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.
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).
the soviet submarine k-19 collides with the Americans submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
In Washington 250 000/500 000 protesters stage a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic “March against death”.
