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Coup (2nd in 3 month), South Vietnam. |
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| January 3 |
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Goldwater announces his candidacy for US President. |
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| January 13 |
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The Beatles I Want To Hold Your Hand released in America. |
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| January 16 |
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John Glenn orbits the earth. |
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| February 3 |
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In protests against alleged de-facto school racial segregation, black and Puerto Rican groups in New York City boycott public school. |
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| February 9 |
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The Beatles make their debut on the Ed Sullivan Show. |
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| March - August |
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US covert and overt involvement in Vietnam escalates. |
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| March 8 |
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Malcolm X announces he is forming a black nationalist party. |
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| March 12 |
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Malcolm X leaves the Nation of Islam. |
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| March 29 |
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Britain's first pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, begins broadcasting. |
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| May |
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President Johnson's aides begin work on a Congressional resolution supporting the President's war policy in Vietnam. |
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| May 1 |
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First issue of the Los Angeles Free Press published. |
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| June 12 |
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Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison. |
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| June 21 |
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Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi. |
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| July 2 |
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President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law. |
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| August 5 |
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Johnson submits the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to Congress. |
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| August 7 |
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House of Representatives and Senate overwhelmingly pass Gulf of Tonkin Resolutions. |
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| August 26 |
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South Vietnamese Government troops respond to Buddhist demonstrators with deadly force, killing 6. |
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Lyndon Johnson nominated as Democratic candidate for President. |
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| September 14 |
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Free Speech Movement protests begin at Berkeley. |
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| October 14 |
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Dr. Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace Prize. |
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| October 14 - 15 |
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Nikita Khrushchev is ousted from power, replaced by Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the U.S.S.R. |
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| October 31 |
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Viet Cong units attack Bien Hoa air base, 12 miles north of Saigon. |
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| November 3 |
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With 61 percent of the popular vote, Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson is re-elected as President of the United States in a land-slide. |
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| December 3 |
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Police arrest 800 students at Berkeley for occupying the administration building. |
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| December 20 |
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Military coup - South Vietnam. |
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