Marshall McLuhan publishes The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects
Paulo Freire publishes Educacao como pratica da liberdade (“Education and the Practice of Freedom”)
Frank Conroy publishes Stop-Time
Jhumpa Lahiri is born
Martin Flavin dies
Margaret Ayer Barnes dies
Anne Sexton receives the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for Live or Die
Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell discover pulsars
Jacques Derrida publishes Of Grammatology and Writing and Difference
Israeli forces defeat several Arab countries in the Six-Day War, occupying the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, the Golan Heights, and historic Jerusalem
Race riots explode in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New Jersey
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the first human heart transplant
Nuclear technicians test China’s first hydrogen bomb
Muckraking writer Upton Sinclair joins U.S. President Lyndon Johnson at the signing into law of the Wholesome Meat Act, which was enacted to complete legislation inspired by Sinclair’s 1906 novel The Jungle
“The City on the Edge of Forever,” a memorable screenplay written by Harlan Ellison, is aired as an episode on the television series Star Trek(April 6)
