{"id":70,"date":"2017-02-03T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hip\/uncategorized\/hippie-timeline\/"},"modified":"2017-02-03T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T00:02:35","slug":"hippie-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hipplanet.com\/hip\/hip-events\/hippie-timeline\/","title":{"rendered":"Hippie Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<center><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>Hippy Timeline<\/b><\/span><\/center><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Here are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the civil rights, anti-war, women&#8217;s and environmental movements. The psychedelic and the protest movements were greatly enhanced by the revolution in music, so we&#8217;ve included some influential music milestones.<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">For more on this subject visit:<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/php\/quotes.php?action=category\">Famous<br \/>\nHippy Quotes<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/php\/article-4.html\">Music<br \/>\nwith a Message<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/php\/article-38.html\">Hippyland&#8217;s<br \/>\n60&#8217;s Page<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/hippiedom.htm\">Hippiedom<br \/>\nPage<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipforums.com\/forums\/index.php\">Hip Forums<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipforums.com\/forums\/forumdisplay.php?f=12\">Hippy<br \/>\nForum<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #660000;\">For Great Hippy<br \/>\nMusic, check out<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipmarket.com\/music\/index.php\">HipMarket&#8217;s<br \/>\nMusic Store!<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica;\"><span style=\"color: #660000;\">To Buy books<br \/>\nabout Hippies go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hipmarket.com\/books.html\">HipMarket&#8217;s<br \/>\nBookstore!<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr width=\"100%\" \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1960<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">January &#8211; Bob Dylan, age 19 plays at the Wha<br \/>\nin Greenwich Village and visits Woody Guthrie in the Hospital<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan &#8211; Civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 1 &#8211; Four black students start sit-in at whites<br \/>\nonly lunch counter in Greensboro S. Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 13 &#8211; France becomes the fourth nuclear power<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Mar 15 &#8211; Lunch-counter sit-ins spread to 15 cities<br \/>\nin 5 southern states<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">May 6 &#8211; Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by Eisenhower<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Sidney Cohen&#8217;s survey of 5,000 individuals<br \/>\nwho had taken LSD 25,000 times concludes it is safe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 9 &#8211; Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms<br \/>\nin Cuernavaca<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 10 &#8211; Antarctic Treaty creates peaceful scientific<br \/>\npreserve<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov &#8211; JFK elected president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov &#8211; Eisenhower warns the nation about<br \/>\nthe Military-Industrial Complex and its power.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov 9 &#8211; Brian Epstein first sees the Beatles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Dec &#8211; Birth Control Pills go on sale in<br \/>\nthe US.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1961<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan 17 &#8211; Eisenhower warns of increasing power<br \/>\nof military-industrial complex<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 18 &#8211; Bertrand Russell, 89, leads march of<br \/>\n20,000 &amp; sit-down of 5,000 anti-nuke outside U.K. Defense Ministry<br \/>\nand is jailed for 7 days<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Mar &#8211; Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) takes psilocybin<br \/>\nas part of the Harvard Project<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Mar 1 &#8211; John Kennedy initiates 17 billion dollar<br \/>\nnuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina &amp; announces<br \/>\ncreation of the Peace Corps<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 11 &#8211; Bob Dylan&#8217;s first billed performance<br \/>\nat Gerde&#8217;s Folk City<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 12 &#8211; Yuri Gagarin of the USSR is the first<br \/>\nman in space<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 25 &#8211; Bay of Pigs, Cuba U.S. planned invasion<br \/>\nis defeated by Castro<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">May 4 &#8211; Freedom Riders leave DC for a southern<br \/>\ntour to test integration in bus stations<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">May 28 &#8211; Amnesty International Founded<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Ban The Bomb Demonstrations start worldwide<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July 19 &#8211; First Telstar Satellite Live TV Transmission<br \/>\nacross the Atlantic<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 13 &#8211; East German border guards begin construction<br \/>\nof Berlin Wall<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Sept 15 &#8211; U.S. starts underground nuclear testing<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Oct 6 &#8211; President Kennedy advises Americans to<br \/>\nbuild fallout shelters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1962<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 16 &#8211; Boston SANE &amp; fledgling SDS hold<br \/>\nfirst anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 25 &#8211; U.S. resumes atmospheric nuclear testing<br \/>\nafter 3 year moratorium<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Sept &#8211; Timothy Leary founds International Foundation<br \/>\nfor Internal Freedom (IFIF) to promote LSD research &amp; publish The Psychedelic<br \/>\nReview.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Oct 22 &#8211; Cuban Missile Crisis &#8211; Soviet missile<br \/>\nbases in Cuba, Kennedy orders naval blockade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1963<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan &#8211; Alabama Gov. Wallace&#8217;s Segregation Forever<br \/>\nspeech at inauguration<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 3 &#8211; SCLC &amp; volunteers stage sit-in in<br \/>\nBirmingham, Alabama<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 12 &#8211; Martin Luther King &amp; Ralph Abernathy<br \/>\ngo to jail in Birmingham<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jun 11 &#8211; JFK Proposes the Civil Rights Bill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jun 12 &#8211; Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Timothy Leary hosts Freedom House<br \/>\ngroups in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Dominica &amp; then Antigua<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Newport Folk Festival July 26-28, includes<br \/>\nBob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 5 &#8211; First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 28 &#8211; Martin Luther King&#8217;s I Have a Dream<br \/>\nspeech, Wash DC Civil Rights March 1963, 200,000 attend<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 30 &#8211; U.S. -Soviet Hotline installed<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Sept &#8211; Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other<br \/>\nHarvard alumni LSD researchers move to the Hitchcock&#8217;s estate in Millbrook,<br \/>\nNew York.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Sept 24 &#8211; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified by<br \/>\nSenate<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Oct 10 &#8211; Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Oct 13 &#8211; Beatles on TV at London Palladium.<br \/>\n15 million get to see them perform She Loves You and Twist and Shout.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov 22 &#8211; JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, LBJ<br \/>\nsworn in<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov 22 &#8211; Aldous Huxley dies while tripping on<br \/>\nLSD (intentionally!)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov 24 &#8211; LBJ escalates the Vietnam War<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Nov 29 &#8211; Beatles I Want to Hold Your Hand Released<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1964<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan 8 &#8211; LBJ declares War on Poverty in State<br \/>\nof the Union address<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan 11 &#8211; U.S. Surgeon General declares cigarettes<br \/>\ncause lung disease<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Jan 30 &#8211; New military junta takes over in South<br \/>\nVietnam<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 7 &#8211; Beatles arrive in New York to 10,000<br \/>\nscreaming fans<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Feb 9 &#8211; Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan Show,<br \/>\n74 million people watch, the largest audience in the history of television.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Apr 23 &#8211; Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">May &#8211; Bob Dylan&#8217;s first visit to England, meets<br \/>\nThe Beatles &amp; Rolling Stones; turns The Beatles on to marijuana.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Millbrook LSD sessions with Timothy Leary<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July &#8211; Ken Kesey&#8217;s First Magic Bus Trip to NY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July 2 &#8211; LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act: public<br \/>\nfacilities opened to all<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July 18 &#8211; Race riot in Harlem, NY<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">July 23 &#8211; Senate passes $947 million antipoverty<br \/>\nbill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug &#8211; Ken Kesey &amp; his Merry Pranksters visit<br \/>\nTimothy Leary &amp; Richard Alpert at Millbrook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug &#8211; Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 North American<br \/>\ncities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 4 &#8211; Three missing civil rights workers found<br \/>\ndead in Mississippi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 11 &#8211; Beatles&#8217; A Hard Day&#8217;s Night movie released<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 20 &#8211; LBJ signs anti-poverty program<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 23 &#8211; Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 