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The page was getting long so I had to divvy it up: 1980s・1990s・2000s・2010s・2020s

1960s

 * 1960
 * March 11 - Pioneer 5
 * April 1 - TIROS-1
 * April 21 - Brasília
 * May 1 - U-2 incident
 * May 3 - The Fantasticks
 * May 6 - Civil Rights Act of 1960
 * June - "The Twist" - Chubby Checker
 * June 5 - Lake Bodom murders
 * August 12 - Green Eggs and Ham
 * August 25 - Rome Summer Olympics
 * September 8 - Psycho
 * September 14 - OPEC
 * September 30 - The Flintstones
 * October 6 - Spartacus
 * October 12 - Boynton v. Virginia
 * December 9 - Coronation Street


 * 1961
 * January 21 - Inauguration of John F. Kennedy
 * January 25 - 101 Dalmatians
 * January 30 - The Yogi Bear Show
 * January 31 - Ham the Chimp
 * February 1 - The Misfits
 * February 11 - Venera 1
 * March 1 - Peace Corps
 * April 17 - Bay of Pigs Invasion
 * April 29 - World Wide Fund for Nature
 * May 4 - Freedom Riders
 * May 5 - The first human in space
 * August 5 - Six Flags Over Texas
 * September 25 - The Hustler
 * October 5 - Breakfast at Tiffany's
 * October 18 - West Side Story
 * October 30 - Tsar Bomba


 * 1962
 * January 26 - Ranger 3
 * February 20 - Mercury-Atlas 6
 * April 21 - Space Needle
 * April 23 - Ranger 4
 * May 19 - "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" - Marilyn Monroe
 * May 30 - Chile 62
 * July 2 - Walmart
 * August 10 - Spider-Man debut
 * September 12 - "We choose to go to the Moon"
 * September 23 - The Jetsons
 * September 30 - Ole Miss riot
 * October 3 - Columbus Day storm
 * October 5 - Dr. No
 * October 16 - Cuban Missile Crisis
 * December 10 - Lawrence of Arabia
 * December 25 - To Kill a Mockingbird
 * 1963
 * January 1 - Astro Boy
 * March 21 - Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary closes
 * March 28 - The Birds
 * April 1 - General Hospital
 * May 15 - Mercury-Atlas 9
 * June 12 - Cleopatra
 * June 16 - The first woman in space
 * June 23 - Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room
 * July 1 - ZIP Code
 * August 5 - Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
 * August 28 - "I Have a Dream"/March on Washington
 * September 26 - Hurricane Flora
 * November 10 - "Message to the Grass Roots"
 * November 22 - Assassination of John F. Kennedy
 * November 23 - Doctor Who
 * December 25 - The Sword in the Stone


 * 1964
 * Unknown date - Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
 * January 12 - Zanzibar Revolution
 * January 29 - Dr. Strangelove
 * February 7 - The Beatles arrives in New York
 * March 30 - Jeopardy!
 * April 21 - New York World's Fair
 * July 2 - Civil Rights Act of 1964
 * August 1 - Ford Mustang
 * August 27 - Mary Poppins
 * September 20 - Goldfinger
 * October 14 - Martin Luther King Jr. gets a Nobel Prize
 * October 27 - The Boston Strangler is kidnapped
 * November 28 - Mariner 4
 * December 6 - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
 * December 14 - Heart of Atlanta Motel v. United States
 * December 25 - My Fair Lady


 * 1965
 * February 17 - Ranger 8
 * February 21 - Assassination of Malcolm X
 * March 2 - The Sound of Music
 * March 7 - Selma to Montgomery marches
 * April 10 - Palm Sunday tornado outbreak
 * June 3 - Gemini 4
 * July 29 - Help!
 * August 6 - Voting Rights Act
 * August 11 - Watts Riots
 * October 28 - Gateway Arch
 * September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki
 * September 20 - Thunderbirds
 * November 8 - Days of Our Lives
 * November 14 - Battle of Ia Drang
 * December 9 - A Charlie Brown Christmas
 * December 22 - Doctor Zhivago


