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- Jun 8 Rolling Stones release "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
Assassination
Jun 8 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
French Open Women's Tennis
Jun 8 French Open Women's Tennis: American Nancy Richey beats Ann Haydon-Jones 5-7, 6-4, 6-1 for her second and last Grand Slam singles title
French Open Men's Tennis
Jun 9 French Open Men's Tennis: In an all-Australian final Ken Rosewall beats Rod Laver 6-3, 6-1, 2-6, 6-2; first Grand Slam of Open Era allowing professional players to compete
- Jun 10 "Danny Thomas Hour" last airs on NBC-TV
- Jun 10 AL games at Baltimore & Chicago postponed honoring Robert F. Kennedy
- Jun 10 KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
- Jun 10 WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast
- Jun 10 4h Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats France 20-2
- Jun 10 UEFA European Championship Final, Stadio Olimpico, Rome, Italy: Italy beats Yugoslavia, 2-0 in a replay (first game, 1-1)
- Jun 12 U.S. premiere of horror film "Rosemary's Baby", based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ira Levin
- Jun 14 Off duty Dutch military permitted to wear regular clothing
- Jun 14 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" second studio album by Iron Butterfly is released
- Jun 15 "How Now, Dow Jones" closes at Lunt Fontanne, NYC, after 220 performances
- Jun 15 "I Do! I Do!" closes at 46th St Theater, NYC, after 561 performances
- Jun 15 "New Faces of 1965" closes at Booth Theater, NYC, after 52 performances
- Jun 15 15th Curtis Cup: US wins 10½-7½ at Royal County Down Golf Club (Newcastle, Northern Ireland)
Music History
Jun 15 John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant two acorns for peace, at Coventry Cathedral, Conventry, England
- Jun 15 "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy" by Ohio Express hits #4
US Golf Open
Jun 16 US Open Golf, Oak Hill CC: Lee Trevino wins his first major title by 4 shots from Jack Nicklaus; first to play sub-70 golf in Open history
- Jun 17 Belgium government of Eyskens-Merlot forms
- Jun 17 KQEC TV channel 32 in San Francisco, California (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Jun 17 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
- Jun 18 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing
- Jun 19 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
- Jun 20 Jim Hines becomes 1st person to run 100 meters in under 10 seconds
- Jun 20 Austin Currie, then Nationalist Member of Parliament (MP) at Stormont, and other Irish civil rights activists, protest discrimination in the allocation of housing by 'squatting' (illegally occupying) in a house in Caledon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
Historic Event
Jun 21 US Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren announces he will resign once a successor is found
LPGA Championship
Jun 24 LPGA Championship Women's Golf, Pleasant Valley CC: Canadian Sandra Post wins an 18-hole playoff against Kathy Whitworth by 7 strokes
Boxing Title Fight
Jun 24 Joe Frazier stops Mexican challenger Manuel Ramos in 2nd round TKO at NYC's Madison Square Garden in his first heavyweight boxing title defence
- Jun 24 Resurrection City in Washington, D.C. closed permanently
- Jun 25 Bobby Bonds hits a grand slam in his 1st major league game (San Francisco Giants)
- Jun 26 10-year-old English girl Mary Bell strangles four-year-old Martin Brown in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (later convicted of manslaughter on grounds of diminished responsibility)
- Jun 26 Executive Council decides both AL & NL to divide into 2 divisions
Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima
Jun 26 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US
- Jun 27 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
- Jun 28 Daniel Ellsberg indicted for leaking Pentagon Papers
- Jun 29 "Tip-Toe Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
- Jun 30 East German Communist Party leader Walter Ulbricht receives "Order of October Revolution"
- Jun 30 Gaullists win French parliamentary election, 358 of 458 seats
- Jul 1 Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson's streak of 47 2/3 scoreless innings (3rd most live era) ends on wild pitch but earns 8-1 win v LA Dodgers
- Jul 1 Fortuna Sittard soccer team forms in Sittard
Music History
Jul 1 John Lennon's 1st full art exhibition (You Are Here) opens at Robert Fraser Gallery in London
- Jul 1 US, Britain, USSR & 58 nations sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
- Jul 1 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Jul 1 The CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
- Jul 1 Formal separation of the United Auto Workers from the AFL-CIO.
