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Norman Mailer publishes The Armies of the Night, based on his experiences on an anti-Vietnam demonstration in Washington in October 1967
Barbara Streisand repeats her Broadway performance in the film of Funny Girl
US athlete Bob Beamon sets a world long-jump record of 8.9 metres that will stand for 23 years
Gore Vidal publishes Myra Breckenridge, featuring a lively transsexual as the central character
Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke create the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, based on Clarke's 1951 short story The Sentinel
Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis marries Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of the assassinated president
Republican candidate Richard Nixon defeats Hubert Humphrey in the US presidential election
Harvard academic Henry Kissinger is selected by President Nixon as his national security adviser
Three US astronauts become the first humans to leave the earth's orbit, reaching the moon and going into its orbit in Apollo 8
The US astronauts in Apollo 8 are the first humans to see (and photograph) the sight of the earth rising above the moon's horizon
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
US novelist Philip Roth publishes Portnoy's Complaint, a monologue in which the hero gives his psychoanalyst a frank description of his sexual frustrations
The Stonewall riots in New York prompt a US campaign for Gay and Lesbian rights
Space-traveller Billy Pilgrim suffers horrors in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five
Mary Jo Kopechne drowns when US senator Edward Kennedy drives his car off the road on Chappaquiddick Island in Massachusetts
Neil Armstrong, commander of the US space mission Apollo 11, sets foot on the moon and says: 'That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.'
British film director John Schlesinger makes Midnight Cowboy, starring Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight
Nearly half a million people turn up for the Woodstock Music Festival at a dairy farm in Bethel, New York
Canadian author Margaret Atwood publishes her first novel, The Edible Woman
An engineer in the newly formed Intel Corporation designs the first programmable microchip
The ARPANET, linking computers in four US cities, is the first step towards the internet
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
US film director Robert Altman launches a successful and long-running theme with his Vietnam black comedy, M*A*S*H
President Nixon sends US troops into Cambodia to destroy Vietminh bases
Four students are killed by National Guards during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio
