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Johnson announces the creation of the "Great Society" during his State of the Union speech |
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| January 18 |
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Malcolm X denounces US involvement in Vietnam |
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| January 27 |
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Khanh seizes full control of South Vietnamese government |
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| February 6 |
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Viet Cong guerrillas attack the U.S. military compound at Pleiku in the Central Highlands, killing eight, wounding 126 and destroying ten aircraft. |
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| February 18 |
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Khanh ousted in a military coup, he is replaced by a military/civilian government led by Dr. Phan Huy Quat. |
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| February 21 |
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Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom |
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| February 22 |
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General Westmoreland requests two battalions of U.S. Marines to protect the American air base at Da Nang. |
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| February 25 |
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US military admit bombing targets in North Vietnam for the first time |
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| March 2 |
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Operation Rolling Thunder launched. |
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| March 7 |
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Civil rights marchers, marching from Selma to Montgomery are attacked by police at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, where one of them is killed. |
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| March 7 - 8 |
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The first U.S. combat troops arrive in Vietnam as 3500 Marines land at China Beach to defend the American air base at Da Nang. |
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| March 9 |
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Johnson approves the use of napalm. |
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| March 24-25 |
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Students for a Democratic Society organize the first teach-in on the Vietnam war, at the University of Michigan |
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| April 17 |
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25,000 march against the war in Washington DC |
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| April 28 |
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Lyndon Johnson sends 42,420 US troops to the Dominican Republic to "protect US citizens" and "prevent an alleged Communist takeover of the country." |
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| May 3 |
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The first U.S. Army combat troops, 3500 men of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, arrive in Vietnam. |
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| May 9 - 10 |
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Bob Dylan performs at the Royal Albert Hall |
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| May 12 |
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The California State Senate's Byrne Committee releases report calling the Berkeley campus a haven for communists. |
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| May 21-23 |
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Vietnam Day Committee organizes the largest Vietnam teach-in to date at UC Berkeley, about 30,000 attend |
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| June 12 |
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The Beatles appointed Members of the British Empire (MBE) by the Queen. |
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| June 18 |
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Ky takes power in South Vietnam as the new prime minister with Thieu functioning as official chief of state. |
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| July |
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The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party circulates a leaflet entitled "The War on Vietnam: A McComb, Mississippi, Protest." |
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| July 14 |
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US spacecraft Mariner 4 flies by Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to return images from the red planet |
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| July 25 |
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Bob Dylan is booed at the Newport Folk Festival for playing electric set with Paul Butterfield Blues Band. |
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| July 28 |
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President Johnson announces he will send 44 combat battalions to Vietnam. Monthly draft calls are doubled to 35,000. |
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| August 6 |
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Aniwar protestors attempt to stop troop trains on the Santa Fe railroad tracks in West Berkeley and Emeryville by standing on the tracks. |
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| August 11 |
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| August 13 |
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First issue of The Berkeley Barb published |
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| August 15 |
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The Beatles play Shea Stadium. |
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| August 31 |
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President Johnson signs a law criminalizing draft card burning. |
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| September 9 |
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U Thant recommends China be admitted into the UN. |
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| October 15 |
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Anti-Vietnam war rallies are held in four U.S. cities. In New York, police make the 1st arrest under a new Federal draft card-burning law. |
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| November 2 |
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Norman Morrison burns himself to death at the Pentagon in protest of the war. |
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| November 6 |
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Out of uniform and off duty, Lt. Henry Howe participates in a small antiwar demonstration in El Paso. He was arrested on his way back to base. |
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| November 14 - 16 |
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Battle of Ia Drang Valley |
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| November 26 |
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Arlo Guthrie is arrested in Great Barrington, Massachusetts for the crime of littering |
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| November 27 |
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Between 15,000 and 25,000 anti-war demonstrators rally at the White House during an SDS-organized March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam. |
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| December 10 |
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The Warlocks change their name to The Grateful Dead |
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| December 22 |
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Following a 2 day court martial, Lt. Henry Howe was sentenced to dismissal, two years confinement at hard labor and forfeiture of pay and allowances. |
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