1966-The Year In Review
| January 1 | 12 day transit worker strike shuts down New York City subway | February 1 | West Germany has purchased 2600 political prisoners from East Germany |
| January 1 | All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health" | February 3 | 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched U.S. |
| January 1 | Simon and Garfunkel's "Sounds of Silence" reaches #1 | February 3 | 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9) |
| January 2 | 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion | February 4 | All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport (Japan); kills 133 |
| January 2 | Green Bay Packers beat Cleveland Browns 23-12 in NFL championship game | February 5 | BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island |
| January 3 | First Acid Test at the Fillmore, San Francisco | February 6 | Fidel Castro blames China for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda among Cuban soldiers |
| January 5 | Fire due to a gas leak in Feyzin oil refinery near Lyon, France- 12 dead, 80 injured | February 9 | Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points |
| January 7 | Dance Theatre of Harlem debuts | February 10 | Harmel government in Belgium resigns |
| January 8 | Gene Kiniski beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become NWA champ | February 10 | Soviet writers Yuli Daniel and Andrei Sinjavski are sentenced for five and seven years, respectively, for anti-Soviet writings |
| January 8 | Beatles' "We Can Work It Out," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks | February 11 | Belgian government resigns |
| January 8 | Who and the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC | February 11 | San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year |
| January 9 | Polish government denies exit visa to Cardinal Wyszynski revisionism | February 13 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| January 10 | India and Pakistan sign peace accord | February 14 | Australia introduces 1st decimal currency postage stamps |
| January 10 | Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War | February 14 | Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points |
| January 11 | 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain | February 14 | Writers Andrei Sinjavski and Joeij Daniel found guilty |
| January 11 | "Daktari" African adventure series premieres on CBS TV | February 14 | The Australian Dollar was introduced at a rate of two dollars per pound, or ten shillings per dollar. |
| January 12 | 12 day New York City transit strike ends | February 15 | Kees Verkerk becomes world champion all-round skater |
| January 12 | "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV | February 16 | Bob Cowper makes 307 vs. England at the MCG, 727 mins, 20 fours |
| January 12 | Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends | February 16 | End of Wally Grout's Test Cricket career, 187 dismissals as Aust WK |
| January 12 | Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics | February 16 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| January 13 | 1st black selected for President cabinet (Lyndon Baines Johnson selects Robert C Weaver-HUD) | February 17 | French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit |
| January 13 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | February 19 | Naval minister of United Kingdom, Christopher Mayhew, resigns |
| January 14 | David Bowie releases his 1st record (Can't Help Thinking About Me) | February 20 | Author Valery Tarsis banished in U.S.S.R. |
| January 15 | Moscow announces that Sergei Korolev is dead litary coup in Nigeria | February 21 | Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution |
| January 16 | Harold R Perry becomes 2nd black Roman Catholic bishop in US | February 22 | Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew |
| January 16 | Metropolitan Opera House opens in Lincoln Center | February 23 | Aldo Moro forms Italian government |
| January 17 | B-52/KC-135 tankers crash near Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die | February 23 | Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government |
| January 17 | Martin Luther King, Jr. opens campaign in Chicago | February 23 | Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda |
| January 17 | The Nigerian coup is overturned | February 24 | Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana |
| January 17 | A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 jet tanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton hydrogen bombs near the town of Palomares and one into the sea | February 24 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| January 17 | Carl Brashear, the first African American United States Navy diver, is involved in an accident on a routine mission which amputates his leg. | February 25 | Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad |
| January 18 | Robert C Weaver, confirmed as 1st black cabinet member (HUD) | February 27 | Ice Dance Championship at Davos won by Diane Towler/Bernard Ford GRB |
| January 18 | About 8000 US soldiers land in South Vietnam - numbers of US troops total 190.000 | February 27 | Ice Pairs Championship at Davos won by Belousova and Protopopov of URS |
