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Led Zeppelin's first studio recorded album, is released.
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Elvis Presley steps into American Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, recording "Long Black Limousine" thus beginning the recording of what becomes his landmark comeback sessions for the albums From Elvis in Memphis and Back in Memphis. The sessions yield the popular and critically acclaimed singles "Suspicious Minds," "In the Ghetto" and "Kentucky Rain."
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Richard Milhous Nixon succeeds Lyndon Baines Johnson as the 37th President of the United States of America.
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Martial law is declared in Madrid, the University is closed and over 300 students are arrested.
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The Beatles give their last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records. The impromptu concert was broken up by the police.
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The last issue of The Saturday Evening Post hits magazine stands.
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The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight.
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Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
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The Battle of Dong Ap Bia, also known as Hamburger Hill, begins during the Vietnam War.
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An American teenager known as 'Robert R.' dies in St. Louis, Missouri, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the first confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
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Midnight Cowboy, an X-rated, oscar winning John Schlesinger film, debuts
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In Montreal, Canada, Give Peace a Chance is recorded during the famous bed-in for peace by John Lennon. The song, the first single recorded solo by a Beatle, and released under the name Plastic Ono Band, is still a strong anthem for peace.
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U.S. President Richard Nixon and South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu meet at Midway Island. Nixon announces that 25,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn by September.
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Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.
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This is the historic date where neil armstrong took his first steps on the moon.
