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USA timeline
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
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
Four students are killed by National Guards during an anti-Vietnam War demonstration at Kent State University in Ohio
Two students are killed at the all-black Jackson State College in Mississippi when police fire into a dormitory during a riot
US feminist Kate Millett's Sexual Politics is her doctoral dissertation on the exploitation of women
The Dance Theatre of Harlem, founded by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook, gives its first performance at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Joe Frazier becomes the first boxer to beat Muhammad Ali in a professional fight, at New York's Madison Square Gardens
Hip-hop originates as a dance style in New York among young African Americans
Duel, about a motorist terrorized by a truck driver, launches Stephen Spielberg's career as a film director in Hollywood
Evidence of official deception concerning US involvement in Vietnam is published in the New York Times as the Pentagon Papers
In the Apollo 15 mission US astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the vehicle Rover-1 on the surface of the moon
Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell in a film of Anthony Burgess's novel A Clockwork Orange
An Equal Rights Amendment is passed by Congress but fails when not ratified in sufficient states
Five burglars are arrested breaking into the Democratic National Committee HQ at the Watergate office building in Washington
