The first television program to air via satellite around the world.
The Mexican segment features singers Antonio Aguilar and Flor Silvestre and was filmed at Mexico City's National Palace and at Xochimilco.
Seventeen different countries participated in the broadcast, the Soviet Union and several other Eastern bloc countries pulled out a few days before the broadcast to protest the west's involvement in the Six-Day War.
Because of time zone differences, broadcast in Japan starts at 3:55 AM of June 26, 1967.