 * 1966
 * January 17 - "The Sound of Silence" - Simon & Garfunkel
 * February 4 - Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
 * March 16 - Gemini 8
 * June 13 - Miranda v. Arizona
 * June 21 - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 * July 11 - England 66
 * July 18 - Gemini 10
 * July 30 - Batman
 * August 10 - Lunar Orbiter 1
 * September 8 - Star Trek
 * October 10 - "Good Vibrations" - The Beach Boys
 * October 21 - Aberfan disaster
 * December 14 - Twister
 * December 15 - Death of Walt Disney
 * December 18 - How the Grinch Stole Christmas
 * December 23 - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly


 * 1967
 * January 12 - The first cryogenically frozen person
 * February 5 - Lunar Orbiter 3
 * March 18 - Torrey Canyon oil spill
 * April 27 - Expo 67
 * May 5 - Ariel 3
 * May 26 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
 * June 5 - Six-Day War
 * June 12 - Loving v. Virginia
 * August 13 - Bonnie and Clyde
 * September 9 - Spider-Man
 * September 10 - Gibraltar sovereignty referendum
 * October 18 - The Jungle Book
 * November 7 - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
 * December 3 - The first heart transplant
 * December 12 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
 * December 21 - The Graduate


 * 1968
 * January 5 - Prague Spring
 * January 30 - Tet Offensive
 * February 6 - Grenoble Winter Olympics
 * February 8 - Planet of the Apes
 * April 3 - 2001: A Space Odyssey
 * April 4 - Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
 * June 6 - Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy
 * June 12 - Rosemary's Baby
 * July 18 - Intel
 * September 14 - Zond 5
 * September 19 - Funny Girl
 * October 2 - Tlatelolco massacre
 * October 11 - Apollo 7
 * October 17 - Bullitt
 * November 13 - Yellow Submarine
 * December 21 - Apollo 8


 * 1969
 * Unknown date - ARPANET
 * January 5 - Venera 5 and Venera 6
 * February 25 - Mariner 6 and 7
 * May 18 - Apollo 10
 * May 25 - Midnight Cowboy
 * June 18 - The Wild Bunch
 * June 28 - Stonewall riots
 * July 14 - Apollo 11
 * July 14 - Easy Rider
 * August 11 - Hello, Dolly!
 * August 15 - Woodstock
 * September 13 - Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
 * September 23 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
 * September 26 - Abbey Road
 * November 10 - Sesame Street
 * November 14 - Apollo 12

1970s

 * 1970
 * January 5 - All My Children
 * January 25 - M*A*S*H
 * January 26 - Bridge Over Troubled Water
 * January 27 - Moondance
 * February 11 - Ōsumi
 * February 18 - Patton
 * March 5 - NPT
 * April 1 - AMC Gremlin
 * April 11 - Apollo 13
 * April 29 - Cambodian campaign
 * May 4 - Kent State shootings
 * May 8 - Let It Be
 * May 31 - Mexico 70
 * June 17 - Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
 * June 24 - The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
 * July 7 - Fun House
 * July 8 - Cosmo's Factory
 * July 21 - Aswan Dam
 * August 16 - Venera 7
 * September 12 - Josie and the Pussycats
 * September 12 - Five Easy Pieces
 * September 18 - Paranoid
 * September 19 - After the Gold Rush
 * September 19 - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
 * September 24 - The Odd Couple
 * September 25 - The Partridge Family
 * October 2 - Atom Heart Mother
 * October 5 - PBS
 * October 13 - Play for Today
 * October 16 - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
 * October 20 - Le Cercle Rouge
 * October 22 - The Conformist
 * November 8 - Bhola cyclone
 * November 18 - A Touch of Zen
 * November 27 - All Things Must Pass
 * November 29 - Tatort
 * December 6 - Gimme Shelter
 * December 18 - El Topo
 * December 20 - Donkey Skin
 * December 24 - The Aristocats