| January 21 | Beatle George Harrison marries model Patti Boyd | February 27 | Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of U.S. |
| January 26 | Three Beaumont chrildren disapper on their way to Glenelg Beach Adelaide SA, Australia. Never to be seen again | February 27 | Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT |
| January 29 | Snow storm in north east U.S. kills 165 | February 28 | Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes |
| January 30 | Dmitri Sjostakovitsj completes his 11th string quartet | February 28 | Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers |
| January 31 | Belgian state police kills 2 striking mine workers | February 28 | US astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See are killed in an aircraft accident in St. Louis, MO |
| January 31 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 9 towards Moon | February 28 | Beatles "Ticket to Ride" is released in U.K. |
| March 1 | U.S. Ranger 9 launched; takes 5,814 pictures before lunar impact | April 1 | 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal) |
| March 1 | Soviet spce probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another plantet's surface | April 1 | China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution" |
| March 1 | U.S. confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong | April 2 | Indonesian army demands that the country rejoin the United Nations |
| March 2 | 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam | April 2 | Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon |
| March 3 | Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al) | April 3 | Luna 10 orbits Moon |
| March 3 | Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinee | April 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Venice Ladies Golf Open |
| March 3 | Twister hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after 1st sighting, 57 die | April 3 | Tom Seaver, signs with the Mets for a reported $50,000 bonus |
| March 4 | Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing at Tokyo, 64 die | April 4 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| March 4 | John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" | April 6 | Mihir Sen swims Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India |
| March 4 | North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum | April 7 | U.S. recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor |
| March 5 | Massive theft of nuclear materials revealed in Brazil | April 8 | AFL chooses 36 year old Al Davis as commissioner |
| March 5 | 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die | April 8 | Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Communist Party |
| March 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | April 8 | OAO 1, 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, launched |
| March 6 | Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks) | April 9 | Anaheim Stadium for California Angels opens |
| March 8 | An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Pillar in Dublin | April 9 | Sophia Loren marries married Carlo Ponti in Paris |
| March 5 | Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame | April 11 | 30th Golf Masters Championship: Jack Nicklaus wins, shooting a 288 |
| March 8 | Vietnam War: Australia announces it is going to substantially increase its number of troops in Vietnam | April 11 | Emmett Ashford becomes 1st black major league umpire |
| March 9 | Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board | April 12 | 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam |
| March 10 | Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg | April 12 | Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium opens; Pirates beat Braves 3-2 |
| March 10 | North Vietnamese capture U.S. Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley | April 12 | Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck |
| March 11 | Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out | April 13 | Pan Am places $525,000,000 order for 25 Boeing 747s |
| March 11 | French president Charles De Gaulle states that French troops will be taken out of NATO and that all French NATO bases and HQ's must be closed within a year | April 15 | Rolling Stones release "Aftermath" |
| March 12 | Love's 1st album released "Love" | April 16 | Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain |
| March 12 | Pioneer Plaza dedicated | April 17 | 100th International soccer meet between Netherlands-Belgium (3-1) |
| March 12 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | April 17 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Raleigh Ladies Golf Invitational |
| March 15 | 8th Grammy Awards: Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra and Striesand | April 18 | Bill Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics) |
| March 15 | Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles | April 19 | 70th Boston Marathon won by Kenji Kimihara of Japan in 2:17:11 |
| March 16 | Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits | April 19 | In 1st regular season game at Anaheim Stadium, Angels lose 3-1 to Chicago |
| March 17 | South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund | April 19 | Roberta Bignay becomes 1st woman to run in the Boston Marathon |
