Events 201 - 339 of 339
- Jul 29 In Nigerian counter-coup, Head of State General Aguiyi Ironsi is assassinated by a group of Northern Nigerian officers and soldiers
- Jul 30 US airplanes bomb the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam
- Aug 1 Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas
Coup d'état
Aug 1 Yakubu Gowon becomes Nigerian Head of State after a military coup d'état
Event of Interest
Aug 5 Martin Luther King Jr. stoned during Chicago march
- Aug 5 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Aug 6 Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge in Europe)
- Aug 6 US citizens demonstrate against war in Vietnam
- Aug 7 Race riot in Lansing Michigan
- Aug 10 NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 1 to the Moon to photograph the lunar surface
- Aug 12 Longview, Texas radio station KLUE holds a "Beatles Bonfire" to burn Beatles records and memorabilia; station is struck by lightning the following day
- Aug 13 Longview, Texas radio station KLUE is struck by lightning the day after holding a "Beatles Bonfire", knocking an engineer unconscious and causing extensive damage to equipment
- Aug 14 1st US lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon
- Aug 15 Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission
- Aug 17 NASA satellite Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit
- Aug 19 Earthquake strikes Varto region in eastern Turkey with 6.8 magnitude killing around 2,400
- Aug 23 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon
- Aug 24 USSR launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
- Aug 26 KLOC (now KCSO) channel 42 in Charlotte, North Carolina (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Aug 27 Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world
- Aug 27 Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois
- Aug 29 Dutch Internal minister Smallenbroek resigns after driving drunk
- Sep 3 24th World Science Fiction Convention honors Gene Roddenberry
- Sep 6 Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia
- Sep 7 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Event of Interest
Sep 8 The Severn Bridge between England and Wales is officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
Event of Interest
Sep 9 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Sep 11 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Sep 12 Gemini XI with Charles "Pete" Conrad and Richard F. Gordon aboard launched for 71-hour flight
- Sep 12 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor Mich begins teaching
- Sep 13 Johannes Balthazar Vorster sworn in as premier of South Africa
- Sep 15 Dutch political party (D'66) forms
- Sep 15 First British nuclear ballistic missile submarine HMS Resolution launched
- Sep 15 Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth
- Sep 15 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to the United States Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.
- Sep 20 US Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23
- Sep 21 Five inches of rain falls on NYC
- Sep 22 Surveyor 2 crashes on the Moon, and all contact with it is lost
- Sep 24 -30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in the Caribbean, Florida & Mexico
- Sep 24 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
- Sep 26 "Staten Island" 1st icebreaker to enter San Francisco Bay
- Sep 29 The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.
- Sep 30 Bechuanaland, in southern Africa, gains independence from Great Britain, becomes Republic of Botswana
- Sep 30 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- Oct 1 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
- Oct 1 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
- Oct 3 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
- Oct 4 Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism
- Oct 4 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Oct 4 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
Event of Interest
Oct 5 Nigerian government presents a copy of Ben Enwonwu's sculpture "The Awakening" to the United Nations
- Oct 6 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow
- Oct 6 Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
- Oct 8 Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52)
- Oct 10 The Beach Boys release their influential single "Good Vibrations"
- Oct 13 173 US aircraft bomb North Vietnam
- Oct 13 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor (USN) becomes deputy director of CIA
- Oct 14 175 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam
- Oct 14 Dutch government of Cals falls by motion of Schmelzer
- Oct 15 Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself" as "terribly obscene"
Event of Interest
Oct 15 Black Panther Party created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale in Oakland, California
Nobel Prize
Oct 20 Nobel Prize for Literature awarded jointly to Jewish writers Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs
The Tragedy of Aberfan
Oct 21 116 children and 28 adults died as a coal waste heap slid and engulfed a school in Aberfan, South Wales
- Oct 22 USSR launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon
- Oct 25 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam
- Oct 26 First Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
- Oct 26 US aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die
- Oct 27 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Oct 27 UN deprives South Africa of Namibia
- Oct 27 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- Oct 28 Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour
- Oct 29 Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7°N 162°E
Event of Interest
Oct 29 National Organization of Women founded in Washington D.C. with Betty Friedan as President
- Nov 1 Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created
- Nov 1 William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km
- Nov 2 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
- Nov 4 Flooding of Arno River (Florence, Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
- Nov 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 6 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
- Nov 7 Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah" premieres in NYC
- Nov 7 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
Election of Interest
Nov 8 Edward W. Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st African American popularly elected to the US Senate
- Nov 9 Oakland Coliseum Arena opens
Event of Interest
Nov 10 Jack Lynch becomes Irish premier (Taoiseach)
- Nov 10 Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
- Nov 11 Gemini 12 (Lovell & Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight
- Nov 11 Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA)
- Nov 11 NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12
- Nov 12 18-year-old US High schooler Robert Smith kills 5 people at Arizona's Rose-Mar Beauty College for fame
A Selfie in Space
Nov 12 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program
- Nov 12 Dick The Bruiser beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ
- Nov 15 Gemini XII (Lovell & Aldrin) returns to Earth
- Nov 16 Dr Sam Sheppard freed by a jury after 9 years in jail
- Nov 17 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
- Nov 18 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 18 US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
- Nov 19 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
- Nov 20 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
- Nov 21 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
- Nov 24 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
- Nov 24 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attacks in New York City smog, smoggiest day in city's history
- Nov 24 A Bulgarian plane with 82 people on board crashes near Bratislava, Slovakia.
- Nov 25 Pirate Radio Station 390 (Radio Invicta) closes down (reopen 12/31)
- Nov 26 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
- Nov 27 Uruguay adopts constitution
- Nov 28 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
- Nov 28 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
- Nov 29 SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.
- Nov 30 Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
- Nov 30 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
- Dec 1 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
- Dec 1 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
- Dec 3 US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi
- Dec 4 Military Working Dog "Nemo" saves the life of his handler Airman Robert A. Throneburg during the Vietnam War, surviving a gunshot wound to the nose
- Dec 7 A fire at an army barracks in Erzurum, Turkey kills 68 people.
- Dec 8 US and USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
- Dec 10 Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature
- Dec 10 Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Robert S. Mulliken
- Dec 13 1st battle for Bijlmer flats, Amsterdam
- Dec 13 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 15 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
- Dec 15 John W. Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints
- Dec 18 Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
- Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 20 Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels
- Dec 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 21 USSR launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum
- Dec 24 Soviet spacecraft Luna 13 lands on Moon
- Dec 24 USAF C144 military charter aircraft crashes near Binh Thai, Vietnam, killing 129
- Dec 26 Maulana Karenga establishes Kwanzaa (1st fruits of harvest) holiday
- Dec 28 13 die in a train crash in Everett, Massachusetts
- Dec 28 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Dec 29 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester, Massachusetts)
- Dec 31 Pirate Radio 390 (Radio Invicata) off England, resumes transmitting
- Dec 31 Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks