Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
U.S. troops massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in Vietnam.
Democratic Senator Robert F. Kennedy started his presidential campaign.
Newsroom on BBC2 switched to color, making it the first color news in the UK.
The first-ever 911 call was made in the US.
Planet of the Apes hit the theatres in New York City.
Eddie Adams takes one of the Vietnam War's best-known pictures.
The Battle of Khe Sanh begins.
The Prague Spring begins.
Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain.
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange.
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was presumed dead after being swept out to sea by a riptide.
Seven armed men attempted to assassinate Bob Marley while he was on break from rehearsal.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
NASA launched the Apollo 4 test spacecraft to test the Saturn V rocket for the first time.
The Soviet Probe Venera 4 entered Venus' atmosphere and sent back information to Earth for about 90 minutes before it lost contact.
Argentinian Communist and Guerilla leader Che Guevara was captured by the Bolivian military.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right side.
Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice.
ASEAN is Founded.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
Race riots break out in Newark, New Jersey, killing 26 people and injuring several others.
New Zealand adopts new currency.
The Nigerian Civil War began when Nigerian troops invaded Biafra.
Israel annexes East Jerusalem.
The world's first operating ATM opened in Enfield, London.
China performed its first thermonuclear test.
Ronald Reagan signed the Therapeutic Abortion Act.
Senate appointed Thurgood Marshall as the first US African American to the Supreme Court of justice.
The US Supreme Court ruled interracial marriage legal.
The Six-Day War ends.
Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
The Six-Day War begins in the Middle East.
Benno Ohnesorg is killed.
The Republic of Biafra is proclaimed.
Zakir Husain began an almost two-year term as President of India.
Boxing Champion Muhammad Ali lost his boxing title after refusing to join the army.
A Soviet cosmonaut became the first human casualty during a space mission.
The Soviet Union launched the first crewed Soyuz mission, Soyuz 1.
Dictator Georgios Papadopoulos assumes power in Greece.
US President John F. Kennedy's body was moved to its final resting place in Virginia.
Suharto rises to power in Indonesia.
Josef Stalin's daughter defects to the West.
The Mantra-Rock Dance takes place in San Francisco.
The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.
Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
The Summer of Love is launched with the Human Be-In.
James Bedford is frozen with intent of future resuscitation.
Ronald Reagan is sworn in as Governor of California.
