February 12 – The African and
Malagasy Common Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique; UAMCE), formerly the
African and Malagasy Union (Union Africaine et Malgache; UAM).
March 25 – Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 30 – The second
ODECA charter, signed by Central American states on December 12, 1962, becomes effective.
April 3 – The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in
low Earth orbit.
The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician
Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed
February 12).
In the
Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President
Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a
provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia
Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in
South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the
Saigon government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
June 20 – Police in
Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President
Ahmed Ben Bella.
July 28 – Vietnam War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in
South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to more than double the number of men drafted per month - from 17,000 to 35,000.
Singapore is expelled from the Federation of
Malaysia, which recognises it as a
sovereign nation.
Lee Kuan Yew announces Singapore's independence and assumes the position of Prime Minister of the new island nation – a position he holds until
1990.
An explosion at an
Arkansas missile plant kills 53.
October 6 –
Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from
Hyde in
Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the
Hattersleyhousing estate.
October 7 – Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off
Guam by super typhoon Carmen; 209 are killed.
October 17 – The
New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
November 6 – Freedom Flights begin:
Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971, 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
British theatre critic
Kenneth Tynan says "
fuck" during a discussion on
BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.
Vietnam War:
The Pentagon tells U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize
Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in
Vietnam will have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
The "
Glasnost Meeting" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.
A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international cast that includes
Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive.
President
Kenneth Kaunda of
Zambia announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted.
^Moyar, Mark (2004). "Political Monks: The Militant Buddhist Movement during the Vietnam War". Modern Asian Studies. 38 (4). New York City: Cambridge University Press: 749–784.
doi:
10.1017/S0026749X04001295.
S2CID145723264.
^Vickers, Adrian (2013). A History of Modern Indonesia (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–165.
ISBN9781107624450.
^Bartrop, Paul (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. p. 355.
ISBN978-0313386787.
^Turner, Barry (2012). The statesman's yearbook : the politics, cultures and economies of the world. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 1176.
ISBN9781349595419.
^Chase's calendar of events 2022 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2021. p. 618.
ISBN9781641435048.
^Grantq, Michael (1997). T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, Volume 1. Psychology Press. p. 55.
ISBN9780415159470.
^Bergan, Ronald. The Life and Times of Laurel and Hardy. New York: Smithmark, 1992.
ISBN0-8317-5459-1 pages 119-120
^Garzia, Mino (1998). Political communities and calculus: sociological analysis in the Italian scientific tradition (1924-1943). Bern; New York: P. Lang. p. 21.
ISBN9780820442006.
^Barker, Ronald (1970). Automobile design: great designers and their work. Cambridge, Mass: R. Bentley. p. 254.
ISBN9780837600451.
February 12 – The African and
Malagasy Common Organization (Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache; OCAM) is formed as successor to the Afro-Malagasy Union for Economic Cooperation (Union Africaine et Malgache de Cooperation Economique; UAMCE), formerly the
African and Malagasy Union (Union Africaine et Malgache; UAM).
March 25 – Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
March 30 – The second
ODECA charter, signed by Central American states on December 12, 1962, becomes effective.
April 3 – The world's first space nuclear power reactor, SNAP-10A, is launched by the United States from Vandenberg AFB, California. The reactor operates for 43 days and remains in
low Earth orbit.
The bodies of Portuguese opposition politician
Humberto Delgado and his secretary Arajaryr Moreira de Campos are found in a forest near Villanueva del Fresno, Spain (they were killed
February 12).
In the
Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President
Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a
provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power.
Vietnam War: Prime Minister of Australia
Robert Menzies announces that the country will substantially increase its number of troops in
South Vietnam, supposedly at the request of the
Saigon government (it is later revealed that Menzies had asked the leadership in Saigon to send the request at the behest of the Americans).
June 20 – Police in
Algiers break up demonstrations by people who have taken to the streets chanting slogans in support of deposed President
Ahmed Ben Bella.
July 28 – Vietnam War: U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in
South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to more than double the number of men drafted per month - from 17,000 to 35,000.
Singapore is expelled from the Federation of
Malaysia, which recognises it as a
sovereign nation.
Lee Kuan Yew announces Singapore's independence and assumes the position of Prime Minister of the new island nation – a position he holds until
1990.
An explosion at an
Arkansas missile plant kills 53.
October 6 –
Ian Brady, a 27-year-old stock clerk from
Hyde in
Cheshire, is arrested for allegedly hacking to death (with a hatchet) 17-year-old apprentice electrician Edward Evans at a house on the
Hattersleyhousing estate.
October 7 – Seven Japanese fishing boats are sunk off
Guam by super typhoon Carmen; 209 are killed.
October 17 – The
New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows, closes. Due to financial losses, some of the projected site park improvements fail to materialize.
November 6 – Freedom Flights begin:
Cuba and the United States formally agree to start an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States (by 1971, 250,000 Cubans take advantage of this program).
British theatre critic
Kenneth Tynan says "
fuck" during a discussion on
BBC satirical programme BBC-3 for what many believed was the first time on British television. The corporation later issues a public apology.
Vietnam War:
The Pentagon tells U.S. President
Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned major sweep operations to neutralize
Viet Cong forces during the next year are to succeed, the number of American troops in
Vietnam will have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.
The "
Glasnost Meeting" in Moscow becomes the first spontaneous political demonstration, and the first demonstration for civil rights in the Soviet Union.
A new 1-hour German-American production of the ballet The Nutcracker, with an international cast that includes
Edward Villella in the title role, makes its U.S. television debut. It is repeated annually by CBS over the next 3 years but after that is virtually forgotten until issued on DVD in 2009 by Warner Archive.
President
Kenneth Kaunda of
Zambia announces that Zambia and the United Kingdom have agreed on a deadline before which the Rhodesian white government should be ousted.
^Moyar, Mark (2004). "Political Monks: The Militant Buddhist Movement during the Vietnam War". Modern Asian Studies. 38 (4). New York City: Cambridge University Press: 749–784.
doi:
10.1017/S0026749X04001295.
S2CID145723264.
^Vickers, Adrian (2013). A History of Modern Indonesia (2nd ed.). New York: Cambridge University Press. pp. 160–165.
ISBN9781107624450.
^Bartrop, Paul (2012). A Biographical Encyclopedia of Contemporary Genocide: Portraits of Evil and Good. ABC-CLIO. p. 355.
ISBN978-0313386787.
^Turner, Barry (2012). The statesman's yearbook : the politics, cultures and economies of the world. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 1176.
ISBN9781349595419.
^Chase's calendar of events 2022 : the ultimate go-to guide for special days, weeks and months. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. 2021. p. 618.
ISBN9781641435048.
^Grantq, Michael (1997). T.S. Eliot: The Critical Heritage, Volume 1. Psychology Press. p. 55.
ISBN9780415159470.
^Bergan, Ronald. The Life and Times of Laurel and Hardy. New York: Smithmark, 1992.
ISBN0-8317-5459-1 pages 119-120
^Garzia, Mino (1998). Political communities and calculus: sociological analysis in the Italian scientific tradition (1924-1943). Bern; New York: P. Lang. p. 21.
ISBN9780820442006.
^Barker, Ronald (1970). Automobile design: great designers and their work. Cambridge, Mass: R. Bentley. p. 254.
ISBN9780837600451.