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.
A Soviet N1 rocket failed during its launch, causing the largest rocket explosion in recorded history.
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.
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of killing US Senator 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.
The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
Queen Elizabeth II officially reopened London's Euston Railway Station.
Equatorial Guinea gains independence from Spain.
A 2,000-strong student protest against police brutality broke out in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The Soviet Union launched Zond 5, the first spacecraft to successfully circle the moon and return to earth.
Swaziland gained independence from the United Kingdom.
Pope Paul VI declared the prohibition of birth control.
Intel is founded.
Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.
The world's first Legoland resort opens.
Sirhan Sirhan assassinated Robert F. Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's younger brother.
Canada announced that silver coins would be replaced with nickel.
Bishop Reuben H. Mueller founded the United Methodist Church.
The Civil Rights Act was enacted in the US after being signed by President Lyndon B.
Martin Luther King Jr. was laid to rest in Atlanta, Georgia.