- Jul 2 An El Al Israeli airliner is hijacked and diverted to Algeria by three armed members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
- Jul 3 41°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in July
- Jul 3 Cleveland pitcher Luis Tiant strikes out MLB record 19 Minnesota Twins in 1-0 win; record for 10 inning game; also record 32 Ks in consecutive games
- Jul 3 As part of a series of protests against housing conditions in Derry, the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) hold a sit-down protest on the newly opened second deck of the Craigavon Bridge in the city, Northern Ireland
- Jul 4 Arthur Kopit's "Indians" premieres in London
- Jul 4 Radio astronomy satellite Explorer 38 launched
- Jul 5 "Manifest of 1000 words" published in Prague
Wimbledon Men's Tennis
Jul 5 Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Rod Laver beats Tony Roche 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 to earn first ever prize money (£2,000) offered at Wimbledon
- Jul 5 John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
Wimbledon Women's Tennis
Jul 6 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Billie Jean King beats Judy Tegart 9-7, 7-5 to earn first ever prize money (£750) offered at Wimbledon
- Jul 6 Sacharov publishes "Manifest of 10,000 words"
US Women's Golf Open
Jul 7 US Open Women's Golf, Moselem Springs GC: Susie Maxwell Berning beats Mickey Wright by 3 strokes
Sports History
Jul 9 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76'ers to LA Lakers
- Jul 9 15.68" (39.83 cm) of rainfall, Columbus, Mississippi (state 24-hour record)
Sports History
Jul 9 39th MLB All Star Game, Astrodome, Houston, TX: NL beats AL, 1-0; MVP: Willie Mays, SF Giants, CF
Sports History
Jul 11 Earl Weaver replaces Hank Bauer as manager of Orioles
British Golf Open
Jul 13 British Open Men's Golf, Carnoustie: South African Gary Player wins second of his 3 Open titles, 2 strokes clear of Bob Charles and Jack Nicklaus; 5th of Player's 9 major titles
- Jul 13 French government-Couve de Murville forms
Baseball Event
Jul 14 Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off SF Giant Mike McCormick
- Jul 14 Houston Astro Don Wilson strikes out 18, beats Reds 6-1 at Crosley Field in Cincinnati
- Jul 14 WSWO TV channel 26 in Springfield, OH (ABC) begins broadcasting
- Jul 15 "One Life to Live", American soap opera, premieres on TV
- Jul 15 Commercial air travel begins between US & USSR
- Jul 15 France performs nuclear Test at Mururoa atoll
- Jul 15 NJ Americans moved to Comack & become NY Nets (ABA)
- Jul 17 The Beatles' animated film "Yellow Submarine" premieres in London
- Jul 17 Bloodless coup in Iraq led by General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Engagement of Interest
Jul 20 Jane Asher breaks her engagement with Beatle bassist, singer, and songwriter Paul McCartney on live TV
- Jul 20 Iron Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit charts, it comes in at #117
PGA Championship
Jul 21 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pecan Valley GC: Julius Boros (48) becomes oldest winner of a major; wins by 1 from Bob Charles & Arnold Palmer
- Jul 21 55th Tour de France won by Jan Janssen of Netherlands
- Jul 22 Sir John Newsome recommends public schools should take 50% of their intake from the state school system
- Jul 23 Fred Blasie wins 5th wrestling world championship belt
- Jul 23 PLO's 1st hijacking of an El Al plane
- Jul 23 Race riot in Cleveland, 11 including 3 police officers killed
- Jul 27 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
- Jul 29 Cincinnati Red George Culver no hits Phillies, 6-1
- Jul 29 Gram Parsons refuses to play with the Byrds in South Africa
- Jul 29 Mount Arenal, Costa Rica kills 80 in Pelee-type eruption
- Jul 30 Washington shortstop Ron Hansen makes 8th unassisted triple-play in MLB history and first in 41 years as Senators lose, 10-1 to Cleveland Indians
- Jul 31 The Beatles close Apple Boutique in London, giving clothes away for free
- Aug 1 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins
- Aug 1 Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Aug 1 WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting
- Aug 1 The coronation is held of Hassanal Bolkiah, the 29th Sultan of Brunei.
- Aug 2 35th Chicago College All-Star Game: Green Bay 34, All-Stars 17, 69,917 at Soldier Field
- Aug 2 Ron Hansen (Washington Senators) & Tim Cullen (Chicago White Sox) become the first MLB players to be traded for each other twice in the same season; they had been traded in February in opposite directions
- Aug 3 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Music History
Aug 3 100,000 attend two-day Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California; performers included Alice Cooper, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Country Joe and the Fish, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Sonny & Cher, Steppenwolf, Tiny Tim, The Animals, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and The Byrds
Presidential Convention
Aug 8 Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Richard Nixon for president
Sports History
Aug 11 Satchel Paige (62) and needing 158 days on a MLB payroll to qualify for a pension, is signed by Atlanta Braves; doesn't pitch and becomes coach
- Aug 11 Fifteen Guinea Special - last main-line steam passenger train service in Britain. Selection of British Rail steam locomotives make a return 120-mile journey Liverpool to Carlisle, before having their fires dropped for the last time.
- Aug 14 Montreal Expos officially become a member of NL
- Aug 15 Pirate Radio Free London begins transmitting
Historic Event
Aug 15 Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu visits Prague
Warsaw Pact Invasion of Czechoslovakia
Aug 20 During the night 250,000 Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring
Presidential Convention
Aug 21 Democratic Convention opens in Chicago, goes on to nominate Hubert Humphrey
- Aug 21 PFC James Anderson Jr is 1st African American Marine to win Medal of Honor (Vietnam War)
Historic Event
Aug 21 Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols
- Aug 21 William Dana reaches 80 km (last high-altitude X-15 flight)
- Aug 22 1st papal visit to Latin America, Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota to open a Eucharistic congress.
- Aug 22 The Society of Labour Lawyers (SLL) publishes an 'interim report' about alleged discrimination in Northern Ireland; the report is heavily criticised by unionists.
