Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock
Bob Dylan plugs in at Newport festival
Bonnie and Clyde released
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid released
The Beatles make their first live US performance on the Ed Sullivan Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson premiers with Groucho Marx as the first guest
The first TGI Fridays restaurant opens
The first Wendy's opens
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published
First part of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is published in The New Yorker
Richard Nixon says 'Sock it to me' on Laugh-In
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird first coins the term Vietnamization (Vietnamizing)
Alan Shepard is the first American in space
Yuri Gagarin is the first Russian in space
The first Ken doll is introduced
The first G.I. Joe action figure is introduced
Death of Jayne Mansfield
Death of Marilyn Monroe
Paul VI becomes pope
The Beatles travel to India to study under Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
A Charlie Brown Christmas first airs
Arlo Guthrie releases the Thanksgiving Day classic Alice's Restaurant
The first Super Bowl
Kenya's independence from the UK
Jimi Hendrix plays the Star Spangled Banner at Woodstock
Bonnie and Clyde released
The Beatles make their first live US performance on the Ed Sullivan Show
The first TGI Fridays restaurant opens
Robert Kennedy assassinated
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is published
Richard Nixon says 'Sock it to me' on Laugh-In
Alan Shepard is the first American in space
The first Ken doll is introduced
Death of Jayne Mansfield
Paul VI becomes pope
A Charlie Brown Christmas first airs
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