Notable Historical Events - 1969
1969 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 1 |
Jack Kent Cooke, owner of NHL's LA Kings, fines each player $100 for "NOT" arguing with the referee |
Jan 1 |
People's Democracy (PD) begin a 4-day march from Belfast across Northern Ireland to Derry, modeled on Martin Luther King's Selma to Montgomery march |
Jan 2 |
"Fig Leaves Are Falling" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 4 perfs |
Jan 2 |
"Soviet Sport" calls Emile Zatopek a public enemy |
Jan 2 |
Lorraine Hansberry's "To be Young, Gifted & Black," premieres in NYC |
Jan 2 |
Luis Ferré becomes the first statehooder Governor of Puerto Rico. |
Jan 2 |
Operation Barrier Reef begins in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam. |
Jan 3 |
John Lennon's "2 Virgins" album declared pornographic in NJ |
Jan 3 |
Rep Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress |
Jan 4 |
"Fig Leaves Are Falling" closes at Broadhurst NYC after 4 perfs |
Jan 4 |
France begins arms embargo against Israel |
Jan 4 |
A People's Democracy march between Belfast and Derry is repeatedly attacked by loyalists and off-duty police officers |
Jan 5 |
"Maggie Flynn" closes at ANTA Theater NYC after 82 performances |
Jan 5 |
Bollingen prize for poetry presented to John Berryman & Karl Shapiro |
Jan 5 |
Neville Williams' "Chronology of the Expanding World" completed |
Jan 5 |
USSR Venera 5 launched for 1st successful planet landing (Venus) |
Jan 6 |
Supremes release "I'm Livin' In Shame" |
Jan 6 |
WLIW TV channel 21 in Garden City, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Jan 7 |
US Congress doubles president salary |
Jan 9 |
First trial flight of Concorde supersonic jetliner, Bristol, England |
Jan 9 |
Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" single and its album "Revolver" in the US |
Jan 9 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill travels to London to meet British Home Secretary James Callaghan, to brief him on the growing violence in Northern Ireland |
Jan 10 |
Pirate Radio Station Free Derby begins operation by Northern Ireland |
Jan 10 |
Sweden (1st Western country) recognizes North Vietnam |
Jan 10 |
USSR's Venera 6 launched for parachute landing on Venus |
Jan 11 |
"Hooked on a Feeling" by BJ Thomas peaks at #5 |
Jan 11 |
Jethro Tull's This Was Jethro Tull album debuts |
Jan 12 |
"Golden Rainbow" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 355 performances |
Jan 12 |
Super Bowl III: NY Jets beat Balt Colts, 16-7 in Miami Super Bowl MVP: Joe Namath, NY Jets, QB |
Jan 14 |
25 members of US aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers |
Jan 14 |
Soyuz 4 launched; rendezvous with Soyuz 5 two days later |
Jan 14 |
An explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people. |
Jan 15 |
Nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
Jan 15 |
Soyuz 5 launched by Soviet Union |
Jan 15 |
Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence O'Neill announce the setting up of an official inquiry into the disturbances in Derry and elsewhere |
Jan 16 |
Soviet Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space |
Jan 17 |
Debut album of Led Zeppelin released in US |
Jan 17 |
Soyuz 5 lands |
Jan 18 |
Expanded 4 party Vietnam peace talks began in Paris |
Jan 19 |
AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 38-25 |
Jan 19 |
Joanne Carner wins LPGA Burdine's Golf Invitational |
Jan 19 |
NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 10-7 |
Jan 20 |
Richard M Nixon inaugurated as president |
Jan 20 |
U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula) |
Jan 21 |
22nd NHL All-Star Game: West beat East 3-3 at Montreal |
Jan 22 |
"Celebration" opens at Ambassador Theater NYC for 110 performances |
Jan 22 |
Orbiting Solar Observatory 5 launched into earth orbit |
Jan 22 |
Roy Campanella & Stan Musial elected to baseball Hall of Fame |
Jan 23 |
Cream releases their last album "Goodbye" |
Jan 24 |
Queen Juliana of the Netherlands appointed honorary citizen of Addis Ababa |
Jan 24 |
Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency |
Jan 24 |
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Brian Faulkner resigns from the Northern Ireland cabinet in protest at the policies of Prime Minister Terence O'Neill and the lack of 'strong government' |
Jan 25 |
US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris |
Jan 26 |
"Red, White, & Maddox" opens at Cort Theater NYC for 41 performances |
Jan 26 |
Minister of Health and Social Services William Morgan resigns from the Northern Ireland government |
Jan 27 |
14 spies hanged in Baghdad |
Jan 27 |
9 Jews publically executed in Damascus Syria |
Jan 27 |
Actress Thelma Ritter suffers a heart attack (she dies Feb 5th) |
Jan 27 |
Ian Paisley sentenced to 3 years |
Jan 27 |
Chuck Noll is named head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers (the youngest coach in NFL history at the time) |
Jan 28 |
2nd ABA All-Star Game: West 133 beats East 127 at Louisville |
Jan 28 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win in North America |
Jan 29 |
Jimi Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars |
Jan 29 |
Sheahan & Connolly hang on for exciting draw Australia v West Indies |
Jan 30 |
US/Canada ISIS 1 launched to study ionosphere |
Jan 30 |
Beatles perform last live gig, a 42-min concert on roof of Apple HQ, London |
Jan 31 |
Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA |
Feb 1 |
Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself in concert |
Feb 1 |
US female Figure Skating championship won by Janet Lynn |
Feb 1 |
US male Figure Skating championship won by Tim Wood |
Feb 1 |
WPGH TV channel 53 in Pittsburgh, PA (IND) begins broadcasting |
Feb 2 |
KMST TV channel 46 in Monterey-Salinas, CA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
Feb 2 |
Stan Coveleski & Waite Hoyt are voted into baseball Hall of Fame |
Feb 3 |
"Canterbury Tales" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC for 122 perfs |
Feb 3 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill announces the dissolution of the Stormont parliament and the holding of an election on 24 February 1969 |
Feb 4 |
The Palestine National Congress appoints Yasser Arafat chairman of the PLO |
Feb 4 |
41,163, then largest NBA crowd, watches doubleheader Cin-Det, SD-Bost |
Feb 4 |
Beatles appoint Eastman & Eastman, as general cousel to Apple |
Feb 4 |
