The US tennis player Billie Jean King wins the first of six Wimbledon singles titles

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

President de Gaulle, visiting Montreal for Expo 67, proclaims Vive le Quebec libre ('Long Live Free Quebec')

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

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

Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian, in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles