Events 201 - 400 of 647
- Apr 22 The Troggs second single "Wild Thing" released; tops the charts in July
- Apr 24 Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
- Apr 25 Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse, Belgium
Sports History
Apr 26 Red Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach
Music Concert
Apr 27 Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 2nd Cello Concert
- Apr 28 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
Academy Awards
Apr 28 38th Academy Awards: "The Sound of Music", Julie Christie & Lee Marvin win
- Apr 28 Cleveland ties record with 10th straight win since Opening Day
- Apr 28 OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms
- Apr 30 Anton LaVey founds the Church of Satan in San Francisco, California
- May 1 Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley)
- 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 of West Germany win 6th European Cup Winner's Cup against Liverpool of England 2-1 in Glasgow
- May 5 Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Montreal Canadiens earn back-to-back titles; beat Detroit Red Wings, 3-2 in OT for a 4-2 series victory
Sports History
May 5 Willie Mays hit his 512th HR
Music History
May 6 The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the US
Historic Event
May 8 Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park, by Oriole OF 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 European Cup Final, Heysel Stadium, Brussels: Fernando Serena scores the winner as Real Madrid beats Partizan Belgrade, 2-1; Madrid's 6th title
- May 12 St Louis' Busch Memorial Stadium opens, Braves lose to Cards 4-3 in 12 innings
- May 13 The Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" in the UK
- 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 South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die
- May 16 The Beach Boys release their groundbreaking album "Pet Sounds", containing hit singles "Sloop John B" and "Wouldn't It Be Nice", and "God Only Knows"
- 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 official justification for the Cultural Revolution
- May 17 KFDO (now KVIJ) TV channel 8 in Sayre, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
- May 20 19th Cannes Film Festival: "A Man and a Woman" directed by Claude Lelouch and "The Birds, the Bees and the Italians" directed by Pietro Germi jointly awarded the Grand Prix du Festival International du Film
- May 21 "Downtown" by Mrs Miller hits #82
- May 21 "Time for Singing" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 41 performances
- May 21 91st Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
- May 21 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart & hits #97
Boxing Title Fight
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)
Emmy Awards
May 22 18th Emmy Awards: "The Fugitive", Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore win
Music Premiere
May 24 Jerry Herman's musical "Mame", starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 1508 performances, wins 3 Tony Awards
- May 25 Peru & Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die
- May 25 "Au Hasard Balthazar", French film directed by Robert Bresson, starring Anne Wiazemsky and François Lafarge, is released
- 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", parody song by Frank Gallop hits #34
- May 28 Dmitri Shostakovich's 11th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
- May 30 The Beatles release single "Paperback Writer" / "Rain" in US; "Rain" featured experimental studio tricks of slowed down bass and drums tracks, and backwards vocals in the fade out
- May 30 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
Sports History
May 30 Indianapolis 500: English 1962 F1 World Champion Graham Hill wins after leading for a total of only 10 laps; first rookie winner since 1927
Music Concert
Jun 1 George Harrison is impressed by sitarist 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 Single "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 Cincinnati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 5 French Championships Men's Tennis: Australian Tony Roche wins his first and only Grand Slam title; beats István Gulyás of Hungary 6-1, 6-4, 7-5
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 5 French Championships Women's Tennis: Ann Haydon-Jones of England beats American Nancy Richey 6-3, 6-1 for her 2nd French singles crown
Historic Event
Jun 6 Civil rights activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi
Sports History
Jun 7 MLB Draft: New York Mets pass on Reggie Jackson to select Antelope Valley HS catcher Steve Chilcott #1
Baseball Record
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
Music Concert
Jun 10 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco)
- Jun 10 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
- Jun 10 Janis Joplin plays her 1st gig with Big Brother & The Holding Company, at Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco, California
- 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 performances
- Jun 11 "Paint It Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 in the US
- Jun 11 "Skyscraper" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 248 performances
- Jun 11 "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hits #1 in UK
- Jun 11 French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry
TV Show Appearance
Jun 12 Dave Clark Five sets record as they appear for 12th time on "The Ed Sullivan Show"
Music History
Jun 16 Rowan & Martin host "The Dean Martin Show" Summer Series, on NBC-TV
US Golf Open
Jun 20 US Open Men's Golf, Olympic CC: Billy Casper erases a 7-stroke deficit on the final 9 holes to tie Arnold Palmer; wins Monday 18-hole playoff by 4 strokes
Historic Event
Jun 20 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman
- Jun 21 Queen Juliana opens Coen tunnel in Amsterdam
Film Release
Jun 21 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)
- 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 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
