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- Nov 14 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
- Nov 14 First European lung transplant
- Nov 14 Yale University announces it is going co-educational
- Nov 16 The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people
- Nov 17 Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
- Nov 18 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
- Nov 19 Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
- Nov 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historic Event
Nov 22 Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest movement
- Nov 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Historic Event
Nov 30 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
- Dec 1 Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
Appointment of Interest
Dec 2 US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
- Dec 4 Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march
- Dec 6 PBA National Championship won by Wayne Zahn
- Dec 7 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
- Dec 7 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati
Historic Invention
Dec 9 In “The Mother of All Demos" Douglas Engelbart demonstrates the computer system NLS (oN-Line System) to a live audience in San Francisco. Shows for the first time, the mouse, word processing, windows, hypertext links, video conferencing, real-time collaboration, and other modern computing concepts. [1]
- Dec 9 The Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
- Dec 10 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.
- Dec 11 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
- Dec 11 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband
- Dec 12 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill receives overwhelming support from Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs) at Stormont
- Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Dec 13 Brazilian President Da Costa e Silva issues Ato Institucional Número Cinco degree
- Dec 16 Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain at Second Vatican Council
- Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
- Dec 20 Learie Constantine becomes UK's first person of African descent to be named a life peer (to sit in the House of Lords) in the Crown's New Year's Honours list [1]
- Dec 20 The People's Democracy (PD) announce that its members will undertake a protest march from Belfast to Derry beginning 1 January 1969
- Dec 20 The Zodiac Killer murders teenagers Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday while on their first date together in Vallejo, California [1]
Historic Expedition
Dec 21 Apollo 8: 1st manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders
- Dec 23 1st US case of space motion sickness
- Dec 23 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
- Dec 23 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st men to orbit the Moon
- Dec 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
- Dec 25 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers
- Dec 25 Frank Borman's Christmas reading while orbiting the Moon
- Dec 26 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
- Dec 26 Jay Allens "Forty Carats" premieres in NYC
- Dec 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
- Dec 27 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Dec 28 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
- Dec 29 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
- Dec 30 -48°F (-44°C), Mazama & Winthrop, Washington (state record)
- Dec 31 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian TU-144)