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UFO Coffeehouse opens in Columbia, South Carolina |
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The Beatles launch Apple Corps |
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| January 5 |
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Alexander Dubcek elected as the leader of Czechoslovakian Communist Party |
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| January 16 |
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Youth International Party (YIPPIE) founded. |
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| January 23 |
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USS Pueblo seized by the North Koreans |
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| February |
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The Beatles visit the Maharishi in India |
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| February 1 |
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General Loan publicly executes an NVA prisoner in front of an NBC news crew and an A. P. photographer. |
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| February 8 |
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3 Black Students killed by police - Orangeburg, South Carolina |
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| February 16 |
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Draft deferments for most graduate students and all occupational deferments eliminated |
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| February 27 |
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Walter Cronkite declares, on the evening news, that he cannot see the Vietnam war ending as anything but a stalemate. |
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| February 28 |
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Westmoreland requests another 208,000 trops and the mobilization of the Reserves |
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| March 8 - 9 |
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Student uprising - Warsaw |
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| March 12 |
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McCarthy wins 42% of the New Hampshire vote |
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| March 16 |
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Robert Kennedy declares his candidacy |
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| March 17 |
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Violent Anti Vietnam war protests - Grosvenor Square, London |
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| March 27 |
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Yuri Gagarin killed in plane crash |
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| March 31 |
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Lyndon Johnson announces he would not seek a 2nd term as President |
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| April 2 |
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Bombs placed in Frankfurt Am Main department stores by Andreas Baader and Gudrun Ensslin explode at midnight. |
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| April 4 |
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Martin Luther King assassinated. |
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| April 4 - 11 |
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Black uprisings in 125 cities |
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| April 11 |
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Attempted assassination of Rudi Dutschke. |
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| April 15 |
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Spring Mobilization Against the war |
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| April 23 - 30 |
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Columbia University occupation |
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| May 4 |
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6 American deserters hold press conference in Moscow to denounce the War. |
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| May 5 |
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Mini-Tet Offensive launched. |
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| May 13 - 30 |
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France swept by protests, strikes and demonstrations. |
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| June |
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Oleo Strut Coffeehouse opens |
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| June 3 |
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Andy Warhol shot by Valerie Solanas. |
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| June 5 |
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Robert Kennedy is shot by Sirhan Sirhan, he dies the next day. |
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| June 8 |
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James Earl Ray arrested for killing Martin Luther King |
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| June 29 |
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Pope Paul VI issues encyclical condemning birth control. |
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| July 1 |
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Phoenix Program launched. |
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| July 15 -18 |
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The 9 for Peace publicly announce they had resigned from the US military and begin a 48 hour service of liberation and communion. |
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| July 26 |
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South Vietnamese opposition leader Truong Dinh Dzu sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government. |
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| August 20 - 21 |
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Soviet tanks enter Prague |
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| August 23 |
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Gypsy Peterson, editor of the Fatigue Press, and Josh Gould, manager of the Oleo Strut are busted as they left Killeen to go the the Democratic Convention. |
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| August 23 -24 |
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Mass meeting of Black GIs at Fort Hood to discuss their deployment to Chicago for the Dmocratic Convention for Riot Control duties. The next morning 43 of them are arrested. |
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| August 25 - 29 |
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Democratic Convention - Chicago |
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| August 29 - 30 |
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Long Binh Jail rebellion |
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| September 18 |
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Mexican Army invades Mexico City's National University |
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| October 2 |
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Mexican military fire upon protesting students, killing 200. |
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| October 10 |
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Lt [jg] Susan Schnall 'bombs' US Naval installations in and around San Francisco with 20,000 leaflets announcing GI & Vets March for Peace in San Francisco. |
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| October 11 |
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Pvt Richard Bunch, 19, was shot in the back and killed trying to escape from the Presidio Stockade. |
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| October 12 |
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GI & Vets March for Peace - San Francisco |
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| October 14 |
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In protest of the killing of Richard Bunch, 27 prisoners at the Presidio staged a brief sit-down strike during Morning Roll Call demanding to see the Correction Officer to present a list of grievances. |
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| October 16 |
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Tommie Smith and Juan Carlos, Gold and Bronze medal winners in the 200 meters raise their fists in black power salute during the medal ceremony. |
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| October 31 |
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Operation Rolling Thunder ended |
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| November |
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First Whole Earth Catalog published |
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| November 6 |
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San Francisco State University - student strike. |
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| November 14 |
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Yale University announces it was going co-educational. |
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| December 2 |
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Student strike - New York High Schools. |
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| December 24 |
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Keith Mather and Walter Pawlowski escape from the Presidio and go into exile in Canada. |
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