- Jun 24 16th Berlin International Film Festival: "Cul-de-Sac" wins the Golden Bear
- Jun 25 Beatles' "Paperback Writer" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- Jun 25 Dmitri Shostakovich'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 performances
- Jun 26 Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland
- Jun 27 Dark Shadows, American Gothic soap opera, premieres on ABC-TV
- Jun 28 Ernie Terrell beats Doug Jones by unanimous points decision over 15 rounds in Houston to retain his WBA heavyweight boxing title
- Jun 29 Vietnam War: US planes bomb the North Vietnamese capital Hanoi and the port city of Haiphong for the first time
- Jun 29 KBSC (now KVEA) TV channel 52 in Corona-Los Angeles, CA begins
- Jun 30 The 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 England spin bowler Derek Underwood goes wicketless in his Test cricket debut v West Indies at Nottingham; captures 297 wickets in illustrious 86 Test career
- Jun 30 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA
- Jul 1 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spaniard Manuel Santana wins last of 4 major titles beating American Dennis Ralston 6-4, 11-9, 6-4
- Jul 1 Construction crews begin tearing up Market St in San Francisco to build the Bay Area Rapid Transit system (BART)
- Jul 1 NASA launches spacecraft Explorer 33
- Jul 1 US national health insurance program Medicare goes into effect
- Jul 1 1st color television transmission in Canada is broadcast from Toronto
- Jul 2 1st France nuclear test on Mururoa atoll
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 2 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: American Billie Jean King beats Maria Bueno of Brazil 6-3, 3-6, 6-1 for the first of her 12 Grand Slam singles titles
- Jul 2 West Indian cricket batsman Basil Butcher scores career best 209 not out to guide tourists to a 139-run 3rd Test win over England at Trent Bridge
- Jul 3 US Open Women's Golf, Hazeltine National GC: American Sandra Spuzich wins by 1 from Carol Mann for her only LPGA major title
- Jul 3 Atlanta Braves Tony Cloninger, 1st NL player and only pitcher to hit 2 grand slams in a MLB game (17-3 v SF Giants)
- Jul 3 Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska
Music History
Jul 4 Beatles attacked in the Philippines after (unintentionally) insulting Imelda Marcos
Historic Event
Jul 7 Obscenity ban for "Naked Lunch" by William S. Burroughs overturned by the Massachusetts Supreme Court after testimony by Allen Ginsberg and Norman Mailer
British Golf Open
Jul 9 British Open Men's Golf, Muirfield: Jack Nicklaus beats Doug Sanders & Dave Thomas by 1 stroke to become only 4th in history to win all 4 majors
Sports History
Jul 12 Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson voted MLB All Star game MVP
- Jul 12 Start of 3 day race riot in Chicago, looting brings out National Guardsmen
- Jul 12 US Treasury announces it will buy mutilated silver coins at silver bullion price at Philadelphia and Denver mints
- Jul 13 A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founds the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Hare Krishna movement) in New York City
- Jul 14 Richard Speck rapes and kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory
- Jul 14 53rd Tour de France won by Lucien Aimar of France
- Jul 16 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
- 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 performances
- 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 18 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
- Jul 18 Gemini 10 launches John Young & Michael Collins
- Jul 19 France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island
- Jul 19 Governor 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!"
#1 in the Charts
Jul 23 Frank Sinatra's album "Strangers In The Night" hits #1 on the US charts, (Grammy for Record Of The Year and Best Male Vocal Performance)
- Jul 24 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Firestone CC: American Al Geiberger wins his only major title by 4 shots from Dudley Wysong
- Jul 25 Brian Jones' final performance as a Rolling Stone
Historic Event
Jul 25 Mao Zedong swims the Yangtze River
Music Single
Jul 25 The Supremes release single "You Can't Hurry Love"
Hall of Fame
Jul 25 Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
- Jul 29 In Nigerian counter-coup, Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi murdered, Yakubu Gowon appointed his successor
- Jul 30 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
- Jul 30 FIFA World Cup Final, Wembley Stadium, London, England: Striker Geoff Hurst scores a hat trick as England beats West Germany, 4-2 after extra time
- Jul 30 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam
Music History
Jul 31 Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark
- Aug 1 Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas
- Aug 1 Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup d'état
- Aug 2 Radio Vila (New Hebrides) begins transmitting
- Aug 3 South African government bans Beatle records
- Aug 4 8th British Empire Games & Commonwealth Games open in Kingston, Jamaica; first Games held outside 'White Dominions'
- Aug 5 33rd NFL Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0; 72,000 at Soldier Field
Historic Event
Aug 5 Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march
- Aug 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Aug 5 The Beatles release their "Revolver" album in the UK
- Aug 5 The Beatles release single "Yellow Submarine" with "Eleanor Rigby" in the UK
- Aug 5 West Indies cricket captain Gary Sobers scores 174 including a century between lunch & tea to set up a 4th Test win v England at Headingley
- Aug 6 Muhammad Ali knocks out English boxer Brian London in round 3 at Earl's Court in London to retain his undisputed world heavyweight title
- Aug 6 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge in Europe)
- Aug 6 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam