- January 11
- 550 die in landslides in mountains behind Rio de Janeiro after rain. [1]
- January 12
- US President Lyndon Johnson says US should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends. [1]
- January 17
- US Air Force B-52 carrying four unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, seven die. [1]
- January 19
- Indira Gandhi elected India's third prime minister. [1]
- January 29
- Snow storm in north-east US kills 165. [1]
- January 31
- Belgian state police kills two striking mine workers. [1]
- USSR launches Luna 9 toward the Moon. [1]
- February 1
- Nicholas Piantanida sets balloon flight record and dies in descent. [1]
- February 3
- First operational weather satellite, ESSA-1, launched (US). [1]
- February 4
- All-Nippon Airways 727 crashes off Haneda Airport, Japan; kills 133. [1]
- February 5
- BBC opens a relay radio station on Ascension Island. [1]
- February 10
- Harmel government in Belgium resigns. [1]
- February 11
- San Francisco Giants' Willie Mays signs highest contract, US$130,000 per year. [1]
- February 13
- USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk. [1]
- February 14
- Decimalization Day in Australia, as currency is switched from pounds to dollars. Dollar and cent denominated coins and stamps are issued. [1] [501.141]
- February 16
- France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker, Algeria. [1]
- February 17
- French satellite Diapason D-1A launched into Earth orbit. [1] [707.169]
- February 20
- Author Valery Tarsis banished in USSR. [1]
- February 21
- Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution. [1]
- February 22
- Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok and Ugolek, first two-dog crew. [1]
- February 23
- Aldo Moro forms Italian government. [1]
- Military coup under Hafiz al-Assad in Syria ends Bitar government. [1]
- Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda. [1]
- February 24
- Coup ousts President Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. [1]
- February 26
- The launch of AS-201 marks the first flight of the Saturn IB rocket. [5]
- March 1
- Ba'ath party takes power in Syria. [1]
- March 3
- Kwame Nkrumah flees Ghana to Guinée. [1]
- Tornado hits Jackson, Mississippi; 3 minutes after first sighting, 57 die. [1]
- March 4
- Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, Japan; 64 die. [1]
- John Lennon says "We (The Beatles) are more popular than Jesus". [1]
- North Sea Gas is first pumped ashore by British Petroleum. [1]
- The last Studebaker car rolls off the production line in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. [436.42]
- March 5
- 75-MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji, 124 die. [1]
- March 8
- An Irish Republican Army bomb destroys Nelson's Column in Dublin, Ireland. [1]
- March 10
- Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg. [1]
- North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley. [1]
- March 11
- Military coup led by Indonesian General Suharto breaks out. [1]
- March 17
- South Africa government bans Defense and Aid Fund. [1]
- US submarine locates missing H-bomb in Mediterranean. [1]
- March 18
- General Suharto forms government in Indonesia. [1]
- March 19
- Belgium government of Vanden Boeynants begins. [1]
- March 23
- First official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church. [1]
- March 27
- Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe and Australia. [1]
- March 31
- 25,000 anti-war demonstrators march in New York City, New York. [1]
- Labour Party wins British parliamentary election. [1]
- USSR launches Luna 10, first lunar orbiter. [1]
- April 1
- First world festival of black art (Dakar, Senegal). [1]
- China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution". [1]
- April 6
- Mihir Sen swims the Palk Strait between Sri Lanka and India. [1]
- April 7
- US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor. [1]
- April 8
- Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of Soviet communist party. [1]
- OAO 1, the first orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched. [1]
- April 12
- First B-52 bombing on North Vietnam. [1]
- Sumokil, President of Republic South Moluccas, executed. [1]
- April 16
- Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain. [1]
- April 21
- Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston, Jamaica. [1]
- April 22
- USSR performs underground nuclear test. [1]
- April 25
- Drunk driver kills ten children in Asse, Belgium. [1]
- April 28
- OCAM, Common Afro-Mauritian Organization forms. [1]
- May 1
- Radio RSA, South Africa begins shortwave transmitting. [1]
- US troops shooting targets in Cambodia. [1]
- May 2
- Pulitzer prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Junior (Thousand Days). [1]
- May 4
- Soviet Government signs accord about building Fiat factory in USSR. [1]
- May 9
- People's Republic of China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor. [1]
- May 15
- South Vietnamese army battle Buddhists, about 80 die. [1]
- May 19
- Tortoise, reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook (1773), dies. [1]
- May 26
- Buddhist sets self on fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam. [1]
- Guyana (formerly British Guiana) declares independence from United Kingdom. [1]
- May 27
- 55th German F-16 Starfighter crashes. [1]
- Six French fighters crash above Spain. [1]
- May 30
- 300 US airplanes bomb North Vietnam. [1]
- June 24
- Bombay-New York Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switzerland), 117 die. [1]
- June 25
- Kosmos 122, first Soviet weather satellite, launched. [1]
- June 29
- US bombs fuel storage facilities near North Vietnamese cities. [1]
- (month unknown)
- The 11.5-ton Mundrabilla meteorite is found in Nullarbor Plain in Australia. [523.58]
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