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Art and culture
- The The UFO (Underground Freak Out) club is founded
- Timothy Leary premiers the counterculture phrase Turn on, tune in, drop out
- Swinging London Time magazine cover, the UK underground is happening.
Visual arts
- Hon - en katedral exhibited
- Equivalent VIII by Carl Andre
Morality
- Human Sexual Response by Masters and Johnson
- "Is God Dead?", the April 8 cover story for the news magazine Time
- Fanny Hill is legalized in the USA, see Memoirs v. Massachusetts.
- Abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
- On the Poverty of Student Life, pamphlet by the University of Strasbourg and the Situationist International
Architecture and design
- Superarchitettura exhibition in Italy
- Superstudio is founded
- Archizoom is founded
- The New Brutalism by Reyner Banham
- Superboxes by Ettore Sottsass first shown in Milan
Fashion
- "Le Smoking", designed by YSL, photographed by Helmut Newton
Theatre
- Offending the Audience, a play by Austrian writer Peter Handke
Film
- Blowup by Antonioni
- Chelsea Girls by Warhol/Morrissey
- The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by Leone
- Le Streghe by Various Directors
- The Wild Angels by Corman
- Persona by Ingmar Bergman
- King of Hearts by Philippe de Broca
- Cul-de-sac by Roman Polanski
- Morgan! by Karel Reisz
- Fahrenheit 451 by François Truffaut
- The Pornographers by Shohei Imamura
- What's Up, Tiger Lily? by Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi
- Seconds by John Frankenheimer
- Trans-Europ-Express by Alain Robbe-Grillet
- Who Are You, Polly Magoo? by William Klein
- The Embryo Hunts in Secret by Koji Wakamatsu
Music
- Deram Records founded
- ESP-Disk founded
- Sly & the Family Stone formed
Albums
- Freak Out! by Frank Zappa
- The in Sound from Way Out! by Perrey & Kingsley
Singles
- Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks
- Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) by Cher
- Psychotic Reaction by Count Five
- Baby Come Back by Eddy Grant
- Se telefonando by Mina
- These Boots Are Made for Walkin' by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
- Girl I've Got a Date by Alton Ellis
- Hey Leroy, Your Mama's Callin' You by Jimmy Castor
- Fattie Fattie by The Heptones
- I'm Your Puppet by James & Bobby Purify
- Sunshine Superman by Donovan
- Take It Easy by Hopeton Lewis
- Roda by Gilberto Gil
Literature
Fiction
- Les aventures de Jodelle, graphic novel by Guy Peellaert
- Valley of the Dolls, novel by Jacqueline Susann
- Ma mère, novella by Georges Bataille
- Gordon, novel by Edith Templeton
Non-fiction
- Against Interpretation, essays (including Notes on "Camp") by Susan Sontag
- The Art of Memory by British historian Frances Yates
- Purity and Danger by Mary Douglas
Births
- Zack Snyder, American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Bebel Gilberto, Brazilian popular singer
- Helena Bonham Carter, English actress
- John Cusack, American actor
- Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress
- Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter (d. 1997)
- Sophie Marceau, French actress
- Vincent Cassel, French actor
- Sinéad O'Connor, Irish pop singer
Deaths
- André Breton (1896 - 1966)
- Siegfried Kracauer (1889 - 1966)
- Irving Klaw (1911 - 1966)
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