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1960
January – Bob Dylan, age 19 plays at the Wha
in Greenwich Village and visits Woody Guthrie in the Hospital
Jan – Civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta
Feb 1 – Four black students start sit-in at whites
only lunch counter in Greensboro S. Carolina
Feb 13 – France becomes the fourth nuclear power
Mar 15 – Lunch-counter sit-ins spread to 15 cities
in 5 southern states
May 6 – Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by Eisenhower
July – Sidney Cohen’s survey of 5,000 individuals
who had taken LSD 25,000 times concludes it is safe
Aug 9 – Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms
in Cuernavaca
Aug 10 – Antarctic Treaty creates peaceful scientific
preserve
Nov – JFK elected president.
Nov – Eisenhower warns the nation about
the Military-Industrial Complex and its power.
Nov 9 – Brian Epstein first sees the Beatles.
Dec – Birth Control Pills go on sale in
the US.
1961
Jan 17 – Eisenhower warns of increasing power
of military-industrial complex
Feb 18 – Bertrand Russell, 89, leads march of
20,000 & sit-down of 5,000 anti-nuke outside U.K. Defense Ministry
and is jailed for 7 days
Mar – Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) takes psilocybin
as part of the Harvard Project
Mar 1 – John Kennedy initiates 17 billion dollar
nuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina & announces
creation of the Peace Corps
Apr 11 – Bob Dylan’s first billed performance
at Gerde’s Folk City
Apr 12 – Yuri Gagarin of the USSR is the first
man in space
Apr 25 – Bay of Pigs, Cuba U.S. planned invasion
is defeated by Castro
May 4 – Freedom Riders leave DC for a southern
tour to test integration in bus stations
May 28 – Amnesty International Founded
July – Ban The Bomb Demonstrations start worldwide
July 19 – First Telstar Satellite Live TV Transmission
across the Atlantic
Aug 13 – East German border guards begin construction
of Berlin Wall
Sept 15 – U.S. starts underground nuclear testing
Oct 6 – President Kennedy advises Americans to
build fallout shelters
1962
Feb 16 – Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold
first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters
Apr 25 – U.S. resumes atmospheric nuclear testing
after 3 year moratorium
Sept – Timothy Leary founds International Foundation
for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The Psychedelic
Review.
Oct 22 – Cuban Missile Crisis – Soviet missile
bases in Cuba, Kennedy orders naval blockade.
1963
Jan – Alabama Gov. Wallace’s Segregation Forever
speech at inauguration
Apr 3 – SCLC & volunteers stage sit-in in
Birmingham, Alabama
Apr 12 – Martin Luther King & Ralph Abernathy
go to jail in Birmingham
Jun 11 – JFK Proposes the Civil Rights Bill
Jun 12 – Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated.
July – Timothy Leary hosts Freedom House
groups in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Dominica & then Antigua
July – Newport Folk Festival July 26-28, includes
Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger
Aug 5 – First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Aug 28 – Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream
speech, Wash DC Civil Rights March 1963, 200,000 attend
Aug 30 – U.S. -Soviet Hotline installed
Sept – Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other
Harvard alumni LSD researchers move to the Hitchcock’s estate in Millbrook,
New York.
Sept 24 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified by
Senate
Oct 10 – Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect
Oct 13 – Beatles on TV at London Palladium.
15 million get to see them perform She Loves You and Twist and Shout.
Nov 22 – JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, LBJ
sworn in
Nov 22 – Aldous Huxley dies while tripping on
LSD (intentionally!)
Nov 24 – LBJ escalates the Vietnam War
Nov 29 – Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand Released
1964
Jan 8 – LBJ declares War on Poverty in State
of the Union address
Jan 11 – U.S. Surgeon General declares cigarettes
cause lung disease
Jan 30 – New military junta takes over in South
Vietnam
Feb 7 – Beatles arrive in New York to 10,000
screaming fans
Feb 9 – Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan Show,
74 million people watch, the largest audience in the history of television.
Apr 23 – Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl
May – Bob Dylan’s first visit to England, meets
The Beatles & Rolling Stones; turns The Beatles on to marijuana.
July – Millbrook LSD sessions with Timothy Leary
July – Ken Kesey’s First Magic Bus Trip to NY
July 2 – LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act: public
facilities opened to all
July 18 – Race riot in Harlem, NY
July 23 – Senate passes $947 million antipoverty
bill
Aug – Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters visit
Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert at Millbrook.
