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Designed to be “residential in atmosphere” but not in scale, Norton Simon Museum’s curved exterior walls are lined with 115,000 handmade deep umber tiles – an abstract reminder of Pasadena’s Craftsman-style heritage – which reveal delicate, reflected tones and highlights as the sun rises and sets.
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Speech made to drum up support for US Vietnam policies.
The last two surviving 19th Century buildings from Bunker Hill are destroyed by an arsonist's fire after being moved to Heritage Square in Highland Park.
The first film to be written, directed, and starring comedian Woody Allen is released.
An estimated crowd of 450,000 attends music and arts festival in upstate New York.
The Manson family murders actress Sharon Tate and several friends at the Tate-Polanski house on Cielo Drive off Benedict Canyon. The family's killing spree also claims the lives of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and Gary Hinman.
The 5th Dimension singer Florence LaRue and production supervisor Marc Gordon marry in a hot air balloon tethered to a station wagon about 50 feet above the Century Plaza's parking lot.
The single is rushed into production to capitalize on the popularity of the Apollo 11 landing.
National grants are made to support local projects.
The Weathermen gain control of Students for a Democratic Society national office.
Lennon and Ono hold court with the press from a Montreal hotel bedroom.
The film becomes the first and only X-rated film to win the Best Picture Oscar.
Bernstein's last concert as musical director of the New York Philharmonic.
The students are shot in an alleged internal dispute over who would head UCLA's new African American Studies Center.
$15 million Venice Canals restoration and redevelopment project begins with the demolition of about 40 "substandard" structures as part of a right-of-way acquisition program for canal widening. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library.
NATO, MPAA and IFIDA announce a new voluntary film rating system of the motion picture industry. The initial design called for four rating categories: G for General Audiences, all ages admitted; M for mature audiences - parental guidance suggested, but all ages admitted; R for Restricted, children under 16 would not be admitted without an accompanying parent or adult guardian; X for no one under 17 admitted. The rating system trademarked all the category symbols, except the X.
The Los Angeles Kings play the Philadelphia Flyers for first place in the Western Division of the NHL. Constructed by Jack Kent Cooke, owner of the Lakers and founding owner of the Kings, the circular, $16 million structure was designed by renowned Los Angeles architect Charles Luckman and was intended to evoke the Roman Forum. Photo courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library.
The film is regarded as one of the first films of the New Hollywood era.
The former amusement park remains in dilapidated ruins until its demolition in 1974-75.
The festival officially kicks off the "Summer of Love", with performances by the Mamas and the Papas, Janis Joplin, Ravi Shankar, Otis Redding, the Who, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Hendrix burns his guitar.
The $23 million redesign of 1955's original Tomorrowland features completely rebuilt scenery and new attractions, including the Rocket Jets, the Carousel of Progress, and the People Mover tram.
Proposition A introduces a $57.8 million library bond measure calling for the demolition of Central Library and construction of a bigger Library plus branch improvements. The measure is voted down.
The rally is in reaction to a police raid on the bar on New Years Eve, 1967. The protest would predate the Stonewall Inn riots in New York City (popularly considered to be the birthplace of the American gay rights movement) by over 2 years.
The Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10, with quarterback Bart Starr and receiver Max McGee leading the way. The game didn't come close to selling out--only 61,946 people attended--while television networks CBS and NBC simultaneously broadcast the game.
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