The Beatles give their last ever performance atop apple records!
The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight!
Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart) to test the lunar module.
Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.
Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
Apollo program: Apollo 11 (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins) lifts off toward the first landing on the Moon.
Apollo program: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. The world watches in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon.
The Apolla 11 returns
Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
Ho Chi Minh, former president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies.
The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC.
Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
The Boeing 747 jumbo jet makes its debut. It carries 191 people, most of them reporters and photographers, from Seattle, Washington to New York City.
