The Music Center for the Performing Arts opens. Buses become the only mode of rapid transit adopted. The Bracero Program, an effort begun in 1942 to bring in laborers from Mexico, ends. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens. The Los Angeles Dodgers win yet another World Series.
Rioting again erupts in the troubled Watts District.
The Los Angeles Zoo opens. Busch Gardens opens. The Forum is opened. The Los Angeles Kings professional hockey team is formed. The passenger liner Queen Mary docks at its new home in Long Beach.