| March 17 | U.S. submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean | April 21 | Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica |
| March 18 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1 | April 22 | Atlanta Braves win their 1st game, beating New York Mets 8-4 |
| March 21 | Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene | April 22 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| March 24 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance | April 24 | Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee) |
| March 25 | Beatles pose with mutilated dolls and butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday and Today" album, It is later pulled | April 24 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
| March 25 | U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional | April 25 | Drunk driver kills 10 children in Asse Belgium |
| March 27 | Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in U.S., Europe and Australia | April 26 | Arnold "Red" Auerbach retires as Boston Celtic's coach |
| March 29 | 23rd Communist party conference in Soviet Union - Leonid Brezhnev demands that US troops leave Vietnam and announces that Chinese-Soviet relations are not satisfying | April 28 | 20th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 3 |
| March 31 | 25,000 anti war demonstrators march in New York City | April 28 | 38th Academy Awards - "Sound of Music," Julie Christie and L Marvin win |
| March 31 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 10, 1st lunar orbiter | April 28 | OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms |
| May 1 | Last British concert by Beatles (Empire Pool in Wembley) | June 1 | 2,400 persons attend White House Conference on Civil Right |
| May 1 | Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting | June 2 | U.S. Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing |
| May 1 | U.S. troops shooting targets in Cambodia | June 3 | Gemini 9 launched; 7th U.S. 2-man flight, Stafford and Cernan |
| May 2 | Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger, Jr. (Thousand Days) | June 4 | "Batman and His Grandmother" by Dickie Goodman hits #70 |
| May 4 | Soviet government signs accord about building Fiat factory in U.S.S.R | June 4 | Hurricane Alma, kills 51 in Honduras |
| May 5 | Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 2 | June 5 | Gene Cernan completes second U.S. spacewalk (which lasted 2 hours, 7 minutes) on the Gemini 9 mission. |
| May 5 | Willie Mays hit his 512th HR | June 6 | Activist James Meredith wounded by white sniper in Mississippi |
| May 6 | Canadian Minister of Finance announces a $20 Centennial gold coin | June 6 | Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" |
| May 7 | Mamas and Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1 | June 6 | Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement |
| May 7 | Yankees fire manager Johnny Keene | June 10 | Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in U.K. |
| May 8 | Last game at old Busch stadium, St. Louis Card lose 10-5 to SF | June 10 | Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes |
| May 8 | Only HR ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Park (Frank Robinson) | June 10 | Janis Joplin's 1st live concert, Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco |
| May 9 | 1st black member of Federal Reserve Board (A F Brimmer) | June 10 | Mamas and Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday" |
| May 9 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC | June 11 | French and German media mistakenly report death of Roger Daltry |
| May12 | Radio Peking claims that US planes have shot down a Chinese plane over Yunnan- US denies the story the next day | June 11 | "I Am A Rock" by Simon and Garfunkel peaks at #3 |
| May 13 | Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act | June 11 | "(I'm A) Road Runner" by, Jr. Walker and The All-Stars peaks at #20 |
| May 13 | Rolling Stones release "Paint it Black" | June 11 | "Paint It, Black" by The Rolling Stones peaks at #1 |
| May 15 | South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die | June 11 | "Sloop John B" by The Beach Boys hit #1 in U.K. |
| May 15 | South Vietnam army besieges Da Nang | June 12 | Dave Clark 5 set record as they appear for 12th time on Ed Sullivan |
| May 16 | Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released | June 13 | Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspect must be informed of rights |
| May 16 | National Welfare Rights Organization organizes | June 16 | "Rowan and Martin Show," debuts on NBC-TV |
| May 16 | Stokely Carmichael named chairman of Student Nonviolent Coordinating | June 20 | Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman |
| May 21 | Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97 | June 22 | "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens |
| May 21 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title | June 24 | Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die |
| May 22 | 18th Emmy Awards: Fugitive, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore | June 25 | Beatles' "Paperback Writer," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| May 23 | Beatles release "Paperback Writer" | June 25 | Kosmos 122, 1st Soviet weather satellite, launched |
