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- Oct 11 Yoko Plus Me art exhibit opens in London (the me is John Lennon)
- Oct 12 St Louis Cards beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 64th World Series as Lou Brock steals a record 7 bases in 1 World Series
- Oct 13 CBS radio cancels "House Party"
- Oct 16 WETK TV channel 33 in Burlington, VT (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Oct 16 WGNO TV channel 26 in New Orleans, LA (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Oct 17 "Hair" premieres on Broadway
Event of Interest
Oct 17 Barbra Streisand stars on "Belle of 14th Street" special on CBS
Barbra Streisand
- Oct 17 Memorial service for Brian Epstein at New London Synagogue
- Oct 17 Pete Knight in X-15 reaches 85 km
- Oct 17 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Oct 18 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Hans A Bethe
- Oct 18 Soviet Venera 4 becomes 1st probe to send data back from Venus
- Oct 18 Walt Disney's "Jungle Book" film is released
- Oct 18 AL votes to allow Athletics to move from KC to Oakland & expand league to 12 teams in 1971 with KC & Seattle teams
- Oct 19 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
- Oct 19 Mariner 5 makes fly-by of Venus
- Oct 20 All white federal jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers in Meridan Mississippi
- Oct 20 Charlie Finley names Bob Kennedy 1st manager of Oakland A's
- Oct 20 KMXN (now KJTV) TV channel 34 in Lubbock, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
- Oct 20 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern Califonia
- Oct 21 Egypt sinks Israeli torpedo boat
- Oct 21 Tens of thousands of anti-Vietnam War protesters march on the Pentagon, besieging the military headquarters for two days
- Oct 22 17th Ryder Cup: US wins 23½-8½ at Champions Golf Club (Houston, Texas, US)
- Oct 22 Ian Brayshaw (W Aus v Vic, Perth) takes all 10 cricket wkts
- Oct 22 Joe DiMaggio is hired as executive VP of A's by Charlie Finley
- Oct 22 Murle Lindstrom wins LPGA Carlsbad Jaycee Golf Open
- Oct 22 18th Formula One WDC: Denny Hulme wins by five points
- Oct 23 "Henry, Sweet Henry" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 80 performances
- Oct 23 NJ Americans (later NY/NJ Nets) play 1st ABA game
- Oct 26 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
- Oct 27 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
- Oct 27 Expo 67 closes in Montreal, Canada
- Oct 27 NLF leaves People's Republic of South-Yemen
- Oct 29 Danny Abramowicz begins NFL streak of 105 consecutive game receptions
- Oct 29 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Alamo Ladies' Golf Open
- Oct 29 MacDermot, Ragni & Rado's musical "Hair" premieres in NYC
- Oct 29 London criminal Jack McVitie is murdered by the Kray twins, leading to their eventual imprisonment and downfall.
- Oct 30 Arthur Allyn says White Sox will play 9 games in Milwaukee in 1968
- Oct 30 Ferdinand Bracke bicycles world record time (48,093 km)
- Oct 30 USSR Kosmos 186 & 188 make 1st automatic docking & Venmera 13 launch
- Oct 31 KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting
Event of Interest
Oct 31 Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep
Nguyen Van Thieu
- Oct 31 SF Giants Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award
Film Release
Nov 1 "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
Strother Martin
Paul Newman
- Nov 3 Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
- Nov 3 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war
- Nov 5 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
- Nov 5 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Corpus Christi Civitan Golf Open
- Nov 5 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
- Nov 5 US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
- Nov 5 Yemen president Sallal flees
Event of Interest
Nov 5 The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
Robin Gibb
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Nov 7 Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary, Indiana
- Nov 7 St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
- Nov 7 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
- Nov 8 Radio Leicester begins broadcasting on VHF, the 1st of 8 local British radio stations (now 40)
- Nov 8 Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
- Nov 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 9 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
- Nov 9 The 1st unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit
- Nov 10 KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 12 Margie Masters wins LPGA Quality Chekd Golf Classic
- Nov 12 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
- Nov 13 Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Nov 13 NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City
- Nov 14 The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman"
Event of Interest
Nov 15 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
Carl Yastrzemski
- Nov 15 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
- Nov 15 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert
- Nov 17 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
- Nov 17 French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
- Nov 17 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
- Nov 17 Davey Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, New York
- Nov 18 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
- Nov 19 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
- Nov 19 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong
- Nov 20 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
- Nov 20 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 21 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
Event of Interest
Nov 21 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
William Westmoreland
- Nov 22 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
- Nov 22 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
- Nov 22 UN Security council passes resolution 242; Israel must give back occupied land
- Nov 22 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 25 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
- Nov 25 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
- Nov 26 Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
- Nov 26 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
- Nov 27 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour"
- Nov 27 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
Event of Interest
Nov 27 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time
Charles de Gaulle
- Nov 28 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
- Nov 28 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
- Nov 29 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
- Nov 29 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
- Nov 30 Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement
- Nov 30 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
- Nov 30 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK
Event of Interest
Nov 30 Senator Eugene McCarthy announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam war platform
Eugene McCarthy
- Nov 30 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War
- Dec 1 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
- Dec 1 Seattle awarded one of the 2 AL expansion franchise teams
NBA Record
Dec 1 Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
Wilt Chamberlain
- Dec 3 Final run of "20th Century Limited" famed NY-Chicago luxury train
Assassination Attempt
Dec 3 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
Bob Marley
Event of Interest
Dec 5 Pediatrician Benjamin Spock and poet Allen Ginsberg arrested in New York while protesting against the Vietnam War
Benjamin Spock
Allen Ginsberg
- Dec 6 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR
- Dec 7 The Beatles' clothing store "Apple Boutique" opens at 94 Baker Street, London
- Dec 7 "How Now, Dow Jones" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 220 performances
- Dec 7 Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"
- Dec 8 The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
- Dec 8 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
Event of Interest
Dec 9 Jim Morrison arrested on stage for disturbing the peace at the New Haven Arena, Connecticut, making him the 1st rock star to be taken into custody during a performance
Jim Morrison
Event of Interest
Dec 9 Nicolae Ceaușescu becomes President of Romania (overthrown 1989)
Nicolae Ceausescu
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to Ragnar Granit, Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for discoveries about the make-up of the eye
George Wald
Film Premier
Dec 11 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn - Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
- Dec 12 US launches Pioneer 8 into solar orbit
- Dec 13 United Soccer Association & National Pro Soccer League merge into NASL
- Dec 13 Unsuccessful coup against Greek King Constantine II
- Dec 13 San Diego, CA records snow at a zero elevation after temperatures plunge 19 degrees (F) in eight hours.
- Dec 14 DNA created in a test tube
Event of Interest
Dec 14 Lester B. Pearson (PM of Canada) announces that he is retiring from politics, and is succeeded by Pierre Trudeau
Lester B. Pearson
- Dec 15 The Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
- Dec 15 Joe Garagiola joins "Today" show panel
- Dec 15 The Silver Bridge collapses over the Ohio River in the US, killing 46 people
- Dec 16 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia 76ers scores 68 points vs Chicago
- Dec 16 "Playtime", French film directed by Jacques Tati, starring himself, is released
- Dec 17 WEDW TV channel 49 in Bridgeport, Connecticut (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Dec 17 Harold Holt, Prime Minister of Australia, vanishes in mysterious circumstances while swimming near Melbourne
- Dec 19 Prime Minister of Australia Harold Holt is officially presumed dead.
- Dec 20 474,300 US soldiers in Vietnam
- Dec 20 Ian Anderson & Glenn Cornick form rock group Jethro Tull
Film Release
Dec 22 "The Graduate" American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, is released (Best Director 1968)
Dustin Hoffman
Anne Bancroft
Event of Interest
Dec 25 Singer Paul McCartney & actress Jane Asher get engaged
Paul McCartney
Album Release
Dec 27 Leonard Cohen releases his debut album "Songs of Leonard Cohen" on Columbia Records
Leonard Cohen
- Dec 28 KTSB (now KSNT) TV channel 27 in Topeka, KS (NBC) begins broadcasting
- Dec 28 Muriel Siebert is 1st woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange
- Dec 28 56th Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Brisbane (4-1)
- Dec 29 Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
- Dec 29 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
- Dec 30 Beatles' "Hello Goodbye" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 3 weeks
- Dec 30 Great Western Forum opens in LA
- Dec 31 "Henry, Sweet Henry" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 80 performances
- Dec 31 1st NBA game at Great Western Forum, LA Lakers beat Houston 147-118
- Dec 31 Oakland Raiders beat Houston Oilers 40-7 in AFL championship game
- Dec 31 "The Ice Bowl", Packers beat Cowboys 21-17 in NFL championship game (-13°F)