Events in History
Events 301 - 364 of 364
- Oct 18 Federal government bans use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
- Oct 18 Jefferson Airplane's Paul Kanter arrested for marijuana possession
- Oct 18 Soyuz 8 returns to Earth
- Oct 19 Oakland Darryle Lamonica passes for 6 touchdowns vs Buffalo (50-21)
- Oct 21 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
- Oct 21 Leonard Gersh's "Butterflies are Free" premieres in NYC
Election of Interest
Oct 21 German statesman Willy Brandt is elected chancellor of West Germany (1969-1974)
Willy Brandt
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Oct 27 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
Ralph Nader
- Oct 27 St Vincent & Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
- Oct 29 US Supreme Court orders end to all school segregation "at once"
- Oct 29 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Oct 31 Eastside race riot in Jacksonville, Florida
- Nov 3 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
- Nov 9 "Bridge over Troubled Water" single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel
Event of Interest
Nov 12 Author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn expelled from the Soviet Writers Union
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Nov 12 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
- 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)
Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstration
Nov 15 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States
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- Nov 15 Wendy's Hamburgers, American fast food restaurant chains founded by Dave Thomas opens in Columbus, Ohio
- Nov 16 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported
- Nov 17 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
- Nov 18 Prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi assigned to the Tate and LaBianca murders, will eventually convict Charles Mason for orchestrating the killings
- Nov 19 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
- Nov 20 Alcatraz Island, off San Francisco, is seized by militant Native Americans
- Nov 21 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 22 Isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University
- Nov 24 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
- Nov 24 West German President Heinemann visits The 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 26 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
- Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 1 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
- Dec 1 LAPD Police Chief Edward Davis announces warrants for the arrest of the Manson cult for murder
- Dec 2 Boeing 747 jumbo jet 1st public preview (Seattle to NYC)
- Dec 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 5 Four-node ARPANET network is established
- Dec 6 USSR performs nuclear test
- Dec 8 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
- Dec 8 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in LA
- Dec 11 Libya adopts constitution
- Dec 12 Offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed, killing 14
- Dec 13 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
- Dec 14 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
- Dec 15 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
- Dec 16 British House of Commons votes 343-185 to abolish the death penalty
- Dec 16 "War is Over! If You Want It, Happy Christmas from John & Yoko" posters begin appearing
- Dec 17 USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
- Dec 18 House of Lords votes to abolish the death penalty in England, Wales and Scotland (Northern Ireland 25 July 1973)
- Dec 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 25 5 Israeli gunboats escape from Cherbourg harbor
- Dec 25 India all out for 163 at Madras v Aust, Ashley Mallett 5-91
Event of Interest
Dec 28 Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" premieres in NYC
Neil Simon
- Dec 28 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 28 Dallas Cowboy kicker Mike Clark, attempting an on-side kick against Cleveland, missed the ball
- Dec 30 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 31 Congo-Brazzaville becomes People's republic, under major Ngouabi