- Aug 23 Ringo quits Beatles over a disagreement (temporarily).
- Aug 23 Yanks & Tigers play 3-3 tie in 19 due to 1 AM curfew
- Aug 24 France becomes the world's fifth thermonuclear power with a detonation on Mururoa Atoll in the South Pacific
- Aug 24 Northern Ireland's first civil rights march held; many more marches would be held over the following year and Loyalists organized counter-demonstrations to get the marches banned
Sports History
Aug 25 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship
- Aug 25 NY Yankee outfield Rocky Colavito pitches second 2/3 innings and beats Tigers 6-5; he played right field in second game and homered
- Aug 25 29th Venice Film Festival: "Artists Under the Big Top: Perplexed" directed by Alexander Kluge wins Golden Lion
- Aug 26 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
- Aug 27 Protest by the Derry Housing Action Committee (DHAC) at the Guildhall's council chamber; after which Eamon Melaugh phones the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association (NICRA) to organise a march in Derry
- Aug 28 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention
- Aug 28 Northern Irish MP Gerry Fitt tables a House of Commons motion criticising the Royal Ulster Constabulary at Dungannon, "citizens of Northern Ireland should be allowed the same rights of peaceful demonstration as those in other parts of the United Kingdom"
- Aug 29 First match in the US Open tennis era; on her way to the final, Billie Jean King beats fellow American Dr Vija Vuskains 6-1, 6-0
- Aug 29 Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for US President (Chicago)
- Aug 30 1st record released on Apple label in UK is The Beatles single "Hey Jude"
- Aug 31 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
- Aug 31 68th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Bruce Fleisher
- Aug 31 Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon and Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover
- Aug 31 Roy Face ties W Johnson's record of 802 pitching appearances with club
- Aug 31 Verne Gagne beats Dick Beyers (Dr X) in Minn, to become NWA champ
- Aug 31 Gary Sobers becomes the first cricketer to hit 6 sixes in one over
- Sep 1 Earthquake destroys Ferdows Persia, 2,000 killed
- Sep 1 Pirate Radio Marina (Netherlands) begins transmitting
Telethon
Sep 2 Jerry Lewis' 3rd Muscular Dystrophy telethon
Music Recording
Sep 6 Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for George Harrison's "While My Guitar Gently Weeps"
- Sep 6 Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day)
US Open Women's Tennis
Sep 7 US Open Women's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: England's Virginia Wade wins first Open era US singles title; beats Billie Jean King 6-4, 6-2
- Sep 8 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Sep 8 Saundra Williams wins 1st Miss Black America pageant
- Sep 8 US Open Men's Tennis, Forest Hills, NY: Arthur Ashe wins first Open era US title; beats Dutchman Tom Okker 14-12, 5-7, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3
- Sep 9 WGIQ TV channel 43 in Louisville, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 9 WVPT TV channel 51 in Staunton, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Sep 11 Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and 6 crew.
- Sep 12 Albania announces it is withdrawing from the Warsaw Pact
- Sep 13 Albania leaves Warsaw pact
Boxing Title Fight
Sep 14 Jimmy Ellis beats Floyd Patterson in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
Sports History
Sep 14 Detroit Tigers' Denny McLain's 30th victory of season
Music History
Sep 14 Dmitri Shostakovich' 12th string quartet, premieres in Moscow
Television Premiere
Sep 15 "Barbra Streisand: A Happening in Central Park" premieres on CBS TV
- Sep 15 Launch of Zond 5, 1st lunar fly-around with Earth reentry
- Sep 15 NY Zendo (Shoboji) was opened by S Nakagawa & D S Harada
- Sep 15 WUAB TV channel 43 in Lorain-Cleveland, Ohio (IND) begins broadcasting
- Sep 15 WXON TV channel 20 in Detroit, MI (IND) begins broadcasting
- Sep 15 Probable Test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8)
- Sep 16 KLNI (now KADN) TV channel 15 in Lafayette, LA (IND) begins
- Sep 16 Richard Nixon appears on "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in"
- Sep 17 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
- Sep 17 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of Moon
- Sep 18 "Funny Girl" biopic film based on life of Fanny Brice premieres, directed by William Wyler, starring Barbra Streisand and Omar Sharif
- Sep 18 Ray Washburn (Cards) no-hits SF Giants 2-0
- Sep 19 Nigerian federal army begins the "final offensive" against the secessionist state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War
Sports History
Sep 19 Denny McLain's 31st win & Mickey Mantle's 535th HR
- Sep 20 Mickey Mantle hits final career homer # 536
- Sep 21 Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 lands in the Indian ocean after a six-day flight - first successful circumlunar mission with two onboard tortoises surviving the trip
- Sep 21 Police drama "Adam-12" debuts on NBC in the US
- Sep 22 Iraq adopts constitution
- Sep 22 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
- Sep 22 Twins' Cesar Tovar pitched a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions
Historic Event
Sep 22 Ceremony to mark relocation of ancient Egyptian Abu Simbel temples, honoring Ramesses II after rebuilt 200 meters inland away from Aswan Dam