- July 28
- Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon. [1]
- July 31
- US Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on the Moon. These are the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes. [1] [5]
- August 2
- North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin. [1]
- August 5
- US begins bombing North Vietnam. [1]
- August 7
- US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution. [1]
- August 13
- Last death penalty executions in Great Britain carried out: Peter Anthony and John Robson Walby executed at Stangways Gaol, Manchester. [55.31]
- September 4
- Forth Road Bridge opens in England over the "Firth of Forth". [1]
- NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1). [1]
- September 12
- Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, causing $17.5 million damage. [1]
- September 21
- Malta gains independence from Britain. [1]
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- The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's first Mach 3 bomber, takes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California, USA. [5]
- September 22
- Fiddler on the Roof opens on Broadway; runs 3,242 performances. [1]
- September 27
- Warren Commission releases report finding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy. [1]
- October 4
- Three cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81. [1]
- October 6
- In Turkey, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. [53]
- October 12
- Launch of Voskhod 1, first three man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov). [1]
- October 14
- Martin Luther King Junior wins Nobel Peace Prize. [1]
- October 15
- Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Krushchev. [1]
- October
- Southern Rhodesia changes its name to Rhodesia. [278.476]
- October 16
- China becomes world's 5th nuclear power. [1]
- October 23
- Smithsonian Institution's Hall of Monetary History and Medallic Art opens. [555.30]
- October 24
- Northern Rhodesia, renamed Zambia, gains independence. [285.1165] [1158.29]
- October 29
- Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York. [1]
- November 5
- US launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned. [1]
- November 6
- The USSR proclaims Richard Sorge posthumously a Hero of the Soviet Union. Sorge headed a Soviet spy ring in Tokyo until his capture in October 1941. [10]
- November 21
- World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City, New York). [1]
- November 24
- Rebellion ends in Congo. [1]
- November 28
- Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars. [1]
- November 29
- Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English. [1]
- November 30
- USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned. [1]
- December 6
- President Segni of Italy resigns. [1]
- December 10
- Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther King Junior. [1]
- December 13
- In El Paso, Texas, US President Lyndon Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border. [1]
- December 15
- First time four people in space. [1]
- December 20
- Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government. [1]
- December 22
- Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet). [1]
- December 23
- India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed. [1]
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