1. Pegasus 2
   Star Gazer 4
2. Apollo 11

People around the world were glued to their televisions in 1969 when the Apollo 11 spacecraft landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong took a couple of small steps.

1. Steven Spielberg
   Woody Allen
2. Mel Brooks

If you were afraid to even set foot on the beach in 1975, thank Steven Spielberg. His classic film, "Jaws," made him a movie legend, but spelled bad news for beach towns filled with people afraid to go in the water.

1. Ricky
   Bobby
2. Wally

Real-life couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz played husband and wife Lucy and Ricky Ricardo on the very successful sitcom "I Love Lucy," which ran from 1951 to 1957.

1. "The Tonight Show"
   "The Merv Griffin Show"
2. "The Ed Sullivan Show"

"The Ed Sullivan Show" featured hundreds of famous musicians during its run from 1948 to 1971, but perhaps no one drew more attention than The Beatles, who made their American debut on the show in 1964.

1. "Leave it to Beaver"
   "All in the Family"
2. "Bewitched"

"All in the Family" was a trailblazing show that ran from 1971 to 1979. Thanks to the big mouth and strong opinions of main character Archie Bunker, the series opened up discussions about powerful issues, from racism to rape.

1. "Dragnet"
   "Perry Mason"
2. "Peter Gunn"

Viewers eagerly tuned in to solve the case with Sgt. Joe Friday on "Dragnet," who kept things simple by requesting just the facts as he worked to close the case. Interestingly, Friday never uttered the exact phrase, "Just the facts, ma'am," but rather something along the lines of, "All we want are the facts, ma'am." The stereotypical quote came from Stan Freberg's parody of the show.

1. "The Wild Bunch"
   "Easy Rider"
2. "True Grit"

Fonda and Hopper not only wrote "Easy Rider," but also starred in the film, which embraced counter-culture in a way that was oh-so-'60s.

1. "Gunsmoke"
   "Rawhide"
2. "Have Gun Will Travel"

James Arness played stoic Marshal Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" for a whopping 20 seasons, from 1955 to 1975. The show started on radio back in 1952, and ran until 1961, introducing many Boomers to the series before it made the transition to TV.

1. Supreme Court
   U.S. Senate
2. FBI

Baby Boomers famously rejected many of the moral and social standards of previous generations. Nowhere was this change felt more dramatically than in the fight for equal rights, which made a significant step forward in 1967 when Thurgood Marshall became the first African-American Supreme Court justice. Marshall was famous for his earlier work on a landmark case -- Brown v. Board of Education -- which helped eliminate segregation in public schools.

1. Robert Kennedy
   Martin Luther King Jr.
2. John F. Kennedy

The 1960s were a time of dramatic social and cultural change, and a trio of famous assassinations represent some of the more dramatic moments in the history of the decade. The bad news began with the shocking death of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963. His brother Robert was killed in a California hotel on June 5, 1968 -- just two months after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968.

1. "Cool Hand Luke"
   "The Taming of the Shrew"
2. "The Graduate"

"The Graduate" remains one of the most celebrated films of the Baby Boomer generation, and features a young Dustin Hoffman being seduced by the much older Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft.

1. addiction
   suicide
2. divorce

Baby Boomers saw a surge in divorce not experienced by earlier generations. It was only fitting that the 1979 film "Kramer vs. Kramer" focused on a divorce between its two main characters, played by Dustin Hoffman and Meryl Streep.

1. Dwight Eisenhower
   Bill Clinton
2. Richard Nixon

The 26th Amendment dropped the voting age to 18 just in time for the 1972 presidential election. Richard Nixon was reelected in the very first presidential race where teens were permitted to cast a ballot.

1. hotel
   person
2. building

When Republican spies infiltrated the Watergate Hotel during the 1972 election campaign to nab documents from the Democratic National Headquarters, President Nixon himself was implicated in the scandal. He resigned his position two years later, but was pardoned for his "crimes" by Gerald Ford.

1. California
   New York
2. Texas

A music festival for the ages took place on a farm in Woodstock, New York, in August of 1969. More than 30 acts, including Santana, The Who and Jimi Hendrix took the stage.

