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== Events ==
* January 1 - [[Jean-Bédel Bokassa]] stages a successful ''coup d'état'' of the Central African Republic and declares himself president.
* January 10 - The [[Ku Klux Klan]] attack the home of Civil Rights Movement leader Vernon Dahmer, burning down his home and killing him.
* February 24 - [[Kwame Nkrumah]] is deposed as President of Ghana by a group of military officers calling themselves the [[National Liberation Council]], who establish a military junta to govern the country.
* March 12 - The [[Indonesian mass killings of 1965–66]] come to an end.
* March 13 - [[UNITA]] is founded by [[Jonas Savimbi]].
* March 18 - The [[Grey Wolves]] are founded.
* April 4 - The [[National Renewal Alliance]] is founded.
* May 6 - Both [[Ian Brady]] and [[Myra Hindley]] are sentenced to life in prison for their involvement in the Moors murders.
* May 16 - [[Mao Zedong]] and the [[Communist Party of China]] initiate the Cultural Revolution.
* May 25 - [[Gertrude Baniszewski]] and her daughter [[Paula Baniszewski|Paula]] are both found guilty of the [[murder]] of Sylvia Likens and are sentenced to life in prison.
* June 19 - [[FROLINAT]] is founded.
* July 6 - Malawi declares independence from the United Kingdom. Prime Minister [[Hastings Banda]] is named president.
* July 28 - [[Yakubu Gowon]] is installed as the head of state of Nigeria following a military coup.
* August 1 - The University of Texas tower shooting: [[Charles Whitman]] perpetrates a [[Mass Shooting|mass shooting]] from atop the Main Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, killing 14 people and injuring 31 others.
* August 24 - [[Bruce Greatbatch]] gives the order for the [[Expulsion of the Chagossians|Chagossians to be forcibly removed]] from the island of Diego Garcia.
* August 26 - Beginning of the South African Border War.
* September 6 - South African Prime Minister [[Hendrik Verwoerd]] is assassinated in Cape Town by [[Dimitri Tsafendas]]. 
* September 29 - The Nigerian military government under Yakubu Gowon launches a [[pogrom]] against the Igbo people of Eastern Nigeria, leaving about 30,000 dead.
* October 5 - Beginning of the Korean DMZ Conflict.
* November 28 - [[Michel Micombero]] successfully abolishes the Burundian monarchy and declares himself the first President of Burundi.

== Births ==
=== Villain births ===
* February 9 - [[Russell Bishop]]
* February 12 - [[Leszek Pękalski]]
* February 25 - [[Robert Napper]]
* April 2 - [[Bill Romanowski]]
* April 12 - [[Giuseppe Coluccio]]
* May 17 - [[Qusay Hussein]]
* May 27 - [[Stephen Kenion]] 
* June 30 - [[Mike Tyson]]
* July 22 - [[Georgi Iliev]]
* August 10 - [[Mark Rogowski]]
* August 22 - [[Harrison Norris]]
* August 25 - [[Michael Cohen]]
* September 7 - [[Malik Zulu Shabazz]]
* September 19 - [[Eric Rudolph]]
* September 24 - [[Stefan Molyneux]]
* October 30 - [[Abu Musab al-Zarqawi]]
* December 10 - [[Alfred Gaynor]]
* Unknown - [[Yasmin Nair]]

=== Victim births ===
* March 9 - Sherri Jarvis
* March 14 - Suzanne Bombardier
* June 24 - Adrienne Shelly
*August 20 - Dimebag Darrell
*September 22 - Aaron Salter Jr.

== Deaths ==
=== Villain deaths ===
* February 6 - [[Vilis Lācis]]
* April 21 - [[Josef Dietrich]]
* June 28 - [[D. C. Stephenson]]
* August 1 - [[Charles Whitman]]
* September 2 - [[Yasuji Okamura]]
* September 6 - [[Hendrik Verwoerd]]
* September 14 - [[Hiram Wesley Evans]]
* November 5 - [[Dietrich von Choltitz]]

=== Victim deaths ===
* January 10 - Vernon Dahmer
* August 1 - Kathy & Margaret Whitman