Rosa Parks is arrested and jailed for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery, Ala., bus. Her act of courage and defiance inspires the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which will last for 382 days.

"Stella!!!!" An enraptured audience meets a young, strapping Marlon Brando in the first-ever performance of "A Streetcar Named Desire" on Broadway. Tennessee Williams' gritty play about sexuality and violence shocks audiences and turns the 23-year-old Brando into a star.

Two months after the death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces it is breaking up rather than go on without Bonham. But after 27 years of waiting, anxious fans will finally see Robert Plant, Jimmy Paige and John Paul Jones perform together again Dec. 10, 2007, at a London tribute concert to Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun. Bonham's son, Jason, will sit in for his father on drums.

Bottoms up! Prohibition is overturned, ending nearly 14 years of bootlegging and speakeasies. Even after Congress ends Prohibition, some states will continue to outlaw alcohol through state temperance laws. Mississippi will be the last dry state standing, ending its Prohibition in 1966.

An obsessed fan shoots and kills John Lennon outside of his Manhattan apartment building, hours after receiving an autograph from the former Beatle. Hundreds of mourning fans descend on the Dakota apartment building and hold a vigil for more than a week.