Humans walked on the moon for the first time.
Richard
M. Nixon became president. 100 counties signed a nuclear proliferation
treaty. Colonel
Muammar al-Gaddafi
overthrew
King Idris of Libya.
The U.S. Supreme Court demanded an immediate
end to segregation in public schools.
Alcatraz
was seized by Native Americans who demanded the land be returned to them
pursuant to another treaty not honored. Stonewall Riot began gay rights
revolution.
Chinese-Russian border clash
resulted in 100s dead.
Golda Meir
became prime minister of Israel.
Sirhan
Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing
Robert Kennedy. Senator
Edward
Kennedy left the scene of a drowning, ending any chance for a presidential run.
Kennedy dad,
Joseph Kennedy, died.
James
Earl Ray pled guilty to the killing of
Martin
Luther King.
Electron microscope was
developed. First in
vitro fertilization
of a human egg occurred. Woodstock happened.
DDT was banned.
Paul McCartney
was forced to deny he was dead.
Rolling Stones fan killed at Altamont. The
last episode of “Star Trek” aired.
Mario
Andretti won the Indy 500.
Willie Mays hit his 600th home run.
Cabaret closed on Broadway after 1166
performances.
Joe Orton’s
What The Butler Saw premiered in London.
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to
Samuel Beckett. We read
The
Godfather by
Mario Puzo,
Portnoy’s Complaint by
Philip Roth,
The French Lieutenant’s Woman by J
ohn Fowles, and
Slaughterhouse
Five by
Kurt Vonnegut. The
Mystery Writers of America gave their top prize to
Jeffery Hudson for
A Case of
Need. On the silver screen we watched
Midnight
Cowboy,
Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid, The Wild Bunch,
Easy Rider, and
Anne of a Thousand Days.
Beatles’ album
Yellow Submarine was released.
We also listened to “Sugar, “Sugar” by
The
Archies, “Aquarius”
by
The Fifth Dimension, “I Can’t Get Next
To You” by
The Temptations, “Honky
Tonk Woman’ by the Rolling Stones,
“Everyday
People by”
Sly and the Family Stone,
“Dizzy” by
Tommy Roe, “Hot Fun in
the Summertime” by Sly and The Family Stone, “Build Me Up Buttercup” by the
Foundations, “Crimson and Clover” by
Tommy James and the Shondells, and “I’ll
Never Fall In Love Again” by
Tom Jones.
Shuffling off the mortal coil were
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Judy Garland,
Jack Kerouac,
Sharon Tate, Boris Karloff,
George “Gabby” Hayes, Thelma Ritter,
Robert Taylor, and
Sonja Henie.
Taking on the coil were
Jack Black,
Jay Z,
Jennifer Lopez,
Jennifer Anniston,
Simon
Baker,
Gerard Butler,
Edward Norton,
Matthew McConaughey and
Marilyn
Manson.
If you were around, what were
you doing this year of the earth rooster?
