| January 1 | Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland dissolved |
| January 1 | KNMT TV channel 12 in Walker, MN (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 1 | KTVS TV channel 3 in Sterling, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 2 | Ayub Khan elected president of Pakistan |
| January 2 | Failed assassination attempt on president Nkrumah of Ghana |
| January 3 | Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You" |
| January 5 | Pope Paul VI visits Jordan and Israel |
| January 5 | San Diego Chargers win AFL-championship |
| January 6 | Charlie Finlay announces he wants to move Kansas City A's to Louisville |
| January 6 | Rolling Stones' 1st tour as headline act (with Ronettes) |
| January 7 | Bahamas becomes self-governing |
| January 7 | Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing 707) |
| January 8 | European Parliament accept Mansholt Plan |
| January 8 | President Lyndon B Johnson declares "War on Poverty" |
| January 9 | Anti-U.S. rioting broke out in Panama Canal Zone |
| January 10 | Battles between moslems and hindus in Calcutta |
| January 10 | Panama severs diplomatic relations with U.S. |
| January 10 | U.S. version of "That Was The Week That Was," premieres |
| January 11 | 1st government report warning smoking may be hazardous to one's health |
| January 11 | Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" is #80 in U.S. (Cashbox) |
| January 11 | Panama ends diplomatic relations with U.S. |
| January 11 | "She Loves Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 302 performances |
| January 11 | U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous |
| January 12 | NFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 31-17 |
| January 12 | Revolution overthrows Sultan of Zanzibar, 1 month after independence |
| January 13 | Karol Wojtyla becomes archbishop of Krakow |
| January 14 | 14th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 111-107 at Boston |
| January 14 | Bapu Nadkarni 32-27-5-0 vs. England, 21 maiden overs in a row |
| January 14 | Jacqueline Kennedy's 1st public appearance (TV) since assassination |
| January 15 | Baseball agrees to hold a free-agent draft in New York City |
| January 15 | Teamsters negotiate 1st national labor contract |
| January 16 | AL owners vote 9-1 against Charlie Finley moving Kansas City A's to Louisville |
| January 16 | "Hello, Dolly!" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 2,844 performances |
| January 18 | Beatles 1st appear on Billboard Chart (I Want to Hold Your Hand-#35) |
| January 18 | Plans for World Trade Center announced (New York City) |
| January 19 | AFL Pro Bowl: West beats East 27-24 |
| January 19 | KFME TV channel 13 in Fargo, ND (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| January 20 | "Meet The Beatles" album released in US |
| January 21 | Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency |
| January 22 | Kenneth Kaunda becomes premier of North-Rhodesia (Zambia) |
| January 22 | World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin |
| January 23 | 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections |
| January 23 | Arthur Miller's "After the Fall," premieres in New York City |
| January 24 | 24th Amendment to U.S. Constitution goes into effect and states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes |
| January 24 | CBS purchases 1964 and 1965 NFL TV rights for $28.2 million |
| January 24 | Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking |
| January 25 | Beatles 1st U.S. #1, "I Want to Hold your Hand" (Cashbox) |
| January 25 | Echo 2, U.S. communications satellite launched |
| January 27 | Barlow and Graeme Pollock complete 341 stand at Adelaide Oval |
| January 27 | "Introducing the Beatles" album released in US |
| January 27 | Margaret Chase Smith, Senator-R-Maine, tries for Republican President bid |
| January 29 | 9th Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria |
| January 29 | Beatles record in German "Komm, Gib Mir Diene Hand" and "Sie Leibt Dich" |
| January 29 | Most lopsided high-school basketball score 211-29 (Louisiana) |
| January 29 | NBC purchases AFL 5 year (1965-69) TV rights for $36 million |
| January 29 | Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove," premieres |
| January 29 | Unmanned Apollo 1 Saturn launcher test attains Earth orbit |
| January 30 | Military coup of General Nguyen Khanh in South Vietnam |
| January 30 | Ranger 6 launched; makes perfect flight to Moon, but cameras fail |
| January 31 | U.S. report "Smoking and Health" connects smoking to lung cancer |
| February 1 | Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks |
| February 1 | Indiana Governor Mathew Walsh tries to ban "Louie Louie" for obscenity |
| February 1 | "Stop the World, I Want to..." closes at Shubert New York City after 556 perf |
| February 1 | Suriname River dammed |
| February 2 | GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy |
| February 2 | Red Faber, Burleigh Grimes, Tim Keefe, Heinie Manush, John Montgomery Ward, and Miller Huggins are selected to Hall of Fame |
| February 2 | Sjoukje Dijkstra (Netherlands) wins Olympic gold for figure skating |
| February 3 | Black and Puerto Rican students boycott New York City public schools |
| February 3 | "Meet the Beatles" album goes Gold |
| February 4 | Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax |
| February 4 | FAA begins 6 month test of reactions to sonic booms over Oklahoma City |
| February 6 | France and Great Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel |
| February 6 | "Rugantino" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 28 performances |
| February 6 | WCIU TV channel 26 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting |
| February 7 | Baskin-Robbins introduces Beatle Nut ice cream |
| February 7 | Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for 1st U.S. tour |
| February 7 | Roger Sessions' 5th Symphony, premieres |
| February 8 | Peter Shaffer's "Royal Hunt of the Sun," premieres in London |
| February 8 | Rep Martha Griffiths address gets civil rights protection for women being added to the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
| February 9 | 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) |
| February 9 | 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria |
| February 9 | GI Joe character created |
| February 9 | Hanumant Singh scores 105 India vs. England on debut at Delhi |
| February 9 | New York City news anchor Jim Jenson's 1st appearance on WCBS-TV |
| February 10 | Australian destroyer "Voyager" sinks in collision, killing 82 |
| February 10 | Destroyer Voyager sinks off Australia after colliding with aircraft carrier Melbourne |
| February 10 | WBGU TV channel 27 in Bowling Green, OH (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 11 | Beatles 1st live appearance in U.S.; Washington D.C. Coliseum |
| February 11 | Greek and Turks begin fighting in Limassol, Cyprus |
| February 11 | Taiwan drops diplomatic relations with France |
| February 12 | Beatles 1st New York City concert at Carnegie Hall |
| February 12 | End of Richie Benaud's 63-Test Cricket career |
| February 12 | U.S. Female Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming |
| February 12 | U.S. Male Figure Skating championship won by Scott Allen |
| February 15 | Beatles' "Meet the Beatles!," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks |
| February 15 | Bill Bradley scores 51 points for Princeton |
| February 16 | Beatles' 2nd appearance on "Ed Sullivan Show" |
| February 16 | "Foxy" opens at Ziegfeld Theater New York City for 72 performances |
| February 17 | 101st member elected to baseball's hall of fame (Luke Appling) |
| February 17 | U.S. House of Representatives accept Law on the civil rights |
| February 17 | U.S. Supreme Court rules - 1 man 1 vote (Westberry vs. Sanders) |
| February 17 | WMEM TV channel 10 in Presque Isle, ME (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| February 18 | Muriel Resnik's "Any Wednesday," premieres in New York City |
| February 18 | Papandreou Government takes power in Greece |
| February 21 | U.K. flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to U.S. |
| February 22 | Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st U.S. visit |
| February 23 | Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City |
| February 24 | Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston for the heavyweight boxing title |
| February 25 | Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns |
| February 25 | Cassius Clay TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title |
| February 27 | "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St. Theater New York City for 540 performances |
| February 29 | Frank Rugani sets badminton shuttlecock distance record, 24.3 m |
| February 29 | Lyndon Baines Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the A-11 jet fighter |
| February 29 | North Carolina high school basketball teams play to 56-54 score in 13 overtime |
| February 29 | "Rugantino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 28 performances |
| March 2 | Beatles begin filming "Hard Days Night," Harrison meets Patti Boyd |
| March 4 | Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering |
| March 5 | Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen, Jr., announces a baseball team is moving there |
| March 5 | Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest |
| March 6 | Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece |
| March 6 | Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali |
| March 6 | Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher) |
| March 6 | Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4) |
| March 8 | Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement |
| March 9 | 1st Ford Mustang produced |
| March 9 | Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla |
| March 9 | Supreme Court issues New York Times vs. Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel and recover damages |
| March 10 | U.S. reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany |
| March 12 | 6th Grammy Awards: Days of Wine and Roses, Striesand wins 2 |
| March 12 | Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years |
| March 12 | Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam |
| March 12 | SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in New York City |
| March 12 | WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| March 13 | Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack |
| March 14 | Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder |
| March 14 | "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway New York City after 112 performances |
| March 15 | Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton) |
| March 15 | Lyndon Baines Johnson asks for a War on Poverty |
| March 15 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| March 16 | KCOY TV channel 12 in Santa Maria, California (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| March 16 | Paul Hornung and Alex Karras reinstated in NFL after 1 year suspension |
| March 19 | Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on "Goldfinger" |
| March 20 | ESRO established, European Space Research Organization |
| March 21 | 26th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Duke 98-83 |
| March 21 | Beatles' "She Loves You," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| March 21 | UCLA completes undefeated NCAA basketball season (30-0) |
| March 22 | Barbra Streisand appears on the cover of New York Times Magazine section |
| March 22 | Carol Mann wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open Invitational |
| March 23 | UNCTAD 1 world conference opens in Geneva |
| March 24 | Kennedy half-dollar issued |
| March 25 | Britain sets memorial for the late President John F. Kennedy |
| March 25 | Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64) |
| March 26 | "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 1,348 performances |
| March 27 | Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die |
| March 27 | Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars |
| March 27 | U.N. troops arrive on Cyprus |
| March 28 | 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska |
| March 30 | Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race |
| March 31 | President Jango Goulart of Brazil chased out of office by military |
| April 1 | 10 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April |
| April 1 | John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years |
| April 1 | Robert Lowell's "Benito Cereno," premieres in New York City |
| April 2 | Josef Klaus succeeds Alfons Gorbach as chancellor of Austria |
| April 2 | Military coup in Brazil by General Castello Branco, President Goulart ousted |
| April 2 | U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned |
| April 3 | Beatles hold top 6 spots on Sydney Australia record charts |
| April 3 | U.S. and Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations |
| April 4 | "Anyone Can Whistle" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 9 performances |
| April 4 | Beatles' "Can't Buy Me Love," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks |
| April 5 | 1st driverless trains run on London Underground |
| April 5 | Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA St. Petersburg Women's Golf Open |
| April 6 | Egypt and Belgium restore diplomatic relations |
| April 8 | Unmanned Gemini 1 launched |
| April 10 | Demolition begins on Polo Grounds to clear way for housing project |
| April 10 | Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf) |
| April 11 | "Anyone Can Whistle" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| April 12 | 28th Golf Masters Championship: Arnold Palmer wins, shooting a 276 |
| April 12 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Baton Rouge Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
| April 13 | 36th Academy Awards - "Tom Jones," Sidney Poitier and Patricia Neal win |
| April 13 | Ian D. Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
| April 13 | New Zealand Colin Bosher shears a record 565 sheep in 1 work day |
| April 14 | Sandy Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk |
| April 15 | Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens (world's longest) |
| April 15 | Ian Smith becomes premier of Rhodesia |
| April 16 | 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery" |
| April 16 | Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world |
| April 17 | 1st game at Shea Stadium, New York Mets lose to Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3 |
| April 17 | "Cafe Crown" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 3 performances |
| April 17 | Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base) |
| April 17 | "High Spirits" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 375 performances |
| April 17 | Jerrie Mock becomes 1st woman to fly solo around the world |
| April 18 | Artisans strike in Belgium ends |
| April 18 | "Cafe Crown" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 3 performances |
| April 18 | "Foxy" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 72 performances |
| April 18 | Sandy Koufax is 1st to strike out the side on 9 pitches |
| April 18 | Van Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloane" |
| April 19 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
| April 19 | Rightist coup in Laos, Suvanna Phuma remains premier |
| April 19 | Roger Sessions' opera "Montezuma," premieres in West-Berlin |
| April 20 | 68th Boston Marathon won by Aurele Vandendriessche of Belgium in 2:19:59 |
| April 20 | 86% of black students boycott Cleveland schools |
| April 21 | Pirates and Cubs combine for 9 home runs, Pirates win 8-5 |
| April 22 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar form republic Tanzania |
| April 22 | World's Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, New York) opens |
| April 23 | Houston Colt 45s Ken Johnson becomes 1st major league pitcher to lose a 9 inning no-hitter, Reds win 1-0 |
| April 23 | James Baldwin's "Blues for Mr. Charlie," premieres in New York City |
| April 23 | New York State Theater opens |
| April 25 | Stanley Cup: Toronto Maple Leafs beat Detroit Red Wings, 4 games to 3 |
| April 26 | 18th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 1 |
| April 26 | Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship |
| April 26 | Tanganyika and Zanzibar form United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar |
| April 27 | John Lennon's "In His Own Write" is published in U.S. |
| April 28 | Japan joins OECO |
| April 29 | Princess Irene marries Spanish prince Carel Hugo de Bourbon Parma |
| April 29 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 1 | 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) |
| May 2 | 90th Kentucky Derby: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 2:00 |
| May 2 | Beatles' "Beatles' 2nd Album" goes #1 and stays #1 for for 5 weeks |
| May 2 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| May 3 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Clifford Ann Creed Golf Invitational |
| May 4 | 70 GATT-countries confer in Geneva |
| May 4 | "Another World" and "As the World Turns" premieres on TV |
| May 4 | KIII TV channel 3 in Corpus Christi, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| May 4 | Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism) |
| May 5 | Separatists riot in Quebec |
| May 6 | Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr. Sloan," premieres in London |
| May 9 | Khrushchev visits Egypt |
| May 9 | Peter and Gordon release "World Without Love" |
| May 10 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Squirt Ladies' Golf Open Invitational |
| May 12 | Manlio Brosio chosen as Secretary-General of NATO |
| May 14 | Underground America Day is 1st observed |
| May 15 | Sporting Portugal wins 4th Europe Cup II at Antwerp |
| May 15 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| May 16 | 90th Preakness: Bill Hartack aboard Northern Dancer wins in 1:56.8 |
| May 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| May 16 | Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in Omaha, to become NWA champ |
| May 17 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| May 18 | David Frost interviews Paul McCartney on BBC |
| May 18 | Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years |
| May 19 | U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy |
| May 20 | Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for U.S. Olympic team |
| May 21 | 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay) |
| May 21 | Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19 |
| May 21 | U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos |
| May 22 | Lyndon Baines Johnson presents "Great Society" |
