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The Year Begins!
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The Beatles give their last ever performance atop apple records!
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The Boeing 747 makes its maiden flight!
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Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 (James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart) to test the lunar module.
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Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module
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Dr. Denton Cooley implants the first temporary artificial heart.
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Apollo program: Apollo 10 (Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, John Young) is launched, on the full dress-rehearsal for the Moon landing.
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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.
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The Stonewall riots in New York City mark the start of the modern gay rights movement in the U.S.
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Vietnam War: The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made.
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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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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.
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The Apolla 11 returns
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Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets the Al-Aqsa Mosque on fire.
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Ho Chi Minh, former president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam dies.
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The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC.
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Vietnam War: Hundreds of thousands of people take part in antiwar demonstrations across the United States.
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Regular colour television broadcasts begin on BBC1 and ITV in UK.
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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.