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1960s[edit]

1960

March 11 - Pioneer 5
April 1 - TIROS-1
April 21 - Brasília
May 1 - U-2 incident
May 3 - The Fantasticks
May 6 - Civil Rights Act of 1960
June - "The Twist" - Chubby Checker
June 5 - Lake Bodom murders
August 12 - Green Eggs and Ham
August 25 - Rome Summer Olympics
September 8 - Psycho
September 14 - OPEC
September 30 - The Flintstones
October 6 - Spartacus
October 12 - Boynton v. Virginia
December 9 - Coronation Street

1961

January 21 - Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
January 25 - 101 Dalmatians
January 30 - The Yogi Bear Show
January 31 - Ham the Chimp
February 1 - The Misfits
February 11 - Venera 1
March 1 - Peace Corps
April 17 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
April 29 - World Wide Fund for Nature
May 4 - Freedom Riders
May 5 - The first human in space
August 5 - Six Flags Over Texas
September 25 - The Hustler
October 5 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
October 18 - West Side Story
October 30 - Tsar Bomba

1962

January 26 - Ranger 3
February 20 - Mercury-Atlas 6
April 21 - Space Needle
April 23 - Ranger 4
May 19 - "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" - Marilyn Monroe
May 30 - Chile 62
July 2 - Walmart
August 10 - Spider-Man debut
September 12 - "We choose to go to the Moon"
September 23 - The Jetsons
September 30 - Ole Miss riot
October 3 - Columbus Day storm
October 5 - Dr. No
October 16 - Cuban Missile Crisis
December 10 - Lawrence of Arabia
December 25 - To Kill a Mockingbird

1963

January 1 - Astro Boy
March 21 - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes
March 28 - The Birds
April 1 - General Hospital
May 15 - Mercury-Atlas 9
June 12 - Cleopatra
June 16 - The first woman in space
June 23 - Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
July 1 - ZIP Code
August 5 - Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
August 28 - "I Have a Dream"/March on Washington
September 26 - Hurricane Flora
November 10 - "Message to the Grass Roots"
November 22 - Assassination of John F. Kennedy
November 23 - Doctor Who
December 25 - The Sword in the Stone

1964

Unknown date - Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
January 12 - Zanzibar Revolution
January 29 - Dr. Strangelove
February 7 - The Beatles arrives in New York
March 30 - Jeopardy!
April 21 - New York World's Fair
July 2 - Civil Rights Act of 1964
August 1 - Ford Mustang
August 27 - Mary Poppins
September 20 - Goldfinger
October 14 - Martin Luther King Jr. gets a Nobel Prize
October 27 - The Boston Strangler is kidnapped
November 28 - Mariner 4
December 6 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
December 14 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
December 25 - My Fair Lady

1965

February 17 - Ranger 8
February 21 - Assassination of Malcolm X
March 2 - The Sound of Music
March 7 - Selma to Montgomery marches
April 10 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
June 3 - Gemini 4
July 29 - Help!
August 6 - Voting Rights Act
August 11 - Watts Riots
October 28 - Gateway Arch
September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki
September 20 - Thunderbirds
November 8 - Days of Our Lives
November 14 - Battle of Ia Drang
December 9 - A Charlie Brown Christmas
December 22 - Doctor Zhivago

1966

January 17 - "The Sound of Silence" - Simon & Garfunkel
February 4 - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
March 16 - Gemini 8
June 13 - Miranda v. Arizona
June 21 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
July 11 - England 66
July 18 - Gemini 10
July 30 - Batman
August 10 - Lunar Orbiter 1
September 8 - Star Trek
October 10 - "Good Vibrations" - The Beach Boys
October 21 - Aberfan disaster
December 14 - Twister
December 15 - Death of Walt Disney
December 18 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
December 23 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1967

January 12 - The first cryogenically frozen person
February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3
March 18 - Torrey Canyon oil spill
April 27 - Expo 67
May 5 - Ariel 3
May 26 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
June 5 - Six-Day War
June 12 - Loving v. Virginia
August 13 - Bonnie and Clyde
September 9 - Spider-Man
September 10 - Gibraltar sovereignty referendum
October 18 - The Jungle Book
November 7 - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
December 3 - The first heart transplant
December 12 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
December 21 - The Graduate

1968

January 5 - Prague Spring
January 30 - Tet Offensive
February 6 - Grenoble Winter Olympics
February 8 - Planet of the Apes
April 3 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
April 4 - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
June 6 - Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
June 12 - Rosemary's Baby
July 18 - Intel
September 14 - Zond 5
September 19 - Funny Girl
October 2 - Tlatelolco massacre
October 11 - Apollo 7
October 17 - Bullitt
November 13 - Yellow Submarine
December 21 - Apollo 8

1969

Unknown date - ARPANET
January 5 - Venera 5 and Venera 6
February 25 - Mariner 6 and 7
May 18 - Apollo 10
May 25 - Midnight Cowboy
June 18 - The Wild Bunch
June 28 - Stonewall riots
July 14 - Apollo 11
July 14 - Easy Rider
August 11 - Hello, Dolly!
August 15 - Woodstock
September 13 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
September 23 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
September 26 - Abbey Road
November 10 - Sesame Street
November 14 - Apollo 12

1970s[edit]

1970

January 5 - All My Children
January 25 - M*A*S*H
January 26 - Bridge Over Troubled Water
January 27 - Moondance
February 11 - Ōsumi
February 18 - Patton
March 5 - NPT
April 1 - AMC Gremlin
April 11 - Apollo 13
April 29 - Cambodian campaign
May 4 - Kent State shootings
May 8 - Let It Be
May 31 - Mexico 70
June 17 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
June 24 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
July 7 - Fun House
July 8 - Cosmo's Factory
July 21 - Aswan Dam
August 16 - Venera 7
September 12 - Josie and the Pussycats
September 12 - Five Easy Pieces
September 18 - Paranoid
September 19 - After the Gold Rush
September 19 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
September 24 - The Odd Couple
September 25 - The Partridge Family
October 2 - Atom Heart Mother
October 5 - PBS
October 13 - Play for Today
October 16 - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
October 20 - Le Cercle Rouge
October 22 - The Conformist
November 8 - Bhola cyclone
November 18 - A Touch of Zen
November 27 - All Things Must Pass
November 29 - Tatort
December 6 - Gimme Shelter
December 18 - El Topo
December 20 - Donkey Skin
December 24 - The Aristocats

1971

Unknown date 1 - Uno
Unknown date 2 - Floppy disk
January 2 - Ibrox disaster
January 12 - All in the Family
January 31 - Apollo 14
February 2 - A Clockwork Orange
February 8 - Nasdaq
March 11 - A New Leaf
March 11 - THX 1138
March 25 - Bangladesh genocide
March 31 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
April 10 - Ping-pong diplomacy
April 18 - Salyut 1
April 19 - L.A. Woman
April 23 - Sticky Fingers
May 17 - Ram
May 30 - Mariner 9
June 13 - Pentagon Papers
June 22 - Blue
June 24 - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
June 25 - Klute
June 30 - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
July 1 - Walkabout
July 13 - The Panic in Needle Park
August 14 - Who's Next
September 3 - Qatar Independence
September 24 - Electric Warrior
October 1 - Walt Disney World/Magic Kingdom
October 9 - Wake in Fright
October 22 - The Last Picture Show
October 24 - The French Connection
October 30 - Meddle
November 1 - Led Zeppelin IV
November 20 - Duel
November 25 - Straw Dogs
December 2 - United Arab Emirates foundation
December 3 - Indo-Pakistani War
December 17 - Hunky Dory
December 20 - Harold and Maude
December 23 - Dirty Harry

1972

January 9 - UK miners' strike
January 25 - Fritz the Cat
February 3 - Sapporo Winter Olympics
February 5 - Solaris
February 13 - Cabaret
March 2 - Pioneer 10
March 5 - Cries and Whispers
March 10 - What's Up, Doc?
March 17 - Pink Flamingos
March 22 - Fist of Fury
March 24 - The Godfather
March 25 - Machine Head
April 27 - El Chavo del Ocho
May 12 - Exile on Main St.
May 19 - Frenzy
May 26 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
June 16 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
June 17 - Watergate scandal
July 21 - Bloody Friday
July 23 - Landsat 1
July 30 - Deliverance
August 2 - Solar storms
August 4 - Super Fly
August 21 - OAO-3
August 26 - Munich Summer Olympics
September 1 - Magnavox Odyssey
September 5 - Munich massacre
September 9 - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
September 14 - The Waltons
September 15 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
September 17 - M*A*S*H
October 13 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
October 16 - Emmerdale
November 8 - Transformer
November 29 - Pong
December 3 - Mazinger Z
December 7 - Apollo 17
December 12 - The Poseidon Adventure
December 23 - Nicaragua earthquake
December 29 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God

