Dr. Michael DeBakey of Houston first uses an artificial heart to sustain a patient during surgery. Hello Dolly and Fiddler on the Roof. Martin Luther King wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Lyndon Baines Johnson wins election as 36th President of the U. S. Hit movies include The Sound of Music and Dr. Zhivago . Indira Gandhi becomes Prime Minister of India.
Soviet spacecraft lands on the moon.
Six Day War between Arab countries and Israel in 1967. Assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. Woodstock music festival takes place in New York state. Preston Smith Neil Armstrong, U.S. astronaut from the Apollo 11 spacecraft, walks on the moon on July 4, 1969. The National Guard kills four people during student anti-war protests at Kent State in Ohio.