John Madden is named head coach of NFL's Oakland Raiders |
Feb 4 |
Lonnie Elder's "Ceremonies in Dark Old Men," premieres in NYC |
Feb 5 |
"Turn-On," debuts & cancelled by ABC after flopping so badly |
Feb 5 |
US population reaches 200 million |
Feb 5 |
Vince Lombardi, becomes part owner, vp, gm & head coach of Redskins |
Feb 6 |
"Dear World" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 132 performances |
Feb 6 |
Jerry Herman's "Dear World," premieres in NYC |
Feb 6 |
The New Ulster Movement is formed to promote moderate and non-sectarian policies and to assist those candidates who supported Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
Feb 7 |
"This Is Tom Jones," debuts on ABC TV |
Feb 7 |
Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO |
Feb 7 |
Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah) |
Feb 7 |
The original Hetch Hetchy Moccasin Powerhouse is removed from service. |
Feb 8 |
Last edition of Saturday Evening Post |
Feb 8 |
Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico |
Feb 9 |
Boeing 747 made its 1st commercial flight |
Feb 9 |
KGTO TV channel 36 in Fayetteville, AR (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Feb 10 |
LSU Pete Maravich scores 66, despite losing to Tulane 101-94 |
Feb 11 |
Diana Crump becomes 1st US woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah |
Feb 11 |
Dorey Funk Jr beats Gene Kiniski in Tampa, to become NWA champ |
Feb 13 |
Mary Hopkin's Postcard album on Apple is released |
Feb 13 |
Suriname government of Pengel resigns |
Feb 17 |
Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released. |
Feb 17 |
Golda Meir sworn in as the first female prime minister of Israel |
Feb 18 |
Doug Walters scores 2nd innings century after 242 in 1st |
Feb 18 |
PLO-attack El-Al plane in Zurich Switzerland |
Feb 19 |
1st Test flight of Boeing 747 jumbo jet |
Feb 21 |
1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes) |
Feb 21 |
Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators |
Feb 22 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track |
Feb 23 |
Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine |
Feb 23 |
WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Feb 24 |
Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby |
Feb 24 |
Northern Ireland Stormont parliament election held leading to fragmentation of the Unionist party into 'Official Unionist' and 'Unofficial Unionist' |
Feb 25 |
Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album |
Feb 25 |
Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars |
Feb 25 |
Pension plan for baseball is agreed to |
Feb 25 |
Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet. |
Feb 27 |
Gen Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via milt coup |
Feb 27 |
President Nixon visits West-Berlin |
Feb 28 |
Ice Dance Championship at Colorado Spr won by Towler & Ford of GBR |
Feb 28 |
Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Spr won by Rodnina & Ulanov of URS |
Feb 28 |
Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Colo Spr won by Gabriele Seyfert GDR |
Feb 28 |
Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Springs won by Tim Wood USA |
Feb 28 |
Terence O'Neill re-elected as leader of the Unionist Parliamentary Party and thus confirmed as Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
Mar 1 |
"Red, White, & Maddox" closes at Cort Theater NYC after 41 perfs |
Mar 1 |
After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts |
Mar 1 |
Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium |
Mar 1 |
NY Yankees' Mickey Mantle retires |
Mar 1 |
Pirate Radio 259 begins operation off the French coast |
Mar 2 |
1st test flight of the supersonic Concorde |
Mar 2 |
Chinese-Russian borders fight (approx 70 die) |
Mar 2 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 14th Symphony |
Mar 2 |
Phil Esposito becomes 1st NHL Player to score 100 points in a season |
Mar 3 |
Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) |
Mar 4 |
The Kray brothers, Ronald and Reginald, London East End gang bosses, are found guilty of murder. Both will die in captivity. |
Mar 5 |
Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris |
Mar 5 |
Gustav Heinemann elected president of West Germany |
Mar 5 |
Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw" premieres in London |
Mar 7 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Mar 10 |
James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr |
Mar 12 |
11th Grammy Awards: Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins |
Mar 12 |
120 cannabis joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home |
Mar 13 |
Apollo 9 returns to Earth |
Mar 14 |
Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct |
Mar 14 |
Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ |
Mar 15 |
US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns |
Mar 15 |
Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead |
Mar 16 |
"1776" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances |
Mar 16 |
Boston Bruins scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period |
Mar 16 |
Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres in NYC |
Mar 16 |
Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155 |
Mar 17 |
Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM |
Mar 17 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Open |
Mar 18 |
"Come Summer" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 7 performances |
Mar 19 |
British invade Anguilla |
Mar 19 |
Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention |
Mar 19 |
The 385 metre tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build- up. |
Mar 20 |
Abebe Bikila's auto-accident, near Addis Ababa |
Mar 20 |
US president Nixon proclaims he will end Vietnam war in 1970 |
Mar 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Mar 22 |
"Billy" opens & closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 1 performance |
Mar 22 |
"Come Summer" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 7 performances |
Mar 22 |
31st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Purdue 92-72 UCLA wins its 5th national championship in 6 years |
Mar 23 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Charlotte Golf Invitational |
Mar 23 |
Rally for Decency (Miami) |
Mar 25 |
Andes Pact signed in Peru |
Mar 25 |
John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam) |
Mar 25 |
Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres |
Mar 25 |
Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organising an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968 |
Mar 26 |
Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV |
Mar 26 |
Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use |
Mar 26 |
Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched |
Mar 27 |
Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston |
Mar 27 |
Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars |
Mar 28 |
Pope Paul VI names JGM Willebrands cardinal |
Mar 28 |
Greek poet and Nobel Prize laureate Giorgos Seferis makes a famous statement on the BBC World Service opposing the junta in Greece. |
Mar 29 |
Communist New People's Army found in Philippines |
Mar 30 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational |
Mar 30 |
Loyalists bomb water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland in the hope that the attacks would be blamed on the IRA and on elements of the civil rights movement, which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics |
Mar 31 |
George Harrison & Patti Boyd are fined £250 each for illegal drugs |
Apr 1 |
Royal Canadian Mint formally forms as a Crown Corporation |
Apr 1 |
Seattle Pilots trade minor league outfielder Lou Piniella to Royals |
Apr 1 |
The Hawker Siddeley Harrier (vertical take-off fighter) enters service with the RAF. |
Apr 2 |
Milwaukee Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) |
Apr 3 |
Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. |
Apr 4 |
Denton Cooley gets 1st temporary artificial heart |
Apr 5 |
Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities. |
Apr 7 |
Dodgers' Bill Singer is credited with 1st official save, against Reds |
Apr 7 |
Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material |
Apr 7 |
Ted Williams begins managing Wash Senators, they lose to Yanks 8-4 |
Apr 7 |
The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1. |
Apr 8 |
1st Baseball game in Canada - Mont Expos beats NY Mets 10-9 |
Apr 8 |
Expansion teams Royals, Expos, Padres & Pilots win their 1st games |
Apr 9 |
1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol) |
Apr 9 |
Chic Cub Billy Williams hits 4 consecutive doubles beat Phillies 11-3 |
Apr 12 |
Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer" |
Apr 13 |
33rd Golf Masters Championship: George Archer wins, shooting a 281 |
Apr 13 |
Closure of the Brisbane tramway network. |
Apr 14 |
1st major league baseball game outside US played (Montreal Canada) |
Apr 14 |
41st Academy Awards - "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn/Barbara Striesand win |
Apr 14 |
KEET TV channel 13 in Eureka, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Apr 14 |
Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College |
Apr 14 |
Tornado strikes Dacca East Pakistan killing 540 |
Apr 15 |
North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea |
Apr 17 |
People's Democracy activist Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected to Westminster at 21 years old |
Apr 17 |
Alexander Dubček forced to resign as first secretary of Czechoslovakia's Communist Party |
Apr 17 |
Mont Expos Bill Stoneman no-hits Phillies, 7-0 |
Apr 17 |
Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy |
Apr 17 |
The Band (formerly The Hawks), perform their 1st concert |
Apr 18 |
Melina Mercouri establishes Greek Aid Fund |
Apr 19 |
Serious rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes between Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association marchers and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary |
Apr 20 |
23rd Tony Awards: Great White Hope & 1776 win |
Apr 20 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Apr 20 |
Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh |
Apr 21 |
73rd Boston Marathon won by Yoshiaki Unetani of Japan in 2:13:49 |
Apr 21 |
The Ministry of Defence in London announces that British troops would be used in Northern Ireland to guard key public installations following a series of bombings |
Apr 22 |
1st human eye transplant performed |
Apr 22 |
Joe Frazier KOs Dave Zyglewick in 1 for heavyweight boxing title |
Apr 22 |
Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 day non-stop sailing |
Apr 22 |
Bernadette Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in Northern Ireland |
Apr 23 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Jim Chestney |
Apr 23 |
LA Laker Jerry West scores 53 points |
Apr 23 |
Over 1000 square miles flooded in Shantung Province China |
Apr 23 |
Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for killing Bobby Kennedy |
Apr 23 |
The Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights movement |
Apr 24 |
Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded |
Apr 24 |
Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians |
Apr 24 |
Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead |
Apr 24 |
US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary |
Apr 24 |
Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal |
Apr 24 |
Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland |
Apr 25 |
5,400th & last episode of BBC Radio serial "The Dales" (formerly "Mrs Dale's Diary" ) |
Apr 26 |
"Celebration" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 110 performances |
Apr 26 |
"George M!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 435 performances |
Apr 26 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament (Mercury Open) won by Jim Godman |
Apr 27 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
Apr 28 |
Charles de Gaulle resigns as president of France |
Apr 28 |
King Crismson with Greg Lake & Ian McDonald debuts |
Apr 28 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill resigns and is replaced later by James Chichester-Clark. |
Apr 29 |
"Trumpets of the Lord" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 7 perfs |
Apr 30 |
Cin Red Jim Maloney 3rd no-hitter beats Houston Astros, 10-0 |
Apr 30 |
WEDB TV channel 40 in Berlin, NH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
May 1 |
43 Unification church couples wed in NYC |
May 1 |
Houston Don Wilson 2nd no-hitter beats Cin Reds, 4-0 |
May 1 |
Leonard Tose buys NFL Philadelphia Eagles for $16,155,000 |
May 1 |
Pirate Radio Station 259 (England/France) begins transmitting |
May 1 |
James Chichester-Clark is elected as leader of the Unionist party, succeededing Terence O'Neill as the Northern Ireland Prime Minister |