28 &#8211; Race riots in Philadelphia<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Aug 31 &#8211; LBJ signs food stamp bill<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Oct 14 &#8211; Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace<br \/>\nPrize<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #660000;\">Dec 10 &#8211; Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace<br \/>\nPrize<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1965<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Time Mag calls young people generation of conformists<\/p>\n<p>Jan 4 &#8211; President Johnson outlines Great Society<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 other protesters arrested in Selma,<br \/>\nAlabama for picketing county courthouse to end discrim voting rights<\/p>\n<p>Feb 8 &#8211; U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Feb 18 &#8211; Sect. of Defense Robert McNamara calls for nationwide<br \/>\nnetwork of bomb shelters<\/p>\n<p>Feb 21 &#8211; Malcolm X shot and killed<\/p>\n<p>Mar 3 &#8211; Owsley starts LSD factory, making large quantities of acid<br \/>\navailable for the first time<\/p>\n<p>Mar 6 &#8211; First American soldier officially sets foot on Vietnam battlefields<\/p>\n<p>Mar 7 &#8211; Alabama state troopers attack 525 civil rights workers as they<br \/>\nprepare to march<\/p>\n<p>Mar 8 &#8211; 3,500 Marines land to protect Da Nang air base<\/p>\n<p>Mar 16 &#8211; Quaker Alice Herz, 82, immolates self in Detroit in protest<br \/>\nof the Vietnam war<\/p>\n<p>Mar 16 &#8211; Police break-up demonstration of 600 in Montgomery, Alabama<\/p>\n<p>Mar 17 &#8211; 1,600 people demonstrate at Montgomery, Alabama courthouse<\/p>\n<p>Mar 21 &#8211; Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery,<br \/>\nAlabama joined by 25,000 marchers<\/p>\n<p>Mar 24 &#8211; SDS organizes first Vietnam War teach-in at Univ. of Michigan<\/p>\n<p>3000 show up<\/p>\n<p>Mar 25 &#8211; Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama<\/p>\n<p>Mar 28 &#8211; Martin Luther King calls for boycott of Alabama on TV<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; 25,000 U.S. troops stationed in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Apr 2 &#8211; Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time<\/p>\n<p>Apr 17 &#8211; SDS leads first anti-Vietwar march in Washington. 25,000 attend<br \/>\nincluding Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Judy Collins<\/p>\n<p>Jun 11 &#8211; Beatles awarded the MBE by the Queen<\/p>\n<p>July 8 &#8211; Chicago school integration protests<\/p>\n<p>July 10 &#8211; Rolling Stones&#8217; I Can&#8217;t Get No Satisfaction #1<\/p>\n<p>July 24 &#8211; Bob Dylan&#8217;s Like A Rolling Stone enters charts<\/p>\n<p>July 25 &#8211; Dylan goes Rock at Newport Folk Festival<\/p>\n<p>July 30 &#8211; LBJ signs Medicare bill<\/p>\n<p>Aug &#8211; Ken Kesey meets Hunter Thompson who introduces the Hells Angels<br \/>\nto the Merry Pranksters; Alan Ginsberg &amp; Richard Alpert are at the<br \/>\nparty.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 11 &#8211; Major race riot (6 days) in Watts, leaves 35 dead<\/p>\n<p>Aug 13 &#8211; Nat&#8217;l Guard enters Watts riots in L.A.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 14 &#8211; Sonny and Cher release I Got You Babe<\/p>\n<p>Aug 23 &#8211; Premiere of Beatles&#8217; Help!<\/p>\n<p>Aug 31 &#8211; Burning draft cards becomes illegal<\/p>\n<p>Sept 5 &#8211; San Francisco writer Michael Fallon applies the term hippie<br \/>\nto the SF counterculture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse<br \/>\nwhere LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) &amp; the Sexual Freedom League meet,<br \/>\n&amp; hippie houses.<\/p>\n<p>Sept 25 &#8211; \u201cEve of Destruction\u201d, sang by Barry McGuire top of the charts<\/p>\n<p>Oct 1 &#8211; Anti-pollution bill sets emission standards for cars<\/p>\n<p>Oct 16 &#8211; 100,000 anti-war protesters nationwide in 80 cities<\/p>\n<p>Nov &#8211; Unsafe at Any Speed about the automobile industry&#8217;s disregard<br \/>\nfor safety, published by Ralph Nader.<\/p>\n<p>Nov 22 &#8211; Bob Dylan marries Sarah Lowndes &amp; moves to Woodstock,<br \/>\nN.Y.<\/p>\n<p>Dec 25 &#8211; Timothy Leary busted for pot at the Mexican border<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1966<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 3 &#8211; The Psychedelic Shop head shop opens on Haight Street, S.F.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 14 &#8211; March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond<\/p>\n<p>Jan 17 &#8211; B52 collides, drops 4 10-megaton H bombs on Spain, none explode,<br \/>\ncover-up follows<\/p>\n<p>Jan 20 &#8211; Ken Kesey busted again with Mountain Girl on the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 21 &#8211; First light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000 people in S.F.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 19 &#8211; Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company<br \/>\nwith Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore<\/p>\n<p>Mar 3 &#8211; GI Bill grants veterans rights to education, housing, health<br \/>\nand jobs<\/p>\n<p>Mar 11 &#8211; Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years for trying<br \/>\nto cross into Mexico with a small amount of marijuana<\/p>\n<p>Mar 25 &#8211; Anti-Vietnam war protests in NY bring out 25,000 on 5th Ave.<br \/>\nOther protests in 7 US cities and 7 foreign cities.