- Richard Nixon is elected President.
- The 1st class postage stamp raises to 6 cents.
- Robert Kennedy is assasinated in California. Sirhan Sirhan is apprehended on the spot.
- Johnny Cash records "Live at Folsom Prison".
- Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities for several days afterward.
- The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway.
- The soap opera One Life to Live premieres on ABC. The show featured Tommy Lee Jones and Lawrence Fishburne.
- Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d'état.
- The White Album is released by The Beatles.
- The film Oliver!, based on the hit London and Broadway musical, opens in the U.S. after being released first in England. It will go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.
- The Zodiac Killer is believed to have shot Betty Lou Jensen and David Faraday on Lake Herman Road, Benicia, San Francisco Bay, California.
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