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  • John McCain shot down over North Vietnam and taken prisoner

  • World's first heart transplant

    Christiaan Barnard carries out the world's first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

  • Supersonic airliner Concorde is unveiled in Toulouse, France

  • Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead

    Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.

  • US Civil Rights Act Signed

  • Mattel's Hot Wheels Introduced

  • Intel is founded.

  • Hawaii Five-O debuts on CBS

    Hawaii Five-O debuts on CBS, and eventually becomes the longest-running crime show in television history, until Law & Order overtakes it in 2003.

  • 60 Minutes debuts on CBS

    60 Minutes debuts on CBS and is still on the air as of 2018.

  • Boeing introduces 747

    Boeing introduces its largest passenger aircraft up to that time, the Boeing 747 at a public event at Paine Field, near Everett, Washington.

  • Apollo 7 Launch

    Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver.

  • Nixon Elected President

  • Regan Elected President