John Lennon returns his MBE to protest the British government’s support of the U.S war in Vietnam.

The Apollo 12 spacecraft splashes down safely in the Pacific ocean, ending the second mission to the Moon.

The first ARPANET link is established (the progenitor of the Global internet).

US president Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.

Richard Oakes returns with 90 followers and offers to buy Alcatraz for 24$ (he leaves the island January 1970).

The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes ecplicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre.

soccer great Pelé scores his 1,000 goal

Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (”Oceans of storms”), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, to begin the SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.

Dave Thomas opens his first restaurant in a former steakhouse on a cold, snowy Saturday in downtown Colombus, Ohio. He names the chain Wendy’s after his 8 years old daughter Melinda Lou (nicknamed Wendy by her siblings).