Apollo 9 and its crew returned to Earth after a 10-day mission orbiting Earth.
NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.
NASA's Mariner 6 space probe successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii killed 28 people.
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.
Richard Milhous Nixon won the election and became the 37th President of the United States.
Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis.
Intel is founded.
Senator Robert Kennedy was laid to rest.
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.
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.
The first-ever 911 call was made in the US.
Planet of the Apes hit the theatres in New York City.
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.
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.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
Thurgood Marshall confirmed as Supreme Court justice.
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.
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.
US President John F. Kennedy's body was moved to its final resting place in Virginia.
Josef Stalin's daughter defects to the West.
The Mantra-Rock Dance takes place in San Francisco.
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.
A military dog 'Nemo' saved the life of his handler, Airman Robert A. Throneburg, during the Vietnam War.
NASA launched the Gemini program's tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black-rights political organization, Black Panther Party.
The Metropolitan Opera House opened to a full house in New York City.
President Lyndon B signed the National Traffic and Motor Safety Act, which set new standards for vehicles and drivers.
The first-ever photograph was taken of the Earth from the surface of the Moon.
NASA launched Gemini X, the tenth spaceflight of the Gemini program.
NASA launched their spacecraft Saturn IB from Cape Kennedy, Florida, US.
Freedom of Information Act in the US is signed into law.
Civil Rights marchers in Canton, Mississippi, were dispersed by tear gas during the 'March Against Fear.'
US Supreme Court declared the start of informing potential criminals of their rights. These became known as the Miranda rights.
