Events in History
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Election of Interest
Nov 3 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater
Lyndon B. Johnson
- Nov 3 For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington, D.C. permitted to vote
- Nov 5 US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned
- Nov 8 IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
- Nov 9 Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan
- Nov 11 Murray Schisgal's "Luv" premieres in NYC
- Nov 12 Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg
- Nov 12 Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH
- Nov 13 Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor
- Nov 15 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
- Nov 16 Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission
- Nov 16 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 17 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
- Nov 18 Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP
Event of Interest
Nov 18 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"
J. Edgar Hoover
Martin Luther King Jr.
- Nov 21 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
- Nov 21 Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world's longest
- Nov 24 Rebellion ends in Zaire
- Nov 28 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- Nov 28 Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars
- Nov 29 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
- Nov 30 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
- Dec 1 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
Event of Interest
Dec 2 Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed
Ringo Starr
- Dec 3 Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
- Dec 5 Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the Vietnam War for successfully repelling a large Viet Cong attack
- Dec 6 "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV
- Dec 6 President Antonio Segni of Italy resigns
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo
Martin Luther King Jr.
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Dorothy Hodgkin is the first British woman to be awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for work on penicillin and vitamin B12
Dorothy Hodgkin
Event of Interest
Dec 11 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
Che Guevara
- Dec 13 In El Paso, Texas, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border
- Dec 14 Michael Brown meets Renee Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Renee"
- Dec 15 1st time 4 people in space
- Dec 15 Canada's House of Commons votes 163 to 78 to approve the red Maple Leaf Flag
- Dec 16 US performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean
- Dec 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 20 Levi Eshkol forms 12th Israeli government
- Dec 22 First flight of the US aircraft Lockheed SR-71, reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
- Dec 23 India & Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed
- Dec 26 Moors Murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley claim last victim
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Principal filming on film "Doctor Zhivago" begins
Ralph Richardson
Event of Interest
Dec 30 Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice" premieres in NYC
Edward Albee