Events Date 1968 P 4 | History by KabAstro

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World Record

Oct 14 American sprinter Jim Hines runs a world record 9.95s to beat Lennox Miller of Jamaica and Charles Greene of the US, and win the 100m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

Oct 14 Gruener & Watson (US) set scuba depth record (133 m) in Bahamas
Oct 14 MLB National League expansion draft: Snaan Diego Padres pick San Francisco Giants outfielder 'Downtown' Ollie Brown & Montreal Expos pick Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Manny Mota 1st as they choose 30 players each

Opening of Euston Station

Oct 14 Opening of the rebuilt Euston railway station in London, England

An early print of Euston station showing the wrought iron roof of 1837. Note the open carriages.

Oct 14 The Beatles finish recording their double album "The Beatles" more commonly known as "The White Album"
Oct 14 Viorica Viscopoleanu of Romania sets world record 6.82m to win the women's long jump at the Mexico City Olympics; beats Sheila Sherwood of Great Britain by 0.14m

Sports History

Oct 15 Al Oerter of the US wins the men's discus in an Olympic record 64.78m at the Mexico City Games; Oerter's unprecedented 4th consecutive Olympic discus title

Oct 15 American sprinter Wyomia Tyus wins her second consecutive Olympic 100m title with a world record 11.08s; beats teammate Barbara Ferrell by 0.08s for the gold medal at the Mexico City Games
Oct 15 Australian Ralph Doubell runs a world record 1:44.40 to beat Kenyan Wilson Kiprugut and win the men's 800m at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 15 British athlete David Hemery sets a world record 48.12s to beat Gerhard Hennige of West Germany and take the gold medal in the men's 400m hurdles at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 15 MLB American League expansion draft: Kansas City Royals pick Baltimore Orioles pitcher Roger Nelson & Seattle Pilots pick California Angels infielder Don Mincher 1st as they choose 30 players each
Oct 15 The Nationalist Party of Northern Ireland (NPNI) withdraws from its role as 'official' opposition within the Northern Ireland parliament at Stormont
Oct 16 American Bob Seagren, Claus Schiprowski of West Germany and East German Wolfgang Nordwig all record 5.40m in the final of the pole vault at the Mexico City Olympics; Seagren awarded gold on countback

Oct 16 Americans Tommie Smith (gold 19.83 WR) and John Carlos (bronze) famously give the Black Power salute on the 200m medal podium during the Mexico City Olympics to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans

Tommie Smith and John Carlos on the podium at 1968 Olympics

Oct 16 China reports removal of president Li Sjao-tji
Oct 16 Czechoslovakia & Russian "accord" rules allies Soviet forces
Oct 16 Jim Dorey sets Toronto Maple Leaf penalty records (48 mins on 9 penalties in a game & 44 minutes on 7 penalties in a period)
Oct 16 Milwaukee Bucks play their 1st game losing 89-84 to Chicago Bulls
Oct 16 The People's Democracy (PD), formed on Oct 9, organise a march of 1,300 students from the Queen's University of Belfast to the City Hall in the centre of the city, Northern Ireland

Bullitt

Oct 17 "Bullitt" directed by Peter Yates and starring Steve McQueen and Jacqueline Bisset is 1st released

Oct 17 Björn Ferm of Sweden beats Hungary's András Balczó by just 11 points to take the gold medal in the modern pentathlon at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 17 Soviet athlete Viktor Saneev sets world record 17.39m to win the triple jump at the Mexico City Olympics; world record improved 5 times by 3 different athletes during competition

World Record

Oct 17 US men's 4 x 100m freestyle relay team of Zac Zorn, Stephen Rerych, Ken Walsh & Mark Spitz swim world record 3:31.7 to outclass the Soviet Union & Australia and win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

Oct 18 A rare Australian 1-2 in track & field; Maureen Caird in Olympic record 10.39s beats teammate Pam Kilborn by 0.07s to win the 80m hurdles at the Mexico City Games
Oct 18 American athletes sweep the medals in the men's 400m at the Mexico City Olympics; Lee Evans wins gold in world record 43.86s ahead of Larry James and Ron Freeman
Oct 18 American long jumper Bob Beamon sets an incredible world record (8.90m, 29' 2½") in high altitude at the Mexico City Olympics; 0.55m (22") improvement over previous world record
Oct 18 American swimmer Don Schollander anchors US 4 × 200m freestyle relay team to world record 7:52.1 and the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo; Schollander's 4th gold of the Games
Oct 18 Circus Circus hotel opens in Las Vegas, largest permanent big top in the world

