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Congress passes a Freedom of Information Act, giving the public an important new right in the USA
Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara is captured and executed in Bolivia
Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty star in the film Bonnie and Clyde
US author William Styron's novel The Confessions of Nat Turner describes a historical slave revolt in 1831
Lyndon Johnson announces that he will not stand for re-election as US president
Robert Kennedy enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination
Ezra Pound publishes his last collection of cantos, Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX - CXVII
US civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by escaped convict James Earl Ray
AIM (American Indian Movement) is founded to improve the status of native Americans, or American Indians
Pierre Trudeau begins sixteen almost unbroken years as Liberal leader and prime minister of Canada
US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole
The Parti Québécois is formed in Canada by René Lévesque
Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
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
Catholic bishops in Latin America, plagued by oppressive regimes, develop the concept of liberation theology
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
