- August 11
- The Beatles launch the Apple Records label. [1]
- August 21
- After five years, Russia once again jams Voice of America radio. [1]
- Radio Prague (Czechoslovakia) at 12:50 AM announces a Soviet-led invasion. Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end reform movement. [1]
- August 22
- First papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia). [1]
- August 24
- France explodes its first hydrogen bomb, thus becoming the world's fifth nuclear power. [1] [5]
- August 29
- Marriage of Crown Prince Harald of Norway to Sonja, in Oslo Cathedral. [820.42]
- August 31
- 6,000 die in 7.8 earthquake which destroys 60,000 buildings in northeast Iran. [1]
- September 5
- 21 killed by hijackers aboard a Pan Am jet in Karachi, Pakistan. [1]
- September 6
- Swaziland gains independence from Britain (National Day). [1]
- September 15
- Launch of USSR's Zond 5, the first lunar flyaround with Earth reentry. Probable test flight for a manned fly-around (scooped by Apollo 8). [1]
- September 24
- Swaziland joins the United Nations. [5]
- September 30
- First Boeing 747 jet airliner rolls out. [1]
- October 1
- Horror film Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. [1]
- October 3
- Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru. [1]
- October 9
- Government seizes oil fields in Peru. [1]
- October 11
- October 12
- Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain (National Day). [1]
- October 14
- First live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7). [1] [457]
- Gruener and Watson (USA) set scuba depth record (133m) in Bahamas. [1]
- October 18
- Circus Circus hotel/casino opens on Las Vegas Boulevard, Nevada. [1] [187.408]
- October 26
- October 31
- US President Lyndon Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam. [1]
- November 5
- Richard Nixon (Republican) beats Vice President Hubert Humphrey (Democrat) and George C Wallace for US Presidency. [1]
- November 10
- Launch of Zond 6, second unmanned circumlunar and return flight. [1]
- November 11
- Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic. [1]
- November 19
- Army coup seizes power in Mali. [1]
- December 1
- Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela. [1]
- December 7
- Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 launched into Earth orbit. [1]
- Richard Dodd returns a library book his great grandfather borrowed in 1823 to the University of Cincinnati; the US$22,646 fine goes unpaid. [1]
- December 9
- Doug Engelbart demonstrates first computer mouse at Stanford, California. [1]
- December 13
- President Da Costa e Silva of Brazil disbands parliament, grabs power. [1]
- December 18
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- December 21
- Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders) is launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first manned Moon voyage. [1] [5]
- December 23
- 82 members of US intelligence ship Pueblo released by North Korea. [1]
- December 24
- The crew of Apollo 8 (Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders) become the first men to orbit the Moon. [1] [5] [457]
- December 26
- Arab terrorists in Athens, Greece, fire on El Al plane, killing one person. [1]
- December 27
- People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor. [1]
- December 28
- Israeli assault on Beirut Airport. [1]
- December 29
- Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes. [1]
- December 31
- First supersonic airliner flown (Russian Tupolev TU-144). [1]
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