The Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Oakland Raiders, 17-7, to win the American Football League (AFL) Championship on January 4. The Chiefs thus qualified to meet the NFL champion Minnesota Vikings, which had won the NFL Championship earlier that day over the Cleveland Browns, 27-7, in the “Super Bowl.” It was the final game of the AFL.
In Super Bowl IV on January 11, the underdog Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Minnesota Vikings, 23-7. The Chiefs were the last AFL champions.
The US Supreme Court issued a ruling on January 14 that required the last 14 legally segregated school systems in the country to integrate their student bodies by February.
Diana Ross and the Supremes sang their last live concert as a group in Las Vegas on January 14. Ross would begin her solo career in February. Here’s a video of them live performing earlier the same song that concluded that concert.
Samsung Electronics was incorporated on January 20 in South Korea. It was created as a new division of the Samsung Group, which had started in 1938 as a wholesaler of groceries.
The first scheduled flight of a Boeing 747 “Jumbo Jet” took place early morning January 22, leaving JFK International Airport in New York for London. Pan American flight 001 was to have taken place the previous evening, but the flight was delayed because of mechanical issues.