Counterculture Timeline: The Early Sixties: Hippies in the Haight and Vietnam War Protests 1965 - 1966 |
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1965 |
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| fall
1965 [H S Sr xx] |
Boomers
born in 1947 are turning 18 & enter college start of mini-skirts in stores? (high schools send kids home; parents complain there is no choice) / Carnaby Street fashions in US? Ballad of Green Berets tops charts Millbrook house breaks up Brigette Bardot in Time and Life |
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| Sept 5 | SFEx
writer Michael Fallon applies the term "hippie" to the
San Francisco counterculture in an article about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse
where LEMAR (Legalize Marijuana) & the Sexual Freedom League meet, &
hippie houses, declares the Beat movement is alive in the Haight |
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| Sept | UC
Berkeley: new chancellor announces new free speech rules in keeping with
FSM demands; students start working on reforming student government, organizing
a teaching assistant union, and continuing investigation of the interlocking
network of agribusiness, defense, and other interests that have been revealed
to them the previous year |
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| Oct 15 | U.C.
Berkeley Vietnam War Teach-in & march (Tele Ave) 14,000 + Norman Thomas
spoke?? |
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| Oct 16 | Vietnam
War protests (teach-ins, marches) in 80 cities including Fifth Ave,
NY 15-20,000; Ann Arbor; Madison; Boston; Detroit; Phil; Tokyo; London;
Rome +) 100,000 people in nearly 1,000 cities (Hayden) - Natl Coordinating
Committee to End the War in Vietnam Repeat march in Berkeley, to Oakland Army Base [15,000 - Bohemia book] (Vietnam Day Committee) & conflicts w police & Hell's Angels Catholic Worker David Miller burns draft card Chet Helms and the Family Dog's first concert: "A Tribute to Dr. Strange" at Longshoreman's Hall (ILWU), Fisherman's Wharf: Jefferson Airplane, the Great Society, and the Charlatans (with Dan Hicks) (Family Dog was four of Chet Helms' housemates; called themselves Family Dog because of all the mutts around their communal home) |
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| Oct 18 | First
draft card burning arrest (under August 31 law): David Miller Che Guevara goes to Bolivia (was this Oct 18?) |
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| Oct 26 | Beatles
presented MBE by Queen Elizabeth |
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| Nov 1 | J.Edgar
Hoover: war demonstrations in US "represented a minority for the most
part composed of halfway citizens who are neither morally, mentally, nor
emotionally mature" |
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| Nov 2 | (US
election day) Norman Morrison, 32 yr old Quaker, father of three, immolates
self below Secretary of Defense McNamara's Pentagon window to protest Vietnam
War |
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| Nov 6 | Bill
Graham's first concert: benefit to raise money for Mime Troupe (which he
managed), busted for performing in park without a permit (Jefferson Airplane,
Fugs, Warlocks, Committee, Ferlinghetti +++) (Tickets: $1.50) |
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| Nov
9-10 |
Power Failure: NY & east coast | |||
| Nov 9 | Roger
Allen La Porte, Catholic Worker, immolates self in front of United Nations |
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| Nov 22 | Dylan
marries Sara Lowndes & moves to Woodstock |
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| Nov 27 | `March
on Washington for Peace in Vietnam' Wash, D.C. 15,000 (Life, Chron), 25,000 (Bd & Pupt), 30,000 (D.S.) SANE + National Coordinatingg Committee of left wing orgs. |
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| March to Dec | William Frosch at Bellevue Psych Hosp, New York, treats 65 acid freak-outs | |||
| Dec | Selective
Service calling up 40,200/month Max's Kansas City opened by Mickey Ruskin (32) (d. 1983)- http://www.maxskansascity.com/ 213 Park Avenue South between 17th and 18th, off Union Square, New York City |
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| Dec 10 | Bill
Graham second benefit for Mime Troupe, at Fillmore (first time there)
(Fillmore & Geary) - 3,500 (Chet Helms was there; he had loaned his
last money $250 to a Family Dog member Luria Castell, who disappeared to