1. 1965
   1975
2. 1985

"SNL" hit the airwaves when the youngest Baby Boomers were in their mid-teens, in 1975. The first season of the legendary show featured such big names as John Belushi, Chevy Chase and Gilda Radnor.

1. "Sesame Street" premiere
   Bay of Pigs Invasion
2. Peace Corps established

As the oldest members of the Baby Boomer generation turned 18 in 1961, JFK launched the Bay of Pigs Invasion -- which failed -- and also established the Peace Corps. It wasn't until 1969 that children everywhere started tuning in to "Sesame Street."

1. 16
   18
2. 21

Sadly, those first Baby Boomers had to wait a little longer to imbibe once they reached their 18th birthdays. From the time Prohibition was repealed in 1933 until the early 1970s, the drinking age in most of the U.S. was 21. Many states lowered it to 18 in the early '70s, then quickly raised it back up to 21 by 1988 to meet federal requirements.

1. 1954
   1964
2. 1974

President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law in 1964. This Act prohibited discrimination in the U.S. based on race, religion, color, national origin or sex. The next year, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to solidify voting rights for African Americans.

1. Vietnam war
   JFK assassination
2. moon landing

Research by the Pew Research Institute reveals that September 11th is the most memorable event for people in the U.S., from Baby Boomers to Millennials. If you exclude this infamous attack, however, most Boomers cite the JFK assassination as the most memorable event in their lifetime, followed by the moon landing and the Vietnam war.

1. The Rolling Stones
   The Beach Boys
2. The Beatles

The Beatles got all the attention in 1967 with their release of the very psychedelic "Sgt. Pepper," but the Beach Boys introduced a whole new concept in music with their 1966 classic, "Pet Sounds." Though not an immediate hit, it is now routinely ranked among the most influential albums of all time.

1. "The Edge of Night"
   "Peyton Place"
2. "As the World Turns"

Allison and Rodney were the hot couple on "Peyton Place." The soap ran from 1964 to 1969 and kept Baby Boomers tuning in to take in the latest drama.

1. 1969
   1979
2. 1989

The Cold War finally came to an end in 1989 when the Berlin Wall -- which split East and West Germany starting in 1961 -- came down.

1. $0.10
   $1.15
2. $3.75

The first Baby Boomers turned 18 in 1961, when the minimum wage was just $1.15. By the time the final Boomers turned 18 in 1978, minimum wage had more than doubled, to $2.65.

1. 1969
   1975
2. 1979

To gather troops for the conflict in Vietnam, the Secret Service instituted a draft lottery in December 1969. Unlucky winners born between 1944 and 1950 were sent overseas -- and many fled to Canada to avoid entering the military.

1. "Carrie"
   "The Shining"
2. "The Stand"

Born in 1947, Stephen King was a Baby Boomer who became one of the most prolific writers of his generation. His first book, "Carrie," earned him a $2,500 advance when it was picked up by Doubleday in 1973. He had initially thrown a draft of the novel in the trash out of frustration, but his wife salvaged the work and encouraged him to complete it.

1. "Being There"
   "The Warriors"
2. "Apocalypse Now"

Based on the Joseph Conrad novel "Heart of Darkness," the 1979 film "Apocalypse Now" was set during the Vietnam war and starred Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando and Robert Duvall.

1. 4
   6
2. 8

One of the feel-good shows of the Boomer generation was "The Brady Bunch." The Sherwood Schwartz comedy ran from 1969 to 1974, focusing on the adventures of Mike and Carol Brady and their six children -- Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan and Cindy.

1. monkey
   dolphin
2. lion

Porter Ricks ran a Florida marine park, where he and his sons Sandy and Bud cared for a dolphin named Flipper on the '60s TV series of the same name.

1. Ohio
   New York
2. Washington

The anti-war and civil rights protests of the '60s included perhaps their most dramatic moment at Kent State University in 1970. On May 4, 1970, National Guard members opened fire on a group of students at the Ohio school, killing four and wounding nine others as they protested the war in Vietnam.