Evel Knievel attempted to jump the Caesar's Palace Fountain.
Muriel Siebert became the first woman to own a seat on New York Stock Exchange.
Leonard Cohen released his debut album 'Songs of Leonard Cohen' through Columbia Records.
Paul McCartney and actress Jane Asher announced their engagement.
The Graduate American comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols was released.
Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt was presumed dead after being swept out to sea by a riptide.
Jim Morrison was arrested on stage.
Seven armed men attempted to assassinate Bob Marley while he was on break from rehearsal.
The very first Chick-fil-A restaurant opened in Atlanta's Greenbriar Mall.
NASA launched the Apollo 4 test spacecraft to test the Saturn V rocket for the first time.
The Jungle Book movie by Disney was released.
Argentinian Communist and Guerilla leader Che Guevara was captured by the Bolivian military.
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.
Sweden switched from driving on the left side of the road to the right side.
Forty-three people were killed in the Detroit Riots, one of the worst riots in US history.
The Nigerian Civil War began when Nigerian troops invaded Biafra.
Aretha Franklin recorded 'Respect.'
The Outer Space Treaty was signed to prevent the use of nuclear weapons being utilized in space.
Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
The first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles.
