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The prime ministers of Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years, a sign of improving relations.
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elementary and secondary education act
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President Johnson orders more bombing in North Vietnam.
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In New York, Malcolm X is assassinated in front of 400 people. His assassins will be described as members of Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam.
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In Montgomery, Alabama, police attack 600 SNCC marchers.
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Martin Luther King leads 3,200 marchers from Selma to Montgomery.
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Miranda v Arizona
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. -
President Johnson signs the Social Security Act into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
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Vietnam, newsman Morley Safer covers U.S. Marines
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." -
Watts Riot in Los Angeles, CA
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Sep 28 Fidel Castro announces that anyone can leave for the United States.
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Cuba and the United States agree on an American airlift
3,000 to 4,000 emigrants from Cuba to the United States each month. -
Ghana's President-for-Life, Kwame Nkrumah
officially opens his great dam on the Volta River. -
South Vietnam
20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against Saigon regime policies. -
The California Senate releases a report
U.C. Berkeley campus as a haven for Communists. -
Californa
Ronald Reagan is running for republican nomination for governor. -
James Meredith
Civil rights activist,
Shot while on his "March against Fear" from Memphis Tennessee, heading to Jackson, Mississippi.
The march will continue, joined by an angry young activist Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King Jr. and many others. -
Mao Zedong
supports the Red Guards in a speech to the 11th plenum of the eighth CCP Congress. -
Bian Zhongyun
In Beijing, a principal of a Girls' Middle School, is beaten to death by "Red Guard" students -
Lansing, Michigan
200 or 300 black youths have rampaged for the second night. Governor George Romney denounces advocates of "black power" and threatens action -
Black Panther Party
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Caribbean Island of Barbados
achieves complete independence from Britain. -
Vietnam
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. -
Gov. Ronald Reagan
meets with FBI agents for information on Berkeley campus radicals. -
"The Draft"
President Johnson announces his plan for a lottery for conscription into the military: "the draft." -
"Soul"
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. -
Muhammad Ali
Refused induction into the Army and is stripped of his boxing title. -
Muhammad Ali
Gets indicted for refusing induction into the U.S. Army. -
Bobby Seale
via Black Panther Party, visit California's state legislature concerning gun legislation. They are openly armed, arrested and charged with disturbing the peace. -
U.S. Supreme Court
Declares all state laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional. -
Buffalo, New York
A "race riot" begins on the east side of Buffalo, New York, where fourteen people are shot. The Buffalo riots will last five days. -
H. Rap Brown
arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland. -
Washington, D.C
Blacks Riot. -
Thurgood Marshall
becomes the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. -
Martin Luther King Jr
Killed in Memphis, Tenn, -
Civil Rights Act
The act prohibits housing discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, physical handicap or family status. -
Gold
Gold prices soar in London to $41.37 per ounce. -
Robert Kennedy
wins the California primary and appears to be on his way to becoming the Democratic Party's nominee for president. -
Arthur Ashe
Dfeats Tom Okker of the Netherlands to win the U.S. Open. -
Tommie Smith and John Carlos
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. -
Mr. and Mrs. Lennon
John Lennon, Beatle, marries Yoko Ono, artist. -
COINTELPRO
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. -
Woodstock
a profit venture becomes a free concert, to be known as Woodstock, in upstate New York. -
Whale Hunting
United States declares commercial whale hunting illegal. -
Banning cigarette
President Nixon signs a bill banning cigarette advertising on radio and television, to take effect on January 1, 1971. -
Jimi Hendrix
dies in London of a drug overdose. At age 27. -
Watergate
Citing executive privilege, President Nixon refuses to surrender 500 tapes and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. -
Wimbledon
Arthur Ashe defeats Jimmy Conners, becoming the first black to win a Wimbledon singles title -
Education for All Handicapped Children's Act
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Boston, MA
Boston's public schools begin a court-ordered citywide busing program. The National Guard has been called out to prevent violence. -
Mao Zedong
Chairman Mao Zedong, 82, dies -
Roots
Alex Haley's historical novel Roots begins as a series on ABC television. -
John Lennon
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Pierre Glenn
Was in Trenton, NJ -
American with Disabilities Act
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Americans With Disabilites Education Act
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Tupac Shakur
Died in Las Vegas, NV -
Christopher "The Nortious B.I.G" Wallace
Died in Los Angeles, CA -
Reauthorization of Americans With Disabilities Education Act
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World Trade Center
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No Child Left Behind Act
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Reauthorization of individuals with Disabilities Education Act
