The Sixties

• 1966
  • Blacks riot for six days in the Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested
    
  • "Mission: Impossible" wins an Emmy for Outstanding Dramatic Series
    
  • The Song of the Year is "Michelle," by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
    
  • The first "Star Trek" episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast
    
  • SSTFY stages its first performance - "Li'l Abner"
    

    ---

• 1967

  • Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as first black US Supreme Court justice

  • "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" gets Album of the Year

  • Mike Nichols wins an Oscar for Directing "The Graduate"

  • Green Bay wins the first Super Bowl over Kansas City 35-10

  • SSTFY puts on "Half a Sixpence"
    

    ---

• 1968
  • The North Vietnamese launch the Tet Offensive
    
  • Sen. Robert F. Kennedy is shot and critically wounded in a Los Angeles hotel after winning the California primary
    
  • "Mrs. Robinson" by Simon and Garfunkel wins Record of the Year
    
  • "Oliver!" wins Best Picture
    
  • The SSTFY show is "Oliver!"
    

    ---

• 1969
  

  • Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated 37th President of the US

  • Apollo 11 astronauts, Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., take first walk on the Moon

  • More than half a million people gather in the small, upstate New York town of Bethel (near Woodstock, N.Y.) for four days of rain, sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll

  • "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by the 5th Dimension wins Record of the Year.

  • SSTFY performs "Carousel"