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As the 48-hour New Year's truce comes to an end in Vietnam 5,000 troops of the 9th Infantry Division arrive in South Vietnam, bringing the total number of US military stationed there to 380,000.
On 4th January Donald Campbell dies attempting to break his own world water speed record.
The US Supreme Court rules on 10th January that it is not illegal for US passport-holders to visit Communist countries to which travel had been prohibited by the State Department.
On Wednesday,18th January Jeremy Thorpe is elected to replace Jo Grimmond as leader of the British Liberal Party.
On the same day Albert DeSalvo (a.k.a. the "Boston Strangler") is sentenced to life imprisonment for assault and armed robbery.
Three US astronauts are killed on 27th January when their Apollo spacecraft is engulfed by flames on the launchpad.
The microwave oven is invented.

Gough Whitlam succeeds Arthur Calwell as leader of the Australian Labour Party on 8th February.
On 12th February the police raid Redlands, home of Rolling Stones' guitarist Keith Richards.
President Sukarno of Indonesia hands over power to General Suharto on 22nd February but retains his title as President.

Svetlana Alliluyeva, the only daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, seeks asylum at the US Embassy in India on Thursday, 9th March.
General Suharto becomes acting President of Indonesia on Sunday, 12th March, after seizing power from Sukarno.
Indira Gandhi is re-elected as Prime Minister of India for a further five years, following the withdrawal of her main rival Morarji Desai.
A Liberian oil tanker, the Torrey Canyon, is shipwrecked off Lands End on 18th March. The same month a star grading system is introduced for petrol.
Martin Luther King attacks US involvement in Vietnam at an anti-war demonstration in Chicago on 25th March.
President de Gaulle launches the first French nuclear-powered submarine, Le Redoutable, on 29th March.

On 8th April Sandie Shaw wins the Eurovision Song Contest with Puppet On A String.
100,000 people march through the streets of New York to protest against the Vietnam War.
Konrad Adenauer, the first Chancellor of West Germany, dies aged 91.
A military junta seizes power in Greece on 21st April. King Constantine is placed under house arrest.
Soviet cosmonaut, Vladamir Komarov, becomes the first person to die in space as the Soyuz 1 spacecraft returns to Earth.

Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu get married on 1st May.
The first all-British satellite, Ariel 3, is launched into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 5th May.
On Wednesday, 10th May Mick Jagger and Keith Richards appear in a West Sussex Court, charged with drug offences, following the police raid at Richard's home in February. Both plead not guilty.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark formally apply for membership of the EEC on 11th May.
On 12th May the UK Government announces that Stansted in Essex is to become the site of London's third airport.
The US Air Force bombs Hanoi for the first time on 19th May.
On 23rd May Egypt closes the Straits of Tiran to Israeli ships, blocking Israel's only route to the Indian Ocean.
Following the withdrawal of UN peace-keeping troops from the Sinai peninsula, Egyptian armed forces gather on the border with Israel.
The Ibo people of eastern Nigeria break away from the rest of the country and establish their own independent state of Biafra on 30th May.

On 5th June Israeli war planes attack airfields in Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, totally destroying the air forces of its four Arab neighbours.
Israeli troops advance across the Sinai peninsula and reach the Suez Canal within two days. On the eastern front, the Jordanians are driven out of East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Egypt and Jordan both agree to a cease-fire with Israel on 7th June.
On 10th June Syrian troops are driven out of the Golan Heights and the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states comes to an end.
Spencer Tracy dies on 10th June.
The Caribbean island of Anguilla declares its independence from Britain on 16th June.
On 20th June Muhammad Ali is fined $10,000 and sentenced to 5 years in jail for refusing to serve in the US armed forces.
On Sunday, 25th June the Beatles perform All You Need Is Love on Our World, a two-hour television programme broadcast by satellite to a worldwide audience of 400 million.
On Tuesday, 27th June Barclays Bank introduces the first automatic "hole in the wall" cash dispenser. Reg Varney, star of TV's On The Buses, unveils the new machine at a branch in Enfield.
Following a vote in the Knesset to make Jerusalem a united city under Israeli rule, the barriers that had divided the city into sectors are torn down.

On 2nd July the Institutional Revolutionary Party wins all of the 178 seats being contested in the Mexican elections.
Vivien Leigh dies on 8th July, aged 53.
In the UK MPs vote by 101-16 to decriminalise consenting sexual relations between gay men over 21 in England and Wales.
Whilst on a state visit to Canada the French President Charles de Gaulle calls for a "free Quebec". The Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson denounces de Gaulle's remarks as "unacceptable to the Canadian people and its government". As a result de Gaulle cancels his trip to meet Pearson in Ottawa and returns to France.

