Biafra Nightmare (May): A conflict between Nigerian forces and rebels fighting to establish a Biafran state in eastern Nigeria leads to catastrophe. Nigerian troops blockade the region, and Biafrans soon begin to starve. More than 1 million Biafrans will die of starvation by the time rebels give up their cause in 1970.

Upholding Justice (Oct. 2): Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before President Lyndon Johnson made the appointment, Marshall had served as a federal appellate court judge and U.S. solicitor general. Thirteen years earlier, Marshall had successfully argued a landmark case that made segregation in school unconstitutional.

Super Sunday (Jan. 15): The Green Bay Packers rout the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl.

	Edward White II, Virgil Grissom and Roger Chaffee

Apollo Tragedy (Jan. 27): Astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Edward White die in a fire while conducting routine tests aboard Apollo 1 as the spacecraft sits at Cape Kennedy, Fla.

Heartbreaker (May 1): Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.

Ali's Objections (June 20): Muhammad Ali is sentenced to five years in prison for refusing induction into the Army. He was stripped of his boxing championship in April.

	Wenner

Music Mag (Nov. 9): With $7,000 borrowed from an uncle, Jann Wenner, 21, launches Rolling Stone. The debut cover has a portrait of John Lennon wearing a World War II-vintage British helmet.

Heart Transplant (Dec. 3): South African heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard and a team of 30 assistants take the heart from brain-dead accident victim Denise Ann Darvall and "transplant" it into the chest of Louis Washansky. The operation is the world's first successful human heart transplant.

Six Days of War (June 5): Full-scale war breaks out after months of sporadic conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors. In six days of warfare, Israel breaks the back of Arab air power and captures the West Bank of the Jordan River, the Golan Heights, the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula and the Old City of Jerusalem. The Six-Day War ends with a cease-fire June 10 and establishes Israel as a power to be reckoned with.