<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; FBI releases file on LSD, drug gets bad press<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; 30 Mississippi blacks build tent city under President Johnson&#8217;s<br \/>\nwindow to protest housing conditions in their state<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; Discotheques are the rage in NY and LA. Andy Warhol puts on light<br \/>\nshows<\/p>\n<p>Apr 7 &#8211; Sandoz stops supplying LSD to researchers<\/p>\n<p>Apr 12 &#8211; NY Stock Exchange hit with anti-war leaflets<\/p>\n<p>Apr 16 &#8211; Timothy Leary busted at Millbrook by G. Gordon Liddy &amp;<br \/>\nFBI for possession of marijuana<\/p>\n<p>May 15 &#8211; Antiwar demonstration in D.C., 10,000 attend<\/p>\n<p>July 29 &#8211; Bob Dylan&#8217;s motorcycle accident<\/p>\n<p>Aug 5 &#8211; Lennon says Beatles more popular than Jesus<\/p>\n<p>Aug 18 &#8211; Red Guard begins to wipe out western influence in China<\/p>\n<p>Sept &#8211; George Harrison goes to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with<br \/>\nRavi Shankar.<\/p>\n<p>Sept &#8211; Timothy Leary holds press conference at NY Advertising Club<br \/>\nannouncing formation of a psychedelic religion &#8211; League for Spiritual Discovery<br \/>\n(Turn on, tune in, drop out) &amp; starts nightly presentations at the<br \/>\nVillage Theater.<\/p>\n<p>Nov 5 &#8211; Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom: 10,000 + in New York City<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; Cream&#8217;s first album: Fresh Cream released. Eric Clapton,<br \/>\nJack Bruce, and Ginger Baker.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1967<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 14 &#8211; Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F.<\/p>\n<p>Jan 27 &#8211; US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in<br \/>\nspace<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle,<br \/>\nYesterday<\/p>\n<p>Mar &#8211; Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).<\/p>\n<p>Mar &#8211; The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon<br \/>\nDonovan&#8217;s song Mellow Yellow)<\/p>\n<p>Mar 3 &#8211; Alice B. Toklas dies<\/p>\n<p>Mar 18 &#8211; First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000<br \/>\ntons of oil onto English shores<\/p>\n<p>Mar 26 &#8211; Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend<\/p>\n<p>Apr 5 &#8211; Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight\/Ashbury<\/p>\n<p>Apr 10 &#8211; Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft<br \/>\ndemonstrations<\/p>\n<p>Apr 15 &#8211; Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park<br \/>\nto UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin<br \/>\nSpock<\/p>\n<p>May &#8211; Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have dropped acid.<\/p>\n<p>May 19 &#8211; First U.S. air strike on Hanoi<\/p>\n<p>May 20 &#8211; Flower Power Day in NYC 1967<\/p>\n<p>Jun 2 &#8211; Sgt. Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles<br \/>\nreleased.<\/p>\n<p>Jun 16 &#8211; Monterey Pop Festival<\/p>\n<p>Jun 21 &#8211; Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park<\/p>\n<p>Jun 25 &#8211; Beatles sing All You Need Is Love on TV 1967<\/p>\n<p>Jun 30 &#8211; 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>July &#8211; The Summer of Love in San Francisco<\/p>\n<p>July &#8211; Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets<br \/>\nin Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore<\/p>\n<p>July 1 &#8211; Sgt. Pepper hits #1<\/p>\n<p>July 11 &#8211; Newark riots start long hot summer<\/p>\n<p>July 24 &#8211; 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history<\/p>\n<p>July 26 &#8211; H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland<\/p>\n<p>July 29 &#8211; Door&#8217;s Light My Fire and Procol Harem&#8217;s Whiter Shade of Pale<br \/>\nvie for #1<\/p>\n<p>Aug 26 &#8211; Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s Are You Experienced hits the charts<\/p>\n<p>Aug 27 &#8211; Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein&#8217;s<br \/>\ndeath<\/p>\n<p>Sept &#8211; Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu,<br \/>\nstays in India &amp; follows him until he meets his guru.<\/p>\n<p>Sept 15 &#8211; Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl<\/p>\n<p>Oct 3 &#8211; Woody Guthrie dies<\/p>\n<p>Oct 8 &#8211; Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops<\/p>\n<p>Oct 12 &#8211; Big Brother and the Holding Company&#8217;s Cheap Thrills with Janis<br \/>\nJoplin at top of LP charts.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 20 &#8211; Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders<br \/>\nof three civil rights worker<\/p>\n<p>Oct 21-22 &#8211; Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon<\/p>\n<p>Oct 21 &#8211; Diggers exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate,<br \/>\n647 arrested<\/p>\n<p>Oct 26 &#8211; Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws<br \/>\nor interfere with recruitment<\/p>\n<p>Nov 14 &#8211; Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution<\/p>\n<p>Nov 20 &#8211; National Commission on Product Safety established<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; Beatles release Magical Mystery Tour<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date,<br \/>\n60% died in 1967.<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; Stop the Draft movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide<br \/>\nprotests ensue.<\/p>\n<p>Dec 5 &#8211; 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center.<br \/>\n585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock<\/p>\n<p>Dec 5 &#8211; Beatles open Apple Shop in London<\/p>\n<p>Dec 8 &#8211; Otis Redding records Dock of the Bay<\/p>\n<p>Dec 10 &#8211; Otis Redding dies in plane crash<\/p>\n<p>Dec 22 &#8211; Owsley busted, stops making acid<\/p>\n<p>Dec 31 &#8211; Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, &amp;<br \/>\nfriends pronounce themselves Yippies<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1968<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 16 &#8211; Youth International Party (Yippies) founded<\/p>\n<p>Jan 18 &#8211; Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against<br \/>\nthe war<\/p>\n<p>Jan 22 &#8211; B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland<\/p>\n<p>Jan 23 &#8211; USS Pueblo seized by Korea<\/p>\n<p>Jan 31 &#8211; Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh<br \/>\non the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 8 &#8211; George Wallace announce candidacy for President on law and<br \/>\norder platform<\/p>\n<p>Mar 12 &#8211; Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential<br \/>\nprimary<\/p>\n<p>Mar 16 &#8211; My Lai massacre 200 &#8211; 500 Vietnamese villagers killed<\/p>\n<p>Mar 16 &#8211; Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President<\/p>\n<p>Mar 31 &#8211; LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial<br \/>\nVietnam bombing halt<\/p>\n<p>Apr 4 &#8211; Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; The week following Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s murder sees black<br \/>\nuprisings in 125 cities across the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Apr 6 &#8211; Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver arrested<br \/>\nwith a bullet-shattered leg. Bobby Hutton shot and killed.<\/p>\n<p>Apr 8 &#8211; Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (DEA)<\/p>\n<p>Apr 11 &#8211; LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination<\/p>\n<p>Apr 11 &#8211; Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Apr 14 &#8211; Love-in at Malibu Canyon, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>Apr 15 &#8211; Start of Spring Mobilization against the Vietnam war<\/p>\n<p>Apr 23 &#8211; SDS lead students take over 5 buildings at Colombia Univ for<br \/>\na week. 700 arrested<\/p>\n<p>Apr 24 &#8211; 300 Black students occupy admin. building at Boston Univ.<br \/>\ndemanding black studies and financial aid<\/p>\n<p>Apr 25 &#8211; Paul Horn records in the Taj Mahal<\/p>\n<p>Apr 29 &#8211; The rock musical HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater<\/p>\n<p>May 10 &#8211; Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris<\/p>\n<p>Jun 3 &#8211; Andy Warhol shot by woman<\/p>\n<p>Jun 5 &#8211; Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning<br \/>\nCalifornia primary.<\/p>\n<p>Jun 14 &#8211; Dr. Benjamin Spock convicted of conspiracy to abet draft evasion<\/p>\n<p>July 1 &#8211; Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by 61 nations<\/p>\n<p>Aug 1 &#8211; 541,000 U.S. Troops in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>August 3, 1968 &#8211; The first Newport Pop Festival in Costa Mesa, California to an audience of over 100,000 people. Performers include Steppenwolf, Jefferson Airplane, Sonny &amp; Cher, Tiny Tim, the Byrds, Iron Butterfly, The Grateful Dead and Eric Burdon &amp; the Animals.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 8 &#8211; Nixon and Agnew nominated during Miami riots<\/p>\n<p>Aug 20 &#8211; Soviets invade Czechoslovakia<\/p>\n<p>August 25-29 &#8211; Democratic Convention in Chicago demonstrations<br \/>\n&amp; police riot 10,000 +\/- demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police;<br \/>\n6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI, CIA &amp;<br \/>\nother services agents (Humphrey nominated on platform supporting<br \/>\nthe war)<\/p>\n<p>Aug 28 &#8211; Humphrey and Muskie nominated amid violent antiwar protests<br \/>\nin Chicago. Bystanders and press also beaten by police<\/p>\n<p>Oct 18 &#8211; John &amp; Yoko Busted<\/p>\n<p>Nov &#8211; First Whole Earth Catalog published by Stewart Brand.<\/p>\n<p>Nov 5 &#8211; Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP<\/p>\n<p>Nov 6 &#8211; Student Strike at SF State<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1969<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 28 &#8211; Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Massive strike at U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies<\/p>\n<p>Feb 11 &#8211; 200 students smash computers with axes &amp; set computer<br \/>\ncenter on fire during sit-in protesting prof&#8217;s racism at St. George Williams<br \/>\nCollege, Montreal<\/p>\n<p>Feb 13 &#8211; 33 students arrested at admin bldg sit-in at Univ of Mass.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 18 &#8211; Students seize building and boycott started at Howard<br \/>\nUniversity<\/p>\n<p>Feb 24 &#8211; Students occupy Admin bldg at Penn State<\/p>\n<p>Feb 27 &#8211; Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano<br \/>\nleaders at U.C. Berkeley<\/p>\n<p>Feb 27 &#8211; Thousands rampage thru nine buildings at U of Wisconsin, Madison<br \/>\nover black enrollments<\/p>\n<p>Mar 12 &#8211; Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman<\/p>\n<p>Mar 20 &#8211; John &amp; Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly<br \/>\nto Amsterdam for one week lie-in for peace<\/p>\n<p>Mar 20 &#8211; James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin<br \/>\nLuther King Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Apr &#8211; 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Apr 4 &#8211; Smothers Brothers tv show canceled because it is too controversial<\/p>\n<p>Apr 