On 8th August Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand found the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) to promote economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region.
Joe Orton is murdered by his lover Kenneth Halliwell on 9th August.
Rene Magritte dies on 15th August, aged 69.
The leader of the American Nazi party, George Lincoln Rockwell, is shot dead by a fellow former party member, John Patley, on Friday, 25th August.
The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, is found dead in his Belgravia flat on Sunday, 27th August. The night before he had abruptly left a party at his Sussex country house, saying that there was something that needed his attention.

Sweden changes over to driving on the right.
On 10th September the inhabitants of Gibraltar vote overwhelmingly in favour of remaining British. Only 44 people vote for a change to Spanish rule.
The QEII cruise liner is launched by the Queen on 20th September.
Tony Blackburn launches the BBC's new pop radio station, Radio 1. The first record to be played is Flowers In The Rain by the Move.

Jimmy Young's long-running BBC radio show takes to the air on 2nd October.
Woody Guthrie dies from Huntingdon's Chorea on 3rd October, aged 52.
The UK Labour Party passes a resolution at its annual conference to "dissociate itself" from US policy in Vietnam.
Marxist revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara is shot dead on 9th October in a clash between guerrillas and the Bolivian Army.
Abortion is legalised in the UK.
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris, a former curator at London Zoo, is published on Thursday, 12th October. In his book Morris compared human behaviour - "feeding, sleeping, fighting, mating and rearing young" - with that of apes.

49 people are killed and 78 injured on Sunday, 5th November when an express train from Hastings to Charing Cross is derailed near Hither Green in south-east London. Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees is one of the passengers on the train. He is treated for shock.
Rolling Stone magazine is published for the first time on 9th November.
A French journalist, Jules Régis Debrey, is sentenced to 30 years in jail by a military court in Bolivia for alleged involvement with the guerrilla movement led by Che Guevara.
Britain is hit by an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. On 18th November a ban is imposed on the transportation of farm animals anywhere in England and Wales. Over 130,000 animals are slaughtered.
On 18th November, in response to the financial crisis hitting Britain, the pound is devalued by 14.3%.

The first human heart transplant is carried out by Dr. Christian Barnard (1922-2001), a cardiac surgeon at Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town, on a 55-year old retired grocer Louis Washkansky on 3rd December. The heart was donated by Louise Darvall, who had died after a car accident. Washkansky dies 18 days later from pneumonia, not from failure of the new heart.
Otis Redding is killed in a plane crash on 10th December, just three days after he had recorded (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay. Four members of his backing band, the Bar-Kays, are also killed in the crash.
The Rolling Stones' guitarist Brian Jones has a nine-month jail sentence for drug offences overturned at the Court of Appeal on Tuesday, 12th December. He is ordered to pay a fine of £1,000 instead.
The Australian Prime Minister, Harold Holt, disappears while swimming in the sea. Searchers fail to find him and he is presumed dead.
In the UK the popular radio programme Just A Minute is broadcast for the first time on 22nd December.

• Amen Corner
  
• Bee Gees
  
• Doors
  
• Aretha Franklin
  
• Jimi Hendrix
  
• Gladys Knight and the Pips
  
• Monkees
  
• Move
  
• Pink Floyd
  
  

• Shirley Bassey
  Big Spender
  
• The Beatles
  All You Need Is Love
  
• The Beatles
  Hello Goodbye
  
• The Beatles
  Penny Lane / Strawberry Fields Forever
  
• The Beatles
  Magical Mystery Tour [Double EP]
  
• Jeff Beck
  Hi-Ho Silver Lining
  
• Bee Gees
  Massachusetts
  
• Box Tops
  The Letter
  
• Petula Clark
  Don't Sleep In The Subway
  
• Petula Clark
  This Is My Song
  
• Arthur Conley
  Sweet Soul Music
  
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich
  Zabadak!
  
