– France offers independence to French Somaliland (Djibouti from 1977). September September 1 United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed. 98 British tourists die when Britannia Airways Flight 105 crashes in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia. September 6 – South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd is stabbed to death in Parliament by Dimitri Tsafendas. September 9 – NATO decides to move Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe to Belgium. September 12 Gemini 11 (Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Pete Conrad) docks with an Agena target vehicle. B. J. Vorster becomes the new Prime Minister of South Africa. September 13 – Cultural Revolution in China: Clashes between the Chinese Communist Party and the Red Guards are reported by TASS in the Soviet Union. September 16 In South Vietnam, Thích Trí Quang ends a 100-day hunger strike. The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra. September 19 – Indonesian military commander (later President) Suharto announces the resumption of Indonesian participation in the United Nations. September 29 – Hurricane Inez strikes Hispaniola, leaving thousands dead and tens of thousands homeless in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. September 30 The Bechuanaland Protectorate in Africa achieves independence from the United Kingdom as Botswana, with Seretse Khama as its first President. Baldur von Schirach and Albert Speer are released from Spandau Prison in West Berlin. October October – Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton found the Black Panther Party in the United States. October 1 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with 18 fatal injuries and no survivors south of Wemme, Oregon, the first loss of a DC-9. October 3 – Tunisia severs diplomatic relations with the United Arab Republic. October 4 Israel applies for membership in the European Economic Community, which is never granted. Basutoland becomes independent of the United Kingdom and takes the name Lesotho. October 5 UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day. Spain closes its Gibraltar border to vehicular traffic. An experimental breeder reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station in Michigan suffers a partial meltdown when its cooling system fails. October 6 LSD is made illegal in the United States and controlled so strictly that not only are possession and recreational use criminalized, but all