Mexico with it; Family Dog had produced three concerts that were critical
but not financial successes and were out of money; Helms offered to have
Big Brother play at an upcoming Mime Troupe benefit just for the exposure,
and a couple of other bands from out of town that Helms knew as well; Graham
was mulling taking a month's lease of the Fillmore ($65/night; $500/month);
Graham made handshake deal with Family Dog to book Fillmore on alternate
weekends.) |
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| Dec 15 | Gemini
6 & 7 rendezvous in space |
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| Dec 17 | First
Sierra Club full page ad - Save the redwoods (Redwood National Park) - 35,000
members |
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| Dec 21 | -Jan
6 Tom Hayden (26), Lynd, Aptheker to Hanoi |
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| Dec 25 | Leary
stopped at the Mexican border & busted for marijuana |
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| Dec 27 | Old
leadership of SDS unseated & women hold a closed door workshop at the
SDS convention |
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| 1965
when? |
National Welfare Rights Organization
founded |
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| 1965 | end:
Acid Tests - (1) Santa Cruz; (2) San Jose on the night of the Rolling Stone
concert with the Warlocks and the Grateful Dead; (3) Palo Alto [Actuel November
1990 p. 154] end: 184,000 American troops in Vietnam |
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| 1966 | 400-1000 U.S. draftees flee
to Canada Peace Corps peak ?enrollment: 16,000 Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announces "Project 100,000" to rehabilitate and draft "rejects" (early) all time DOW Jones high (995.15); drop starts (to end of year) Swami Satchidananda founds Integral Yoga Institute Chinese Cultural Revolution 1966 to late 1968-1969 "for ten years" N.O.W. (National Organization of Women) founded Freedom of Information Act Model Cities Program passed by Congress (check) Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, president of Ghana, government overthrown ca 1966 Ledbetter's on Westwood Blvd, Los Angeles (when?) |
1966 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Dylan: Blonde on Blonde *Donovan: Sunshine Superman Jefferson Airplane first album (August) *Byrds: Fifth Dimension - with Eight Miles High (with sitar) Beatles: Yesterday and Today *Revolver (August) with: Tomorrow Never Knows (Turn Off Your MInd, Relax, and Float Downstream) & Good Day Sunshine & Yellow Submarine (*John meets Yoko) *Rolling Stones: Aftermath & Got Live *Mamas & Papas: California Dreaming & Monday Monday Beach Boys: Good Vibrations *The Who Monkees i.e. I'm A Believer Simon & Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence (album-Jan 1966) * Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (Oct 1966) Judy Collins: In My Life ?with? Suzanne (by Leonard Cohen) Youngbloods: Let's Get Together *Hollies (from UK) Alfie Green Berets Jacques Brel at the peak of popularity in France The Association James Brown's first appearance before white audiences (at Madison Square Garden, NYC) The Troggs: Wild Thing / Lovin' Spoonful: Summer in the City / Tommy James & The Shondells: Hanky Panky / The Supremes: You Can't Hurry Love / The Righteous Bros: (You're My) Soul & Inspiration / Nancy Sinatra: These Boots Are Made For Walkin' / Four Tops: Reach Out, I'll Be There TV: Star Trek starts Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (producer Mike Nichols: "raw dialogue" & Liz Taylor) Bergman: Persona Antonioni: Blow Up King of Hearts - first release Cul-de-Sac - Roman Polanski Fahrehheit 451 (Truffaut) Morgan! (with Vanessa Redgrave) Tom Jones Raquel Welch Alfie A Man & A Woman Fantastic Voyage (movie) Georgie Girl (with Lynn Redgrave) Stop The World I Want To Get Off La Guerre Est Finie - Resnais Richard Farina's Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me published, and Farina (engaged to Mimi Baez) dies in motorcycle crash (April) Alan Watts: The Book - On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are Norman O. Brown: Love's Body Masters & Johnson: Human Sexual Response Intelligent Life in the Universe - I.S. Shklovskii & Carl Sagan John Barth's Giles Goat-Boy (university organized as military) Rod McKuen: Stanyan Street (?and other poems?) Foxfire project started, Rabun County High School, Georgia National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) founded Free University in New York ?Ledbetter's in LA Surfing (California) Lenore Kandel: The Love Book (gained immense popularity when it was declared obscene and without redeeming social value by a jury on May 28, 1967 following a five-week trial. The case began Nov. 17, 1966 when clerks at the Psychedelic Shop in Haight-Ashbury and City Lights Books were arrested for "pandering to obscenity" by selling copies of the book which consisted "almost entirely of repetitions of the word fuck arranged in various patterns on the pages. Kandel testified that the book was 'the culmination of a 23-year search for an apropriate way to worship the divinity of man and express her belief that sexual acts between loving persons are religious acts'" (Warren French 66). http://www.brautigan.net/ brautigan/who.html |
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| Jan 3 | Ron & Jay Thelin open (first
ever) head shop on Haight Street: The Psychedelic Shop (to sell books) |
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| Jan 8 | 8,000 GIs attack Iron Triangle,
after B-52 bombing strikes |
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| Jan 14 | march on Atlanta to protest
ouster of Julian Bond, Negro pacifist, from Georgia House of Representatives,
after his endorsement of SNCC statement criticial of US involvement in Viet;
MLK spoke (Supreme Court overturns the ouster later in the year) |
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| Jan 17 | US B-52 bomber collides with
a tanker aircraft during mid-air refueling operation. Three 10-megaton H-bombs
drop onto Palomares, Spain below; a fourth falls into the sea. Luckily,
none of them explodes. The entire event is ?covered up. (Rough Guide: Spain
p.173) |
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| January | John Lennon takes first guided
acid trip, writes "Tomorrow Never Knows" |
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| Jan 20 | Kesey busted again (with Mountain
Girl) |
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| Jan 21-23 |
Stewart Brand's Trips Fest,
Longshoreman's Hall, SF: first light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000 people |
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| Feb | Kesey disappears (to Mexico) |
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| Feb 4 & 6 |
Fillmore: Bill Graham's first non-benefit show | |||
| Feb 19 | First Chet Helms concert
at Fillmore (Jefferson Airplane & Big Brother) |
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| Mar | Time sez there's an "acid
epidemic" -- get this? San Francisco Examiner front page: bust of 25 "beatnicks" from 408 Ashbury |
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| Mar 10 | Provos in Amsterdam smoke "bomb"
royal wedding of Dutch Crown Princess to German |
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| Mar 11 | Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas
to 30 years for trying to cross into Mexico as a tourist with a small amount
of marijuana; Leary appeals & gives press interviews |
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| March | President of General Motors
apologizes to Senate subcommittee for investigating Nader's private life
+ car safety protests Watts flares up again (Los Angeles) |
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| Mar 16 launch | Gemini 8 astronauts Neil Armstrong
and Dave Scott barely escape disaster when one of their maneuvering thrusters
malfunctions, causing their spacecraft to tumble wildly through space. |
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| Mar 25? | Life magazine: Photos of firing
squads in South Vietnam |
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| Mar 25-27 |
March, Fifth Ave, NYC - 25,000 anti-Vietnam War + 7 U.S. & 7 foreign cities | |||
| Apr 7 | Sandoz stops supplying LSD to
researchers |
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| Apr 10 | Easter Sunday Love-in Elysian
Park??? (Amelia sez) CHECK THIS and 25-day, 250 mile NFWA (National Farmworkers) march arrives Sacramento Volunteer picketing of groceries starts Life: NFWA becoming first effective farmworkers union |
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| Apr 11 | Day after Easter: youths riot
at Glen Echo Amusement Park, Washington D.C. |
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| April | FBI treats the press to its
