Memories

--	Best Picture: *In the Heat of the Night*.
--	Best Record: *Up, Up and Away, 5th Dimension; Best Album: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles; Best Song: Up, Up and Away*, Jimmy L. Webb, songwriter.
6 Jan	*Milton Berle Show* last airs on ABC-TV.
7 Jan	*Newlywed Game* premieres on ABC TV.
5 Feb	The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiers on CBS (later ABC, NBC).
10 Feb	25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect.
1 Mar	Black representative Adam Clayton Powell (D. N.Y.) denied seat in Congress because of charges he misused government funding. Reelected in 1968, he was seated, but fined 25,000 and stripped of 22 years' seniority.
18 Mar	Beatles' *Penny Lane* single goes #1.
25 Mar	The Turtle's *Happy Together* goes # 1.
28 Apr	Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title.
1 May	Priscilla & Elvis Presley wed.
30 May	Robert Evel Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles.
1 Jun	The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released. One of the first critically-acclaimed rock albums, Sgt. Pepper's became the number one album in the world and was at the top of the U.S. album list for 15 weeks.
4 Jun	Emmy Awards-Monkees win for comedy series.
24 Jun	President Johnson & Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin at Glassboro State College in New Jersey; agree not to let any crisis push them into war.
22 Jul	Carl Sandburg poet (*Abraham Lincoln: The Prairie Years*), dies at 89.
11 Jul	Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition.
12 Jul	Black riots in Newark, New Jersey began--some 26 killed, 1,500 injured; over 1,000 arrested.
22 Jul	The Billboard singles chart showed that Windy by The Association was the most popular record in the U.S. for the fourth straight week. The Los Angeles-based sextet would make way for Jim Morrison and The Doors a week later when Light My Fire became the hottest record of the mid-summer.
23 Jul	Riots began in Detroit, Michigan.; killed at least 40; 2,000 injured and 5,000 left homeless in city's black ghetto. Quelled by 4,700 federal paratroopers and 8,000 National Guardsmen.
24 Jul	Beatles sign petition in The Times to legalize marijuana.
5 Aug	Bobby Gentry releases her only hit *Ode to Billy Joe*.
29 Aug	Final TV episode of *The Fugitive*.
3 Sep	Final episode of *What's My Line?* hosted by John Charles Daly.
17 Sep	*Mission Impossible* premieres on CBS-TV.
2 Oct	Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
17 Oct	The play *Hair* is first performed.
7 Nov	Carl B. Stokes (D. Cleveland) & Richard G. Hatcher (D. Gary, Ind.) elected first black mayors of major U.S. cities.
17 Nov	Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off the Moon.
10 Dec	Otis Redding singer dies in plane crash at 26.
3 Dec	First human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa).
31 Dec	475,000 U.S. troops in South Vietnam; all North Vietnam subject to bombing. Protests against war mounted throughout year.