2nd » Ronald Reagan sworn in as Governor of California
6th » Vietnam War: United States Marine Corps and Army of the Republic of Vietnam or ARVN troops launch "Operation Deckhouse Five" in the Mekong River delta.
12th » Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonics or cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
15th » The first Super Bowl is played in Los Angeles known as Los Angeles, California. The Green Bay Packers defeat the Kansas City Chiefs 35–10.
23rd » Milton Keynes (England) is founded as a New towns in the United Kingdom called new town by Order in Council, with a planning brief to become a city of 250,000 people. Its initial designated area enclosed three existing towns and twenty one villages.
27th » Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White called Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of their Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
27th » The United States, United Kingdom, and Soviet Union sign the Outer Space Treaty in Washington, D.C., banning deployment of nuclear weapons in space, and limiting use of the Moon and other astronomical object or celestial bodies to peaceful purposes.
29th » The "ultimate high" of the hippie era, the Mantra-Rock Dance, takes place in San Francisco and features Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
31st » Fat Mike, American singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer (NOFX, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, and False Alarm (band) known as False Alarm)