Aug – Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 North American
cities.
Aug 4 – Three missing civil rights workers found
dead in Mississippi
Aug 11 – Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night movie released
Aug 20 – LBJ signs anti-poverty program
Aug 23 – Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert
Aug 28 – Race riots in Philadelphia
Aug 31 – LBJ signs food stamp bill
Oct 14 – Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace
Prize
Dec 10 – Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace
Prize
1965
Time Mag calls young people generation of conformists
Jan 4 – President Johnson outlines Great Society
Feb – Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 other protesters arrested in Selma,
Alabama for picketing county courthouse to end discrim voting rights
Feb 8 – U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam
Feb 18 – Sect. of Defense Robert McNamara calls for nationwide
network of bomb shelters
Feb 21 – Malcolm X shot and killed
Mar 3 – Owsley starts LSD factory, making large quantities of acid
available for the first time
Mar 6 – First American soldier officially sets foot on Vietnam battlefields
Mar 7 – Alabama state troopers attack 525 civil rights workers as they
prepare to march
Mar 8 – 3,500 Marines land to protect Da Nang air base
Mar 16 – Quaker Alice Herz, 82, immolates self in Detroit in protest
of the Vietnam war
Mar 16 – Police break-up demonstration of 600 in Montgomery, Alabama
Mar 17 – 1,600 people demonstrate at Montgomery, Alabama courthouse
Mar 21 – Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery,
Alabama joined by 25,000 marchers
Mar 24 – SDS organizes first Vietnam War teach-in at Univ. of Michigan
3000 show up
Mar 25 – Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama
Mar 28 – Martin Luther King calls for boycott of Alabama on TV
Apr – 25,000 U.S. troops stationed in Vietnam
Apr 2 – Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time
Apr 17 – SDS leads first anti-Vietwar march in Washington. 25,000 attend
including Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Judy Collins
Jun 11 – Beatles awarded the MBE by the Queen
July 8 – Chicago school integration protests
July 10 – Rolling Stones’ I Can’t Get No Satisfaction #1
July 24 – Bob Dylan’s Like A Rolling Stone enters charts
July 25 – Dylan goes Rock at Newport Folk Festival
July 30 – LBJ signs Medicare bill
Aug – Ken Kesey meets Hunter Thompson who introduces the Hells Angels
to the Merry Pranksters; Alan Ginsberg & Richard Alpert are at the
party.
Aug 11 – Major race riot (6 days) in Watts, leaves 35 dead
Aug 13 – Nat’l Guard enters Watts riots in L.A.
Aug 14 – Sonny and Cher release I Got You Babe
Aug 23 – Premiere of Beatles’ Help!
Aug 31 – Burning draft cards becomes illegal
Sept 5 – San Francisco writer Michael Fallon applies the term hippie
to the SF counterculture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse
where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) & the Sexual Freedom League meet,
& hippie houses.
Sept 25 – “Eve of Destruction”, sang by Barry McGuire top of the charts
Oct 1 – Anti-pollution bill sets emission standards for cars
Oct 16 – 100,000 anti-war protesters nationwide in 80 cities
Nov – Unsafe at Any Speed about the automobile industry’s disregard
for safety, published by Ralph Nader.
Nov 22 – Bob Dylan marries Sarah Lowndes & moves to Woodstock,
N.Y.
Dec 25 – Timothy Leary busted for pot at the Mexican border
1966
Jan 3 – The Psychedelic Shop head shop opens on Haight Street, S.F.
Jan 14 – March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond
Jan 17 – B52 collides, drops 4 10-megaton H bombs on Spain, none explode,
cover-up follows
Jan 20 – Ken Kesey busted again with Mountain Girl on the roof.
Jan 21 – First light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000 people in S.F.
Feb 19 – Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company
with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore
Mar 3 – GI Bill grants veterans rights to education, housing, health
and jobs
Mar 11 – Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years for trying
to cross into Mexico with a small amount of marijuana
Mar 25 – Anti-Vietnam war protests in NY bring out 25,000 on 5th Ave.
Other protests in 7 US cities and 7 foreign cities.
Apr – FBI releases file on LSD, drug gets bad press
Apr – 30 Mississippi blacks build tent city under President Johnson’s
window to protest housing conditions in their state
Apr – Discotheques are the rage in NY and LA. Andy Warhol puts on light
shows
Apr 7 – Sandoz stops supplying LSD to researchers
Apr 12 – NY Stock Exchange hit with anti-war leaflets
Apr 16 – Timothy Leary busted at Millbrook by G. Gordon Liddy &
FBI for possession of marijuana
May 15 – Antiwar demonstration in D.C., 10,000 attend
July 29 – Bob Dylan’s motorcycle accident
Aug 5 – Lennon says Beatles more popular than Jesus
Aug 18 – Red Guard begins to wipe out western influence in China
Sept – George Harrison goes to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with
Ravi Shankar.
Sept – Timothy Leary holds press conference at NY Advertising Club
announcing formation of a psychedelic religion – League for Spiritual Discovery
(Turn on, tune in, drop out) & starts nightly presentations at the
Village Theater.
Nov 5 – Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom: 10,000 + in New York City
Dec – Cream’s first album: Fresh Cream released. Eric Clapton,
Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker.
1967
Jan 14 – Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F.
Jan 27 – US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in
space
Feb – 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border
Feb – Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle,
Yesterday
Mar – Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).
Mar – The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon
Donovan’s song Mellow Yellow)
Mar 3 – Alice B. Toklas dies
Mar 18 – First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000
tons of oil onto English shores
Mar 26 – Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend
Apr 5 – Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury
Apr 10 – Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft
demonstrations
Apr 15 – Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park
to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin
Spock
May – Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have dropped acid.
May 19 – First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
May 20 – Flower Power Day in NYC 1967
Jun 2 – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles
released.
Jun 16 – Monterey Pop Festival
Jun 21 – Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park
Jun 25 – Beatles sing All You Need Is Love on TV 1967
Jun 30 – 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam
July – The Summer of Love in San Francisco
July – Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets
in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore
July 1 – Sgt. Pepper hits #1
July 11 – Newark riots start long hot summer
July 24 – 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history
July 26 – H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland
July 29 – Door’s Light My Fire and Procol Harem’s Whiter Shade of Pale
vie for #1
Aug 26 – Jimi Hendrix’s Are You Experienced hits the charts
Aug 27 – Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein’s
death
Sept – Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu,
stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru.
Sept 15 – Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl
Oct 3 – Woody Guthrie dies
Oct 8 – Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops
Oct 12 – Big Brother and the Holding Company’s Cheap Thrills with Janis
Joplin at top of LP charts.
Oct 20 – Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders
of three civil rights worker
Oct 21-22 – Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon
Oct 21 – Diggers exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate,
647 arrested
Oct 26 – Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws
or interfere with recruitment
Nov 14 – Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution
Nov 20 – National Commission on Product Safety established
Dec – Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour
Dec – 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date,
60% died in 1967.
Dec – Stop the Draft movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide
protests ensue.
Dec 5 – 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center.
585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dec 5 – Beatles open Apple Shop in London
Dec 8 – Otis Redding records Dock of the Bay
Dec 10 – Otis Redding dies in plane crash
Dec 22 – Owsley busted, stops making acid
Dec 31 – Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, &
friends pronounce themselves Yippies
1968
Jan 16 – Youth International Party (Yippies) founded
Jan 18 – Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against
the war
Jan 22 – B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland
Jan 23 – USS Pueblo seized by Korea
Jan 31 – Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive
Feb – Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house
Feb – Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh
on the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow.
Feb 8 – George Wallace announce candidacy for President on law and
order platform
Mar 12 – Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential
primary
Mar 16 – My Lai massacre 200 – 500 Vietnamese villagers killed
Mar 16 – Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President
Mar 31 – LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial
Vietnam bombing halt
Apr 4 – Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis
Apr – The week following Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder sees black
uprisings in 125 cities across the U.S.
Apr 6 – Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver arrested
with a bullet-shattered leg. Bobby Hutton shot and killed.
Apr 8 – Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (DEA)
Apr 11 – LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination
Apr 11 – Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam
Apr 14 – Love-in at Malibu Canyon, Calif.
Apr 15 – Start of Spring Mobilization against the Vietnam war
Apr 23 – SDS lead students take over 5 buildings at Colombia Univ for
a week. 700 arrested
Apr 24 – 300 Black students occupy admin. building at Boston Univ.
demanding black studies and financial aid
Apr 25 – Paul Horn records in the Taj Mahal
Apr 29 – The rock musical HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater
May 10 – Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris
Jun 3 – Andy Warhol shot by woman
Jun 5 – Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning
California primary.