9 &#8211; 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize Univ Hall and evict eight<br \/>\ndeans<\/p>\n<p>Apr 10 &#8211; Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested<\/p>\n<p>Apr 11 &#8211; Start of 3 day student strike at Harvard<\/p>\n<p>Apr 22 &#8211; Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program &amp;<\/p>\n<p>give students vote in selection of its faculty<\/p>\n<p>Apr 22 &#8211; City College of NY closed after black &amp; Puerto Rican students<br \/>\nlock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment<\/p>\n<p>Apr 23 &#8211; Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy<\/p>\n<p>Apr 24 &#8211; U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests<br \/>\nin 40 cities<\/p>\n<p>May 15 &#8211; Hippies in People&#8217;s Park in Berkeley attacked by police and<br \/>\nNat&#8217;l Guard<\/p>\n<p>July &#8211; Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>July 3 &#8211; Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies<\/p>\n<p>July 14 &#8211; Easy Rider premieres<\/p>\n<p>July 20 &#8211; Men walk on the Moon<\/p>\n<p>July 27 &#8211; Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results<br \/>\nin Stonewall Uprising. 2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay<br \/>\nLiberation Movement<\/p>\n<p>Aug &#8211; Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream<br \/>\nand Steve Winwood from Traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Aug 9 &#8211; Sharon Tate &amp; LaBiancas found murdered by Charles Manson<br \/>\n&amp; Crew<\/p>\n<p>August 15 &#8211; 17 WOODSTOCK Festival 500,000 people gathered for three<br \/>\ndays of music and peace that changed the world<\/p>\n<p>Aug 24 &#8211; Movie &#8216;Alice&#8217;s Restaurant released with Arlo Guthrie<\/p>\n<p>Aug 26 &#8211; FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 &#8211;<br \/>\n1968<\/p>\n<p>Sept 3 &#8211; Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies<\/p>\n<p>Sept 24 &#8211; Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry<br \/>\nRubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots<\/p>\n<p>Oct &#8211; Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy<\/p>\n<p>Oct 8-11 &#8211; The Weatherman Days of Rage<\/p>\n<p>Oct 15 &#8211; Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide. First Vietnam Moratorium<\/p>\n<p>Oct 21 &#8211; Jack Kerouac, beat author of On the Road dies.<\/p>\n<p>Oct 30 &#8211; Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide<\/p>\n<p>Nov 15 &#8211; 500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally<br \/>\nin U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory,<br \/>\nLeonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, &amp;<br \/>\nMary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair<\/p>\n<p>1969<\/p>\n<p>Nov 17 &#8211; First round of SALT talks in Helsinki<\/p>\n<p>Nov 20 &#8211; 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return<\/p>\n<p>Nov 20 &#8211; DDT use banned in residential areas<\/p>\n<p>Nov 24 &#8211; Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 So. Vietnamese<br \/>\ncivilians at My Lai<\/p>\n<p>Nov 25 &#8211; President Nixon orders all US germ warfare stockpiles destroyed<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; Over 100,000 US troops dead or injured in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Dec 1 &#8211; First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC<\/p>\n<p>Dec 8 &#8211; Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA &#8211; four hour shoot-out<\/p>\n<p>Dec 24 &#8211; Rolling Stones Altamont concert erupts in violence, one<br \/>\nspectator killed<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1970<\/span><\/p>\n<p>January 1 &#8211; Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Timothy Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas\/Mex marijuana bust<\/p>\n<p>Feb 4 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/php\/article.php?sid=173\">Riot in Isla Vista<\/a>, Calif. protesting Chicago verdicts<\/p>\n<p>Feb 4 &#8211; President Nixon proposes environmental cleanup &#8211; EPA<\/p>\n<p>Feb 18 &#8211; Chicago Seven acquitted of conspiracy charges<\/p>\n<p>Feb 19 &#8211; Chicago Seven Trial verdict: Dellinger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman,<br \/>\n&amp; Rubin found guilty of crossing state lines to incite riot<\/p>\n<p>Feb 19 &#8211; Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; and in Calif; Wash;<br \/>\nMaryland; Mich, possibly done by the Weathermen<\/p>\n<p>Feb 25 &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hippy.com\/php\/article.php?sid=173\">Isla Vista Riots<\/a>, Santa Barbara Bank of America bombed<\/p>\n<p>Feb 26 &#8211; U.S. Army discontinues surveillance of civilian demonstrations<br \/>\nand files of demonstrators<\/p>\n<p>Mar 6 &#8211; Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village, NY<\/p>\n<p>Apr 1 &#8211; Cigarette advertising banned on radio and TV<\/p>\n<p>Apr 7 &#8211; Referring to student unrest, Ronald Reagan, Gov. of Calif:<br \/>\nIf it takes a bloodbath, let&#8217;s get it over with.<\/p>\n<p>Apr 10 &#8211; Paul McCartney announces breakup of Beatles<\/p>\n<p>Apr 22 &#8211; First Earth Day. Millions participate<\/p>\n<p>Apr 30 &#8211; Nixon sends troops into Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>May 4 &#8211; Four College Students Killed by National Guard at Kent State<br \/>\nUniversity, Ohio<\/p>\n<p>May 5 &#8211; Nuclear nonproliferation treaty takes effect<\/p>\n<p>May 8 &#8211; Construction workers attack antiwar demonstrators, Wall St.,<br \/>\nNY<\/p>\n<p>May 9 &#8211; 100,000 attend antiwar rally, Wash. D.C.