| May 24 | "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1508 performances | June 26 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| May 25 | Peru and Argentina soccer fans fight in Lima; 248 die | June 26 | Kanton Bazel leads female suffrage in Switzerland |
| May 25 | Explorer 32 launches | June 27 | 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV |
| May 25 | In St. Louis, Missouri, US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey and US Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall dedicate the Gateway Arch as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial | June 29 | In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Hanoi and Haiphong for 1st time begins |
| May 26 | Buddhist sets self on fire at U.S. consulate in Hue South-Vietnam | June 29 | U.S. bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities |
| May 27 | 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes | June 30 | Beatles land in Tokyo for a concert tour |
| May 27 | 6 French fighters crash above Spain | June 30 | Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa |
| May 28 | "Ballad Of Irving" by Frank Gallop hits #34 | June 30 | Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA |
| May 28 | Fidel Castro announces a martial law in Cuba because of possible US attack | June 30 | Test cricket debut of Derek Underwood, vs. WI Trent Bridge, wicketless |
| May 30 | 300 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam | June 30 | Vice Adm William F Raborn Jr, USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA |
| May 30 | U.S. launches Surveyor 1 to Moon | June 30 | France formally leaves NATO |
| July 1 | Explorer 33 launched | August 3 | South African government bans Beatle records |
| July 1 | Medicare goes into effect | August 5 | Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" and "Eleanor Rigby" in UK |
| July 2 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | August 5 | Beatles' "Revolver" album is released |
| July 3 | Race riots in Omaha, Nebraska | August 5 | Martin Luther King, Jr. stoned during Chicago march |
| July 4 | Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos | August 5 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| July 4 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act | August 5 | 33rd NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Green Bay 38, All-Stars 0 (72,000) |
| July 4 | North Vietnam declares general mobilization | August 5 | Jose Torres beats Eddie Cotton to retain light-HW boxing title |
| July 5 | National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioting | August 6 | Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Brian London |
| July 5 | Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy | August 6 | Muhammad Ali KOs Brian London in 3 for heavyweight boxing title |
| July 8 | U.S. airline strike, until Aug 19th | August 6 | Salazarbrug over Tag opens (longest suspension bridge of Europe) |
| July 10 | U.S. launches Orbiter 1 to the Moon | August 7 | Race riot in Lansing, Michigan |
| July 12 | Race riot in Chicago | August 8 | South Arican Broadcasting bans Beatles (Lennon's anti-Jesus remark) |
| July 12 | US lieutenant major W.H. Whalen arrested for spying | August 10 | 1st lunar orbiter launched by U.S. |
| July 13 | Richard Speck, murders 8 nurses in Chicago | August 10 | Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere and leaving it again |
| July 16 | British Prime Minister Harold Wilson flies to Moscow to try to start peace negotiations about Vietnam War - Soviet Government refutes his ideas | August 10 | East German court sentences Gunter Laudahn to life imprisonment for espionage for USA |
| July 17 | Richard Speck arrested - he tries to commit suicide but fails | August 11 | Last Beatle concert tour of U.S. begins |
| July 17 | "It's a Bird... It's Superman" closes at Alvin New York City after 129 performances | August 13 | China begins Cultural Revolution |
| July 17 | Pioneer 7 launched | August 13 | An earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead, 10000 injured |
| July 18 | Gemini X lifts off for earth orbit with astronauts John Young and Michael Collins, setting a world altitude record of 474 miles. | August 14 | 1st U.S. lunar orbiter begins orbiting Moon |
| July 18 | The Hough Riots break out in Cleveland, Ohio, the city's first race riot. | August 14 | Cleveland Stadium's 1st rock concert is held, featuring Beatles |
| July 19 | 50 year old Frank Sinatra marries 21 year old Mia Farrow in Las Vegas | August 14 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| July 19 | France performs nuclear Test at Fangataufa Island | August 15 | Radio Free Asia (South Korea) begins radio transmission |
| July 19 | Gov James Rhodes declares state of emergency in Cleveland, race riot | August 16 | The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong with the intent to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested. |
| July 21 | Gemini X returns to Earth | August 17 | Saudi Arabia and United Arab Republic begin negotiations in Kuwait to end the war in Yemen |