Jun 14 – Dr. Benjamin Spock convicted of conspiracy to abet draft evasion
July 1 – Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by 61 nations
Aug 1 – 541,000 U.S. Troops in Vietnam
August 3, 1968 – The first Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California to an audience of over 100,000 people. Performers include Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane, Sonny & Cher, Tiny Tim, the Byrds, Iron Butterfly, The Grateful Dead and Eric Burdon & the Animals.
Aug 8 – Nixon and Agnew nominated during Miami riots
Aug 20 – Soviets invade Czechoslovakia
August 25-29 – Democratic Convention in Chicago demonstrations
& police riot 10,000 +/- demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police;
6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI, CIA &
other services agents (Humphrey nominated on platform supporting
the war)
Aug 28 – Humphrey and Muskie nominated amid violent antiwar protests
in Chicago. Bystanders and press also beaten by police
Oct 18 – John & Yoko Busted
Nov – First Whole Earth Catalog published by Stewart Brand.
Nov 5 – Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP
Nov 6 – Student Strike at SF State
1969
Jan 28 – Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout
Feb – Massive strike at U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies
Feb 11 – 200 students smash computers with axes & set computer
center on fire during sit-in protesting prof’s racism at St. George Williams
College, Montreal
Feb 13 – 33 students arrested at admin bldg sit-in at Univ of Mass.
Feb 18 – Students seize building and boycott started at Howard
University
Feb 24 – Students occupy Admin bldg at Penn State
Feb 27 – Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano
leaders at U.C. Berkeley
Feb 27 – Thousands rampage thru nine buildings at U of Wisconsin, Madison
over black enrollments
Mar 12 – Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman
Mar 20 – John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly
to Amsterdam for one week lie-in for peace
Mar 20 – James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin
Luther King Jr.
Apr – 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam
Apr 4 – Smothers Brothers tv show canceled because it is too controversial
Apr 9 – 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize Univ Hall and evict eight
deans
Apr 10 – Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested
Apr 11 – Start of 3 day student strike at Harvard
Apr 22 – Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program &
give students vote in selection of its faculty
Apr 22 – City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students
lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment
Apr 23 – Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy
Apr 24 – U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests
in 40 cities
May 15 – Hippies in People’s Park in Berkeley attacked by police and
Nat’l Guard
July – Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.
July 3 – Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies
July 14 – Easy Rider premieres
July 20 – Men walk on the Moon
July 27 – Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results
in Stonewall Uprising. 2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay
Liberation Movement
Aug – Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream
and Steve Winwood from Traffic.
Aug 9 – Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered by Charles Manson
& Crew
August 15 – 17 WOODSTOCK Festival 500,000 people gathered for three
days of music and peace that changed the world
Aug 24 – Movie ‘Alice’s Restaurant released with Arlo Guthrie
Aug 26 – FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 –
1968
Sept 3 – Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies
Sept 24 – Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry
Rubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots
Oct – Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy
Oct 8-11 – The Weatherman Days of Rage
Oct 15 – Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide. First Vietnam Moratorium
Oct 21 – Jack Kerouac, beat author of On the Road dies.
Oct 30 – Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide
Nov 15 – 500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally
in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory,
Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, &
Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair
1969
Nov 17 – First round of SALT talks in Helsinki
Nov 20 – 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return
Nov 20 – DDT use banned in residential areas
Nov 24 – Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 So. Vietnamese
civilians at My Lai
Nov 25 – President Nixon orders all US germ warfare stockpiles destroyed
Dec – Over 100,000 US troops dead or injured in Vietnam.
Dec 1 – First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC
Dec 8 – Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA – four hour shoot-out
Dec 24 – Rolling Stones Altamont concert erupts in violence, one
spectator killed
1970
January 1 – Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
Feb – Timothy Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas/Mex marijuana bust
Feb 4 – Riot in Isla Vista, Calif. protesting Chicago verdicts
Feb 4 – President Nixon proposes environmental cleanup – EPA
Feb 18 – Chicago Seven acquitted of conspiracy charges
Feb 19 – Chicago Seven Trial verdict: Dellinger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman,
& Rubin found guilty of crossing state lines to incite riot
Feb 19 – Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; and in Calif; Wash;
Maryland; Mich, possibly done by the Weathermen
Feb 25 – Isla Vista Riots, Santa Barbara Bank of America bombed
Feb 26 – U.S. Army discontinues surveillance of civilian demonstrations
and files of demonstrators
Mar 6 – Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village, NY
Apr 1 – Cigarette advertising banned on radio and TV
Apr 7 – Referring to student unrest, Ronald Reagan, Gov. of Calif:
If it takes a bloodbath, let’s get it over with.