• Donovan
  Mellow Yellow
  
• Donovan
  Sunshine Superman
  
• Foundations
  Baby Now That I've Found You
  
• Four Tops
  Bernadette
  
• Four Tops
  Standing In The Shadows Of Love
  
• Aretha Franklin
  Respect
  
• Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston
  It Takes Two
  
• Bobbie Gentry
  Ode To Billie Joe
  
• Jimi Hendrix
  Hey Joe
  
• Jimi Hendrix
  Purple Haze
  
• The Herd
  From The Underworld
  
• Herman's Hermits
  There's A Kind Of Hush
  
• Vince Hill
  Edelweiss
  
• Hollies
  Carrie Anne
  
• Hollies
  On A Carousel
  
• Engelbert Humperdinck
  The Last Waltz
  
• Engelbert Humperdinck
  Release Me
  
• Kinks
  Autumn Almanac
  
• Kinks
  Waterloo Sunset
  
• Paul Jones
  I've Been A Bad Bad Boy
  
• Long John Baldry
  Let The Heartaches Begin
  
• Lulu
  The Boat That I Row
  
• Scot McKenzie
  San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
  
• Mamas and the Papas
  Creeque Alley
  
• Mamas and the Papas
  Dedicated To The One I Love
  
• Manfred Mann
  Ha Ha Said The Clown
  
• Monkees
  I'm A Believer
  
• Monkees
  A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You
  
• Move
  Flowers In The Rain
  
• Move
  I Can Hear The Grass Grow
  
• Move
  Night Of Fear
  
• Pink Floyd
  See Emily Play
  
• Gene Pitney
  Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
  
• Procol Harum
  A Whiter Shade Of Pale
  
• Cliff Richard
  All My Love
  
• Cliff Richard
  The Day I Met Marie
  
• Rolling Stones
  Let's Spend The Night Together
  
• The Seekers
  Georgy Girl
  
• Sandie Shaw
  Puppet On A String
  [Eurovision Song Contest Winner]
  
• Nancy Sinatra and Frank Sinatra
  Somethin' Stupid
  
• Small Faces
  Itchycoo Park
  
• Cat Stevens
  Matthew And Son
  
• Supremes
  The Happening
  
• Diana Ross and The Supremes
  Reflections
  
• Traffic
  Hole In My Shoe
  
• Traffic
  Paper Sun
  
• Tremeloes
  Even The Bad Times Are Good
  
• Tremeloes
  Silence Is Golden
  
• Troggs
  Love Is All Around
  
• Turtles
  Happy Together
  
• Turtles
  She'd Rather Be With Me
  
• Keith West
  Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'
  
• The Who
  I Can See For Miles
  
• The Who
  Pictures Of Lily
  
• Young Rascals
  Groovin'
  
  

• Flowerpot Men
  Let's Go To San Francisco
  
• Johnny Mann Singers
  Up-Up And Away
  
• Prince Buster
  Al Capone
  
• Skatalites
  Guns Of Navarone
  
  

• The Beatles
  Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
  
• Petula Clark
  Colour My World
  
• Cream
  Disraeli Gears
  
• Jimi Hendrix
  Are You Experienced
  
• Monkees
  The Monkees
  
• Monkees
  More of the Monkees
  
• The Seekers
  Seekers - Seen In Green
  
• Cat Stevens
  Matthew and Son
  
• Troggs
  Trogglodynamite
  
• Scott Walker
  Scott
  

• Barbarella
  
• Belle de Jour
  
• Bonnie and Clyde
  
• Camelot
  
• Carry On Doctor
  
• Casino Royale
  
• The Dirty Dozen
  
• Doctor Dolittle
  
• The Graduate
  
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
  
• Half A Sixpence
  
• In The Heat Of The Night
  
• The Jungle Book
  
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
  
• War and Peace
  
• You Only Live Twice
  
  

• Ask The Family
  
• At Last The 1948 Show
  
• The Benny Hill Show
  (ATV)
  
• Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons
  
• Dee Time
  
• Emergency Ward 10
  (last episode)
  
• The Forsyte Saga
  
• The Golden Shot
  
• The High Chaparral
  
• News at Ten (ITN)
  
• Not In Front Of The Children
  
• Omnibus
  
• The Prisoner
  
• The Rolf Harris Show
  
• Skippy, The Bush Kangaroo
  
• Till Death Us Do Part
  (Series 2)
  
• Tonight With Dave Allen
  (Series 1)
  
• Trumpton
  
  

BBC Sport

BBC
Sports Personality
of the Year:
Henry Cooper

Football: Celtic become the first British team to win the European Cup.
Manchester United end the Season as Champions of the English First Division.
Alf Ramsey, Manager of the England team, receives a Knighthood.

Tennis: John Newcombe wins the men's singles title at Wimbledon for the first time (6-3, 6-1, 6-1).
Billie Jean King wins the women's singles title for the second time, defeating Britain's Ann Jones in the final (6-3, 6-4).

Cycling: Tommy Simpson, the first British winner of the World Professional Road Race Championship, dies in the Tour de France.

Rugby: Gareth Edwards makes his international début for Wales, aged 19.

Sailing: Francis Chichester sails single-handed around the world in 119 days. He returns to Plymouth on 28th May.

Squash: Jonah Barrington wins the first of six British Open Championships.