| May 23 | Dale Greig runs female marathon world record (3:27:45) |
| May 24 | 18th Tony Awards: Luther and Hello Dolly win |
| May 24 | Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan |
| May 24 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
| May 24 | Longest home run (471') in Baltimore Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota) |
| May 24 | Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 |
| May 25 | 16th Emmy Awards: Dick Van Dyke Show, Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore |
| May 25 | Frank Gilroy's "Subject is Roses," premieres in New York City |
| May 25 | Ground is broken for a new stadium in St. Louis |
| May 25 | Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation unconstitut |
| May 26 | "Fade Out-Fade In" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| May 27 | "From Russia With Love" premieres in U.S. |
| May 27 | Inter Milan wins 9th Europe Cup 1 in Vienna |
| May 28 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 9th String quartet |
| May 28 | Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli |
| May 28 | Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem |
| May 28 | Unmanned Apollo 2 Saturn test launched into Earth orbit |
| May 30 | Beatles 1961 record of "Cry for a Shadow" is #1 in Australia |
| May 30 | Beatles' "Love Me Do," single goes #1 |
| May 30 | "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 673 performances |
| May 30 | Giants sweep Mets 5-3 and 8-6 in 23 inn, records include elapsed time of 9:50, 47 strikeouts, 7:22 for 2nd game and New York's 22 K's in 2nd games |
| May 31 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open |
| May 31 | San Francisco Giants beat New York Mets, 8-6, in 23 innings (2nd game) (7 hours 32 minutes) |
| June 2 | "Follies Bergere" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 191 performances |
| June 2 | Lal Bahadur Sjastri elected premier of India |
| June 2 | Rolling Stones 1st U.S. concert tour debuts in Lynn, Massachusetts |
| June 3 | Ringo Starr collapses from tonsillitis and pharyngitis |
| June 3 | Rolling Stones begin 1st U.S. tour, with Bobby Goldsboro and Bobby Vee |
| June 4 | Beatles "World Tour" begins in Copenhagen Denmark |
| June 4 | Los Angeles Dodger Sandy Koufax 3rd no-hitter beats Philadelphia Phillies, 3-0 |
| June 4 | Maldives adopts constitution |
| June 4 | Test Cricket debut of Geoff Boycott vs. Australia at Trent Bridge, 48 |
| June 5 | Davie Jones and King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie |
| June 6 | 96th Belmont: Manuel Ycaza aboard Quadrangle wins in 2:28.6 |
| June 6 | Beatles arrive in netherlands |
| June 7 | Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam |
| June 9 | Jack Nicklaus wins British Open golf tournament |
| June 10 | Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago |
| June 10 | Southern Democrats filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked |
| June 11 | Chicago police break up Rolling Stones press conference |
| June 11 | Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy |
| June 11 | Queen Elizabeth orders Beatles to her birthday party, they attend |
| June 11 | West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia |
| June 12 | Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa |
| June 13 | Basil Heatley runs world record marathon (2:13:55) |
| June 14 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open |
| June 15 | Last French troops leave Algeria |
| June 16 | Quake strikes Niigata Japan |
| June 18 | African Groundnut Council forms in Dakar |
| June 19 | Bob Dylan completes U.K. tour |
| June 19 | Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden |
| June 19 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 |
| June 20 | 64th U.S. Golf Open: Ken Venturi shoots a 278 at Congressional CC MD |
| June 21 | Beckwith arrested for murder of Medger Evers, found guilty 30 yr later |
| June 21 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Lady Carling Eastern Golf Open |
| June 21 | Phillies Jim Bunning pitches perfect game (Mets) on Fathers day, in 2nd game of DH, Mets get 3 hits, 3 being fewest hits in NL DH |
| June 23 | General Maxwell Taylor appointed U.S. ambassador in South Vietnam |
| June 24 | FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages |
| June 25 | Prince A Taylor becomes 1st black methodist bishop (NJ) |
| June 25 | WMCA (New York City) plays Beatles' Hard Days Night Album (10 days prior to its scheduled release date), they decide to release it June 26th |
| June 26 | Beatles release "A Hard Day's Night" album |
| June 26 | Blacks and Whites riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine |
| June 26 | Moise Tsjombe forms government in Congo |
| June 27 | Jan and Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena" |
| June 27 | "New Phil Silvers Show," last airs on CBS-TV |
| June 28 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Waldemar Golf Open |
| June 28 | Organization for Afo-American Unity forms in New York by Malcolm X |
| June 29 | 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released |
| June 29 | Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate |
| June 30 | Centaur 3 launch vehicle fails to make Earth orbit |
| June 30 | Last United Nations troops leave Congo |
| July 2 | Cilla Black records Beatle's "Its For You," McCartney plays piano |
| July 2 | Grand jury indicts Beckwith in murder of Medger Evers |
| July 2 | President Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law |
| July 3 | 78th Wimbledon Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Stolle (64 12-10 46 63) |
| July 4 | 71st Wimbledon Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats M Court (64 79 63) |
| July 4 | Beachboy's "I Get Around" reaches #1 |
| July 6 | Beatles' film "Hard Day's Night" premieres in London |
| July 6 | Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from U.K. |
| July 7 | 35th All Star Baseball Game: NL wins 7-4 at Shea Stadium, New York |
| July 7 | All star MVP: John Callison, Philadelphia Phillies |
| July 10 | Jesus Alou is 1st Giant in 40 years to get 6 hits in a game |
| July 10 | Moise Tsjombe becomes premier of Congo |
| July 12 | 19th U.S. Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright |
| July 14 | Jacques Anquetil wins his 5th Tour de France |
| July 14 | Oriole Bob Johnson's 6th straight hit as a pinch hitter |
| July 15 | Barry M. Goldwater nominated for president by Republicans |
| July 16 | Republicans convention selects Barry Goldwater as President candidate |
| July 17 | Don Campbell sets record for turbine vehicle, 690.91 kph (429.31 mph) |
| July 17 | Great Britain performs nuclear Test at Nevada Test Site |
| July 19 | 46th PGA Championship: Bobby Nichols shoots a 271 at Columbus CC Ohio |
| July 19 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Yankee Women's Golf Open |
| July 19 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear Test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| July 20 | 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan and Dean's "Surf City" |
| July 20 | Dmitri Shostakovich completes his 10th String quartet |
| July 21 | Arnold Long takes 11 catches in the match for Surrey vs. Sussex |
| July 21 | Mildred Simpson runs female world record marathon (3:19:33) |
| July 21 | Netherlands last whaling ship Willem Barents Sea sold to Japan |
| July 22 | Steve Ballesteros wins British Golf Open |
| July 23 | A's Bert Campaneris home runs on 1st pitch, hits a 2nd home run on 2nd at bat |
| July 23 | Egyptian munition ship "Star of Alexandria" explodes at dockside in Bone, Algeria. 100 die, 160 injured, $20 million damage |
| July 25 | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 14 weeks |
| July 25 | Bob Simpson out for 311 at Old Trafford |
| July 25 | "Here's Love" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 338 performances |
| July 25 | Race riot in Rochester, New York |
| July 26 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Women's Golf Open |
| July 26 | Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy |
| July 26 | Train from Povoa de Varzin, Portugal derails near Oporto, 94 die |
| July 28 | England all out 611 in reply to Australia's 8-656 Match a draw |
| July 28 | Ranger 7 launched toward the Moon; sent back 4308 TV pictures |
| July 30 | U.S. naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo, North Vietnam |
| July 31 | Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor |
| July 31 | George Lascelles marries Patricia Tuckwell |
| July 31 | Rolling Stone concert in Ireland halts after 12 minutes due to riot |
| July 31 | U.S. Ranger 7 takes 4,316 pictures before crashing on Moon |
| August 1 | ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation |
| August 1 | Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks |
| August 2 | Dutch government gives Indonesia export guarantees |
| August 2 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open |
| August 2 | North Vietnam fires on a U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin |
| August 2 | Race riot in Jersey City, New Jersey |
| August 4 | Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E Chaney, bodies discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam |
| August 4 | North Vietnamese torpedos U.S. ships Gulf of Tonkin |
| August 5 | Actress Anne Bancroft and comedian Mel Brooks wed |
| August 5 | Beatles record "Leave My Kitten Alone" |
| August 5 | Congo rebellion: Christopher Gbenye/Pierre Mulele conquer Stanleyville |
| August 5 | Ford Frick says he will not run for another term as commissioner |
| August 5 | U.S. begins bombing North Vietnam |
| August 6 | Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Ecclesiam Suam |
| August 7 | 31st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Chicago 28, All-Stars 17 (65,000) |
| August 7 | Turkey begins air attack on Greek-Cypriots |
| August 7 | U.S. Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution |
| August 8 | "110 in the Shade" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 330 performances |
| August 8 | Dutch Opera forms in Amsterdam |
| August 8 | Rolling Stones 1st Dutch concert |
| August 9 | 1st Rolling Stones concert in Netherlands |
| August 9 | Bunning continues pitching perfectly to New York Mets until 2 outs in 5th, when Joe Christopher beats out a bunt. He totals 15 innings |
| August 9 | Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Waterloo Women's Golf Open Invitational |
| August 10 | WJSP TV channel 28 in Columbus, Georgia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| August 11 | Beatles' "A Hard Days Night" opens in New York City |
| August 12 | 10th time Mantle switch-hits home run in a game, one goes 502 feet |
| August 12 | Mickey Mantle switch-hits home run record 10th and final time in a game |
| August 13 | 1st broadcast by Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
| August 14 | Bo Belinsky is suspended after attacking sportswriter Braven Dyer |
| August 14 | Egypt/Iraq/Jordan/Kuwait/Syria form common market |
| August 15 | Fred Trueman takes 300th Test Cricket wicket (Neil Hawke) |
| August 15 | Mayor Daley declares "Ernie Banks Day" in Chicago |
| August 15 | Phillies triple-play New York Mets |
| August 15 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 3" |
| August 16 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Omaha Jaycee Golf Open Invitational |
| August 16 | St. Louis Card Curt Flood gets 8 straight hits in a doubleheader |
| August 17 | Boycott scores his 1st Test Cricket century, 113 vs. Australia at the Oval |
| August 18 | Beatles arrive in San Francisco, 2nd U.S. visit |
| August 18 | Charles Helu elected president of Lebanon |
| August 18 | South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies |
| August 18 | U.S.S.R. launch 3 Kosmos satellites |
| August 19 | Communication satellite Syncom 3 launched |
| August 20 | Lyndon Baines Johnson signs anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion |
| August 20 | President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act |
| August 20 | Rex Sellers bowls 5-1-17-0 vs. India in only Test Cricket innings |
| August 20 | Yankee Phil Linz plays harmonica on bus despite Yogi Berra's orders |
| August 22 | Guinee, Liberia and Ivory Coast form joint market |
| August 22 | Supreme's "Where Did Our Love Go," reaches #1 |
| August 23 | Marilynn Smith wins Albuquerque Professional Amateur Golf Tournament |
| August 23 | St. Louis Cardinals are 11 games back in NL, and win World Series |
| August 24 | 2nd Mayor's Trophy Game, Yankees beat Mets 6-4 |
| August 25 | Singapore limits imports from Netherlands due to Indonesian aggression |
