Hippie+Timeline

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 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" <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Feb 1 - Four black students arrested at whites only lunch counter in Greensboro S. Carolina <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Mar - Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) takes psilocybin as part of the Harvard Project <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Mar 1 - John Kennedy initiates 17 billion dollar nuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina & announces creation of the Peace Corps <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 11 - Bob Dylan's first billed performance at Gerde's Folk City <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 12 - Yuri Gagarin of the USSR is the first man in space <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 25 - Bay of Pigs, Cuba U.S. planned invasion is defeated by Castro <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">May 4 - Freedom Riders leave DC for a southern tour to test integration in bus stations <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">May 28 - Amnesty International Founded <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July - Ban The Bomb Demonstrations start worldwide <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July 19 - First Telstar Satellite Live TV Transmission across the Atlantic <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 13 - East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sept 15 - U.S. starts underground nuclear testing <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Oct 6 - President Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> 1962 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Feb 16 - Boston SANE & fledgling SDS hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 25 - U.S. resumes atmospheric nuclear testing after 3 year moratorium <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sept - Timothy Leary founds International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The Psychedelic Review. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Oct 22 - Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet missile bases in Cuba, Kennedy orders naval blockade. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> 1963 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jan - Alabama Gov. Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech at inauguration <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 3 - SCLC & volunteers stage sit-in in Birmingham, Alabama <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 12 - Martin Luther King & Ralph Abernathy go to jail in Birmingham <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jun 11 - JFK Proposes the Civil Rights Bill <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jun 12 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July - Timothy Leary hosts Freedom House groups in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Dominica & then Antigua <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July - Newport Folk Festival July 26-28, includes Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 5 - First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 28 - Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, Wash DC Civil Rights March 1963, 200,000 attend <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 30 - U.S. -Soviet Hotline installed <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sept - Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other Harvard alumni LSD researchers move to the Hitchcock's estate in Millbrook, New York. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Sept 24 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified by Senate <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Oct 10 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Oct 13 - Beatles on TV at London Palladium. 15 million get to see them perform "She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout". <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Nov 22 - JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, LBJ sworn in <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Nov 22 - Aldous Huxley dies while tripping on LSD (intentionally!) <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Nov 24 - LBJ escalates the Vietnam War <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Nov 29 - Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Released

1964 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jan 8 - LBJ declares "War on Poverty" in State of the Union address <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jan 11 - U.S. Surgeon General declares cigarettes cause lung disease <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Jan 30 - New military junta takes over in South Vietnam <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Feb 7 - Beatles arrive in New York to 10,000 screaming fans <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Feb 9 - Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan Show, 74 million people watch, the largest audience in the history of television. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Apr 23 - Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">May - Bob Dylan's first visit to England, meets The Beatles & Rolling Stones; turns The Beatles on to marijuana. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July - Millbrook LSD sessions with Timothy Leary <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July - Ken Kesey's First Magic Bus Trip to NY <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July 2 - LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act: public facilities opened to all <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July 18 - Race riot in Harlem, NY <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">July 23 - Senate passes $947 million antipoverty bill <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug - Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters visit Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert at Millbrook. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug - Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 North American cities. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 4 - Three missing civil rights workers found dead in Mississippi <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 11 - Beatles' A Hard Day's Night movie released <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 20 - LBJ signs anti-poverty program <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 23 - Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 28 - Race riots in Philadelphia <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Aug 31 - LBJ signs food stamp bill <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Oct 14 - Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">Dec 10 - Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace Prize

<span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1965 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1966 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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. <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1967 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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" <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1968 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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 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

<span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 6px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 6px; color: #660000; font-family: Times; font-size: medium; line-height: normal;"> <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">1969 <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">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


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