Diner's Club introduces the first charge card. Velcro is patented. Telstar, the first active communication satellite, relays the first trans-Atlantic television pictures. Neil Armstrong is the first man on the moon. The floppy disk is introduced for storing data used by computers.
Smallpox is eradicated as a disease through a worldwide vaccination program.
Barney Clark becomes the first person to recieve an artificial heart. Tim Berners Lee devises the World Wide Web. Biosphere II closes it's doors to begin a study in controlled environments. The FDA approves the use of a nicotine patch to help assist smokers to quit smoking. D CERN creates the first anti-hydrogen atom.