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English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim
Nicolae Ceauşescu becomes president of the State Council of Romania
South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard, in Cape Town, transplants the heart of a young woman into a 55-year-old grocer, Louis Washkansky
The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake
Pride in Judaism, after Israel's striking success in the Six Day War, contributes to the rapid growth of the Baal teshuva movement
Australian prime minister Harold Holt swims in heavy surf near Portsea, south of Melbourne, and is never seen again
The band Genesis is formed at Charterhouse School in Godalming with Peter Gabriel, born in Chobham as the first lead singer
Alexander Dubcek becomes first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist party, following pressure for reform from party intellectuals
The Vietcong launch widespread attacks on South Vietnamese cities during the Tet (lunar new year) holiday
Lyndon Johnson announces that he will not stand for re-election as US president
New Czech leader Alexander Dubcek facilitates the Prague Spring, aiming in his words to provide 'socialism with a human face'
British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War
Spanish Guinea becomes an independent republic as Equatorial Guinea, with Francisco Macias Nguema as president
US soldiers massacre hundreds of unarmed civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai
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
Karlheinz Stockhausen's Stimmung ('Tuning') employs six unaccompanied voices for 75 minutes
US civil rights leader Martin Luther King is assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, by escaped convict James Earl Ray
British racing driver Jim Clark is killed in an accident on the Hockenheim circuit, while leading in the world championship
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
The United Nations, with the approval of Britain as the colonial power, imposes economic sanctions on Rhodesia
US artist Sol LeWitt buries a metal cube in the Netherlands to create Box in a Hole
Peter Nzube finds the oldest skull yet discovered in the Olduvai Gorge and names the specimen Twiggy, after the British fashion model of the time
A student revolt begins in Paris and sweeps through France, shaking de Gaulle's government