Apr 10 – Paul McCartney announces breakup of Beatles
Apr 22 – First Earth Day. Millions participate
Apr 30 – Nixon sends troops into Cambodia
May 4 – Four College Students Killed by National Guard at Kent State
University, Ohio
May 5 – Nuclear nonproliferation treaty takes effect
May 8 – Construction workers attack antiwar demonstrators, Wall St.,
NY
May 9 – 100,000 attend antiwar rally, Wash. D.C.
May 14 – Police kill two at Jackson State during violent student demonstrations
Jun 15 – Supreme Court OKs conscientious objector status on moral grounds
Jun 18 – U.S. voting age lowered to 18, now old enough to kill and
vote.
(see Mar 23, 1971?)
June 11 – Daniel Berrigan arrested by FBI for kidnapping/bombing conspiracy
Sept 12 – Timothy Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help
from the Weather Underground, joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers.
Sept 18 – Jimi Hendrix dead at age 27
Oct 4 – Janis Joplin dies
Oct 13 – Angela Davis arrested on kidnapping, murder and conspiracy
charges
Dec – Paul McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles.
Dec 2 – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated
1971
Jan 7 – DDT use outlawed by U.S. Court of Appeals
Jan 12 – Rev. Philip Berrigan and 5 others indicted for conspiracy
to kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb federal buildings
Jan 12 – Ralph Nader forms Earth Act group
Jan 25 – Charles Manson and followers found guilty of murder
Jan 25 – Supreme Court makes first decision against sexual discrimination
in hiring
Mar 1 – Bomb explodes in Capitol men’s room. Weather Underground claims
responsibility in retaliation for the Laos decision
Mar 1 – U.S. stops licensing commercial whale hunters
Mar 8 – Supreme Court rules that objection to a particular war is not
sufficient grounds for conscientious objection
Mar 23 – Congress votes to lower voting age to 18
Mar 29 – Lt. Calley convicted for My Lai massacre
Mar 29 – Charles Manson, et al sentenced to death after
longest trial in Calif. history
Apr 19 – Over 1000 Veterans demonstrate against the Vietnam
war in Wash D.C., throwing their medals over the Capitol fence
Apr 20 – School busing upheld to end segregation by Supreme Court
Apr 23 – Vietnam veterans return medals and ribbons in antiwar protest
Apr 24 – Over 350,000 Veterans march in Wash D.C. and SF to protest
war in Vietnam
Apr 26 – 50,000 demonstrators in Washington D.C. set up Algonquin
Peace City
May 3 – May Day antiwar protest, Wash. D.C.
May 11 – Indian occupation of Alcatraz ends after 19 months
Jun 13 – Pentagon Papers appear in NY Times
July 3 – Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris
Nov – Nixon starts withdrawing troops from Vietnam.
Dec. – Greenpeace founded in Vancouver, Canada
1972
Jan 25 – Shirley Chisholm first black woman to run for President
Feb – Life Magazine states: Today’s high school generation is interested
security, stability, & comfort.
Feb 24 – After 16 months in prison, Angela Davis is released
Mar – Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress
Mar 22 – 13-member National Commission on Marijuana & Drug Abuse
recommends legalization of marijuana
Mar 22 – Equal Rights Amendment prohibiting sex discrimination passes
Senate
Mar 30 – North Vietnamese launch massive attack. Troops go south through
the DMZ into South Vietnam, U.S. resumes bombing
Apr 10 – Biological Warfare Treaty signed by U.S. and 120 nations
Apr 15 – President Nixon & Canada P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact
to clean up Great Lakes
May 2 – FBI director J. Edgar Hoover Dies
May 9 – President Nixon orders mining of N. Vietnam’s ports
May 15 – Gov. George Wallace shot during primary campaign in Maryland
May 18 – Margaret Kuhn start Gray Panthers to protest discrimination
against elderly
May 22 – Nixon makes first U.S. presidential trip to Moscow
May 26 – U.S. and USSR freeze nuclear weapons at current level
Jun 14 – EPA bans DDT in the USA
Jun 17 – Watergate Break-In
Jun 29 – Supreme Court rules state death penalties unconstitutional
– cruel and unusual punishment
July – First Rainbow Gathering in Colorado
July 1 – Gloria Steinem launches feminist magazine, Ms.