 * 1971
 * Unknown date 1 - Uno
 * Unknown date 2 - Floppy disk
 * January 2 - Ibrox disaster
 * January 12 - All in the Family
 * January 31 - Apollo 14
 * February 2 - A Clockwork Orange
 * February 8 - Nasdaq
 * March 11 - A New Leaf
 * March 11 - THX 1138
 * March 25 - Bangladesh genocide
 * March 31 - Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
 * April 10 - Ping-pong diplomacy
 * April 18 - Salyut 1
 * April 19 - L.A. Woman
 * April 23 - Sticky Fingers
 * May 17 - Ram
 * May 30 - Mariner 9
 * June 13 - Pentagon Papers
 * June 22 - Blue
 * June 24 - McCabe & Mrs. Miller
 * June 25 - Klute
 * June 30 - Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
 * July 1 - Walkabout
 * July 13 - The Panic in Needle Park
 * August 14 - Who's Next
 * September 3 - Qatar Independence
 * September 24 - Electric Warrior
 * October 1 - Walt Disney World/Magic Kingdom
 * October 9 - Wake in Fright
 * October 22 - The Last Picture Show
 * October 24 - The French Connection
 * October 30 - Meddle
 * November 1 - Led Zeppelin IV
 * November 20 - Duel
 * November 25 - Straw Dogs
 * December 2 - United Arab Emirates foundation
 * December 3 - Indo-Pakistani War
 * December 17 - Hunky Dory
 * December 20 - Harold and Maude
 * December 23 - Dirty Harry


 * 1972
 * January 9 - UK miners' strike
 * January 25 - Fritz the Cat
 * February 3 - Sapporo Winter Olympics
 * February 5 - Solaris
 * February 13 - Cabaret
 * March 2 - Pioneer 10
 * March 5 - Cries and Whispers
 * March 10 - What's Up, Doc?
 * March 17 - Pink Flamingos
 * March 22 - Fist of Fury
 * March 24 - The Godfather
 * March 25 - Machine Head
 * April 27 - El Chavo del Ocho
 * May 12 - Exile on Main St.
 * May 19 - Frenzy
 * May 26 - Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
 * June 16 - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
 * June 17 - Watergate scandal
 * July 21 - Bloody Friday
 * July 23 - Landsat 1
 * July 30 - Deliverance
 * August 2 - Solar storms
 * August 4 - Super Fly
 * August 21 - OAO-3
 * August 26 - Munich Summer Olympics
 * September 1 - Magnavox Odyssey
 * September 5 - Munich massacre
 * September 9 - Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
 * September 14 - The Waltons
 * September 15 - The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
 * September 17 - M*A*S*H
 * October 13 - Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571
 * October 16 - Emmerdale
 * November 8 - Transformer
 * November 29 - Pong
 * December 3 - Mazinger Z
 * December 7 - Apollo 17
 * December 12 - The Poseidon Adventure
 * December 23 - Nicaragua earthquake
 * December 29 - Aguirre, the Wrath of God


 * 1973
 * January 14 - Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite
 * January 22 - Roe v. Wade
 * January 27 - Paris Peace Accords
 * February 28 - El Chapulín Colorado
 * February 7 - Raw Power
 * March 1 - The Dark Side of the Moon
 * March 7 - The Long Goodbye
 * March 7 - The Six Million Dollar Man
 * March 12 - F for Fake
 * March 28 - Houses of the Holy
 * April 5 - The first mobile phone
 * April 4 - World Trade Center
 * April 13 - Aladdin Sane
 * May 3 - Willis Tower
 * May 8 - Wounded Knee Occupation
 * May 14 - Skylab
 * May 16 - Paper Moon
 * June 30 - Belladonna of Sadness
 * July 26 - Enter the Dragon
 * August 1 - American Graffiti
 * August 13 - Innervisions
 * September 11 - Chilean coup d'état
 * October 1 - Oil crisis
 * October 5 - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
 * October 6 - Yom Kippur War
 * October 14 - Mean Streets
 * October 15 - Badlands
 * October 16 - Don't Look Now
 * October 20 - Sydney Opera House
 * October 26 - Quadrophenia
 * November 6 - Pioneer 10 discovering Jupiter
 * November 8 - Robin Hood
 * November 9 - Piano Man
 * November 14 - Athens Polytechnic uprising
 * November 29 - The Holy Mountain
 * December 5 - Serpico
 * December 6 - Fantastic Planet
 * December 6 - The Wicker Man
 * December 25 - The Sting
 * December 26 - The Exorcist