May 2 |
British liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY |
May 3 |
"Trumpets of the Lord" closes at Brooks Atkinson NYC after 7 perfs |
May 3 |
95th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack on Majestic Prince wins in 2:01.8 |
May 4 |
Charles Gordone's "No Place to be Somebody" premieres in NYC |
May 4 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Shreveport Kiwanis Club Golf Invitational |
May 4 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens sweep St Louis Blues in 4 games |
May 5 |
23rd NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
May 5 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) |
May 6 |
Northern Ireland Prime Minister Chichester-Clark announces an amnesty for all offences associated with demonstrations since 5 October 1968, resulting in the release of, among others, Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting |
May 7 |
2nd ABA championship: Oakland Oaks beat Indiana Pacers, 4 games to 1 |
May 7 |
Lt General Robert E Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA |
May 8 |
Cambodia recognizes German DR |
May 8 |
Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation |
May 9 |
BPAA All-Star Bowling Tournament won by Billy Hardwick |
May 9 |
Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist holds a 'victory' meeting |
May 10 |
Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space |
May 10 |
Turtles play White House, Mark Volman falls off stage 5 times |
May 10 |
US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam |
May 10 |
In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children" |
May 11 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
May 11 |
Monty Python comedy troupe forms |
May 12 |
Kenneth H Wallis achieved record speed for an autogiro-179 KPH |
May 13 |
Race riots, later known as the May 13 Incident, take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. |
May 14 |
Abortion & contraception legalized in Canada |
May 14 |
Last Chevrolet Corsair built |
May 15 |
Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court |
May 16 |
Barbra Streisand appears at a Friars Club Tribute |
May 16 |
Students occupies Magden House Amsterdam |
May 16 |
US nuclear sub Guitarro sinks off SF |
May 16 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
May 16 |
Venera 5 lands on Venus, returns data on atmosphere |
May 16 |
Who's Pete Townsend & Roger Daltrey charged with assault |
May 17 |
"My Wife, My Dog, My Cat" by Maskman & The Agents hits #92 |
May 17 |
95th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Majestic Prince wins in 1:55.6 |
May 17 |
Balt, Cleve & Pitts agree to go from NFC to AFC in NFL |
May 17 |
Russian probe Venera 6 landed on Venus |
May 18 |
"Canterbury Tales" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 122 perfs |
May 18 |
Apollo 10 (Stafford/Cernan/Young) launched toward lunar orbit |
May 18 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA St Louis Women's Golf Invitational |
May 20 |
US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam |
May 21 |
Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet |
May 21 |
Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel |
May 21 |
After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets |
May 21 |
Civil unrest in Rosario, Argentina, aka Rosariazo, following the death of a 15-year-old student. |
May 22 |
Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 mi(15km) above lunar surface |
May 23 |
BBC orders 13 episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus |
May 23 |
Lauwerszee Dike in Holland closes |
May 23 |
Who release rock opera "Tommy" |
May 24 |
Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
May 25 |
"Midnight Cowboy" released with an X rating |
May 25 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
May 25 |
Sudanese government is overthrown in a military coup |
May 26 |
Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth |
May 26 |
John & Yoko begin their 2nd bed-in (Queen Elizabeth Hotel, Montreal) |
May 27 |
Jerry Lewis Show second run, last airs on NBC-TV |
May 27 |
Walt Disney World construction begins |
May 28 |
AC Milan wins 14th Europe Cup 1 in Madrid |
May 29 |
Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice |
May 29 |
General strike in Cordoba, Argentina, leading to the Cordobazo civil unrest. |
May 30 |
Derek Clayton runs world record marathon (2:08:33.6) at Antwerp |
May 30 |
Gibraltar adopts constitution |
May 30 |
People revolt in Willemstad, Curacao |
May 30 |
Riots on the Caribbean island of Curaçao |
May 30 |
Indianapolis 500: Mario Andretti wins in 3:11:14.689 (252.453 km/h) |
May 31 |
"Dear World" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 132 perfs |
May 31 |
"Gitarzan" by Ray Stevens peaks at #8 |
May 31 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance" |
May 31 |
Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore" |
Jun 1 |
Tobacco advertising is banned on Canadian radio & TV |
Jun 2 |
Australian aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne slices US destroyer USS Frank E Evans in half, killing 74 (South Vietnam) |
Jun 2 |
Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA O'Sullivan Ladies Golf Open |
Jun 3 |
Last episode of Star Trek airs on NBC (Turnabout Intruder) |
Jun 4 |
Beatles release Ballad Of John & Yoko/Old Brown Shoe, in US |
Jun 4 |
Nicky Hopkins quits rock & rolls, Jeff Beck Group |
Jun 4 |
22-year-old man sneaks into wheel pod of a jet parked in Havana & survives 9-hr flight to Spain despite thin oxygen levels at 29,000 ft |
Jun 5 |
Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns |
Jun 5 |
Race riot in Hartford, Connecticut |
Jun 5 |
The International communist conference begins in Moscow. |
Jun 6 |
Joe Namath resigns from NFL after Pete Rozelle, football commissioner, said he must sell his stake in a bar |
Jun 7 |
"Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV |
Jun 7 |
101st Belmont: Braulio Baeza aboard Arts & Letters wins in 2:28.8 |
Jun 7 |
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Jun 7 |
Tommy James & Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion" |
Jun 7 |
Wash Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1 |
Jun 8 |
"Smothers Brothers comedy Hour" last airs on CBS-TV |
Jun 8 |
21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams & Susan St James win |
Jun 8 |
Brian Jones leaves The Rolling Stones |
Jun 8 |
General Franco closes Spain's frontier with Gibraltar |
Jun 8 |
KDNL TV channel 30 in Saint Louis, MO (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jun 8 |
Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 saw #7 retired (I was there-BTG) |
Jun 8 |
Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August |
Jun 8 |
Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor replaces Brian Jones |
Jun 8 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jun 9 |
Brian Jones quits (sic) Rolling Stones because of his drug problems |
Jun 9 |
Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice |
Jun 11 |
"The Ballad Of John & Yoko" by The Beatles hit #1 in UK |
Jun 11 |
David Bowie releases "Space Oddity" |
Jun 13 |
Mick Taylor leaves John Mayall Band & joins Rolling Stones |
Jun 14 |
John & Yoko appear on David Frost's British TV Show |
Jun 14 |
Oakland As' Reggie Jackson gets 10 RBIs to beat Red Sox 21-7 |
Jun 15 |
"Hee Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV |
Jun 15 |
69th US Golf Open: Orville Moody shoots a 281 at Champs GC in Houston |
Jun 15 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Patty Berg Golf Classic |
Jun 15 |
Mets help their power needs by adding 1st baseman Donn Clendenon |
Jun 15 |
The Campaign for Social Justice publish a second edition of 'Northern Ireland The Plain Truth' which set out the allegations of discrimination against Catholics by Unionists in the region |
Jun 16 |
Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House |
Jun 17 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" opens in NYC (almost entirely in the nude) |
Jun 18 |
A report published by the International Commission of Jurists on the British government's policy in Northern Ireland is critical of both the British government and the Northern Ireland government |
Jun 19 |
State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances |
Jun 20 |
150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear |
Jun 20 |
Georges Pompidou sworn in as President of France |
Jun 20 |
White Rhodesia agrees to race separation |
Jun 21 |
1st reported hearing of pirate radio WGHP (With God's Help Peace) |
Jun 21 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's 14th Symphony, premieres in Moscow |
Jun 21 |
John Pennel pole vaults world record (5.45 m) |
Jun 21 |
Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525" |
Jun 22 |
Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance |
Jun 22 |
Cleveland's Cuyahgo River catches fire |
Jun 22 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Pabst Ladies' Golf Classic |
Jun 22 |
The Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) stage a protest by blocking the Lecky Road in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland |
Jun 23 |
French government of Couve de Murville resigns |
Jun 23 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Jerry Quarry in 8 for heavyweight boxing title |
Jun 23 |
Warren E Burger sworn in as US Supreme Court Chief Justice |
Jun 23 |
Twenty-four Africans from the Graaff-Reinet district appeared in the Grahamstown Supreme Court on charges under the Sabotage Act; it is alleged that they had conspired or incited others to kill White people or police in the Graaff-Reinet district in the Cape Province |
Jun 25 |
Pancho Gonzalez beats Charles Pasarell in 112 game (5hr12m) marathon |
Jun 27 |
50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival |
Jun 27 |
Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match |
Jun 27 |
Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days |
Jun 28 |
John Hampshire scores 107 on Test cricket debut v WI at Lord's |
Jun 28 |
Stonewall riots begin in New York City. |
Jun 29 |
1st Jewish worship service at White House |
Jun 29 |
24th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Donna Caponi Young |
Jun 29 |
On Billy Williams Day in Chicago, the Cubs outfielder passes Stan Musial's NL record for consecutive games played (896) |
Jun 30 |
Derek Clayton of Australia sets Marathon record at 2:08:34 |
Jun 30 |
Spain cedes Ifni to Morocco |
Jun 30 |
In South Africa, General Laws Amendment Bill is passed; the Bill contains far-reaching provisions and restrictions affecting the administration of justice and the disclosure of evidence |
Jul 1 |
Charles Philip Arthur George invested as Prince of Wales |
Jul 1 |
John Lennon & Yoko Ono are admitted to hospital after a car crash |
Jul 1 |
Shelby Singleton buys Sun Records from Sam Phillips |
Jul 2 |
Ireland bowl out West Indies for 25 at Londonderry, win by 9 wkts |
Jul 2 |
Leslie West & Felix Pappalardi form rock group Mountain |
Jul 3 |
78,000 attend Newport Jazz Festival, Newport, RI |
Jul 4 |
"Give Peace a Chance" by Plastic Ono Band is released in UK |
Jul 4 |
140,000 attend Atlanta Pop Festival featuring Led Zep & Janis Joplin |
Jul 4 |
76th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Ann Jones beats Billie J King (36 63 62) |
Jul 4 |
Italian Rumor government resigns |
Jul 4 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 4 |
The Ohio Fireworks Derecho kills 18 Ohioans and destroys over 100 boats on Lake Erie. |
Jul 5 |
83rd Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Rod Laver beats J Newcombe (64 57 64 64) |
Jul 5 |
Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park |
Jul 6 |
Filming begins on "Ned Kelly" starring Mick Jagger |
Jul 6 |
Frente Obrero y Liberacion (FOL) forms in Curacao |
Jul 7 |
Canada's House of Commons approves equality of French-English lang |
Jul 7 |
German newspaper Der Spiegel reveals Bishop Defregger of Munich is a war criminal |
Jul 8 |
US troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam |
Jul 8 |
IBM CICS is made generally available for the 360 mainframe computer. |
Jul 9 |
Tom Seaver's no-hit bid against Cubs ends with 1 out in 9th |
Jul 10 |
Chilean Association of Librarians created |
Jul 11 |
David Bowie releases "Space Oddity" |
Jul 11 |
Rolling Stones release "Honky Tonk Woman" |
Jul 12 |
98th British Golf Open: Tony Jacklin shoots a 280 at Royal Lytham |
Jul 12 |
As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes |
Jul 13 |
Russia launches unmanned Luna 15 to Moon |
Jul 13 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Ladies' Supertest Golf Open |
Jul 13 |
North Ireland loyalist Ian Paisley addresses a crowd at Loughgall, County Antrim, and is reported to have said: "I am anti-Roman Catholic, but God being my judge, I love the poor dupes who are ground down under that system." |