| July 21 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | August 17 | Pioneer 7 launched into solar orbit |
| July 23 | Napoleon XIV releases "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!" | August 17 | Willie Mays takes 2nd place on all-time HR list |
| July 25 | Brian Jones final performance as a Rolling Stone | August 18 | D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment meets and defeats a Viet Cong force estimated to be four times larger, at the Battle of Long Tan in Phuoc Tuy Province, Republic of Vietnam |
| July 25 | Eric Clapton records guitar tracks for Harrison's "While My Guitar..." | August 19 | Earthquake strikes Varko Turkey: 2,400 killed |
| July 25 | Mao Tse Tung swims Yangtse River | August 20 | Beatles pelted with rotten fruit during Memphis concert |
| July 25 | Supremes release "You Can't Hurry Love" | August 22 | Beatles arrive in New York City |
| July 25 | Yankee manager Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame | August 23 | Lunar Orbiter 1 takes 1st photograph of Earth from Moon |
| July 28 | USA announces that U-2reconnaissance plane has disappeared over Cuba | August 24 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon |
| July 29 | Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York | August 27 | Francis Chichester begins 1st solo sail around world |
| July 30 | Beatles' "Yesterday... and Today," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks | August 27 | Race riot in Waukegan, Illinois |
| July 30 | U.S. airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam | August 28 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Glass City Golf Classic |
| July 31 | Alabamans burn Beatle products due to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark | August 29 | Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF) |
| July 31 | Charles Whitman wounds 46 and kills 5 at University of Texas | August 31 | Referee Leo Horn whistles his last soccer match (Ajax-Bulgaria) |
| September 1 | United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he is not going to seek re-election because UN efforts in Vietnam have failed. | October 3 | Tunisia severs its diplomatic relations to United Arab Republic |
| September 3 | 24th World San Francisco Convention honors Gene Roddenberry | October 3 | Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
| September 3 | Donovan hits #1 with "Sunshine Superman" | October 4 | Dutch Cardinal Alfrink presents New Catechism |
| September 5 | Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy telethon raises $15,000 | October 4 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| September 6 | Race riot in Atlanta, Georgia | October 6 | Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout |
| September 7 | The final new episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show airs (the first episode aired on October 3, 1961) | October 6 | Partial meltdown at Detroit’s Fermi 1 nuclear reactor |
| September 7 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. | October 7 | Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October |
| September 8 | Star Trek premieres on NBC-TV | October 8 | Wyoming's Jerry DePoyster kicks 3 field goals over 50 yds (54, 54, 52) |
| September 8 | "That Girl" starring Marlo Thomas premieres on ABC-TV | October 9 | Baltimore Orioles sweep Los Angeles Dodgers, in 63rd World Series |
| September 9 | John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition | October 9 | Rolling Stones 1st LP recorded "Got Live if you Want It" |
| September 10 | Beatles' "Revolver," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks | October 12 | Jimi Henrix Experience fors with Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell |
| September 10 | Muhammad Ali TKOs Karl Mildenberger in 12 for heavyweight boxing title | October 13 | 173 U.S. airplanes bomb North-Vietnam |
| September 10 | Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry) | October 13 | Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| September 11 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island | October 14 | 175 U.S. airplanes bomb North Vietnam |
| September 11 | Johnny Miller becomes 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat | October 15 | Australia bans Troggs' "I Can't Control Myself," as "terribly obscene" |
| September 11 | Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show | October 16 | Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland |
| September 12 | Gemini XI (Charles Conrad and R Gordon) launched for 71-hour flight | October 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R. |
| September 12 | "Monkees" premieres on NBC-TV | October 19 | Yardbird 1st U.S. tour (New York City) |
| September 15 | 1st British nuclear sub HMS Resolution launched | October 21 | 144 die as a coal waste landslide engulfed a school in Aberfan S Wales |
| September 15 | Gemini XI (Conrad/Gordon) returns to Earth | October 22 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 12 for orbit around Moon |
| September 16 | Metropolitan Opera opens at New York's Lincoln Center | October 25 | 6 youths sentenced in "Johnson murderer!" in Amsterdam |
| September 16 | In South Vietnam, Thich Tri Quang begins a 100-day hunger strike | October 26 | 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2 |