1973

January 14 - Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
January 22 - Roe v. Wade
January 27 - Paris Peace Accords
February 28 - El Chapulín Colorado
February 7 - Raw Power
March 1 - The Dark Side of the Moon
March 7 - The Long Goodbye
March 7 - The Six Million Dollar Man
March 12 - F for Fake
March 28 - Houses of the Holy
April 5 - The first mobile phone
April 4 - World Trade Center
April 13 - Aladdin Sane
May 3 - Willis Tower
May 8 - Wounded Knee Occupation
May 14 - Skylab
May 16 - Paper Moon
June 30 - Belladonna of Sadness
July 26 - Enter the Dragon
August 1 - American Graffiti
August 13 - Innervisions
September 11 - Chilean coup d'état
October 1 - Oil crisis
October 5 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
October 6 - Yom Kippur War
October 14 - Mean Streets
October 15 - Badlands
October 16 - Don't Look Now
October 20 - Sydney Opera House
October 26 - Quadrophenia
November 6 - Pioneer 10 discovering Jupiter
November 8 - Robin Hood
November 9 - Piano Man
November 14 - Athens Polytechnic uprising
November 29 - The Holy Mountain
December 5 - Serpico
December 6 - Fantastic Planet
December 6 - The Wicker Man
December 25 - The Sting
December 26 - The Exorcist

1974

Unknown date - Dungeons & Dragons
January 2 - National Maximum Speed Law
January 6 - Heidi, Girl of the Alps
January 15 - Happy Days
January 17 - Court and Spark
January 29 - Brisbane flood
February 5 - Mariner 10's first look at Venus
February 7 - Blazing Saddles
March - Mariner 10 discovering Mercury
March and entire year - Bangladesh famine of 1974
March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981
April 3 - Super Outbreak
April 7 - The Conversation
April 24 - Guillaume affair
April 25 - Carnation Revolution
June 13 - West Germany 74
June 20 - Chinatown
June 26 - Barcode
July 1 - 461 Ocean Boulevard
July 19 - On the Beach
July 20 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus
August 8 - Richard Nixon's resignation speech
September 7 - Shazam!
September 11 - Little House on the Prairie
September 13 - Crime of the Century
September 18 - Celine and Julie Go Boating
October 1 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
October 11 - Black Christmas
October 25 - Natty Dread
October 30 - The Rumble in the Jungle
November 1 - Phantom of the Paradise
November 8 - Sheer Heart Attack
November 18 - A Woman Under the Influence
November 21 - Birmingham pub bombings
November 24 - Lucy
November 29 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
December 14 - The Godfather Part II
December 14 - The Towering Inferno
December 15 - Young Frankenstein
December 21 - Cyclone Tracy

1975

January 6 - Wheel of Fortune
January 15 - Space Mountain
January 18 - The Jeffersons
January 20 - Blood on the Tracks
February 4 - Haicheng earthquake
February 5 - Operation Independence
February 12 - The Stepford Wives
February 19 - Grey Gardens
February 28 - Moorgate tube crash
March 7 - Deep Red
March 7 - Mirror
March 14 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
April 3 - Operation Babylift
April 4 - Microsoft
April 30 - Fall of Saigon
May 10 - Betamax
May 12 - Mayaguez incident
May 14 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
June 10 - One of These Nights
June 11 - Nashville
June 20 - Jaws
July 15 - Apollo–Soyuz
August 20 - Viking 1
August 25 - Born to Run
September 6 - The Great Grape Ape Show
September 12 - Wish You Were Here
September 18 - Patty Hearst arrested
September 21 - Dog Day Afternoon
October 11 - Saturday Night Live
October 16 - Balibo Five
October 31 - "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
November - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
November 10 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks
November 14 - Another Green World
November 19 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
November 20 - Franco's death
November 26 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
December 5 - Indonesian invasion of East Timor
December 15 - Mothership Connection
December 18 - Barry Lyndon

1976

Unknown date - IBM 3800
January 14 - The Bionic Woman
January 21 - Concorde first flight
January 23 - Station to Station
February 4 - Innsbruck Winter Olympics
February 4 - Guatemala earthquake
February 8 - Taxi Driver
February 25 - Comet West
March 24 - Argentine coup d'état
April 1 - 2112
April 9 - All the President's Men
April 11 - Apple I
April 23 - Ramones
May 4 - LAGEOS
June 6 - The Omen
June 15 - The Man Who Fell to Earth
June 16 - Soweto uprising
June 21 - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Elton John ft. Kiki Dee
June 23 - Logan's Run
June 26 - CN Tower
June 26 - The Outlaw Josey Wales
July 3 - Entebbe raid
July 12 - Family Feud
July 17 - Toronto Summer Olympics
July 28 - Tangshan earthquake
July 31 - Face on Mars
August - Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
August 17 - "Dancing Queen" - ABBA
August 25 - Boston
September 5 - The Muppet Show
September 9 - VHS
September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise
September 22 - Charlie's Angels
September 28 - Songs in the Key of Life
October 1 - Candy Candy
November 3 - Carrie
November 21 - Rocky
November 27 - Network
December 5 - Oxygène
December 8 - Hotel California

