The legal age required for voting in the USA was reduced to 18.
Rhodesia declares itself an independent republic.
The Boeing 747 takes off on its first scheduled flight.
A 7.1 magnitude Earthquake in Tonghai, China, claimed over 10,000 lives.
A bomb exploded at the building of the National Agrarian Bank, Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and injuring 88.
The first Wendy's restaurant opened in Columbus, Ohio, US.
Apollo 12 lifts off.
The first quintuplets of the century were born in London, UK.
Siad Barre staged a military coup against the government the day after the death of Abdirashid Ali Shermarke, the then president of Somalia.
Donald and Doris Fisher opened the first Gap store in San Francisco, California.
The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens its doors to participants and spectators.
After parading around New York City, the Apollo 11 crew was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
NASA's Apollo 11 safely returned to Earth after being the first manned mission to the moon.
Football War ends.
Apollo 11 landed on the Moon with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins.
NASA's Apollo 11 orbited the moon.
NASA launched Apollo 11 from the Kennedy Space Center.
The USSR's Luna 15 robotic spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The first Atlanta International Pop Festival took place at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia, with as many as 150,000 partygoers.
New York City Police raided Stonewall Inn gay bar and handled patrons and employees roughly.
Armando Socarras Ramirez arrived in Madrid from Havana after hiding inside the wheel pod of a plane.
NASA's Apollo 10 mission returned to earth after successfully testing all possible elements of a Moon landing.
NASA's Apollo 10 Spacecraft ran a test flight of the Lunar Lander Module close to the Moon’s surface.
Apollo 10 was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the Moon.
Monty Python was formed.
Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing Robert F. Kennedy.
The Internet is born.
Greek poet Giorgos Seferis speaks out against the military junta.
NASA launched its Mariner 7 space probe from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket.
Golda Meir became the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
Apollo 9 and its crew returned to Earth after a 10-day mission orbiting Earth.
NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.
The Concorde airplane was tested for the first time in Toulouse, France.
NASA's Mariner 6 space probe successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Yasser Arafat becomes leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The Beatles give their last public performance.
The killing of a student activist sets the stage for the Bangladesh Liberation War.
An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 28 people.
Israeli raid on Lebanon.
The first major rock festival held on America's east coast took place.
The crew of NASA's Apollo 8 became the first humans to enter the Moon's orbit.
After eleven months of imprisonment, 83 men from the US Navy were released by North Korea.
The first manned Moon voyage, the Apollo 8, launched with Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and William Anders.
The Zodiac Killer claimed two more victims.
One of the biggest heists in Japan occurred.
Dr. Fritz Derom performed a successful single-lung transplantation on patient Aloïs Vereecken at the University Hospital in Ghent, Belgium.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London's Euston Railway Station.