| September 18 | Valerie Percy, the 21 year old daughter of Senator Charles Percy, is stabbed and bludgeoned to death in the family mansion on Chicago's North Shore | October 26 | U.S. aircraft carrier Oriskany catches fire at Gulf on Tonken, 43 die |
| September 18 | Scotland Yard arrests Ronald Edwards suspected of being involved of the great train robbery | October 27 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| September 20 | U.S. Surveyor B launched toward Moon; crashed Sept 23 | October 27 | U.N. deprives South Africa of Namibia |
| September 21 | Jimmy Hendrix changes spelling of his name to Jimi | October 27 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 22 | Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game | October 28 | Belgium's Gaston Roelants runs 12-4/5 miles in 1 hour |
| September 23 | Surveyor 2 crashes on Moon | October 29 | Lunar Orbiter 1 crashes on moon: 6.7 degrees N 162 degrees E |
| September 24 | France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island | October 29 | National Organization of Women founded |
| November 1 | Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner | December 2 | Love, Moby Grape and Lee Michaels perform at Fillmore East |
| November 2 | The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States | December 3 | US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss |
| November 4 | Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113 | December 6 | Polio vaccination becomes obligatory in Belgium |
| November 5 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | December 8 | A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith |
| November 6 | 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) | December 8 | US and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space |
| November 6 | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched | December 10 | Israeli Shmuel Yosef Agnon wins Nobel Prize for literature |
| November 7 | Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in New York City | December 10 | Nobel for chemistry awarded to Robert S Mulliken |
| November 8 | Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California | December 12 | U.S. Supreme Courts votes 4-3 allowing Braves to move to Atlanta |
| November 8 | Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate | December 13 | 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi |
| November 9 | Oakland Coliseum Arena opens | December 15 | Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus |
| November 10 | Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon | December 15 | John W Mecom, Jr. becomes 1st owner of New Orlean Saints |
| November 11 | Gemini 12 (Lovell and Aldrin) launched on 4-day flight | December 16 | Beatles release "Everywhere its Christmas" in UK |
| November 11 | Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church | December 16 | Jimi Hendrix Experience releases its 1st single, "Hey Joe," in the UK |
| November 12 | Dodgers complete an 18-game tour of Japan with a 9-8-1 record | December 18 | Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS |
| November 12 | High schooler Robert Smith kills 7 for fame | December 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk U.S.S.R |
| November 15 | Gemini 12, carrying astronauts James A. Lovell and Buzz Aldrin, splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean 600 km east of the Bahamas | December 20 | Brussels: Nuclear Planning Group established |
| November 16 | US doctor Samuel Sheppard is acquitted in his second trial of murder of his pregnant wife in 1954 | December 20 | NBA awards Seattle Supersonics a franchise for 1967-68 season |
| November 17 | Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour) | December 20 | Nuclear Planning Group forms in Brussels |
| November 18 | Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow | December 21 | U.S.S.R. launches Luna 13; soft-landed in Oceanus Procellarum |
| November 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site | December 24 | Luna 13 lands on Moon |
| November 18 | U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays | December 24 | USAF C144 military charter crashes near Binh Thai Vietnam kills 129 |
| November 20 | "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1166 performances | December 26 | The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach |
| November 20 | Dallas sacks Pittsburgh QBs an NFL record 12 times | December 28 | 13 die in a train crash in Everett Mass |
| November 20 | Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage | December 28 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| November 22 | 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB) | December 31 | Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 and stays there for 7 weeks |
| November 24 | 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer New York City smog | December 31 | Toboggan Chutes begin operation in Cleveland Metroparks |
| November 24 | The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper" | December 31 | Thieves steal millions worth of paintings from Dulwich Art Gallery in London |
| November 25 | Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club | December 31 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
