- January 11
- 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain. [1]
- January 12
- US President Lyndon Johnson says US should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends. [1]
- January 17
- US Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, seven die. [1]
- January 19
- Indira Gandhi elected India's third prime minister. [1]
- January 23
- Near Dulce, New Mexico, a magnitude 5.1 earthquake occurs. Affected almost every house in Dulce. Property damage estimated at about US$200,000. [53]
- January 29
- Snow storm in north-east US kills 165. [1]
- January 31
- Belgian state police kills two striking mine workers. [1]
- USSR launches Luna 9 toward the Moon. [1]
- February 1
- Nicholas Piantanida sets balloon flight record and dies in descent. [1]
- February 3
- First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1, launched (US). [1]
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- February 4
- All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport, Japan; kills 133. [1]
- February 5
- BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island. [1]
- In Central Greece, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. One person killed and 50 injured. Extensive property damage at Krenti, Kliston, Fourna, Alestia, and surrounding villages. [53]
- February 10
- Harmel government in Belgium resigns. [1]
- February 11
- San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays signs highest contract, US$130,000 per year. [1]
- February 13
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- February 14
- Decimalization Day in Australia, as currency is switched from pounds to dollars. Dollar and cent denominated coins and stamps are issued. [1] [501.141] [1166.210] [1135]
- February 16
- France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria. [1]
- February 17
- French satellite Diapason D-1A launched into Earth orbit. [1] [707.169]
- February 20
- Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR. [1]
- February 21
- Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution. [1]
- February 22
- Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, first two-dog crew. [1]
- February 23
- Aldo Moro forms Italian government. [1]
- Military coup under Hafiz al-Assad in Syria ends Bitar government. [1]
- Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda. [1]
- February 24
- Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. [1]
- February 26
- The launch of AS-201 marks the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. [5]
- March 1
- Ba'ath party takes power in Syria. [1]
- March 3
- Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée. [1]
- Tornado hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after first sighting, 57 die. [1]
- March 4
- Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, Japan; 64 die. [1]
- John Lennon says "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus". [1]
- North Sea Gas is first pumped ashore by British Petroleum. [1]
- The last Studebaker car rolls off the production line in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [436.42]
- March 5
- 75-MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die. [1]
- March 7
- In East of Longyao, Hebei (Hopeh), China, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs. More than 135,000 houses collapse and 190,000 are severely damaged in Hebei Province. Over 106,000 houses collapse and another 100,000 are heavily damaged in Julu County. [53]
- March 8
- An Irish Republican Army bomb destroys Nelson's Column in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
- March 10
- Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg. [1]
- North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley. [1]
- March 11
- Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out. [1]
- March 17
- South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund. [1]
- US submarine locates missing hydrogen bomb in Mediterranean. [1]
- March 18
- General Suharto forms government in Indonesia. [1]
- March 19
- Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins. [1]
- March 20
- In Lake Edward region, Democratic Republic of the Congo, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. About 140 fatalities and hundreds of injuries were reported. At Kamango, a chasm 8 feet wide and 1,000 feet long opened up in the ground. [53]
- March 22
- Southeast of Ningjin, Hebei (Hopeh), China, a magnitude 6.9 earthquake occurs. Extensive damage to hundreds of thousands of rooms, but casualty figures are not released. [53]
- March 23
- First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church. [1]
- March 27
- Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia. [1]
- March 31
- 25,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City, New York. [1]
- Labour Party wins British parliamentary election. [1]
- USSR launches Luna 10, first lunar orbiter. [1]
- April 1
- First world festival of black art (Dakar, Senegal). [1]
- China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution". [1]
- April 6
- Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. [1]
- April 7
- US recovers lost hydroden bomb from Mediterranean floor. [1]
- April 8
- Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Soviet communist party. [1]
- At the Astrodome in Houston, Texas, USA, the Houston Astros and Los Angeles Dodgers play baseball's first game on synthetic grass. The Monsanto chemical company provided the experimental playing surface of nylon grass, dubbed Astro Turf. [56]
- OAO 1, the first orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched. [1]
- April 12
- First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam. [1]
- Sumokil, President of Republic South Moluccas, executed. [1]
- April 15
- President of Iraq Abul Salam Arif dies in a helicopter crash. [1215.811]
- April 16
- Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain. [1]
- April 21
- Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston, Jamaica. [1]
- April 22
- USSR performs underground nuclear test. [1]
- April 25
- Drunk driver kills ten children in Asse, Belgium. [1]
- April 26
- In Tashkent, Uzbekistan, a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurs. 10 killed, 1,000 injured, 100,000 left homeless. 28,000 buildings destroyed in the Old Quarter of Tashkent. [53]
- April 28
- OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms. [1]
- May 1
- Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting. [1]
- US troops shooting targets in Cambodia. [1]
- May 2
- Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Junior (Thousand Days). [1]
- May 4
- Soviet Government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR. [1]
- May 9
- People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor. [1]
- May 15
- South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die. [1]
- May 16
- Mao Zedong approves a secret circular declaring war on "representatives of the bourgeoisie" who had "sneaked into the Communist Party, the government, the army, and various spheres of culture". The Cultural Revolution. (The result ten years later: 1 million dead, millions banished to the countryside, tens of millions humiliated or tortured.) [1287.35]
- May 19
- Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook (1773), dies. [1]
- May 26
- Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam. [1]
- The former Crown Colony of British Guiana becomes independent as Guyana. [1841.611]
- May 27
- 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes. [1]
- Six French fighters crash above Spain. [1]
- May 30
- 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam. [1]
- June 14
- Pope Paul VI abolishes the Catholic Church's list of forbidden books. [1673.27]
- June 24
- Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die. [1]
- June 25
- Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched. [1]
- June 29
- US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities. [1]
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- The 11.5-ton Mundrabilla meteorite is found in Nullarbor Plain in Australia. [523.58]
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