America accomplished the first space walk as part of NASA's preparation for humans to reach the moon.
Four radicals were arrested after a thwarted attempt to blow up the Statue of Liberty.
Black Nationalist founder Malcolm X, who had been moving towards a stance of cooperation with whites, was assassinated by rival Black Muslims. Muslim headquarters in San Francisco and New York were torched two days later.
The Boston Celtics won their seventh straight NBA championship.
The world's first communications satellite, the ComSat Early Bird, was successfully launched, substantially improving the video and sound quality of network TV.
16-year-old Peggy Fleming charmed the world with her women's singles victory at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Race riots in the Watts section of Los Angeles left 35 dead and caused $190,000,000 in damages.
Martin Luther King, Jr. led a five-day civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
Over 5,000 were injured and 280 were killed when no less than 35 tornadoes ripped through six midwestern states.
President Johnson authorized the first bombing raids in the Viet Nam War and began increasing troop levels dramatically.
Due to increasing anti-Viet Nam War protests, the federal government made it a crime to burn draft cards.
The northeastern states and eastern Canada were darkened by a 16-hour blackout, which was later blamed on a squirrel short-circuiting a power transformer in upstate New York.
Construction was completed on St. Louis' Gateway Arch.
Popular toys included the Tick Toy Clock, Mr. Machine, G.I. Joe and the Dick Tracy 2-Way Wrist Radio.
Nat "King" Cole died of lung cancer at age 45.
English pop and Detroit's Motown sound dominated the charts.