1977

January 14 - Low
January 21 - Animals
February 1 - Suspiria
February 4 - Rumours
February 8 - Marquee Moon
March 4 - Vrancea earthquake
March 10 - Roman Polanski sexual abuse case
March 19 - Eraserhead
March 27 - Tenerife airport disaster
April 8 - The Clash
April 20 - Annie Hall
May 17 - Chuck E. Cheese
May 25 - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
May 31 - Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
June 3 - Exodus
June 10 - Apple II
June 24 - Sorcerer
July 13 - New York City blackout
July 13 - Ogaden War
July 22 - The Hills Have Eyes
July 30 - House
August 15 - Wow! signal
August 16 - Elvis Presley's death
August 20 - Voyager program
September 7 - Torrijos–Carter Treaties
September 10 - Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
September 11 - Atari 2600
September 15 - CHiPs
September 23 - Aja
September 29 - The Stranger
October 17 - "Heroes"
October 21 - Bat Out of Hell
October 28 - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
November 4 - The Incredible Hulk
November 6 - Collapse of Kelly Barnes Dam
November 14 - Andhra Pradesh cyclone
November 19 - Anwar Sadat visits Israel
December 1 - Commodore PET
December 14 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
December 16 - Saturday Night Fever

1978

Unknown date - LEGO Space
January 28 - Fantasy Island
February 10 - Blue Collar
February 23 - The Deer Hunter
March 17 - This Year's Model
April 1 - Space Invaders
April 2 - Dallas
April 4 - Future Boy Conan
April 26 - The Last Waltz
April 28 - First solo expedition to the North Pole
May 14 - Brick Lane riots
June 1 - Argentina '78
June 9 - Some Girls
June 16 - Grease
June 19 - Garfield
July 14 - More Songs About Buildings and Food
July 25 - First test tube born baby
July 28 - Animal House
August 10 - Midnight Express
August 11 - Girlfriends
August 11 - Double Eagle II
August 25 - August papal conclave
September - Parallel Lines
September 1 - Dawn of the Dead
September 8 - Chairs Missing
September 12 - Taxi
September 13 - Days of Heaven
September 14 - Mork & Mindy
September 16 - Tabas earthquake
September 17 - Camp David Accords
October 5 - Drunken Master
October 8 - Autumn Sonata
October 19 - Watership Down
October 23 - "I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor
October 25 - Halloween
November 3 - Diff'rent Strokes
November 8 - Jonestown
November 18 - "September" - Earth, Wind & Fire
December 15 - Superman: The Movie
December 22 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1979

January 5 - Armed Forces
January 8 - Whiddy Island disaster
February - Iranian Revolution
February 1 - The Warriors
February 3 - You Can't Do That on Television
March 5 - Voyager 1 discovering Jupiter
March 29 - Breakfast in America
April 2 - Doraemon
April 7 - Mobile Suit Gundam
April 11 - Idi Amin is deposed
April 12 - Mad Max
April 25 - Bad Girls
May 25 - Stalker
May 25 - Alien
May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191
June - SALT II Treaty
June 15 - Happy Meal
June 15 - Unknown Pleasures
June 22 - The Muppet Movie
June 22 - Escape from Alcatraz
July 1 - Walkman
July 27 - Highway to Hell
August 10 - Off the Wall
August 15 - Apocalypse Now
August 27 - Assassination of Louis Mountbatten
September 1 - Pioneer 11 discover Saturn
September 7 - ESPN
October 17 - VisiCalc
October 19 - Damn the Torpedoes
October 29 - "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - ABBA
November - Asteroids
November 4 - Iran hostage crisis
November 8 - Monty Python's Life of Brian
November 30 - The Wall
December 14 - London Calling
December 15 - The Castle of Cagliostro
December 19 - Being There
December 19 - Kramer vs. Kramer
December 20 - All That Jazz
December 24 - Soviet–Afghan War