<\/p>\n<p>May 14 &#8211; Police kill two at Jackson State during violent student demonstrations<\/p>\n<p>Jun 15 &#8211; Supreme Court OKs conscientious objector status on moral grounds<\/p>\n<p>Jun 18 &#8211; U.S. voting age lowered to 18, now old enough to kill and<br \/>\nvote.<br \/>\n(see Mar 23, 1971?)<\/p>\n<p>June 11 &#8211; Daniel Berrigan arrested by FBI for kidnapping\/bombing conspiracy<\/p>\n<p>Sept 12 &#8211; Timothy Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help<br \/>\nfrom the Weather Underground, joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers.<\/p>\n<p>Sept 18 &#8211; Jimi Hendrix dead at age 27<\/p>\n<p>Oct 4 &#8211; Janis Joplin dies<\/p>\n<p>Oct 13 &#8211; Angela Davis arrested on kidnapping, murder and conspiracy<br \/>\ncharges<\/p>\n<p>Dec &#8211; Paul McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles.<\/p>\n<p>Dec 2 &#8211; Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1971<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 7 &#8211; DDT use outlawed by U.S. Court of Appeals<\/p>\n<p>Jan 12 &#8211; Rev. Philip Berrigan and 5 others indicted for conspiracy<br \/>\nto kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb federal buildings<\/p>\n<p>Jan 12 &#8211; Ralph Nader forms Earth Act group<\/p>\n<p>Jan 25 &#8211; Charles Manson and followers found guilty of murder<\/p>\n<p>Jan 25 &#8211; Supreme Court makes first decision against sexual discrimination<br \/>\nin hiring<\/p>\n<p>Mar 1 &#8211; Bomb explodes in Capitol men&#8217;s room. Weather Underground claims<br \/>\nresponsibility in retaliation for the Laos decision<\/p>\n<p>Mar 1 &#8211; U.S. stops licensing commercial whale hunters<\/p>\n<p>Mar 8 &#8211; Supreme Court rules that objection to a particular war is not<br \/>\nsufficient grounds for conscientious objection<\/p>\n<p>Mar 23 &#8211; Congress votes to lower voting age to 18<\/p>\n<p>Mar 29 &#8211; Lt. Calley convicted for My Lai massacre<\/p>\n<p>Mar 29 &#8211; Charles Manson, et al sentenced to death after<br \/>\nlongest trial in Calif. history<\/p>\n<p>Apr 19 &#8211; Over 1000 Veterans demonstrate against the Vietnam<br \/>\nwar in Wash D.C., throwing their medals over the Capitol fence<\/p>\n<p>Apr 20 &#8211; School busing upheld to end segregation by Supreme Court<\/p>\n<p>Apr 23 &#8211; Vietnam veterans return medals and ribbons in antiwar protest<\/p>\n<p>Apr 24 &#8211; Over 350,000 Veterans march in Wash D.C. and SF to protest<br \/>\nwar in Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Apr 26 &#8211; 50,000 demonstrators in Washington D.C. set up Algonquin<br \/>\nPeace City<\/p>\n<p>May 3 &#8211; May Day antiwar protest, Wash. D.C.<\/p>\n<p>May 11 &#8211; Indian occupation of Alcatraz ends after 19 months<\/p>\n<p>Jun 13 &#8211; Pentagon Papers appear in NY Times<\/p>\n<p>July 3 &#8211; Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris<\/p>\n<p>Nov &#8211; Nixon starts withdrawing troops from Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>Dec. &#8211; Greenpeace founded in Vancouver, Canada<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1972<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 25 &#8211; Shirley Chisholm first black woman to run for President<\/p>\n<p>Feb &#8211; Life Magazine states: Today&#8217;s high school generation is interested<br \/>\nsecurity, stability, &amp; comfort.<\/p>\n<p>Feb 24 &#8211; After 16 months in prison, Angela Davis is released<\/p>\n<p>Mar &#8211; Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) passes Congress<\/p>\n<p>Mar 22 &#8211; 13-member National Commission on Marijuana &amp; Drug Abuse<br \/>\nrecommends legalization of marijuana<\/p>\n<p>Mar 22 &#8211; Equal Rights Amendment prohibiting sex discrimination passes<br \/>\nSenate<\/p>\n<p>Mar 30 &#8211; North Vietnamese launch massive attack. Troops go south through<br \/>\nthe DMZ into South Vietnam, U.S. resumes bombing<\/p>\n<p>Apr 10 &#8211; Biological Warfare Treaty signed by U.S. and 120 nations<\/p>\n<p>Apr 15 &#8211; President Nixon &amp; Canada P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact<br \/>\nto clean up Great Lakes<\/p>\n<p>May 2 &#8211; FBI director J. Edgar Hoover Dies<\/p>\n<p>May 9 &#8211; President Nixon orders mining of N. Vietnam&#8217;s ports<\/p>\n<p>May 15 &#8211; Gov. George Wallace shot during primary campaign in Maryland<\/p>\n<p>May 18 &#8211; Margaret Kuhn start Gray Panthers to protest discrimination<br \/>\nagainst elderly<\/p>\n<p>May 22 &#8211; Nixon makes first U.S. presidential trip to Moscow<\/p>\n<p>May 26 &#8211; U.S. and USSR freeze nuclear weapons at current level<\/p>\n<p>Jun 14 &#8211; EPA bans DDT in the USA<\/p>\n<p>Jun 17 &#8211; Watergate Break-In<\/p>\n<p>Jun 29 &#8211; Supreme Court rules state death penalties unconstitutional<br \/>\n&#8211; cruel and unusual punishment<\/p>\n<p>July &#8211; First Rainbow Gathering in Colorado<\/p>\n<p>July 1 &#8211; Gloria Steinem launches feminist magazine, Ms.<\/p>\n<p>July 10 &#8211; Democratic Convention nominates George McGovern for president<br \/>\nof the United States<\/p>\n<p>Aug 11 &#8211; Last U.S. military unit in Vietnam withdrawn<\/p>\n<p>Aug 18 &#8211; Water Pollution Control Act passed by Congress over Nixon&#8217;s<br \/>\nveto<\/p>\n<p>Aug 21 &#8211; Republican National Convention nominates Nixon and Agnew again<\/p>\n<p>Aug 23 &#8211; 1100 antiwar protest arrested outside Republican Nat&#8217;l Convention<\/p>\n<p>Aug 28 &#8211; Consumer Product Safety Commision established<\/p>\n<p>Sept 5 &#8211; Arabs kill Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics<\/p>\n<p>Nov 13 &#8211; U.S. and 90 countries sign Int&#8217;l Oceanic Pollution pact<\/p>\n<p>Dec 18 &#8211; Full scale bombing of N. Vietnam resumes<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1973<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 27 &#8211; Vietnam ceasefire agreement signed after 58,000 US casualties,<br \/>\nU.S. military draft ends<\/p>\n<p>Jan 30 &#8211; McCord and Liddy found guilty of Watergate burglary &amp;<br \/>\nwiretap attempt<\/p>\n<p>Feb 28 &#8211; 250 American Indians (AIM) occupy Wounded Knee<\/p>\n<p>Mar 29 &#8211; Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam<\/p>\n<p>Apr 16 &#8211; US bombs Laos<\/p>\n<p>Apr 30 &#8211; Nixon accepts resignation of H.R. Haldeman &amp; John Ehrlichman<br \/>\n&amp; fires John Dean. Nixon denies knowledge of break-in or cover-up<\/p>\n<p>July 20 &#8211; Senate subpoenas Watergate tapes<\/p>\n<p>Aug 8 &#8211; Nixon Resigns amid Watergate scandal<\/p>\n<p>Oct 10 &#8211; Spiro Agnew resigns<\/p>\n<p>Oct 16 &#8211; Kissinger awarded Nobel Peace Prize<\/p>\n<p>Oct 23 &#8211; Nixon Impeachment begins (note Aug 8!)<\/p>\n<p>Nov &#8211; Congress passes Freedom of Information act.<\/p>\n<p>Nov 7 &#8211; War Powers Act passed over Nixon&#8217;s veto &#8211; requires Congressional<br \/>\napproval for military actions over 60 days<\/p>\n<p>Nov 9 &#8211; Six Watergate defendants sentenced<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1974<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Feb 4 &#8211; Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped by the SLA (Symbionese Liberation<br \/>\nArmy)<\/p>\n<p>Feb 12 &#8211; SLA demands that Randolph Hearst begin food distribution to<br \/>\npoor<\/p>\n<p>Apr 1 &#8211; Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam on second visit<\/p>\n<p>Apr 15 &#8211; Patricia Hearst participates in bank robbery with SLA members<\/p>\n<p>May 17 &#8211; SLA shoot-out in LA<\/p>\n<p>July 30 &#8211; Two articles of impeachment voted against President Nixon<\/p>\n<p>Sept 4 &#8211; Nixon pardoned by President Ford<\/p>\n<p>Sept 7 &#8211; CIA operation against Chile&#8217;s Marxist Govt. disclosed<\/p>\n<p>Sept 16 &#8211; President Ford announces conditional pardon for draft evaders<br \/>\nand deserters<\/p>\n<p>Nov 21 &#8211; Freedom of Information Act passed over President Ford&#8217;s veto<\/p>\n<p>Dec 21 &#8211; NY Times reports on CIA illegal domestic activities during<br \/>\nVietnam War<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1975<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apr 17 &#8211; Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia<\/p>\n<p>Apr 30 &#8211; Fall of Saigon North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon<\/p>\n<p>Sept 18 &#8211; Patty Hearst caputured in SF<\/p>\n<p>Nov 20 &#8211; CIA and FBI charged with illegal surveillance of US Citizens<br \/>\nand plotting to assassinate foreign leaders<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1976<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Feb 12 &#8211; Production of Red Dye No. 2 banned<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1977<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 2 &#8211; 2000 members of Clamshell alliance occupy site of nuclear reactor<br \/>\nin Seabrook, NH, 1400 arrested<\/p>\n<p>Jun 6 &#8211; Washington Post reports U.S. developing neutron bomb<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1978<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jun 15 &#8211; Tellico Dam project in Tennessee halted by snail darter per<br \/>\nEndangered Species Act<\/p>\n<p>July 18 &#8211; American Indian Movement (AIM) leads march from Alcatraz<br \/>\nto Wash D.C. to protest legislation depriving Indian land rights<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1979<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Feb 1 &#8211; Patty Hearst released from jail<\/p>\n<p>Mar 28 &#8211; Three Mile Island Radiation Accident<\/p>\n<p>Sept 23 &#8211; 200,000 in NYC for nuclear weapons protest<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1980<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dec 8 &#8211; John Lennon murdered outside his apartment entrance in NYC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1981<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 11 &#8211; Death of Bob Marley from brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1986<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apr 26 &#8211; Chernobyl Nuclear accident in Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1995<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Aug 9 &#8211; Jerry Garcia RIP 1995 @ 53<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1996<\/span><\/p>\n<p>May 31 &#8211; Timothy Leary&#8217;s Dead or so it seems&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1997<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Apr 5 &#8211; Allen Ginsberg dies<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">1998<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jan 5 &#8211; Sonny Bono dies in ski accident<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\">2001<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nov 30 &#8211; George Harrison Dead at 58<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: skip<br \/>\nViews: 78892<br \/>\nTopic:3\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hippy TimelineHere are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the civil rights, anti-war, women&#8217;s and environmental movements. The psychedelic and the protest movements were greatly enhanced by the revolution in music, so we&#8217;ve included some influential music milestones. 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