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The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police must inform criminal suspects of their right to consult with an attorney and of their right against self-incrimination prior to questioning by police.
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His story is broadcast on CBS Evening News. Johnson is angry and believes that Safer must be a Communist. He orders a security check, and, when learning that Safer is Canadian, he says, "Well, I knew he wasn't an American."
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3,000 to 4,000 emigrants from Cuba to the United States each month.
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officially opens his great dam on the Volta River.
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20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against Saigon regime policies.
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U.C. Berkeley campus as a haven for Communists.
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Ronald Reagan is running for republican nomination for governor.
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Civil rights activist,
Shot while on his "March against Fear" from Memphis Tennessee, heading to Jackson, Mississippi.
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supports the Red Guards in a speech to the 11th plenum of the eighth CCP Congress.
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In Beijing, a principal of a Girls' Middle School, is beaten to death by "Red Guard" students
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200 or 300 black youths have rampaged for the second night. Governor George Romney denounces advocates of "black power" and threatens action
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achieves complete independence from Britain.
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There are now 385,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam. There, 5,008 U.S. military personnel died in action 1966, an average of more than 13 per day. Another 1,045 died from "non-hostile" occurrences.
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meets with FBI agents for information on Berkeley campus radicals.
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President Johnson announces his plan for a lottery for conscription into the military: "the draft."
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Soul singers Otis Redding and Sam & Dave arrive in London to begin their 4-week tour of Europe to rave audiences. The Beatles send their private limos to pick them up. Their use of the word "soul" say Sam & Dave, who helped popularize the word, is not about race, it is about freedom.
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Refused induction into the Army and is stripped of his boxing title.
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Gets indicted for refusing induction into the U.S. Army.
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via Black Panther Party, visit California's state legislature concerning gun legislation. They are openly armed, arrested and charged with disturbing the peace.
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Declares all state laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional.
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A "race riot" begins on the east side of Buffalo, New York, where fourteen people are shot. The Buffalo riots will last five days.
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arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland.
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Blacks Riot.
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becomes the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Killed in Memphis, Tenn,
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The act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, physical handicap or family status.
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Gold prices soar in London to $41.37 per ounce.
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wins the California primary and appears to be on his way to becoming the Democratic Party's nominee for president.
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Dfeats Tom Okker of the Netherlands to win the U.S. Open.
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The Olympic Games are held in Mexico City. On the victory stand, during the playing of the U.S. national anthem, sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists to show support for black power and unity and both are suspended from the US Olympic team.
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John Lennon, Beatle, marries Yoko Ono, artist.
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The FBI is targeting the Black Panther Party in its program of investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States – a program labeled COINTELPRO. Alex Rackley, a 24-year-old member of the New York chapter of the Black Panthers, was suspected of being an informant and taken to the Panther headquarters in New Haven, Connecticut. There he was tortured and held for two days. On March 21 he is fatally shot and his body dumped in the Coginchaug River.
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a profit venture becomes a free concert, to be known as Woodstock, in upstate New York.
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United States declares commercial whale hunting illegal.
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President Nixon signs a bill banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect on January 1, 1971.
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dies in London of a drug overdose. At age 27.
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Citing executive privilege, President Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee.
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Arthur Ashe defeats Jimmy Conners, becoming the first black to win a Wimbledon singles title
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Boston's public schools begin a court-ordered citywide busing program. The National Guard has been called out to prevent violence.
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Chairman Mao Zedong, 82, dies
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Alex Haley's historical novel Roots begins as a series on ABC television.
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Is shot and killed in New york City
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Was in Trenton, NJ
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Died in Las Vegas, NV
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Died in Los Angeles, CA
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