| August 26 | Italians CP selects Luigi Longo as chairman |
| August 26 | Lyndon B. Johnson nominated at Democratic convention |
| August 28 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| August 28 | U.S. weather satellite Nimbus 1 launched |
| August 28 | WEWS-TV Channel 5's "Upbeat" debuts in Cleveland |
| August 29 | "Funny Thing Happened" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 965 performances |
| August 29 | On Elston Howard Night, Mickey Mantle ties Babe Ruth's career strikeout record (1,330) |
| August 29 | Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" released |
| August 30 | Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Riverside Ladies Golf Open |
| August 31 | Ground is broken for Anaheim Stadium, future home of Angels |
| September 1 | Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (New York Mets) |
| September 2 | Indonesian paratroopers lands in Malaysia |
| September 2 | Norman Manley scores 2-consecutive holes-in-one at Del Valley, Cal |
| September 3 | U.S. attorney general Robert Kennedy resigns |
| September 3 | Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson |
| September 4 | Eduardo Frei elected president of Chile |
| September 4 | Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge) |
| September 4 | NASA launches its 1st Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) |
| September 7 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Valhalla Golf Open |
| September 9 | East Germany government allows short visits to West Germany |
| September 9 | John Osborne's "Inadmissable Evidence," premieres in London |
| September 10 | Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms |
| September 10 | Rod Steward records his 1st single "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" |
| September 11 | George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company |
| September 11 | Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG and ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at Cleveland Auditorium |
| September 12 | 1st football game at Shea Stadium, Jets defeat Denver 30-6 |
| September 12 | Ralph Boston of U.S., sets then long jump record at 27' 4 " |
| September 12 | Typhoon Gloria strikes Taiwan killing 330, with $17.5 million damage |
| September 13 | 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council opens in Rome |
| September 13 | 78th U.S. Womens Tennis: Maria Fraser beats Carole Graebner (61 60) |
| September 13 | 84th U.S. Mens Tennis: Roy Emerson beats Frederick S Stolle (64 62 64) |
| September 13 | Mary Mills wins LPGA Eugene Ladies' Golf Open |
| September 13 | St. Louis is 1st NL to score runs in every game since 1923, win 15-2 |
| September 13 | WKEF TV channel 22 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| September 14 | Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House |
| September 14 | WCVE TV channel 23 in Richmond, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| September 15 | Beatles play at Public Auditorium in Cleveland |
| September 15 | Final edition of socialist British newspaper "Daily Herald" |
| September 16 | "Shindig" premieres on ABC-TV |
| September 17 | Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas) |
| September 17 | "Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV |
| September 17 | Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 and 2001 and his 450th home run |
| September 17 | Supremes release "Baby Love" |
| September 18 | Greek king Constantine II marries Danish princess Anne-Marie |
| September 18 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| September 20 | Gunter Grass' "Die Plebejern proben den Aufstand," premieres in Berlin |
| September 20 | Paramount Theater (New York City) presented the Beatles with Steve and Eydie |
| September 21 | Constellation (U.S.) beats Sovereign (England) in 20th America's Cup |
| September 21 | Malta gains independence from Britain |
| September 21 | Reds Chico Ruiz steals home, beats Phillies 1-0. Phillies start a 10 game losing streak that gives Cards the pennant |
| September 22 | "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 3242 performances |
| September 22 | "Man from U.N.C.L.E," premieres on NBC-TV |
| September 23 | "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in New York City |
| September 24 | 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested |
| September 24 | "Munsters" premieres on TV |
| September 24 | Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd |
| September 24 | Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of East Germany |
| September 25 | Jens Otto Krag forms minority government in Denmark |
| September 26 | Braves (25) and Phillies (18) set record by using 43 players in 9 inn |
| September 27 | Despite 3 home runs by Johnny Callison, Phils are 14-8 losers to Braves |
| September 27 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Visalia Ladies' Golf Open |
| September 27 | Phillies 7th straight loses sends them into 2nd place |
| September 27 | Warren Commission released, finds Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone |
| September 28 | 53rd Davis Cup: Australia beats USA in Cleveland (3-2) |
| September 28 | Suriname governor A Currie resigns |
| September 29 | Greece and Bulgaria close boundaries |
| September 30 | "Oh What a Lovely War" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 125 performances |
| October 1 | 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire |
| October 1 | 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings |
| October 1 | Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley |
| October 1 | San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark |
| October 1 | WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, Puerto Rico begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, Puerto Rico (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| October 1 | WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, North Carolina (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| October 2 | Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds) |
| October 3 | Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history |
| October 4 | 10th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills |
| October 4 | 3 cars of a commuter train derails in South Africa killing 81 |