Music History

Oct 18 Police find 219 grains of cannabis resin in John Lennon and Yoko Ono's apartment, they are fined £150 for marijuana possession

Oct 18 Polish sprinter Irena Szewińska runs a world record 22.58s to beat Australian Raelene Boyle by 0.16s and win the 200m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics

Olympic Games

Oct 18 US Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving the Black Power salute to protest racism and injustice against African-Americans during Olympic medal ceremony

Sprinter and Civil Rights Activist John Carlos

Sprinter and Civil Rights Activist Tommie Smith

Oct 19 American swimmer Jan Henne in 1:00.0 leads American sweep of the women's 100m freestyle medals at the Mexico City Olympics; teammates Susan Pedersen & Linda Gustavson both swim 1:00.3 for minor medals
Oct 19 Australian swimmer Michael Wendon sets world record 52.2s to win the blue ribband men's 100m freestyle gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 19 Derry Citizen's Action Committee, formed Oct 9, stages illegal sit-down at Guildhall Square as part of large civil disobedience campaign
Oct 19 Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
Oct 19 New Zealand scores an upset victory in the men's coxed four rowing final at the Mexico City Olympics; beats favoured East German crew by 2.58s; first ever rowing gold medal for the Kiwis
Oct 19 The West German crew beats Australia by just 0.9s to win the men's eights rowing gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 20 American Dick Fosbury using his unconventional technique wins the men's high jump gold medal with 2.24m at the Mexico City Olympics; "Fosbury Flop" becomes accepted most efficient technique
Oct 20 American sprinter Jim Hines anchors US men's 4 x 100m relay team to win his second gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; with teammates Charles Greene, Mel Pender & Ronnie Ray Smith sets world record 38.24s
Oct 20 Kenyan runner Kip Keino wins 1,500m gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics in 3:34.91 despite a severe gall bladder infection
Oct 20 Mamo Wolde wins 16th Olympic marathon (2:20:26.4)
Oct 20 Margitta Gummel of East Germany throws world record 19.61m to beat teammate Marita Lange by 0.83m and win the women's shot put gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 20 US men's 4 x 400m relay team of Vincent Matthews, Ron Freeman, Larry James & Lee Evans runs world record 2:56.16; easily beats Kenya & West Germany into the minor medals at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 20 US women's 4 x 100m relay team sets world record 42.88s to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; Margaret Bailes, Barbara Ferrell, Mildrette Netter & Wyomia Tyus
Oct 22 American swimmers sweep the medals in the women's 200m freestyle at the Mexico City Olympics; Debbie Meyer takes gold in Olympic record 2:10.5 ahead of teammates Jan Henne and Jane Barkman
Oct 22 Apollo 7 returns to Earth
Oct 23 American swimmer Kaye Hall sets a world record 1:06.2 to beat Canadian Elaine Tanner by 0.5s and win the 100m backstroke gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 24 16-year old American swimmer Debbie Meyer wins the inaugural women's 800m gold medal in 9:24.0 at the Mexico City Olympics; first swimmer to win 3 individual gold medals at a Games (200/400m)
Oct 24 Australian swimmer Michael Wendon wraps up the Mexico City Games sprint double when he wins the men's 200m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 1:55.2

Music History

Oct 24 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail

Oct 24 The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Oct 25 American swimmer Claudia Kolb wraps up the women's individual medley double in Mexico City, winning the 400m I/M in Olympic record 5:08.5; she also won the 200m I/M in OR 2:24.7
Oct 25 Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its 1st settler
Oct 25 Czech gymnast Věra Čáslavská wins the uneven bars and vault gold medals at the Mexico City Olympics; her 6th & 7th career gold medals and her 4th at these Games
Oct 25 East German swimmer Roland Matthes wins the 200m backstroke gold medal in Olympic record 2:09.6 at the Mexico City Games; wraps up backstroke double
Oct 25 Longest Olympic field hockey game, The Netherlands beats Spain 1-0 in 2h25m (6 OT)
Oct 25 US men's basketball team beats Yugoslavia 65-50 to win the gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics; 7th straight basketball title for the Americans

