« Escalation in Vietnam
« Protests heat up
« Black militants emerge
« Miranda decision
« Charles Whitman fires from the Texas tower
« Walt Disney dies at age 65
« New York’s Metropolitan Opera closes
« New York Stock Exchange peaks at 995 then drops to 744
« Medicare begun
« First Mini-skirts appear
« Timothy Leary's LSD ushers in drug use
« Jack Nicklaus wins all four majors
« All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
« "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV
« USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die
« 1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
« Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War
« Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister