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USA timeline
Real-life husband and wife Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor star as the married couple in the film of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Construction work begins on the twin towers for the World Trade Center in New York, designed by US architect Minoru Yamasaki
The Black Panther Party is founded in Oakland, California, to launch a more aggressive campaign for civil rights
US author Susan Sontag publishes her first collection of essays, Against Interpretation
Mike Nicholls directs Anne Bancroft and Dustin Hoffman in the film The Graduate
US poet Anne Sexton publishes Live or Die, a collection containing a poem to her dead friend Sylvia Plath
The US pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal is a geodesic dome by the architect Buckminster Fuller
Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Johnson, becomes the first African American member of the US Supreme Court
Congress passes a Freedom of Information Act, giving the public an important new right in the USA
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
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
US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole
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
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
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
