Taken from TIMELINE on FREE-NET, The Freedom Shrine, Historical Timeline 30 Nov 
1991. Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300). Distributed 
by the Cybercasting Services division of the National Public Telecomputing Network 
(NPTN).  ?? ?? 1960 23rd Amendment 
granted Electoral College representation to DC 10 01 1960 First CDC 1604 delivered 
to Navy 11 01 1960 Committee convened to develop Algol 60 12 01 1960 First CDC 
1604 delivered 21 01 1960 IFIP (International Federation of Information Processing) 
was founded 23 01 1960 The US Navy bathyscaph, Trieste, descends to a depth of 
over 35000 feet 11 02 1960 Jack Paar walks off his show after NBC censors excised 
one of his risque stories 19 02 1960 HRH Prince Andrew, second son of Elizabeth 
II was born 14 03 1960 LISP introduced 01 04 1960 TIROS I (Television & Infra-Red 
Observation Satellite) launched to improve weather prediction 19 04 1960 Frank 
Viola, N.Y. Mets pitcher and Longwood resident 23 04 1960 Valerie Bertinelli, 
actress 23 05 1960 Israeli raid into Argentina and successfully capture Adolf 
Eichmann 12 06 1960 Mark Calcavecchia, professional golfer from Ocala Florida 
20 06 1960 John Taylor, Rock musician 30 06 1960 China & Soviet Union announce 
split over ideology 30 06 1960 Zaire gains its independence 01 07 1960 Evelyn 
"Champagne" King, Singer 04 07 1960 America's 50th flag, honoring Hawai's statehood 
was unfurled 12 07 1960 Echo I, first passive satellite launched 12 07 1960 USSR's 
Sputnik 5 launched with 2 dogs 20 07 1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs, first living organisms 
to return from space 10 08 1960 First recovery of ejected film capsule, Discoverer 
13 12 08 1960 First passive communications satellite, Echo 1 15 08 1960 the Congo 
(Brazzaville) gains its independence 16 08 1960 Timothy Hutton, actor 19 08 1960 
Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident) 19 08 1960 The 
Russians put two dogs into orbit 23 08 1960 Oscar Hammerstein II, librettist, 
died 24 08 1960 Cal Ripken Jr., All-Star shortstop 30 08 1960 Japan Stationery 
Co. sells first felt-tipped pen 04 09 1960 cartoon characters, the Flintstones, 
created 15 09 1960 HP stock splits 3 for 1 at a price of 77 22 09 1960 Joan Jett, 
singer-musician 24 09 1960 1st atomic powered aircraft carrier, the "Enterprise", 
was launched 24 09 1960 Howdy Doody's Clarabell the clown, silent for 13 years 
ended Howdy's last show by saying "Goodbye, kids." 24 09 1960 The USS Enterprise, 
the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, was launched in Newport News, Va 01 
10 1960 Nigeria gains its independence 03 10 1960 San Francisco's White House 
department store was first to accept the BankAmericard in lieu of cash 04 10 1960 
Courier 1B launched; first active repeater satellite in orbit 05 10 1960 The ABM 
early warning system, Thule Greenland, detects the moonrise as a large Russian 
missile contingent headed for the US 12 10 1960 Khrushchev pounds his desk with 
shoe during a speech to the UN 20 10 1960 The New York Times was first published 
simultaneously in Paris and New York 24 10 1960 Disaster on USSR launch pad kills 
missle expert Nedelin and his team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in 
plane crash 01 11 1960 Fernando Valenzuela, baseball pitcher 06 11 1960 Lance 
Kerwin, actor 08 11 1960 John Kennedy narrowly beat Richard Nixon for the Presidency 
16 11 1960 Clark Gable, film actor, died 25 11 1960 Amy Grant, singer 25 11 1960 
Edward R. Murrow's "Harvest of Shame", a documentary about migrant workers, was 
the first documentary shown on TV 25 11 1960 John F. Kennedy Jr 29 11 1960 Cathy 
Moriarty, actress 03 01 1961 Steam explosion in a military experimental reactor 
SL-1 in Idaho Falls kills three 03 01 1961 US severs ties with Cuba 10 01 1961 
Dashiell Hammett, the author, died 29 01 1961 Britain was refused entry into the 
common market 31 01 1961 Ham was first primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 
2 09 03 1961 First dog recovered from space orbit 21 03 1961 The Beatles first 
appeared at the Cavern Club 21 03 1961 The massacre of 69 protesters at Sharpeville 
by South African police 03 04 1961 The 23rd amendment was passed allowing people 
in Washington DC to vote for president 11 04 1961 The trial of Adolph Eichmann 
