Counterculture Timeline: The Seventies: Keep on Keepin' On 1974-1976 |
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| 1974 | 1974 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING [LB Sept: Inventors own house xx Oct 26: a] |
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| Aug 8 & 9? |
Bruce Springstein first played
the Roxy? |
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| Sept | Ford grants amnesty to draft
evaders |
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| Sept [xx CSULB] |
(Green Revolution plan announced)
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| Sept 16 | US District Court dismisses
all charges against Banks & Means for Wounded Knee takeover |
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| Oct | Whole Earth Epilog US airlift of military supplies to Cambodia's Lon Nol regime suspended until March |
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| Oct 7 | John Lennon finally given legal
status to stay in the US (after 3 year legal battle) |
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| Nov | Jerry Brown elected Governor
of Calif (1974-1982) (served January 1, 1975-January 1, 1983) (along with post-Watergate class of freshman legislators) |
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| Nov 5-16 |
World Food Conference, Rome (Lappe spoke?) | |||
| Nov 13 | Karen Silkwood, investigating
Kerr-McGee xxx, killed in controversial auto accident |
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| Nov 20 | US files anti-trust suit against
AT&T |
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| Nov 21 | Congress overrides Ford's veto
to pass the Freedom of Information Act |
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| 1975 | Inflation + Highest unemployment
since the thirties (Whip Inflation Now - according to Washington magazine) Also high interest rates Also ?insurance rates? triple Draft registration is suspended Sen Frank Church launches investigation which reveals CIA conducted illegal surveillance of US citizens & plotted to assassinate foreign leaders i.e. Castro Sam Giancana, Mafia chieftain, murdered in his Chicago home, following reports of his involvement in CIA Castro plot Jimmy Hoffa disappears Former United Mine Workers pres Tony Boyle starts jail sentence for ordering murder of union opponent Joseph Yablonski, wife & daughter California passes Agricultural Labor Relations Act (grants farm workers right to collective bargaining, establishes a minimum wage, & abolishes child labor in the fields) New York City almost goes bankrupt (1975-1976) Tom Donahue, founder of progressive? radio, dies John Lennon goes into seclusion for five years Bunny Wailer goes into seclusion for 7 1/2 years Z Budapest arrested for tarot reading (9 years to Supreme Court win) Rolling Thunder Revue (into Jan at least) Frances Moore Lappe & Joseph Collins start Institute for Food and Development Policy (IFDP) [explain xx] Airlines start to be deregulated -> cheaper fares Franco dies (Spain) (Nov 20) - 36 years dictator Dictatorship ends in Greece (74? 75?) ?World wide famine? Architect Frank Gehry creates second "deconstructivist" style house (LA?); Netherlands designers Koolhaas and Zenghelis also do first deconstructivist buildings Oregon becomes first state to ban aerosols containing chlorofluocarbons Bill Gates and Paul Allen start Microsoft in Albequerque First article on effect of carbon dioxide on global warming (Greenhouse Effect) (Science magazine & Journal of Atmospheric Sciences) |
1975
MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING *Joni Mitchell: Hissing of Summer Lawns Bob Marley and the Wailers: Natty Dread Tommy Dylan: Basement Tapes released Patti Smith: Horses +? [was this her first? if not, when was that? xx] *Sons of Champlin *Germany: Kraftwerk *Fleetwood Mac re-formed with Buckingham & Nicks New York: First Punk bands (The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, Television) Ireland: six traditional musicians meet in Dublin & form The Bothy Band, start of many revival groups what year? ? John Prine TV: Saturday Night Live (yes) (starts) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (movie) (Nicholson) Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (Martin Scorsese) (also saw as 74) (Jaws) Nashville Rocky Horror Show (the movie?) (Sept?) The Wiz (black musical) (Shampoo) The Day of the Locust Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America - Suzanne Arms Birth Without Violence: Frederick Leboyer (the book & the movie) The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston Small Is Beautiful (I have this as 73) Ernest Callenbach: Ecotopia Fritzof Capra: The Tao of Physics ?Briarpatch Network The Book of Tofu - Shurtleff & Aoyagi The Postage Stamp Garden Book - Duane Newcomb Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang Philip Agee: Inside the Company (was this the first CIA expose?) Shogun - James Clavell (the book?) Transcendental Meditation est sushi spring 1975?? streakers [Sept: LB 2 first Ethnic Art History singing] |
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| Jan 1 | Menominee Indians seize unused
Gresham, Wisconsin, Roman Catholic novitiate (to Feb 4, when church promises