July 10 – Democratic Convention nominates George McGovern for president
of the United States
Aug 11 – Last U.S. military unit in Vietnam withdrawn
Aug 18 – Water Pollution Control Act passed by Congress over Nixon’s
veto
Aug 21 – Republican National Convention nominates Nixon and Agnew again
Aug 23 – 1100 antiwar protest arrested outside Republican Nat’l Convention
Aug 28 – Consumer Product Safety Commision established
Sept 5 – Arabs kill Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics
Nov 13 – U.S. and 90 countries sign Int’l Oceanic Pollution pact
Dec 18 – Full scale bombing of N. Vietnam resumes
1973
Jan 27 – Vietnam ceasefire agreement signed after 58,000 US casualties,
U.S. military draft ends
Jan 30 – McCord and Liddy found guilty of Watergate burglary &
wiretap attempt
Feb 28 – 250 American Indians (AIM) occupy Wounded Knee
Mar 29 – Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam
Apr 16 – US bombs Laos
Apr 30 – Nixon accepts resignation of H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman
& fires John Dean. Nixon denies knowledge of break-in or cover-up
July 20 – Senate subpoenas Watergate tapes
Aug 8 – Nixon Resigns amid Watergate scandal
Oct 10 – Spiro Agnew resigns
Oct 16 – Kissinger awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Oct 23 – Nixon Impeachment begins (note Aug 8!)
Nov – Congress passes Freedom of Information act.
Nov 7 – War Powers Act passed over Nixon’s veto – requires Congressional
approval for military actions over 60 days
Nov 9 – Six Watergate defendants sentenced
1974
Feb 4 – Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped by the SLA (Symbionese Liberation
Army)
Feb 12 – SLA demands that Randolph Hearst begin food distribution to
poor
Apr 1 – Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam on second visit
Apr 15 – Patricia Hearst participates in bank robbery with SLA members
May 17 – SLA shoot-out in LA
July 30 – Two articles of impeachment voted against President Nixon
Sept 4 – Nixon pardoned by President Ford
Sept 7 – CIA operation against Chile’s Marxist Govt. disclosed
Sept 16 – President Ford announces conditional pardon for draft evaders
and deserters
Nov 21 – Freedom of Information Act passed over President Ford’s veto
Dec 21 – NY Times reports on CIA illegal domestic activities during
Vietnam War
1975
Apr 17 – Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia
Apr 30 – Fall of Saigon North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon
Sept 18 – Patty Hearst caputured in SF
Nov 20 – CIA and FBI charged with illegal surveillance of US Citizens
and plotting to assassinate foreign leaders
1976
Feb 12 – Production of Red Dye No. 2 banned
1977
May 2 – 2000 members of Clamshell alliance occupy site of nuclear reactor
in Seabrook, NH, 1400 arrested
Jun 6 – Washington Post reports U.S. developing neutron bomb
1978
Jun 15 – Tellico Dam project in Tennessee halted by snail darter per
Endangered Species Act
July 18 – American Indian Movement (AIM) leads march from Alcatraz
to Wash D.C. to protest legislation depriving Indian land rights
1979
Feb 1 – Patty Hearst released from jail
Mar 28 – Three Mile Island Radiation Accident
Sept 23 – 200,000 in NYC for nuclear weapons protest
1980
Dec 8 – John Lennon murdered outside his apartment entrance in NYC.
1981
May 11 – Death of Bob Marley from brain cancer.
1986
Apr 26 – Chernobyl Nuclear accident in Soviet Union.
1995
Aug 9 – Jerry Garcia RIP 1995 @ 53
1996
May 31 – Timothy Leary’s Dead or so it seems…
1997
Apr 5 – Allen Ginsberg dies
1998
Jan 5 – Sonny Bono dies in ski accident
2001
Nov 30 – George Harrison Dead at 58
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