Jul 14 |
"Futbol War" between El Salvador & Honduras begins |
Jul 14 |
Soccer war - Salvador-Honduras (1000 dead) |
Jul 14 |
WMUL (now WPBY) TV channel 33 in Huntington, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast |
Jul 14 |
The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation. |
Jul 14 |
A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles' |
Jul 14 |
Francis McCloskey, a Catholic civilian, dies one day after being hit on the head with a baton by an officer of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) during street disturbances in Dungiven, County Derry |
Jul 15 |
Cincinnati Red Lee May hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader |
Jul 15 |
Rod Carew ties record with his 7th steal of home in a season |
Jul 16 |
Apollo 11, carrying 1st men to land on Moon, launched |
Jul 18 |
Joe Namath agrees to sell interest in Bachelors 3, to stay in NFL |
Jul 19 |
Apollo 11 goes into Moon orbit |
Jul 20 |
1st men on the Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. from Apollo 11 |
Jul 20 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Danbury Lady Carling Golf Open |
Jul 20 |
Eddy Merckx wins Tour de France |
Jul 21 |
Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM (GMT) |
Jul 21 |
Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits |
Jul 22 |
Aretha Franklin arrested for disturbing the peace in Detroit |
Jul 22 |
USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite |
Jul 23 |
40th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 9-3 at RFK Memorial, Wash DC |
Jul 23 |
All star MVP: Willie McCovey (SF Giants) |
Jul 23 |
USSR performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Jul 24 |
Apollo 11 returns to Earth |
Jul 24 |
Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game |
Jul 24 |
Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal |
Jul 25 |
1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY) |
Jul 25 |
70,000 attend Seattle Pop Festival |
Jul 25 |
Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne |
Jul 26 |
Sharon Sites Adams, 39, becomes 1st lady to solo sail the Pacific |
Jul 27 |
15th LPGA Championship won by Betsy Rawls |
Jul 27 |
Pioneer 10 launched |
Jul 29 |
Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars |
Jul 30 |
Astros Denis Menke & Jim Wynn hit grandslams in 9th inn vs Mets |
Jul 30 |
Barbra Streisand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas |
Jul 30 |
KAEC TV channel 19 in Lufkin, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Jul 30 |
Mariner 6 passes Venus on 3410 km (74 photos) |
Jul 31 |
KWIH TV channel 44 in Winona, MN (IND) begins broadcasting |
Jul 31 |
Mariner 6 flies past Mars |
Jul 31 |
National Guard mobilizes in racial disturbances in Baton Rouge, La |
Aug 1 |
110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival |
Aug 1 |
36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: NY Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) |
Aug 1 |
Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars |
Aug 2 |
Bob Dylan makes surprise appearance at Hibbing HS Minn 10th reunion |
Aug 2 |
US President Richard Nixon visits Romania |
Aug 3 |
Reds beats Phillies 19-17 |
Aug 3 |
Sandra Spuzich wins LPGA Buckeye Savings Golf Invitational |
Aug 4 |
Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a HR outside of Dodger Stadium |
Aug 5 |
Mariner 7 flies past Mars |
Aug 5 |
Pirate Willie Stargell is 1st to hit a ball out of Dodger Stadium |
Aug 5 |
The UVF plant their first bomb in the Republic of Ireland, damaging the RTÉ Television Centre in Dublin |
Aug 6 |
Balt Orioles pull their 3rd triple play (5-4-3 vs KC Royals) |
Aug 9 |
"Zorba" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 305 performances |
Aug 9 |
Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders |
Aug 10 |
Don Sutton breaks his 13-game losing streak to Cubs with a 4-2 win |
Aug 10 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Stroh's-WBLY Golf Open |
Aug 11 |
Don Drysdale retires because of damage to his right shoulder |
Aug 11 |
Pittsburgh Steelers beat NY Giants 17-13 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
Aug 12 |
Boston Celtics sold for an NBA record $6 million |
Aug 12 |
Battle of the Bogside: RUC officers, backed by loyalists, entered the nationalist Bogside in armoured cars and tried to suppress the riot by using CS gas, water cannon and eventually firearms; the almost continuous rioting lasted for two days |
Aug 13 |
Balt Oriole Jim Palmer no-hits Oakland A's, 8-0 |
Aug 13 |
Temp Commissioner Bowie Kuhn elected for 7-year term by unanimous vote |
Aug 14 |
British troops intervene militarily in Northern Ireland |
Aug 14 |
NY Mets fall 9½ games back, later to win pennant |
Aug 14 |
In response to events in Derry, Irish nationalists hold protests throughout Northern Ireland, some of these became violent |
Aug 14 |
The British Army deployed on the streets of Northern Ireland, marking the beginning of Operation Banner |
Aug 15 |
Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in NY State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm) |
Aug 16 |
WATL TV channel 36 in Atlanta, GA begins broadcasting |
Aug 16 |
Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY |
Aug 17 |
Hurricane Camille strikes US coastline and kills 259 people (mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana) |
Aug 17 |
51st PGA Championship: Ray Floyd shoots a 276 at NCR GC Dayton Ohio |
Aug 17 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Southgate Ladies' Golf Open |
Aug 17 |
NY Jets beat NY Giants 37-14 in their 1st meeting (pre season) |
Aug 18 |
Mick Jagger accidentally shot while filming "Ned Kelly" |
Aug 18 |
Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act |
Aug 19 |
Chicago Cub Ken Holtzman no-hits Atlanta Braves, 3-0 |
Aug 20 |
69 cm rainfall in Nelson County, Virginia (state record) |
Aug 21 |
Fire in Al-Aksa-mosque in Jerusalem |
Aug 22 |
Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road" |
Aug 22 |
Gloria O Smith, (NY), crowned 2nd Miss Black America |
Aug 23 |
Audrey McElmory (US) wins World Cycling Championships, Brno |
Aug 23 |
France's Une De Mai wins International Trot at Roosevelt Raceway Czechoslovakia (1st American to win cycling race title since 1912) |
Aug 24 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Tournament of Champs Golf Tournament |
Aug 24 |
Peru nationalizes US oil interests |
