January 1: <\/strong>Evel Knievel<\/a> fails in his attempt to jump Caesar’s Palace Fountain<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 5:<\/strong> Dr Benjamin Spock<\/a> indicted for conspiring to violate draft law<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 6:<\/strong> Beatles’ “Magical Mystery Tour,” album goes #1 & stays #1 for 8 weeks<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 6: <\/strong>Dr N E Shumway performs 1st US adult cardiac transplant operation<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 6:<\/strong> 1st ABA All-Star Game: East 126 beats West 120 at Indiana<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 12: <\/strong>Nighttime version of “Hollywood Squares” premieres on NBC TV<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 14: <\/strong>Super Bowl II: Green Bay Packers beat Oakland Raiders, 33-14 in Miami<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 20: <\/strong>Actress Sharon Tate<\/a> (24) weds actor\/director Roman Polanski (34) in Chelsea, London<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 22:<\/strong> Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” premieres on NBC<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 23: <\/strong>US B-52 bomber with nuclear bomb on board crashes in Greenland<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 23: <\/strong>Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 23: <\/strong>North Korea captures the USS Pueblo<\/p>\n\n\n\n When North Korea captured the American surveillance ship USS Pueblo, it sparked an 11-month crisis that threatened to worsen already high Cold War tensions in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The trouble started with the Pueblo. It had been nearly 15 years since the Korean War between U.S.-led forces and the North. The Navy intelligence ship was monitoring North Korea from the Tsushima Strait, an ocean channel dividing Korea and Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 26: <\/strong>Israeli submarine Dakar sinks in Mediterranean Sea, 69 die<\/p>\n\n\n\n January 30: <\/strong>North Vietnam launches the Tet Offensive against the United States and South Vietnam<\/p>\n\n\n\n In many ways, the bloody Tet Offensive signified the beginning of the end of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The coordinated attack by 85,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese targeted 36 major cities and towns in South Vietnam. It caught U.S.-led forces by surprise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n April 4: <\/strong>Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was standing on the second floor balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel when he was struck by a bullet at 6:01 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 39-year-old civil rights leader was rushed to nearby St. Joseph’s Hospital but never regained consciousness. He was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n June 5: <\/strong>Robert F. Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles<\/p>\n\n\n\n Just two months later, Kennedy himself was gunned down by an assassin at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The attack took place shortly after Kennedy had wrapped up a speech in the hotel ballroom. As he cut through a kitchen corridor on his way to another part of the building https:\/\/canceltimesharegeek.com\/what-is-the-best-timeshare-exit-company\/<\/a>, a Jordanian born Palestinian named Sirhan Sirhan opened fire, hitting Kennedy in the head and back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kennedy collapsed and was rushed to the hospital, where he underwent brain surgery. Twenty-six hours after the attack, Kennedy died. He was 42.<\/p>\n\n\n\n September 30: <\/strong>Boeing introduces the first 747 “Jumbo Jet”<\/p>\n\n\n\n When demand for air travel reached sky-high levels in the 1960s, the world’s then-largest passenger aircraft — the Boeing 747 Jumbo Jet — was a game changer. The ability to carry far more passengers than previous airliners suddenly made globetrotting a feasible option for would-be wanderers who previously thought they would never afford such exotic sojourns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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