Music History

Oct 25 Yoko Ono announces she is having John Lennon's baby; she later suffers a miscarriage

Oct 26 Charlie Hickcox wins his 3rd gold medal of the Mexico City Olympics when he leads the US men's 4 x 100m medley relay team with teammates Don McKenzie, Doug Russell & Ken Walsh to world record 3:54.9
Oct 26 First European satellite launched, Esro 1, at Cape Kennedy

Olympic Gold

Oct 26 Future world heavyweight boxing champion George Foreman wins the Olympic heavyweight gold medal when the final against Jonas Čepulis (Soviet Union) is stopped in round 2 at the Mexico City Games

Oct 26 Italian diver Klaus Dibiasi wins first of 3 consecutive men's 10m platform gold medals when he comfortably beats Álvaro Gaxiola of Mexico at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 26 Japanese gymnast Akinori Nakayama wins 3 individual gold medals on the one day (horizontal bar, rings & parallel bars) at the Mexico City Olympics; with team victory, 4 gold for the Games
Oct 26 Japanese gymnasts sweep the medals in the men's floor exercise competition at the Mexico City Olympics; Sawao Kato wins his 3rd gold of the Games ahead of teammates Akinori Nakayama and Takeshi Katō
Oct 26 KMIR TV channel 36 in Palm Springs, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Oct 26 Soviet Union launches spacecraft Soyuz 3
Oct 26 Striker Antal Dunai scores twice as Hungary outclasses Bulgaria 4-1 to take the men's football gold medal at the Mexico City Olympics
Oct 26 The Soviet Union wraps up the volleyball double at the Mexico City Olympics; both men's & women's teams take gold at the end of their respective round-robin competitions
Oct 29 USSR performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan USSR

Meeting of Interest

Oct 30 Jack Lynch, Irish Prime Minister (Taoiseach), meets with Harold Wilson, then British Prime Minister, in London, calling for the ending of partition as a means to resolve the unrest in Northern Ireland

Oct 30 Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Lars Onsager (thermodynamics)
Oct 30 Nobel prize for physics awarded to Luis Alvarez (bubble chamber)

Event of Interest

Oct 30 Queen Juliana opens IJ tunnel in Amsterdam

Music History

Oct 31 Linda Eastman moves to UK permanently

Musician, Activist and Photographer Linda McCartney

Oct 31 Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
Oct 31 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

Event of Interest

Oct 31 US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam

Nov 1 Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X)
Nov 1 University of Suriname opens
Nov 2 A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it

Election of Interest

Nov 3 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon

Sports History

Nov 3 David Pearson is declared NASCAR Grand National champion as Cale Yarborough wins season ending Peach State 200 at Jefferson, Georgia; Pearson finishes 126 points ahead of Bobby Isaac to secure his 2nd title

F1 World Champion

Nov 3 English Lotus driver Graham Hill wins his 2nd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by taking out the Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez; wins title by 12 points from Scotsman Jackie Stewart

Nov 3 Ex-Prime Minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
Nov 3 New York Jets kicker Jim Turner lands 6 field goals and an extra point to beat Buffalo Bills, 25-21 at Shea Stadium

Wichita Lineman

Nov 4 "Wichita Lineman" 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year, 1969)

Nov 4 Battles between Jordanian army & Al Fatah-arm forces
Nov 4 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks on Northern Ireland; Wilson states no change of constitutional position of Northern Ireland possible without consent of the its people
Nov 4 WRDU (now WPTF) TV channel 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
Nov 4 WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast

Election of Interest

Nov 5 Adam Clayton Powell Jr. re-elected as congressman from New York in general election

Sports History

Nov 5 MLB Detroit Tigers Denny McLain 1st AL pitcher to win MVP, winning unanimously

Richard Nixon President

Nov 5 Republican candidate Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Hubert Humphrey and Independent candidate George Wallace

Governor of Alabama and Segregationist George Wallace

Film Premiere

Nov 6 Psychedelic feature film "Head" starring the Monkees, and co-written by Jack Nicholson, a premieres in New York City

Nov 6 Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike
Nov 7 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
Nov 8 Londonderry Corporation agreed to a Nationalist request to introduce a points system in the allocation of public sector housing in Northern Ireland

Derry Loyalist March

Nov 9 Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting lead a Loyalist march to the Diamond area of Derry, North Ireland