Aug 25 |
Det Lions beat Boston Patriots 22-9 in Montreal (NFL expo) |
Aug 27 |
Lindy's Pride win Hambletonian Stakes |
Aug 27 |
Mike Procter hits six consecutive sixes (across two overs) |
Aug 29 |
Joe Pepitone quits Yanks after being fined $500 for leaving the bench |
Aug 29 |
KYUS TV channel 3 in Miles City, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Aug 30 |
120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival |
Aug 30 |
25,000 attend 2nd Annual Sky River Rock Festival, Tenino Wash |
Aug 30 |
69th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Steve Melnyk |
Aug 30 |
Racial disturbances in Fort Lauderdale Florida |
Aug 31 |
25,000 attend New Orleans Pop Festival |
Sep 1 |
Jerry Lewis' 4th Muscular Dystrophy telethon |
Sep 1 |
Libyan revolution, Colonel Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris |
Sep 2 |
NY Yankee Joe Pepitone is reinstated |
Sep 2 |
Ralph Houk signs 3-year contract to manage Yankees at $65,000 a season |
Sep 2 |
The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York. |
Sep 5 |
Frente Obrero wins Dutch Antilles national elections |
Sep 6 |
"Cabaret" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1166 performances |
Sep 7 |
83rd US Women's Tennis: Margaret Smith Court beats Nancy Richey (6-2 6-2) |
Sep 7 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Molson's Canadian Golf Open |
Sep 7 |
US amateur Women's Tennis: Margaret Court beat Virginia Wade (46 63 60) |
Sep 8 |
2nd US Tennis Open: Rod Laver wins, completing his 2nd grand slam. The men's singles final also featured the smallest recorded session of 3,708 due to rain. |
Sep 8 |
89th US Men's Tennis: Rodney G Laver beats Tony Roche (79 61 62 62) |
Sep 8 |
Suleiman Maghrabi appointed premier of Libya |
Sep 8 |
US amateur Men's Tennis: Stan Smith beats Bob Lutz (97 63 61) |
Sep 9 |
Allegheny 853 collides with Piper Cherokee above Indiana, kills 82 |
Sep 9 |
Seaplane crashes at Indianapolis, kills 83 |
Sep 9 |
Smallest US Tennis Open single session-131 (men's doubles final only) |
Sep 9 |
WCVN TV channel 54 in Covington, KY (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Sep 10 |
NY Mets sweep Montreal Expos putting them in 1st place for 1st time |
Sep 10 |
US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado |
Sep 11 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Sep 13 |
Baltimore Orioles, win earliest AL Eastern division title |
Sep 13 |
Bobby Bonds is baseballs 4th 30-HR, 30-steal player |
Sep 13 |
Plastic Ono Band's (John, Yoko & Eric Clapton) 1st live performance |
Sep 14 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Wendell-West Golf Open |
Sep 14 |
Male voters of Swiss kanton Schaffhausen rejects female suffrage |
Sep 15 |
Cards Steve Carlton sets record by striking out 19 NY Mets in a game |
Sep 18 |
Tiny Tim & Miss Vicky get engaged |
Sep 20 |
18th Ryder Cup: Draw, 16-16 at Royal Birkdale, England |
Sep 20 |
Archies' "Sugar Sugar" hits #1 |
Sep 20 |
Pitts Pirate Bob Moose no-hits NY Mets, 4-0 |
Sep 21 |
58th Davis Cup: USA beats Romania in Cleveland (5-0) |
Sep 21 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
Sep 21 |
NY Jet Steve O'Neal punts 98 yards against Denver Broncos |
Sep 21 |
Ron Hill wins European marathon (2:16:47.8) |
Sep 22 |
"Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV |
Sep 22 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Sep 22 |
SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs |
Sep 23 |
1st broadcast of "Marcus Welby MD" on ABC-TV |
Sep 23 |
Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead |
Sep 24 |
1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati |
Sep 24 |
NY Mets clinch NL East pennant |
Sep 24 |
Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
Sep 24 |
Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins |
Sep 26 |
Beatles release "Abbey Road" album |
Sep 26 |
Bolivia military coup under general Ovando Candia |
Sep 26 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Sep 28 |
Joe Kapp (Minnesota Vikings) passes for 7 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (52-14) |
Sep 28 |
Minnesota vs Baltimore, gains 530 yards passing! |
Sep 28 |
SPD wins West German Parliament elections |
Sep 29 |
"Bright Promise" TV Daytime Soap; debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Letters To Laugh-In" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Love American Style" premieres on ABC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Name Droppers" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
"Sale Of Century" debuts on NBC-TV |
Sep 29 |
7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6 |
Sep 29 |
China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC |
Sep 29 |
Jackie DeShannon gets Gold Record for "Put Little Love in Your Heart" |
Sep 29 |
Red Sox Rico Petrocelli hits shortstop record 40th HR of season |
Sep 29 |
Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver |
Sep 30 |
Atlanta's 10th straight win, clinches NL West pennant |
Oct 1 |
Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier |
Oct 1 |
Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps |
Oct 1 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
Oct 2 |
Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473 |
Oct 2 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
Oct 4 |
Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Bkln Myrtle Beach el |
Oct 4 |
UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters |
Oct 4 |
Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings |
Oct 5 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
Oct 5 |
Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC |
Oct 5 |
Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks 55-yard field goal |
Oct 6 |
WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting |
Oct 7 |
WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 8 |
The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois. |
Oct 9 |
Supremes release "Someday We'll Be Together" |
Oct 11 |
-28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod |
Oct 11 |
Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3 |
Oct 11 |
Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days |
Oct 11 |
Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast |
Oct 12 |
1st time 5 people in space |
Oct 12 |
KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN |
Oct 12 |
KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, CA (IND) begins |
