The album was to break a number of sales records such as the largest advance selling record in history, with 2.1mn advance sales.

My mid-April the Beatles had an amazing 14 singles in the Billboard Hot 100, breaking the record held by Elvis Presley.

A platoon of US soldiers kill between 200 to 500 unarmed villagers in a cluster of villages known as My Lai 4.

My Lai 4 was a known haven for enemy Viet Cong guerillas but when the troops arrived all they found were women, children and old men. So they took out their anger on them.