1718 events
The controversial Broadway musical Hair, a product of the counterculture of the 1960s, opened, with its songs becoming a
Vietnam War: The 1st Australian Task Force began the defence of Fire Support Base Coral in the largest unit-level action
American radical feminist Valerie Solanas shot and wounded visual artist Andy Warhol and two others at Warhol's New York
The Royal New Zealand Navy adopted a unique white ensign, to distinguish its vessels from those of the Royal Navy
Led by Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (pictured), the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party overthrew Iraqi president Abdul Rahman Arif in…
The first games of the Special Olympics (athletes pictured), for athletes with intellectual disabilities, were held at…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
After coming second to Nguyễn Văn Thiệu in a rigged presidential election, Trương Đình Dzu was jailed by a South…
The U.S. Democratic Party's National Convention opened in Chicago, sparking four days of clashes (pictured) between…
Zakir Husain took office as the first elected Muslim President of India
Australians voted overwhelmingly to include Indigenous Australians in population counts for constitutional purposes and
Following Israel's initiation of Operation Focus with the goal to neutralise the Egyptian Air Force, Syrian Air Force, a
During a speech in Montreal, French president Charles de Gaulle (pictured) declared "Long live free Quebec!", a…
Paddy Roy Bates proclaimed HM Fort Roughs, a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort in the North Sea off the coast of…
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ
Disapproving of General Tôn Thất Đính's handling of the Buddhist Uprising, South Vietnamese prime minister Nguyễn Cao Kỳ