North Korea seized U.S. Navy ship, Pueblo.
North Vietnamese mounted its “Tet Offensive,”
believed to have changed the direction of the war in their favor.
Martin Luther King was killed and
James Earl Ray was arrested for the
crime.
Robert F. Kennedy was also
assassinated.
Eugene McCarthy
challenged incumbent President
Lyndon B.
Johnson for the Democratic nomination for President, leading him to get out
of the running. In the end,
Richard Nixon
defeated
Hubert Humphrey for the
job.
Pope Paul VI prohibited
artificial birth control. The
Beatles’
“White Album” was released. “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS.
Hair debuted on Broadway, Apollo 8 orbited the moon and the Zodiac
Killer terrified California. It was an important year for influential books:
Myra Breckenridge by
Gore Vidal,
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by
Phillip K. Dick,
Armies Of
The Night by
Norman Mailer,
In Watermelon Sugar by
Richard Brautigan,
A Yaqui Way Of Knowledge, by
Carlos
Castaneda,
Soul on Ice by
Eldridge Cleaver,
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by
Tom
Wolfe.
Yasunari Kawabata won the
Nobel Prize for literature.
William
Styron was awarded the Pulitzer for the
Confessions
of Nat Turner. The Mystery Writers of America gave the Edgar, its top prize
for best mystery, to
Donald Westlake
for
God Save The Mark. The Academy
Award for Best movie went to
In The Heat
Of The Night. Movie theaters also showed
2001 Space Odyssey,
Romeo and
Juliet,
Funny Girl,
Lion in Winter and
Oliver. In music we were listening to “Hey Jude “by The Beatles, “Love
Is Blue” by
Paul Mauriat, “Sittin’
On The Dock Of The Bay” by
Otis Redding,
“People Got To Be Free” by
The Rascals.
Lucy Liu,
Kenny Chesney,
Will Smith
and
Hugh Jackman came into the
world.
Marcel DuChammp,
Helen Keller,
Upton Sinclair,
John Steinbeck,
Tallulah Bankhead,
Dan Duryea and
Dennis O’Keefe departed.
If
you were around, what were you during this year of the earth monkey?
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