First Minister of Northern Ireland Ian Paisley

With A Little Help From My Friends

Nov 9 Joe Cocker's version of The Beatles song "With A Little Help From My Friends" becomes No. 1 single in the UK

Nov 9 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Nov 10 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight

Mário Soares Released

Nov 10 Portuguese socialist Mário Soares released from banishment in Sao Tomé under new regieme of Marcello Caetano

Nov 11 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "Two Virgins" album
Nov 11 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
Nov 11 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England

Film & TV History

Nov 12 Al Pacino stars in "Deadly Circle of Violence", an episode of the ABC television series NYPD

Nov 12 KSEL (now KAMC) TV channel 28 in Lubbock, TX (ABC) begins broadcasting
Nov 12 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools

Elvin Hayes

Nov 13 As a rookie, future Basketball Hall of Fame forward Elvin Hayes scores 54 points in San Diego Rockets' 122-120 win over Detroit Pistons, a career-high

Gibson NL MVP

Nov 13 Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP

Nov 13 William Craig, Home Affairs Minister, bans all marches, with the exception of 'customary' parades, in Derry, Northern Ireland; the exception of 'customary' parades meant that Loyalist institutions could parade but civil rights marches could not
Nov 14 "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
Nov 14 First European lung transplant
Nov 14 U.S. premiere of film version of Morris L. West's best seller "The Shoes of the Fisherman"
Nov 14 Yale University announces it is going co-educational

Ball Four

Nov 15 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"

Nov 16 The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people
Nov 17 "Heidi Game", NBC cuts to show "Heidi" and misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
Nov 17 Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos

Music History

Nov 17 Beatle George Harrison makes cameo appearance on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"

Nov 17 KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
Nov 18 Soviets recover the Zond 6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon
Nov 19 Military coup in Mali, president Modibo Keita flees
Nov 19 New York Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of the Year
Nov 20 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 21 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt

I'm Gonna Make You Love Me

Nov 21 The Supremes & The Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"

Nov 22 1st interracial TV kiss (Star Trek - Captain Kirk and Uhura)

Northern Ireland Catholic Concessions

Nov 22 Terence O'Neill, then Northern Ireland Prime Minister, announced a package of reform measures granting concessions to the Catholic minority, in response to protest movement

Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill

Nov 22 The Beatles release "The Beatles" (White Album), their only double album
Nov 22 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Nov 23 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love & Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson

O.J. Simpson

Nov 26 34th Heisman Trophy Award: O.J. Simpson, Southern Cal (RB)

Nov 26 Rock band Cream gives "final" concert at Royal Albert Hall, London, England - but re-unites briefly for a short tour in 2005
Nov 28 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession
Nov 29 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
Nov 30 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
Dec 1 Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate

Henry Kissinger

Dec 2 US President Richard Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor

Elvis' Comeback Special

Dec 3 Elvis Presley's Comeback Special airs on NBC, his 1st live performance in seven years, re-launching his singing career

Dec 3 MLB Rules Committee adopts a series of changes designed to increase amount of offensive run production; decreases strike zone size and lowers height of pitcher's mound from 15" to 10"; changes are successful
Dec 4 Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march

Esposito Scores on Brother's Debut

Dec 5 Future Hockey Hall of Fame center Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins scores 2 goals in his goaltender brother Tony's (also HOF) NHL debut for the Montreal Canadiens; 2-2 tie

Beggar's Banquet

Dec 6 Decca Records releases Rolling Stones album "Beggar's Banquet" in UK, the last during Brian Jones' lifetime (US release the next day)

Guitarist and Multi-Instrumentalist Brian Jones

Dec 6 Major League Baseball dismisses Commissioner William Eckert after 3 years
Dec 6 PBA National Bowling Championship won by Wayne Zahn (29)
Dec 6 WKID (WSCV) TV channel 51 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida (IND) 1st broadcast
Dec 7 London Records releases Rolling Stones album "Beggar's Banquet" in US, the last during Brian Jones' lifetime
Dec 7 Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit
Dec 7 Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather took out in 1823 from the University of Cincinnati

"The Mother of All Demos"

Dec 9 Douglas Engelbart demonstrates in "The Mother of All Demos" the computer system NLS (oN-Line System) to a live audience in San Francisco. Shows for the first time, the mouse, word processing, windows, hypertext links, video conferencing, real-time collaboration, and other modern computing concepts. [1]

Dec 9 KRNE TV channel 12 in Merriman, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 9 Terence O'Neill, Northern Ireland Prime Minister, makes a television appeal for moderate opinion in what became known as the 'Ulster stands at the Crossroads' speech
Dec 9 The Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) calls for a halt to all marches and protests for a period of one month
Dec 10 Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", occurs in Tokyo.

