Way back when:
- 1933 — the United States went off the gold standard
- 1967 — about to be attacked by surrounding Arab countries, Israel raided Egyptian military targets in what would eventually be called the “Six Day War”
- 1968 — Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles
- 1981 — the U.S. Centers for Disease Control reported that five homosexuals in Los Angeles had come down with a rare kind of pneumonia; they were the first recognized cases of what later became known as AIDS.
What else?