Events in History
Events 301 - 399 of 399
- Oct 2 US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
- Oct 4 Last wooden passenger subway cars retired at Brooklyn Myrtle Beach
- Oct 4 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
- Oct 8 The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago, Illinois.
- Oct 11 -28] Rome: 2nd bishop synod
- Oct 11 Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 & 8 follow in next 2 days
- Oct 11 Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist Shankill area of Belfast
- Oct 12 1st time 5 people in space
- Oct 12 KDB-AM in Santa Barbara CA changes call letters to KAPN
- Oct 12 KHOF (now KAGL) TV ch 30 in San Bernardino/Glenda, CA (IND) begins
- Oct 12 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 7 is launched
- Oct 13 1st time 7 people in space
- Oct 13 Billy Martin (97-65) is fired as manager of AL West-winning Twins
- Oct 13 Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 8 is launched
- Oct 14 Palme government forms in Sweden
- Oct 14 Race riots in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Oct 14 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 14 The United Kingdom introduces the 50p (fifty-pence) coin, replacing the ten-shilling note, in anticipation of currency decimalisation in 1971
- Oct 15 Bank of America World Headquarters (555 California) dedicated
- Oct 15 Vietnam Moratorium Day; millions nationwide protest the war
- Oct 16 Soyuz 6 returns to Earth
- Oct 17 NY Nets move from Comack to Island Garden, Hempstead NY
- Oct 17 Plastic Ono Band's "Cold Turkey" is released in UK
- Oct 17 Soyuz 7 returns to Earth
- 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
Event of Interest
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 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
- Oct 29 Tom Seaver voted NL Cy Young Award
- 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 6 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
- Nov 9 "Bridge over Troubled Water" single recorded by Simon & Garfunkel
- Nov 12 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
- Nov 12 Minnesota's Harmon Killebrew is voted AL MVP
- Nov 12 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19
Event of Interest
Nov 13 Vice President Spiro Agnew accuses network TV news departments of bias and distortion
Spiro Agnew
Vietnam War Moratorium Demonstration
Nov 15 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States
- 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 19 Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
- Nov 20 Alcatraz Island off SF, 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 Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
- Nov 26 Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
- Nov 28 Ted Sizemore becomes 7th Dodger to win NL Rookie of Year
- 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 3 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
- 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 Bomb attack on bank in Milan, 14 killed
- Dec 12 Strategia della tensione: Piazza Fontana bombing - The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
- Dec 13 Arlo Guthrie releases "Alice's Restaurant"
- Dec 14 "La Strada" opens/closes at Lunt Fontanne NYC for 1 performance
- Dec 14 Bishen Bedi takes 7-98 (career-best) v Australia at Calcutta
- Dec 14 Jackson Five made their 1st appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show"
- Dec 15 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
- 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 21 Diana Ross final TV appearance as a Supreme (Ed Sullivan Show)
- 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