| October 4 | Hurricane Hilda, kills 38 in La, Miss and Ga |
| October 4 | Italian Autostrada del Sol opens at Milan-Naples |
| October 4 | Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos |
| October 4 | Phils bomb Reds 10-0 as both teams finish one game behind St. Louis |
| October 5 | KIXE TV channel 9 in Redding, California (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 5 | San Francisco Fire Department Museum is dedicated |
| October 6 | "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 23 performances |
| October 7 | New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series |
| October 8 | Gilroy Roberts becomes 1st U.S. chief engraver to retire (than die) |
| October 10 | 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo |
| October 10 | 18th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-2 at Toronto |
| October 11 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Hillside House Ladies' Golf Open |
| October 12 | 1st time 3 people in space |
| October 12 | KCSM TV channel 60 in San Mateo-SF, California (PBS) begins |
| October 12 | Launch of Voskhod 1, 1st 3 man crew (Komarov, Feokistov, Yegorov) |
| October 12 | Voskhod 1 launched: 1st flight with 3 cosmonauts |
| October 12 | WSBK TV channel 38 in Boston, MA (IND/ABC/CBS/NBC) begin |
| October 12 | WUCM TV channel 19 in University Center, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| October 13 | At Plesman airport, Curaeao, 125.5 mm rainfalls (record) |
| October 13 | Voskhod 1 crew returns |
| October 14 | Martin Luther King, Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize |
| October 14 | Martin Walser's "Der Schwarze Schwan," premieres in Stuttgart |
| October 14 | Philips begins experimenting with color TV |
| October 14 | Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle hit home runs runs on back-to-back pitches |
| October 14 | Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts weds Shirley Shepherd |
| October 15 | Craig Breedlove sets auto speed record of 846.97 kph |
| October 15 | Kosygin and Brezhnev replace Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev |
| October 15 | New York Yankees appears in 14 and win 9 of last 16 World Series |
| October 15 | St. Louis Cardinals beat New York Yankees, 4 games to 3 in 61st World Series |
| October 16 | Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev as head of Russia |
| October 16 | China becomes world's 5th nuclear power |
| October 16 | Harold Wilson's Labour party wins British election |
| October 16 | Indians' directors vote to keep franchise in Cleveland, rejecting bids by Seattle, Oakland and Dallas |
| October 17 | Yankees fire Manager Yogi Berra |
| October 18 | Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| October 20 | "Golden Boy" opens at Majestic Theater New York City for 569 performances |
| October 20 | Mad Dog Vachon beats Verne Gagne in Minneapolis, to become NWA champ |
| October 20 | Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested) |
| October 21 | Abebe Bikila runs world/olympic record marathon (2:12:11.2) |
| October 21 | Braves ask NL to allow them to leave Milwaukee for Atlanta |
| October 22 | EMI rejects audition by "High Numbers," they go on to become The Who |
| October 22 | French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize |
| October 22 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg Miss |
| October 23 | Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball |
| October 23 | Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time |
| October 24 | 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan |
| October 24 | Belgian para's liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville |
| October 24 | "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 23 performances |
| October 24 | Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zaire |
| October 24 | Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut vs. Australia |
| October 24 | Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs. Australia |
| October 24 | Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| October 25 | Anton Geesink is 1st non-Japanese Olympic judo gold medal winner |
| October 25 | Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies' Golf Open |
| October 25 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| October 25 | Viking Jim Marshall runs 66 yards in wrong direction for a safety |
| October 26 | Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
| October 27 | "Ben Franklin in Paris" opens at Lunt Fontanne New York City for 215 performances |
| October 27 | Congo rebel leader Christopher Gbenye holds 60 Americans/800 Belgians |
| October 27 | Singers Sonny and Cher wed, Cher wore bell-bottoms |
| October 29 | Bobby Simpson completes cricket century in each innings vs. Pakistan |
| October 29 | Karmi'el founded in Galilee |
| October 29 | Star of India and other jewels are stolen in New York |
| October 29 | Town of Karmiel founded in Galilee |
| October 29 | United Rep of Tanganyika and Zanzibar renamed United Rep of Tanzania |
| October 30 | Tran Van Huong appointed premier of South Vietnam |
| October 31 | Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks |
| November 1 | George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
| November 1 | Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
| November 1 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open |
| November 1 | Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon |
| November 2 | CBS purchases 80% of Yankees for $11,200,000, later buys remaining 20% |
| November 2 | Faisal succeeds Saudi as king of Saudi Arabia |
| November 3 | Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for president |
| November 3 | Philadelphia voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium |
| November 5 | U.S. launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned |
| November 6 | WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 7 | NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966 |
| November 8 | IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion |
| November 8 | KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| November 8 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| November 8 | Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP |
| November 9 | "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" opens at John Golden New York City for 192 performances |
| November 9 | Eisaku Sato becomes premier of Japan |
| November 10 | Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium |
| November 10 | "Something More!" opens at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City for 15 performances |
| November 11 | Murray Schisgal's "Luv," premieres in New York City |
| November 12 | Jean becomes Grand Duke of Luxembourg |
| November 12 | Paula Murphy sets female land speed record 226.37 MPH |
| November 13 | Bob Petit (St. Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points |
| November 13 | Pope Paul VI gives tiara to poor |
| November 14 | Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal |
| November 14 | "Fade Out-Fade In" closes at Mark Hellinger New York City after 199 performances |
| November 14 | "Follies Bergere" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 191 performances |
| November 14 | "Oliver!" closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 774 performances |
| November 15 | Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV |
| November 15 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open |
| November 15 | KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 15 | Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro |
| November 15 | Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns |
| November 16 | Radio CJCX Sydney Nova Scotia (Canada) starts shortwave transmission |
| November 16 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| November 17 | British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa |
| November 18 | Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP |
| November 18 | J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" |
| November 20 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow |
| November 21 | Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council |
| November 21 | "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 15 performances |
| November 21 | World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City) |
| November 21 | "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances |
| November 22 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational |
| November 22 | WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| November 23 | "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances |
| November 23 | Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman" |
| November 23 | Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy |
| November 24 | 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (quarterback) |
| November 24 | Cards' 3rd baseman Ken Boyer is voted NL MVP |
| November 24 | For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington D.C. permitted to vote |
| November 24 | Rebellion ends in Zaire |
| November 28 | 52nd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 34-24 |
| November 28 | France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria |
| November 28 | Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars |
| November 29 | Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English |
| November 30 | U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned |
| December 1 | Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros |
| December 1 | ML King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign |
| December 2 | Ringo Starr's tonsils are removed |
| December 3 | KHQL (now KCAN) TV channel 8 in Albion, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| December 3 | Police arrests 800 sit-in students at Univeristy of California at Berkeley |
| December 3 | "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" 1st airs on TV |
| December 4 | Baseball approves a free-agent draft |
| December 4 | Beatles release "Beatles For Sale" album |
| December 4 | Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes |
| December 4 | Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, vs. Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31 |
| December 6 | KTVR TV channel 13 in La Grande, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| December 6 | President Segni of Italy resigns |
| December 7 | George Harrison changes his company's name from Mornyork to Harrisongs |
| December 12 | Cleveland Browns' Frank Ryan sets club record of 5 TD passes |
| December 12 | Shooting starts for "Star Trek" pilot "The Cage" (Menagerie) |
| December 13 | In El Paso, Texas, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-Mexico border |
| December 13 | Shirley Englehorn and Sam Snead wins Haig and Haig Mixed Foursome Golf |
| December 14 | Michael Brown meets Rene Fladen, then writes "Walk Away Rene" |
| December 15 | 1st time 4 people in space |
| December 15 | American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded |
| December 15 | Canada adopts maple leaf flag |
| December 16 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Pacific Ocean |
| December 18 | During services held for Sam Cooke fans caused damage to Funeral Home |
| December 18 | "I Had a BaIl" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 199 performances |
| December 18 | "The Pink Panther" cartoon series premieres (Pink Phink) |
| December 18 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| December 20 | Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
| December 22 | Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet) |
| December 23 | India and Ceylon hit by cyclone, about 4,850 killed |
| December 24 | Shooting begins on "The Cage" the pilot for Star Trek |
| December 25 | George Harrison's girlfriend Patti Boyd attacked by female Beatle fans |
| December 25 | "Goldfinger" premieres in US |
| December 26 | Beatles' "I Feel Fine," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
| December 26 | Buffalo Bills beat San Diego Chargers 20-7 in AFL championship game |
| December 27 | Cleveland Browns beat Baltimore Colts 27-0 in NFL championship game |
| December 28 | Premier of Dmitri Sjostakovitch' Stefan Rasin |
| December 28 | Principal filming of "Dr. Zhivago," begins |
| December 30 | Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice," premieres in New York City |
| December 31 | Donald Campbell (UK) sets world water speed record (276.33 mph) |
| December 31 | Indonesia proclaims expelled from the UN |