 * 1974
 * Unknown date - Dungeons & Dragons
 * January 2 - National Maximum Speed Law
 * January 6 - Heidi, Girl of the Alps
 * January 15 - Happy Days
 * January 17 - Court and Spark
 * January 29 - Brisbane flood
 * February 5 - Mariner 10's first look at Venus
 * February 7 - Blazing Saddles
 * March - Mariner 10 discovering Mercury
 * March and entire year - Bangladesh famine of 1974
 * March 3 - Turkish Airlines Flight 981
 * April 3 - Super Outbreak
 * April 7 - The Conversation
 * April 24 - Guillaume affair
 * April 25 - Carnation Revolution
 * June 13 - West Germany 74
 * June 20 - Chinatown
 * June 26 - Barcode
 * July 1 - 461 Ocean Boulevard
 * July 19 - On the Beach
 * July 20 - Turkish invasion of Cyprus
 * August 8 - Richard Nixon's resignation speech
 * September 7 - Shazam!
 * September 11 - Little House on the Prairie
 * September 13 - Crime of the Century
 * September 18 - Celine and Julie Go Boating
 * October 1 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
 * October 11 - Black Christmas
 * October 25 - Natty Dread
 * October 30 - The Rumble in the Jungle
 * November 1 - Phantom of the Paradise
 * November 8 - Sheer Heart Attack
 * November 18 - A Woman Under the Influence
 * November 21 - Birmingham pub bombings
 * November 24 - Lucy
 * November 29 - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
 * December 14 - The Godfather Part II
 * December 14 - The Towering Inferno
 * December 15 - Young Frankenstein
 * December 21 - Cyclone Tracy


 * 1975
 * January 6 - Wheel of Fortune
 * January 15 - Space Mountain
 * January 18 - The Jeffersons
 * January 20 - Blood on the Tracks
 * February 4 - Haicheng earthquake
 * February 5 - Operation Independence
 * February 12 - The Stepford Wives
 * February 19 - Grey Gardens
 * February 28 - Moorgate tube crash
 * March 7 - Deep Red
 * March 7 - Mirror
 * March 14 - Monty Python and the Holy Grail
 * April 3 - Operation Babylift
 * April 4 - Microsoft
 * April 30 - Fall of Saigon
 * May 10 - Betamax
 * May 12 - Mayaguez incident
 * May 14 - Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
 * June 10 - One of These Nights
 * June 11 - Nashville
 * June 20 - Jaws
 * July 15 - Apollo–Soyuz
 * August 20 - Viking 1
 * August 25 - Born to Run
 * September 6 - The Great Grape Ape Show
 * September 12 - Wish You Were Here
 * September 18 - Patty Hearst arrested
 * September 21 - Dog Day Afternoon
 * October 11 - Saturday Night Live
 * October 16 - Balibo Five
 * October 31 - "Bohemian Rhapsody" - Queen
 * November - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
 * November 10 - SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks
 * November 14 - Another Green World
 * November 19 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
 * November 20 - Franco's death
 * November 26 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
 * December 5 - Indonesian invasion of East Timor
 * December 15 - Mothership Connection
 * December 18 - Barry Lyndon


 * 1976
 * Unknown date - IBM 3800
 * January 14 - The Bionic Woman
 * January 21 - Concorde first flight
 * January 23 - Station to Station
 * February 4 - Innsbruck Winter Olympics
 * February 4 - Guatemala earthquake
 * February 8 - Taxi Driver
 * February 25 - Comet West
 * March 24 - Argentine coup d'état
 * April 1 - 2112
 * April 9 - All the President's Men
 * April 11 - Apple I
 * April 23 - Ramones
 * May 4 - LAGEOS
 * June 6 - The Omen
 * June 15 - The Man Who Fell to Earth
 * June 16 - Soweto uprising
 * June 21 - "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" - Elton John ft. Kiki Dee
 * June 23 - Logan's Run
 * June 26 - CN Tower
 * June 26 - The Outlaw Josey Wales
 * July 3 - Entebbe raid
 * July 12 - Family Feud
 * July 17 - Toronto Summer Olympics
 * July 28 - Tangshan earthquake
 * July 31 - Face on Mars
 * August - Zaire Ebola virus outbreak
 * August 17 - "Dancing Queen" - ABBA
 * August 25 - Boston
 * September 5 - The Muppet Show
 * September 9 - VHS
 * September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise
 * September 22 - Charlie's Angels
 * September 28 - Songs in the Key of Life
 * October 1 - Candy Candy
 * November 3 - Carrie
 * November 21 - Rocky
 * November 27 - Network
 * December 5 - Oxygène
 * December 8 - Hotel California