Oct 12 |
Soyuz 7 is launched |
Oct 13 |
1st time 7 people in space |
Oct 13 |
Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins |
Oct 13 |
Soyuz 8 is launched |
Oct 14 |
Palme government forms in Sweden |
Oct 14 |
Race riots in Springfield Mass |
Oct 14 |
T Agee & Ed Kranepool HR, Tommie Agee makes 2 great catches, Mets win Baseball World Series 5-0 |
Oct 14 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
Oct 14 |
The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971. |
Oct 15 |
Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated |
Oct 15 |
Madison Square Garden TV Network begins (Rangers vs North Stars) |
Oct 15 |
NY Met Ron Swoboda's spectacular diving catch of sinking liner with runners at 1st & 3rd in 9th, Mets win in 10th in World Series game |
Oct 15 |
Oriole Earl Weaver becomes 1st manager ejected in a World Series |
Oct 15 |
Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war |
Oct 15 |
3rd Country Music Association Award: Johnny Cash & Tammy Wynette wins |
Oct 16 |
100-1 shot NY Mets beat Orioles 5-3 & win 66th World Series in 5 |
Oct 16 |
Soyuz 6 returns to Earth |
Oct 16 |
Met Cleon Jones awarded 1st base when shoe polish on ball proves he is hit by a pitch, he scores on a HR in World Series |
Oct 17 |
NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY |
Oct 17 |
Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK |
Oct 17 |
Soyuz 7 returns to Earth |
Oct 18 |
Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners |
Oct 18 |
Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession |
Oct 18 |
Rod Stewart joins Small Faces |
Oct 18 |
Soyuz 8 returns to Earth |
Oct 19 |
J Bock & S Harnicks musical "Rothschilds," premieres in NYC |
Oct 19 |
Mary Mills wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic |
Oct 19 |
Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21) |
Oct 20 |
WKYH (now WYMT) TV channel 57 in Hazard, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting |
Oct 21 |
Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day) |
Oct 21 |
Leonard Gersh' "Butterflies are Free" premieres in NYC |
Oct 21 |
Willy Brandt elected chancellor of West Germany |
Oct 21 |
Maj Gen Mohamed Siad Barre becomes President of Somali |
Oct 22 |
KAPN-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KDB-AM |
Oct 22 |
Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death |
Oct 23 |
"Jimmy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 84 performances |
Oct 24 |
Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together |
Oct 26 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open |
Oct 26 |
WHMA (now WJSU) TV channel 40 in Anniston, AL (CBS) 1st broadcast |
Oct 27 |
Nobel prize for economy awarded to John Tinbergen |
Oct 27 |
Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders |
Oct 27 |
St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain |
Oct 29 |
Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once" |
Oct 29 |
Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award |
Oct 29 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Oct 29 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
Oct 30 |
WXPO (now WNDS) TV channel 50 in Manchester, NH (IND) 1st broadcast |
Oct 31 |
George Harrison's "Something" is released in UK |
Oct 31 |
Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
Nov 1 |
The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks |
Nov 2 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA River Plantation Women's Golf Open |
Nov 2 |
NFL record of 12 passing touchdowns, New Orleans Billy Kilmer & St L Charlie Johnson pass for 6 touchdowns each |
Nov 3 |
Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium |
Nov 6 |
1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det) |
Nov 7 |
John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK |
Nov 10 |
"Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV |
Nov 11 |
Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in UK |
Nov 11 |
Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by FBI for drunkeness |
Nov 12 |
Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union |
Nov 12 |
Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP |
Nov 12 |
US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19 |
Nov 12 |
WJJY (now WJPT) TV channel 14 in Jacksonville, IL (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Nov 13 |
VP Spiro T Agnew accused network TV news depts of bias & distortion |
Nov 14 |
2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US |
Nov 14 |
Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing |
Nov 15 |
1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back) |
Nov 15 |
1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland) |
Nov 15 |
250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Wash DC against Vietnam War |
Nov 15 |
Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar & indicent language in Tampa, Fla |
Nov 15 |
Wendy's Hamburgers opens |
Nov 16 |
1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai S Vietnam, by US is 1st reported |
Nov 16 |
US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28 |
Nov 17 |
SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland |
Nov 19 |
Apollo 12's Conrad & Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on Moon |
Nov 19 |
WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting |
Nov 20 |
Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans |
Nov 20 |
Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut v Australia Kanpur |
Nov 20 |
Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal |
Nov 20 |
SF Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP |
Nov 21 |
KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast |
Nov 21 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
Nov 22 |
Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University |
Nov 24 |
Apollo 12 returns to Earth |
Nov 24 |
West German president Heinemann visits Netherlands |
Nov 24 |
Lt William L Calley charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial |
Nov 25 |
John Lennon returns OBE to protest against UK's support for Vietnam War |
Nov 25 |
KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year |
Nov 26 |
35th Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Owens, Oklahoma (RB) |
Nov 26 |
Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall) |
Nov 26 |
Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon |