
Aug 6 |
Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge in Europe) |
Aug 6 |
US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam |
Aug 7 |
Race riot in Lansing Michigan |
Aug 8 |
South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
Aug 10 |
1st lunar orbiter launched by US |
Aug 10 |
Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again |
Aug 11 |
Last Beatle concert tour of US begins |
Aug 14 |
1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon |
Aug 14 |
Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles |
Aug 14 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Aug 15 |
Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
Aug 17 |
Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
Aug 17 |
Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list |
Aug 19 |
Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed |
Aug 20 |
Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert |
Aug 21 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open |
Aug 22 |
Beatles arrive in NYC |
Aug 23 |
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon |
Aug 24 |
USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon |
Aug 26 |
Balt Orioles Roznovsky & B Powell are 4th to hit consecutive pinch HRs |
Aug 26 |
KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, NC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Aug 27 |
Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world |
Aug 27 |
Oakland Pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385 cons errorless streak |
Aug 27 |
Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois |
Aug 28 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic |
Aug 29 |
Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) |
Aug 29 |
Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk |
Aug 31 |
Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria) |
Sep 1 |
KIFW (now KTNL) TV channel 13 in Sitka, AK (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Ladies' World Series of Golf |
Sep 3 |
24th World SF Convention honors Gene Roddenberry |
Sep 3 |
Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" |
Sep 4 |
Houston Oilers holds Denver Broncos to no 1st downs winning 45-7 |
Sep 4 |
Jim Hogan wins Europe marathon (2:20:04.6) |
Sep 5 |
Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 |
Sep 5 |
WRLK TV channel 35 in Columbia, SC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 6 |
Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia |
Sep 7 |
KTNE TV channel 13 in Alliance, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 8 |
"Star Trek" premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 8 |
"That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV |
Sep 8 |
The Severn Bridge is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II |
Sep 9 |
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Sep 10 |
Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks |
Sep 10 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title |
Sep 10 |
Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) |
Sep 11 |
80th US Womens Tennis: M Esther Bueno-Fraiser beats N Richey (63 61) |
Sep 11 |
86th US Mens Tennis: Fred Stolle beats John Newcombe (46 12-10 63 64) |
Sep 11 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Sep 11 |
Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat |
Sep 11 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pacific Ladies' Golf Classic |
Sep 11 |
Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show |
Sep 12 |
"Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV |
Sep 12 |
Gemini XI (Charles Conrad & R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight |
Sep 12 |
KPNE TV channel 9 in North Platte, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 12 |
WCES TV channel 20 in Wrens, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 12 |
WUSF TV channel 16 in Tampa-St Petersburg, FL (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Sep 12 |
Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching |
Sep 13 |
Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa |
Sep 15 |
1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched |
Sep 15 |
Dutch political party (D'66) forms |
Sep 15 |
Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth |
Sep 15 |
U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation. |
Sep 16 |
Metropolitan Opera opens at NY's Lincoln Center |
Sep 17 |
Cleve pitchers set AL record striking out 19 batters in 1st 9 innings |
Sep 18 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Shirley Englehorn Golf Invitational |
Sep 19 |
Mike Burke named Yankees pres |
Sep 20 |
US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 |
Sep 21 |
5inches of rain falls on NYC |
Sep 21 |
Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi |
Sep 22 |
Edward Albee's "Delicate Balance" premieres in NYC |
Sep 22 |
KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 22 |
Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game |
Sep 22 |
Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant |
Sep 22 |
Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon |
Sep 24 |
-30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico |
Sep 24 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
Sep 25 |
12th LPGA Championship won by Gloria Ehret |
Sep 25 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 2nd Cello Concert premieres in Moscow |
Sep 25 |
Smallest Yankee stadium crowd, 413 see White Sox win 4-1 |
Sep 26 |
"Staten Island" 1st icebreaker to enter SF bay |
Sep 29 |
Bechuanaland gains independence from England, becomes Botswana |
Sep 29 |
Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season |
Sep 29 |
The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced. |
Sep 30 |
Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Sep 30 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 1 |
Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times" |
Oct 1 |
WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins |
Oct 1 |
West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9. |
Oct 2 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Oct 2 |
LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years |
Oct 3 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
Oct 4 |
Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism |
Oct 4 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
Oct 4 |
Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
Oct 6 |
Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout |
Oct 6 |
Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor |
Oct 6 |
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow. |
Oct 8 |
Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52) |
Oct 9 |
Balt Orioles sweep LA Dodgers, in 63rd World Series |
Oct 9 |
Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It" |
Oct 12 |
Jimi Hendrix Experience forms with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding & Mitch Mitchell |
Oct 13 |
173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam |
Oct 13 |
Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
Oct 14 |
175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
Oct 14 |
Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer |
Oct 15 |
Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" as "terribly obscene" |
Oct 15 |
LBJ signs a bill creating US Dept of Transportation |
Oct 15 |
Black Panther Party was created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. |
Oct 16 |
Joean Baez & 123 other anti-draft protestors arrested in Oakland |
Oct 18 |
"Apple Tree" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 463 performances |
Oct 19 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 19 |
Yardbird 1st US tour (NYC) |
Oct 19 |
Bobby Orr makes his NHL regular-season debut for the Boston Bruins against the Detroit Red Wings |
Oct 21 |
144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales |
Oct 22 |
USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
Oct 22 |
Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs Montreal Canadiens) |
Oct 23 |
Sandra Spuzich/Jack Rule wins Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Foursome Golf |
Oct 25 |
6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam |
Oct 26 |
First Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 |
Oct 26 |
US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die |
Oct 27 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Oct 27 |
UN deprives South Africa of Namibia |
Oct 27 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 28 |
Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour |
Oct 29 |
Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7°N 162°E |
Oct 29 |
National Organization of Women founded |
Oct 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies Golf Open |
Nov 1 |
Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created |
Nov 1 |
NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day) |
Nov 1 |
Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner |
Nov 1 |
William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km |
Nov 2 |
KHSD TV channel 11 in Lead, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 2 |
The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. |
Nov 4 |
Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 |
Nov 5 |
Brigham Young QB Virgil Carter sets NCAA record of 599 yards gained |
Nov 5 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 6 |
1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) |
Nov 6 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
Nov 6 |
Lunar Orbiter 2 launched |
Nov 7 |
Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah" premieres in NYC |
Nov 7 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
Nov 7 |
Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US |
Nov 8 |
Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate |
Nov 8 |
Frank Robinson selected AL MVP |
Nov 8 |
Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California |
Nov 8 |
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger |
Nov 9 |
John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London |
Nov 9 |
"Let's Sing Yiddish" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 perfs |
Nov 9 |
Oakland Coliseum Arena opens |
Nov 10 |
Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach) |
Nov 10 |
Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon |
Nov 11 |
Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight |
Nov 11 |
Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA) |
Nov 11 |
NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12. |
Nov 12 |
Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
Nov 12 |
Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record |
Nov 12 |
High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame |
Nov 13 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open |
Nov 14 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title |
Nov 15 |
Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth |
Nov 16 |
Dr Sam Sheppard freed by a jury after 9 years in jail |
Nov 16 |
Pirates outfielder Roberto Clemente is named NL MVP |
Nov 17 |
Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) |
Nov 18 |
Sandy Koufax announces his retirement due to arthritic left elbow |
Nov 18 |
US RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays |
Nov 18 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 19 |
Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
Nov 20 |
"Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1166 performances |
Nov 20 |
Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open |
Nov 20 |
Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times |
Nov 20 |
Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage |
Nov 21 |
Dutch government of Zijlstra forms |
Nov 22 |
32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB) |
Nov 23 |
Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 24 |
1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire) |
Nov 24 |
400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog |
Nov 24 |
The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sergeant Pepper" |
Nov 24 |
A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia. |
Nov 24 |
New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history. |
Nov 25 |
Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year |
Nov 25 |
Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club |
Nov 25 |
Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31) |
Nov 26 |
"Walking Happy" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 perfs |
Nov 26 |
1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France |
Nov 26 |
54th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeats Ottawa, 29-14 |
Nov 27 |
In highest-scoring NFL game, Wash Redskins defeat NY Giants 72-41 |
Nov 27 |
Uruguay adopts constitution |
Nov 28 |
Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared |
Nov 28 |
Dominican Republic adopts constitution |
Nov 29 |
SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor. |
Nov 29 |
1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101 |
Nov 30 |
Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day) |
Nov 30 |
Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland |
Dec 1 |
Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor |
Dec 1 |
Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Md to Boulder, Colo |
Dec 2 |
Love, Moby Grape & Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East |
Dec 3 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss |
Dec 4 |
KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 4 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies Golf Invitational |
Dec 5 |
"I Do! I Do!" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 561 performances |
Dec 6 |
Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
Dec 7 |
A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people. |
Dec 8 |
A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith |
Dec 8 |
US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
Dec 10 |
Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
Dec 10 |
Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken |
Dec 11 |
Al Nelson sets NFL record returning missed field goal, 100 yards |
Dec 12 |
US Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
Dec 13 |
1st US bombing of Hanoi |
Dec 13 |
1st battle for Bijlmer flats Amsterdam |
Dec 13 |
Test debut of Clive Lloyd, v India Bombay, 82 & 78 |
Dec 13 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 15 |
"Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances |
Dec 15 |
Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
Dec 15 |
John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
Dec 16 |
Beatles release "Everywhere it's Christmas" in UK |
Dec 16 |
Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK |
Dec 18 |
Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS |
Dec 18 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Dec 18 |
Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker. |
Dec 20 |
NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season |
Dec 20 |
Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels |
Dec 20 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Dec 21 |
USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
Dec 22 |
WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Dec 23 |
Britain's rock TV show "Ready Steady Go" last program |
Dec 24 |
"Joyful Noise" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 12 perfs |
Dec 24 |
Luna 13 lands on Moon |
Dec 24 |
USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 |
Dec 26 |
Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday |
Dec 26 |
Jimi Hendrix writes "Purple Haze" backstage at the Upper Cut Club |
Dec 27 |
"At the Drop of Another Hat" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 105 perfs |
Dec 28 |
13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass |
Dec 28 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Dec 28 |
55th Davis Cup: Australia beats India in Melbourne (4-1) |
Dec 29 |
Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Mass) |
Dec 30 |
The cult classic "One Million Years B.C.", starring Raquel Welch, is released |
Dec 31 |
Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks |
Dec 31 |
Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting |
Dec 31 |
Test Cricket debut of Bishen Singh Bedi, India v WI Calcutta, 2-92 |
Dec 31 |
Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks |
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