Frazier vs. Bonavena

Dec 10 Joe Frazier beats Oscar Bonavena in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

Dec 11 KECC (now KECY) TV channel 9 in El Centro, CA (CBS) 1st broadcast
Dec 11 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill sacks Home Affairs Minister, William Craig
Dec 11 US Soccer Football Association refuses to let NASL disband

Ashe 1st Black No. 1

Dec 12 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black person be ranked #1 in tennis

Dec 12 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill receives overwhelming support from Unionist Members of Parliament (MPs) at Stormont
Dec 12 Rolling Stones film TV show "Rock and Roll Circus"- guest performers include The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, Marianne Faithfull, and John Lennon and Yoko Ono; the program never airs aired
Dec 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Dec 13 Brazilian President Da Costa e Silva issues Ato Institucional Número Cinco degree

Orr's 1st Hat Trick

Dec 14 Bobby Orr scores first career hat trick (vs Chicago Blackhawks)

Dec 16 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin begins broadcasting

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Dec 16 Musical-fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", co-written by Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes, starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes, with songs by Sherman and Sherman, premieres at the Odeon Leicester Square theater, London

Dec 16 Official revocation of the Edict of Expulsion of Jews from Spain at Second Vatican Council
Dec 18 Musical-fantasy film "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang", co-written by Roald Dahl and director Ken Hughes, starring Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes, with songs by Sherman and Sherman, premieres in NYC
Dec 18 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
Dec 19 WCWB (now WMGT) TV channel 41 in Macon, GA (NBC) begins broadcasting
Dec 20 Learie Constantine becomes UK's first person of African descent to be named a life peer (to sit in the House of Lords) in the Crown's New Year's Honours list
Dec 20 The People's Democracy (PD) announce that its members will undertake a protest march from Belfast to Derry beginning 1 January 1969
Dec 20 The Zodiac Killer murders teenagers Betty Lou Jenson and David Faraday while on their first date together in Vallejo, California [1]
Dec 21 David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash (Crosby, Stills & Nash) premiere together in California

Apollo 8 Launched

Dec 21 First manned Moon voyage launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders aboard Apollo 8

Dec 21 Glen Campbell's album "Wichita Lineman" goes to #1 in the US
Dec 23 1st US case of space motion sickness
Dec 23 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea
Dec 23 Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the 1st people to orbit the Moon aboard Apollo 8
Dec 24 Apollo 8 astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
Dec 24 Ballon d'Or: Manchester United's winger George Best wins award for best European football player ahead of teammate Bobby Charlton and Red Star Belgrade winger Dragan Džajić; first Northern Irish national to win the award
Dec 24 WATU (now WAGT) TV channel 26 in Augusta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
Dec 25 42 Dalits are burned alive in Kilavenmani village, Tamil Nadu, India, a retaliation for a campaign for higher wages by Dalit labourers
Dec 25 NASA Apollo 8 crew broadcast while orbiting the moon amd read passages from the Bible to celebrate Christmas
Dec 26 Arab terrorists in Athens fire on El Al plane, kills 1
Dec 26 Bruin Ted Green sets NHL penalty record of 3 minors, 2 majors & 2 game misconducts in a game against NY Rangers in NY's Madison Square Garden
Dec 26 Jay Allens "Forty Carats" premieres in NYC
Dec 26 Led Zeppelin's US concert debut in Denver, Colorado, as opening act for Vanilla Fudge
Dec 27 Apollo 8 returns to Earth
Dec 27 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC

Miami Pop Festival

Dec 28 100,000 attend Miami Pop Festival in Florida; performers included: The Jimi Hendrix Experience; The Mothers of Invention; Chuck Berry; John Lee Hooker; The Crazy World of Arthur Brown; and Blues Image

Rock Guitarist and Singer-Songwriter Chuck Berry

Dec 28 Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
Dec 28 KVOF (KUDO, now KWBB) TV channel 38 in San Francisco, California (IND) 1st broadcast
Dec 28 The Beatles' "The Beatles" aka "The White Album" goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks