- January 14
- 20,000 attend the Human Be-In, San Francisco, California, USA. [1]
- Earthquake in Sicily kills 231. [1]
- January 18
- Yellowknife replaces Ottawa as capital of North West Territories, Canada. [1]
- January 26
- USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan. [1]
- January 27
- At Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, a fire breaks out during a manned launch-pad test of the Apollo spacecraft and Saturn rocket, killing astronauts Virgil I Grissom, Lieutenant-Colonel US Air Force Edward Higgins White II, and Roger B Chaffee. [1] [129] [452.94]
- Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space is signed. [1]
- February 1
- Severe brush fires in Tasmania destroy $11 million and 60 lives. [1]
- February 2
- Bolivia adopts its constitution. [1]
- February 5
- Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua. [1]
- Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Robert Penn Warren. [1]
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- February 6
- Cultural Revolution in Albania. [1]
- February 8
- French Diadème D-1C satellite is launched into Earth orbit. [1]
- February 9
- In Colombia, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. 98 people killed and widespread property damage was sustained. Hundreds of landslides occur on the slopes of the two Cordilleras facing the Magdalena Valley. [53]
- February 14
- Latin American nuclear-free zone proposal drawn up. [1]
- February 15
- French Diadème 1-D satellite launches into Earth orbit. [1]
- February 17
- Kosmos 140 (Soyuz test) launches into Earth orbit. [1]
- February 22
- 25,000 American and South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border. [1]
- February 23
- US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War. [1]
- February 26
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- February 27
- Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla gains independence. [278.798]
- March 1
- Dominica and Saint Lucia gain independence from Britain. [1]
- Queen Elizabeth Hall (South Bank Center) opens in London, England. [1]
- March 3
- Grenada gains partial independence from Britain. [1]
- March 6
- Josef Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US. [1]
- March 9
- Svetlana Allilueva, Josef Stalin's daughter, defects to the West in New York City. [1]
- March 12
- Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority. [1]
- March 13
- Congo sentences ex-premier Moïse Tsjombe to death. [1]
- March 15
- Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as President of Brazil. [1]
- March 18
- The oil tanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off Corwell, UK, spilling 93.2-146 million litres of crude oil. [1] [522]
- March 19
- French Somaliland (Djibouti) votes to continue association with France. [1]
- The Somali Coast changes its name to the French Territory of the Afars and Issas. [285.29]
- March 20
- A J F Moody is first US Army General to die in Vietnam. [1]
- March 25
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- March 26
- Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio. [1]
- March 28
- United Nations Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace in Vietnam. [1]
- April 1
- First British ombudsman sir Edward Compton begins work. [1]
- April 4
- Dutch De Young government forms. [1]
- April 6
- Premier Pompidou forms new French government. [1]
- April 7
- Israeli/Syrian border fights. [1]
- Tom Donahue, San Francisco disc jockey, begins new radio format - Progressive (KMPX-FM). [1]
- April 14
- General Gnassingbe Eyadema becomes President of Togo. [1]
- In the Vietnam War, US planes bomb Haiphong for first time. [1]
- April 20
- French author Régis Debray caught in Bolivia. [1]
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- April 21
- EO, Evangelical Broadcasting, begins in Netherlands. [1]
- Military coup in Greece, Konstantinos Kollias becomes premier. [1]
- April 22
- Martial Law goes into effect in Greece. [1]
- April 23
- Soviet Soyuz 1 launched. [1]
- April 24
- Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), is first to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 at age 40. [1]
- April 25
- Britain grants internal self-government to Swaziland. [1]
- April 26
- San Marco 2 satellite launch (first Equatorial launch). [1]
- April 28
- Expo 67 opens in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. [1]
- April 30
- Highest tower in the world finished, 537 metres (USSR). [1]
- May 1
- Anastasio Somoza Debayle becomes President of Nicaragua. [1]
- In the mountainous area of northern Arta Province, Greece, a magnitude 5.9 earthquake occurs. 9 killed, 56 injured, and over 100 houses destroyed. Extensive earthslides in the Ioannina (Jannina) District. [53]
- Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (The Fixer). [1]
- May 6
- Zakir Hussain elected first Muslim President of India. [1]
- May 9
- First flight of Fokker F-28 Fellowship. [1]
- May 10
- Stockholm Vietnam-Tribunal declares US aggression in Vietnam/Cambodia. [1]
- May 11
- Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark apply for European Community membership. [1]
- May 18
- Silver on London exchange hits record US$1.60 per troy ounce. The US government stops selling stockpile at $1.2929, and bans export of silver coins. [1] [406.88] [588.72] [618.77] [639.12]
- US Treasury bans the private melting or export of US silver coins. (The ban is lifted on April 11, 1969.) [388.B20] [433.1] [582.51]
- May 19
- US bombs Hanoi, Vietnam. [1]
- USSR ratifies treaty with England and US banning nuclear weapons in space. [1]
- May 22
- Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser closes Straits of Tiran to Israel. [1]
- Fire at L'Innovation department store kills 322 (Brussels, Belgium). [1]
- May 23
- Government bans submarines near South Africa. [1]
- May 28
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- May 29
- Pope Paul VI names 27 new cardinals, including Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow (later becomes Pope John Paul II). [1]
- May 30
- Biafra declares independence from Nigeria. [1] [686.15]
- Groundbreaking begins in Florida for Walt Disney World. [6]
- June 5
- For three hours, waves of Israeli fight-bombers attack Egyptian airfields, destroying almost all of 340 planes, killing 100 combat pilots. [885.22]
- June 6
- Six-day war between Israel and Arab neighbors begins. [1]
- June 7
- Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem. [1]
- June 8
- Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 US crewmen. [1]
- June 12
- Brunei and Singapore agree to allow both nations' currencies to co-circulate. [413.50] [434.46]
- USSR launches Venera 4; will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere (Venus) and successfully return data. [1] [5]
- Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt end "Six Day War" with United Nations' help. [1]
- June 14
- Launch of Mariner V for Venus fly-by. [1]
- USSR launches Kosmos 166 for observation of Sun from Earth orbit. [1]
- June 17
- China becomes world's fourth thermonuclear (hydrogen bomb) power. [1]
- June 23
- US President Lyndon Johnson and Alexei Kosygin hold first of two summit meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey. [1]
- June 27
- The world's first automated teller machine (ATM) is installed in Enfield, London. [5]
- June 29
- Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem. [1]
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- A cruise ship of Princess Cruises is the first cruise ship to pass through the Panama Canal. [1436.8]
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