November
22 – JFK assassinated in Dallas, Texas; LBJ sworn in.
November
24- LBJ escalates the Vietnam War.
November
29 – Beatles “I Want to Hold Your Hand” released.
1964
February
9 – Beatles first appear on Ed
Sullivan Show, seventy-four million people watch.
July 2 –
LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act; public facilities opened to all.
August –
Beatles first U.S. tour; twenty-five North American cities.
August 28
– Race riots in Philadelphia.
1965
February
8 – U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam.
March 3 –
Owsley Stanley starts LSD factory, making large quantities of acid available
for the first time.
March 6 –
First American soldier officially sets foot on Vietnam battlefields.
March 7 –
Alabama state troopers attack 525 civil rights workers as they prepare to march.
March 24-
SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) organizes first Vietnam teach-in at U
of Michigan, three thousand attend.
March 25
– Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama.
April 17
– SDS leads first anti-Vietnam War march in Washington, D.C.; twenty-five
thousand attend
July 28 –
LBJ sends fifty thousand more troops to Vietnam.
August 11
-- Major race riot (six days) in Watts, California, leaves thirty-five dead.
1966
January
21 – First light show, Grateful Dead, ten thousand people in San Francisco.
August 5
– John Lennon says Beatles more popular than Jesus.
1967
January 14
– Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, twenty to fifty thousand attend
in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
February
– Twenty-five thousand troops sent to Cambodian border.
April 5 –
Gray Line starts hippie tours of Haight-Ashbury.
April 15
–Anti-Vietnam War protest; four hundred thousand march from Central Park
to U.N.
May 19 –
First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
June 25 –
Beatle song, “All You Need Is Love” debuts on TV; one hundred thousand flower
children now in the Haight-Ashbury area.
July – Summer
of rioting in the U.S.; Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn,
Cleveland, and Baltimore.
July 11 –
Newark riots start long hot summer.
July 24 –
Forty-three die in Detroit rioting; worst in U.S. history.
October 8
– Che Guevara killed in Bolivia by U.S.–trained troops.
October
20 – Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil
rights workers.
October
21-22 – Antiwar protesters storm the Pentagon.
December
– Four hundred eighty-six thousand American troops in Vietnam; of the fifteen
thousand killed to date, 60 percent died in 1967.
1968
January
21 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins; five thousand Marines isolated and under attack
by twenty thousand North Vietnamese troops.
January
23 – USS Pueblo seized by North Korea.
January
31 – Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive, a massive twenty-five-day assault
throughout South Vietnam, surprising the U.S. forces by its size and scope.
Antiwar sentiment in the U.S. increases.
March 9 –
General William Westmoreland requests 206,000 more troops for Vietnam.
March 16
– My Lai massacre - Two to five hundred Vietnamese villagers killed by U.S.
troops under direction of Lt. William Calley.
April 4 –
Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
April 6 –
Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers.
April 23
– SDS leads students, take over five buildings at Colombia University for a
week.
April 26
– Two hundred thousand students boycott classes to protest war.
June 5 –
Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan.
August 1
– Five hundred forty-one thousand U.S. troops in Vietnam.
August
25-29 – Democratic Convention in Chicago. Demonstrations and police riot;
ten thousand demonstrators vs. eleven thousand Chicago police; six thousand
National Guard; seven thousand U.S. army troops and one thousand FBI, CIA, and
other services' agents.
1969
February
11 – Two hundred students smash computers with axes and set computer center on
fire at St. George Williams College in Montreal.
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