LSD file -> negative press on LSD Apr Life: Is USSR/China break starting? Vietnam: Buddhists protest dismissal of Buddhist Lt. Gen Thi from the government by South Vietnam Premier Ky 30 Mississippi Negroes build tent city under LBJ's window to protest housing conditions in Mississippi Discotheques going: The Trip, LA; The Cheetah, Broadway NY; Arthur, NY; The World, Garden City, NY; Le Bison, Chicago; The Lightworks - multiscreen light shows by Andy Warhol [ditto Look Nov 30: 50+] Life: teen-age bands forming everywhere with electric guitars and colorful names Charlie Chaplin making first film for US distribution since 1952 |
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| Apr 12 | New York Stock Exchange anti-war
leafletting |
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| Apr 14 | 75 demonstrators outside NY
Stock Exchange |
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| Apr 15 & 17 |
Fillmore: Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Jefferson Airplane | |||
| Ap 16 | 4,400 march New York City G. Gordon Liddy & FBI raid Millbrook & bust Leary for possession of marijuana |
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| April | (end of) Helms to Avalon (Sutter
& Van Ness) |
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| spring | late - people start to move
to Lou Gottlieb's land in Sonoma starting Morning Star Ranch |
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| May | Dylan: Blonde on Blonde &
touring England, getting booed for playing electric Beatles: Paperback Writer/Rain |
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| May 5 May5 -6 |
Doors
at Whisky A-Go-Go through August, discovered by Elektra. Fillmore: Jefferson Airplane |
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| May 10 | Vietnam: General Thi dismissed
from government by Ky; Buddhist revolt starts |
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| May 15 | 10,000+ picket White House &
rally at Wash Mon w 63,000 (SANE + 4 other organizations) |
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| May 20-23 |
Buddhist & labor union demonstrations against Ky government in Saigon | |||
| May 26 | Second day of International
Days of Protest: 20,000 Fifth Ave, New York City; called by "National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam" |
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| May 27 & 29 |
Fillmore: The Velvet Underground and The Mothers | |||
| May 29 | Buddhist nun immolates self
in Hue, the first of eleven immolations in next three? weeks |
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| June |
[Storming
Heaven] 15,000 hippies living in the Haight; Entrepreneurs began refurbishing
the abandoned storefronts along Haight Street: the I-Thou Coffee Shop,
the Weed Patch, and more. |
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| June 1-2 |
White House Conf on Civil Rights
with Roy Wilkins of NAACP; Whitney Young Jr of Natl Urban League; Floyd
McKissick & James Farmer of CORE; Martin Luther King Jr of SCLC; Stokely
Carmichael of SNCC ("We feel that integration is irrelevant. We have
got to go after political power."). |
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| June 3 | Graduation protest at Amherst
(McNamara honorable degree) |
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| June 3-4 |
Fillmore: Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Grateful Dead, The Mothers | |||
| June 6 | James Meredith shot while marching
alone thru Mississippi to encourage Negroes to register to vote Janis Joplin first appearance with Big Brother at the Avalon Ballroom (Chet Helms hooked them up; he had met her years before when they hung out at with the same crowd at University of Texas in Austin) - http://www.officialjanis.com/dates_1966.html says June 10 |
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| June 7 | MLK (SCLC), Floyd McKissick
(CORE), Stokely Carmichael (SNCC) announce larger march on same route |
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| June 8 | Graduation protest at NYU (McNamara
honorable degree): 270 walk out |
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| June 9 | Sierra Club full-page ad in
the New York Times urging protection of the Grand Canyon from threatened
dams |
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| June 10 | IRS tells Sierra Club it will
lose its tax deductible status if it keeps taking such political stands.
Membership increases three-fold
in the next 4 years. |
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| June 10-11 | Fillmore: Jefferson Airplane, Great Society, The Heavenly Blues Band | |||
| June 12 | Graduation protest at Brandeis
(Goldberg honorable degree) |
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| June 13 | US Supreme Court: Miranda case:
suspects entitled to be informed of their rights when arrested (right to
remain silent, be told anything you say may be used against you, have a
lawyer) |
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| June 13-15 | Confrontation between Amsterdam
police & demonstrating construction workers with Provo supporters, Dam
Square |
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| June 17-18 | Fillmore: The Wailers and Quicksilver Messenger Service | |||
| June 21 | March ends
at Mississippi capital in Jackson, with 15,000, with James Meredith, recovered,
there to speak |
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| June 23 | Fillmore:
Them |
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| Summer 1966 [Mexico xx] |
Haight Ashbury:
Shops opening, dances every weekend, HIP merchants, Diggers
[Diggers="cooperative, autonomous non-ideological version of the way people could just do what needed to be done" - San Francisco Chronicle August 31, 1980] Morning Star Ranch, owned by Lou Gottlieb of the Limelighters, along with Ramon Sender, open the land (32 acres) to anyone who wants to live there Los Angeles: Sunset Strip scene & Velvet Underground at The Trip + Carnaby Street fashions [yup - Look] |
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| June 24 | Ky agrees
to add ten civilians to his military directorate & announces elections for constitutional convention |
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| June 29 | -July 5 -US
bombs major oil facilities in Hanoi & Haiphong harbor |
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| July | (early) Beatles
to Germany, Japan, Philippines Lennon's Jesus quote in Datebook |
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| July
1-4 |
CORE adopts / endorses Black Power concepts, Baltimore | |||
| July
3-5 |
Omaha Negro uprising | |||
| July
4-9 |
NAACP rejects Black Power concepts, LA | |||
| July 6 | Fillmore:
The Turtles and Oxford Circus |
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| July
8-9 |
Fillmore: The Mindbenders and The Chocolate Watch Band | |||
| July
12-15 |
Negro uprising in Chicago | |||
| July 13 | Eight Chicago
nurses killed by Richard Speck |
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| July
15-22 |
Negro, Puerto Rican uprising Brooklyn | |||
| July 16 | San Francisco:
Negro off-duty policeman shooting of Negro armed robbery suspect followed
by Hunters Pt demonstrations |
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| July 18 | Negro uprising
Jacksonville, Florida |
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| July
18-23 |
Negro uprising Cleveland | |||
| July 22-23 | Fillmore: The Association, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Grass Roots | |||
| July 24 | McClure's
"The Beard" busted at Fillmore |
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| July
28-29 |
White gangs invade Baltimore Negro district | |||
| July 29 | Bob Dylan
motorcycle accident -> 15 months convalesence, no touring
for 8 years |
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| July 29-30 | Fillmore: Them and The Sons of Champlin | |||
| Aug 1 | University
of Texas sniper kills 16 & wounds 31 from observation tower |
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| Aug 3 | Lenny Bruce
dead at 40 (Hollywood) |
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| Aug 5 | 4,000 whites
confront MLK marching with 600 in Chicago |
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| Aug 6 | (21st anniversary
Hiroshima): anti-war demos: 5,000 Times Square NY + Phil, SF, Madison, Cleveland,
Denver, Minneapolis, LA, Pittsburgh, Boston, Atlanta, Niagara Falls |
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| Aug 9 | (21st anniversary
Nagasaki): 200 demo Dow, NY |
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| Aug 10 | Fillmore:
Sam The Sham And The Pharoahs |
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| Aug
12-13 |
Fillmore: Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead | |||
| Aug | Gemini 10
shoots pix of world surfaces HUAC hearings: Rubin in revolutionary outfit (Gitlin p. 233) Emmett Grogan, living near the Haight, joins Mime Troupe &, with Billy Landout, starts the Diggers, putting out the Digger Papers [+Peter Coyote starts working with Mime Troupe 1966] Jefferson Airplane first album released nationally Youngbloods: Lets Get Together Beatles: Revolver released Aug 8 Aug 12-29 Beatles third & last US tour: Beatlemania again, with Bible Belt record burnings based on Lennon's remarks that "most young people are more interested in rock `n' roll than in religion . . . we're more popular than Jesus now" Inflation |
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| Aug
19-20 |
Fillmore: The Young Rascals and Quicksilver Messenger Service | |||
| Aug
26-27 |
Fillmore: The Great Society and Sopwith Camel | |||
| Aug 29 | Beatles:
Candlestick Park, SF - last concert ever |
On to The High Sixties: Something's Happening Here 1966-1967 |