 * 1977
 * January 14 - Low
 * January 21 - Animals
 * February 1 - Suspiria
 * February 4 - Rumours
 * February 8 - Marquee Moon
 * March 4 - Vrancea earthquake
 * March 10 - Roman Polanski sexual abuse case
 * March 19 - Eraserhead
 * March 27 - Tenerife airport disaster
 * April 8 - The Clash
 * April 20 - Annie Hall
 * May 17 - Chuck E. Cheese
 * May 25 - Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
 * May 31 - Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
 * June 3 - Exodus
 * June 10 - Apple II
 * June 24 - Sorcerer
 * July 13 - New York City blackout
 * July 13 - Ogaden War
 * July 22 - The Hills Have Eyes
 * July 30 - House
 * August 15 - Wow! signal
 * August 16 - Elvis Presley's death
 * August 20 - Voyager program
 * September 7 - Torrijos–Carter Treaties
 * September 10 - Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
 * September 11 - Atari 2600
 * September 15 - CHiPs
 * September 23 - Aja
 * September 29 - The Stranger
 * October 17 - "Heroes"
 * October 21 - Bat Out of Hell
 * October 28 - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
 * November 4 - The Incredible Hulk
 * November 6 - Collapse of Kelly Barnes Dam
 * November 14 - Andhra Pradesh cyclone
 * November 19 - Anwar Sadat visits Israel
 * December 1 - Commodore PET
 * December 14 - Close Encounters of the Third Kind
 * December 16 - Saturday Night Fever


 * 1978
 * Unknown date - LEGO Space
 * January 28 - Fantasy Island
 * February 10 - Blue Collar
 * February 23 - The Deer Hunter
 * March 17 - This Year's Model
 * April 1 - Space Invaders
 * April 2 - Dallas
 * April 4 - Future Boy Conan
 * April 26 - The Last Waltz
 * April 28 - First solo expedition to the North Pole
 * May 14 - Brick Lane riots
 * June 1 - Argentina '78
 * June 9 - Some Girls
 * June 16 - Grease
 * June 19 - Garfield
 * July 14 - More Songs About Buildings and Food
 * July 25 - First test tube born baby
 * July 28 - Animal House
 * August 10 - Midnight Express
 * August 11 - Girlfriends
 * August 11 - Double Eagle II
 * August 25 - August papal conclave
 * September - Parallel Lines
 * September 1 - Dawn of the Dead
 * September 8 - Chairs Missing
 * September 12 - Taxi
 * September 13 - Days of Heaven
 * September 14 - Mork & Mindy
 * September 16 - Tabas earthquake
 * September 17 - Camp David Accords
 * October 5 - Drunken Master
 * October 8 - Autumn Sonata
 * October 19 - Watership Down
 * October 23 - "I Will Survive" - Gloria Gaynor
 * October 25 - Halloween
 * November 3 - Diff'rent Strokes
 * November 8 - Jonestown
 * November 18 - "September" - Earth, Wind & Fire
 * December 15 - Superman: The Movie
 * December 22 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers


 * 1979
 * January 5 - Armed Forces
 * January 8 - Whiddy Island disaster
 * February - Iranian Revolution
 * February 1 - The Warriors
 * February 3 - You Can't Do That on Television
 * March 5 - Voyager 1 discovering Jupiter
 * March 29 - Breakfast in America
 * April 2 - Doraemon
 * April 7 - Mobile Suit Gundam
 * April 11 - Idi Amin is deposed
 * April 12 - Mad Max
 * April 25 - Bad Girls
 * May 25 - Stalker
 * May 25 - Alien
 * May 25 - American Airlines Flight 191
 * June - SALT II Treaty
 * June 15 - Happy Meal
 * June 15 - Unknown Pleasures
 * June 22 - The Muppet Movie
 * June 22 - Escape from Alcatraz
 * July 1 - Walkman
 * July 27 - Highway to Hell
 * August 10 - Off the Wall
 * August 15 - Apocalypse Now
 * August 27 - Assassination of Louis Mountbatten
 * September 1 - Pioneer 11 discover Saturn
 * September 7 - ESPN
 * October 17 - VisiCalc
 * October 19 - Damn the Torpedoes
 * October 29 - "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)" - ABBA
 * November - Asteroids
 * November 4 - Iran hostage crisis
 * November 8 - Monty Python's Life of Brian
 * November 30 - The Wall
 * December 14 - London Calling
 * December 15 - The Castle of Cagliostro
 * December 19 - Being There
 * December 19 - Kramer vs. Kramer
 * December 20 - All That Jazz
 * December 24 - Soviet–Afghan War