to deed it to them for a tribal hospital) |
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| Jan | Vondel Park, Amsterdam closed
to camping |
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| Jan 7 | Major auto producers announce
rebates |
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| Apr 17 | Khmer Rouge take over Cambodia
(after 5 year war) |
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| Apr 25 | Moderates (Socialists &
Popular Democrats) win the first free elections in Portugal in over 50 years |
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| Apr 30 - May | "Fall of Saigon":
North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon |
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| May | Pathet Lao begin takeover
of Laos |
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| May 1 | Stock Market commissions deregulated,
starting Stock Market shake-out |
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| May 27 | Alaska legalizes home use of
mj |
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| June 7 | Tom Hayden fails to defeat California
Senator John Tunney in the Democratic primary, but gets 36.7% of the vote [follow up xx] |
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| June 26 | Shoot out on Oglala Sioux Pine
Ridge Reservation, South Dakota between xxx (Leonard Peltier later blamed
& indicted, as described in In The Spirit of Crazy Horse) |
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| June July |
[solo trip to Cathy (Atascadero),
Vicki & Dave (Russian River), Chuck & Donna (Willits, the good trip) xx] [Guatemala xx] |
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| Aug 11 | Last US soldier leaves Vietnam
(total US casualties: 46,079) (Almanac sez 57,939 killed or missing) total Vietnamese casualties ?? |
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| Aug 23 | Pathet Lao celebrate complete
takeover of Laos |
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| Aug 27 | Kent State President & 27
National Guard acquitted of all responsibility for shootings |
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| Sept | [Second year at CSULB xx] |
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| Sept 5 | Lynette `Squeaky' Fromme fires
at Ford (Sacramento) |
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| Sept 9 | New York City emergency
plan to stave off default for three months |
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| Sept 18 | Patty Hearst found by FBI In
San Francisco & caught |
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| Sept 22 | Sara Jane Moore fires at Ford
(SF) |
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| Sept 27 | (Parents ask to turn off Karen
Anne Quinlan's support system (New Jersey)) |
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| Oct 1 | OPEC raises oil prices another
10%, but agrees to hold that price for 9 months |
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| Oct 27 | Bruce Springsteen on cover of
Time & Newsweek Oct 16-18 Roxy - Saturday Oct 17 is the one broadcast on the 106 FM that we taped Nov 1 - Santa Barbara !! |
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| Nov 10 | Portuguese leave Angola |
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| Nov 17 | Cleaver arrested on return to
US after 7 years living in Cuba, Guinea, Algeria, N. Korea, France (for
Apr 68 Oakland shootout) |
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| Nov 20 | Franco dies, dictator of Spain
36 years |
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| Dec 11 | High-ranking government official
announces US has sent $25 million in arms & support to Angola over the
past 3 months |
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| Dec 19 | US Senate bars further covert
aid to Angola |
| 1976 |
(Dollar strengthens on foreign
exchange 1976-1977) Koreagate |
1976
MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING Lowest birth rate of the Baby Bust Springsteen Bob Dylan: Desire McCartney: Wings over America tour *Joni Mitchell: Hejira *Warren Zevon *Ramones *Blondie *Bunny Wailer: first solo John Denver: Rocky Mountain High Peter Frampton The Captain and Tennille *Sex Pistols (UK) - first Punk (late 1976) ENGLAND June - play in Manchester TV: Charlie's Angels begins Happy Days & Laverne and Shirley, Little Hse on the Prairie, The Waltons (Note: all nostalgia) Chorus Line opens on Broadway Sat Night Fever (released) Network (A Chorus Line) Rocky Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, with Robert De Niro) All the President's Men Three Days of the Condor The Marathon Man (w Dustin Hoffman) Werner Herzog's movies reviewed in Rolling Stone Wim Wenders: Kings of the Road Alain Tanner: Jonas, qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000 Laurel's Kitchen Roots (the book) The Guide to Self-Sufficiency - John Seymour (U.K.) The Solar Home Book - Anderson & Riordan The Woodburner's Encyclopedia - Shelton & Shapiro A Co-operative Method of Natural Birth Control-Margaret Nofziger (The Joy of Running - Kostubala) Passages - Gail Sheehy When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone Mother Jones starts publication In These Times starts publication Rolling Stones Magazine write-in on the Sixties Christo's Running Fence crosses Sonoma and Marin counties CB craze Born again Skateboards Personal ads "est" punks Cocaine becomes noticeably fashionable |
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| Feb 4 | Earthquake
in Guatemala -> Plenty (outgrowth of The Farm) |
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| Feb | Native American
activist Leonard Peltier arrested in Canada & trial |
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| Feb 12 | MPLA ("Soviet"
Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola) states that it has won the Angolan
Civil War; Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, Jonas
Savimbi, President - supported by U.S.) forms? coalition with FLNA (National
Front for the Liberation of Angola) |
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| Feb 19 | Four recruits
die at Fort Dix of a new flu virus which is a hybrid of Asian flu with one
that causes flu-like illness in pigs ("swine flu"). Worries about
an epidemic similar to the 1918-19 swine flu epidemic which affected 500,000
Americans. Big vaccination campaign started. |
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| Mar 11 | Stock Market
tops 1,000 (highest since Jan 26, 1973) |
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| Mar 18 | New trial
ordered for Rubin "Hurricane" Carter & John Artis (for 67
triple murder N.J.) ?When was Bob Dylan's song? |
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| Mar 28 | FBI discloses
it burglarized the Socialist Party 92+ times between 1960 and 1966 |
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| Apr 5 | Howard Hughes
dies Beijing demontrations against the Gang of Four |
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| Apr 9 | Phil Ochs
hangs himself at his sister's house, Far Rockaway, NY (also saw as April
7 or 8) xx |
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| Apr 25 | Portugal's
first free parliamentary elections in fifty years - Socialists & Popular
Democrats share win |
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| May 12 | Seventh biggest
tanker oil spill, near La Corun~a, Spain 100,000 tons - (Urquiola); 60 miles
of coastline blackened |
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| May 28 | OPEC extends
oil price freeze |
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| June 5 | Teton dam
bursts, Idaho |
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| June 16 | US ambassador
killed in Lebanon "civil war" Uprising in Soweto, South Africa's biggest black "township": 10,000 students demonstrate (asking to be taught in English instead of Afrikaans?) Spreads to 7 other black townships - 128 dead; 1,112 injured By year's end, some thousands have died in demonstrations throughout the country |
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| July? | Is this the first month of the trade deficit? | |||
| July 29 | Legionnaires
die at Philadelphia convention of strange new disease |
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| July 20 | Viking
I lands on Mars |
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| Aug | [Seattle,
Canada - Connie / Guernville / Willits / Donna: Covelo/Seattle xx] |
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| Sept 30 | Congress passes
Hyde amendment, which would prevent Medicaid reimbursements for abortions |
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| Oct 4 | Agriculture
Secretary Earl Butz's resigns due to his racist remark |
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| Oct 12 | Three elderly
deaths halt swine flu vaccination program |
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| Oct | Amory Lovins:
Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken (in Foreign Affairs journal) (he was 28) [explain! xx] (Democrats running for Pres: Henry Jackson, Lloyd? Bentsen, George Wallace) Wavy Gravy and others support Nobody for President |
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| Oct 22 | US Federal
District Court holds Hyde Amenment unconstitutional |
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| Nov | Jimmy Carter
/ Walter Mondale defeat Ford for President |
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| Nov 15 | Canada: Parti
Quebecois gain control of Quebec government |
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| Nov
1976 |
(Thanksgiving)
The Band: Last Waltz at Winterland (Graham) (movie 1978) |
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| Dec 17 | OPEC agrees on two oil price raises: Saudi Arabia 5% raise, other 11 OPEC nations 10% raise | |||
| Dec 20 | Mayor Richard Daley, ruler of Chicago for 20 years, dies -> first black non-Daley major ? [The mayor after Daley wasn't Black, but female. Her name was Jane something.] xx |
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| Dec 22 | Oil spill
- Liberian tanker off Nantucket, Massachusetts 20,000 tons |
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On to The Seventies: Punks and Anti-Nuclear as the Economy Declines 1977-1979 |
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