begins in Jerusalem 12 04 1961 Yuri A. Gagarin makes the first manned orbital 
flight 17 04 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, crushed by Castro forces 20 04 1961 American 
Harold Graham makes first rocket belt flight 24 04 1961 President Kennedy issues 
a statement in which he claims "sole responsibility" for the Bay of Pigs failure 
25 04 1961 Mercury/Atlas rocket lifts off with electronic mannequin; when inertial 
guidance system fails 40 seconds after launch, rocket destroyed by range safety 
officer 25 04 1961 Robert Noyce granted a patent for the integrated circuit 05 
05 1961 Alan Shepard becomes first American in Space in Freedom 7; 15 min sub-orbital 
flight 13 05 1961 Gary Cooper, movie actor, died 25 05 1961 Pres. John Kennedy 
declares landing a man on the Moon to be national objective 29 05 1961 first food 
stamps are issued 04 06 1961 El DeBarge, singer-musician 06 06 1961 Carl Gustav 
Jung, psychologist, died 09 06 1961 Michael J. Fox, actor, was born 14 06 1961 
Boy George, singer 16 06 1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to 
the West 01 07 1961 Diana, the Princess of Wales (Princess Di) was born 01 07 
1961 Haleakala National Park established in Hawaii 02 07 1961 Ernest Hemingway, 
the writer, commits suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho 02 07 1961 Jimmy McNichol, 
Actor 06 07 1961 Soviets launch Titov in Vostok 2: 17 orbits, 25h 18m 19 07 1961 
1st In-flight movie was shown (on TWA) 21 07 1961 Launch of Mercury 4 in sub-orbital 
flight: Grissom 01 08 1961 New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens 07 08 1961 
Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 10 08 1961 Britain 
applies of EEC membership 13 08 1961 East Germany sealed off the border between 
East and West Berlin, to halt the flow of refugees out of its territory 05 09 
1961 Kennedy orders resumption of underground nuclear tests 15 09 1961 Dan Marino, 
Miami Dolphins quarterback 25 09 1961 Heather Locklear, actress 06 10 1961 First 
GPSS manual published 10 10 1961 Catch-22 was published 18 10 1961 Wynton Marsalis, 
jazz trumpeter 27 10 1961 First unmanned flight test of Saturn rocket 12 11 1961 
Nadia Comaneci, former Romanian gymnast 22 11 1961 Mariel Hemingway, actress 29 
11 1961 Mercury launches a chimp called Ham 13 12 1961 Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses, 
American primitive painter, died ?? ?? 1962 Military aid begins in South Vietnam 
05 01 1962 First written reference to SIMULA 16 01 1962 Ernie Kovacs, comedian, 
died in automobile crash 02 02 1962 8 of the 9 planets aligned for the 1st time 
in 400 years 05 02 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn are 
in conjunction during this Pacific eclipse 14 02 1962 First lady Jacqueline Kennedy 
conducts a tour of the White House on network television 20 02 1962 John Glenn 
becomes the first American to orbit the earth aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury 
capsule 20 02 1962 Ohioan John Glenn was first US astronaut to orbit earth 23 
03 1962 President John F. Kennedy visits San Francisco 27 03 1962 LINC demonstrated 
30 03 1962 UNIVAC I turned over to the Bureau of the Census 12 04 1962 San Mateo 
County withdraws from BART district 26 04 1962 US/UK launches Ariel, first International 
payload 12 05 1962 Emilio Estevez, actor 17 05 1962 Marin County withdraws from 
BART district 24 05 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits the earth three times. Only the 
second American to achieve Earth orbit 25 05 1962 rebuilt Coventry Cathedral was 
consecrated 31 05 1962 Adolph Eichmann was hanged for his role in the Holocaust 
13 06 1962 Alley Sheedy, actress 27 06 1962 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph 03 07 
1962 Tom Cruise, Actor 10 07 1962 Bell Telephone's Telstar I was launched becoming 
the first private telecommunications satellite 11 07 1962 1st transatlantic TV 
transmission via satellite (Telstar I) 11 07 1962 Cosmonaut Micolaev sets record 
for longest space flight, 4 d 12 07 1962 Cosmonaught Popovich enters space; first 
time 2 manned craft in space simultaneously 27 07 1962 Mariner 2 launched toward 
Venus flyby mission 05 08 1962 Marilyn Monroe was found dead in Los Angeles 09 
08 1962 Sammy Duvall, water-skier and Windermere, FL resident 11 08 1962 USSR 
launches first dual manned spacecraft flight 27 08 1962 Launch of Mariner 2, first 
Venus flyby mission 31 08 1962 The Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became 
independent within the British Commonwealth 09 09 1962 Kristy McNichol, actress 
20 09 1962 Black student, James Meredith, was blocked from enrolling at the University 
of Mississippi; he was later admitted 26 09 1962 Melissa Sue Anderson, actress 
01 10 1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show 03 10 1962 Mercury 8 completes 
6 Earth orbits 11 10 1962 The second Vatican Eccumenical Council opens in Rome 
12 10 1962 Sid Fernandez, baseball player 12 10 1962 US/USSR signed an agreement 
for joint space effort in telecommunications and meteorology; pact was never fullfilled 
12 10 1962 Univac gives contract for SIMULA compiler to Nygaard and Dahl 13 10 
1962 opening in New York of the play "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" 22 10 1962 
John F Kennedy announces USSR has missile bases in Cuba 24 10 1962 Cuban blockade 
of Russian shipping begins 25 10 1962 Adlai Stevenson presents photographic evidence 
of Russian missile bases in Cuba 06 11 1962 BART bond issue just gets by with 
a 66.9 favorable vote 07 11 1962 Eleanor Roosevelt died 11 11 1962 Demi Moore, 
actress 15 11 1962 Mark Acres, Orlando Magic forward-center 19 11 1962 Jodie Foster, 
actress 27 11 1962 Tracy Austin, tennis player 30 11 1962 Bo Jackson, football 
and baseball player 10 12 1962 Hunters Point jitney ends service after 50 years 
14 12 1962 Mariner II sends first detailed information about Venus from distance 
of 21,600 miles 19 12 1962 Street signs in Golden Gate Park approved by Park Commission 
?? ?? 1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated, Johnson moves into presidency 07 01 1963 
U.S. First postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents 11 01 1963 Whiskey-A-Go-Go opens 
(Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles) 21 01 1963 Glen Canyon Dam was dedicated 31 03 
1963 Los Angeles ends streetcar service after nearly 90 years 04 04 1963 Tandy 
Corp. acquires Radio Shack (9 stores) 07 05 1963 Telstar 2 launched (apogee 6,700 
miles) 15 05 1963 last of the Mercury flights, the 'Faith 7', launched 16 05 1963 
First report on SNOBOL distributed (within BTL) 16 05 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 
22 Earth orbits in Faith 7 23 05 1963 Elmore James, blues great, died 29 05 1963 
Lisa Whelchel, actress and gospel singer 03 06 1963 Pope John III died 12 06 1963 
the movie Cleopatra, with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, premieres. It was 4h 
3m long! 13 06 1963 Bettina Bunge, Tennis player 13 06 1963 Vostok 6 launched, 
pilot was 1st woman cosmonaut 16 06 1963 Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman 
in space 17 06 1963 The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the Lord's Prayer 
or Bible verses in public schools 19 06 1963 John F. Kennedy addresses Congress 
on civil rights 19 06 1963 Paula Abdul, Singer-dance-choreographer 22 06 1963 
US and Soviet Union signed an agreement to establish hot line 01 07 1963 Lerna 
Patterson, Actress 25 07 1963 A treaty prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons 
in the atmosphere, in space or under water was initialed in Moscow 26 07 1963 
First geosynchronous satellite (Syncom 2, US) 05 08 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty 
signed 08 08 1963 Great Train Robbery bags 7,368,000 09 08 1963 Whitney Houston, 
singer 18 08 1963 James Meredith became the first black to graduate from the University 
of Mississippi 22 08 1963 CDC 6600 introduced 22 08 1963 NASA's X-15 attains altitude 
of 67 miles 23 08 1963 Terry Catledge, Orlando Magic forward 28 08 1963 Dr. Martin 
Luther King Jr. delivered his "I have a dream" speech in front of the Lincoln 
Memorial 28 08 1963 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. announces "I Have A Dream" 30 
08 1963 Washington-to-Moscow hot line connected 02 09 1963 Alabama Gov. George 
Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by surrounding it with 
state troopers 15 09 1963 Four children were killed when a bomb went off during 
services at a black Baptist church in Alabama 01 10 1963 The Nuclear Test Ban 
Treaty, signed by the US, Britain and USSR comes into effect 05 10 1963 Hyde St. 
Pier re-opens as State Historical Park 12 10 1963 at 4AM, traffic on Bay Bridge 
was 1-way on each deck 01 11 1963 Rick Allen, rock musician 05 11 1963 Andrea 
McArdle, actress 05 11 1963 Tatum O'Neal, actress 14 11 1963 A new island, later 
called Surtsey boiled up through the ocean surface off the coast of Iceland 22 
11 1963 Aldous Huxley, English author, died 22 11 1963 President John Kennedy 
assasinated in Dallas 23 11 1963 President Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of 
national mourning after the assassination of President Kennedy 24 11 1963 Dallas 
nightclub owner Jack Ruby shot and mortally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, accused 
assassin of President Kennedy 25 11 1963 Bernie Kosar, football player 25 11 1963 
The body of President Kennedy, assassinated three days earlier, was laid to rest 
at Arlington National Cemetery 29 11 1963 President Johnson named the Warren commission 
to investigate Kennedy's assassination 12 12 1963 Kenya gains its independence 
19 12 1963 The Explorer satellite was launched 20 12 1963 the Berlin wall was 
opened for the first time as people from the West are given a day leave to go 
to the East ?? ?? 1964 24th Amendment killed "poll taxes" ?? ?? 1964 Civil Rights 
Act put teeth in Federal enforcement of anti-discrimination 08 01 1964 Lyndon 
Johnson announces his "War on Poverty" 11 01 1964 Surgeon General condemns cigarettes 
14 01 1964 Castro visits Russia 16 01 1964 The musical "Hello Dolly" starring 
Carol Channing, opened on Broadway 25 01 1964 Echo 2, first joint US/USSR satellite 
29 01 1964 The movie Dr. Strangelove was released 04 02 1964 the 24th amendment 
passes abolishing poll taxes 07 02 1964 Beatles arrive in America for first time 
07 02 1964 The Beatles first visit the United States 09 02 1964 Beatles appear 
on the Ed Sullivan show (and American TV) for the first time 12 02 1964 Beatles 
play Carnegie Hall (New York City) 17 02 1964 The Supreme court issues its "one 
man, one vote" ruling saying congressional districts within each state must be 
roughly equal in population 18 02 1964 Matt Dillon, actor, was born 19 02 1964 
Zanzibar severs ties with US and England 01 03 1964 First NPL (later PL/I) report 
published 10 03 1964 HRH Prince Edward Anthony Richard Louis, third son of Elizabeth 
II of England was born 27 03 1964 Alaska Good Friday earthquake kills 117 07 04 
1964 IBM announces System/360 08 04 1964 (Unmanned) Gemini 1 launched 14 04 1964 
Rachel Carson, American author of "Silent Spring", died 17 04 1964 Ford Motor 
Company unveiled the Mustang 17 04 1964 Jerrie Mock became the 1st wolman to complete 
a solo flight around the world 22 04 1964 President L.B. Johnson opened the New 
York World Fair 22 04 1964 The New York World's Fairs opens 01 05 1964 First BASIC 
program run at Dartmouth 08 05 1964 Melissa Gilbert, actress 30 05 1964 Wynonna 
Judd, country singer 09 06 1964 Lord Beaverbrook, politician and newspaper man, 
died 10 06 1964 US Senate votes for cloture after 75 day filibuster by Southern 
States on the Civil Rights Bill 12 06 1964 Nelson Mandela, South African antiapartheid 
leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment 19 06 1964 Civil Rights Acts survived 
an 83 day filibuster in US Senate and was approved by a vote of 73-27 22 06 1964 
Civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi 02 07 1964 President Lyndon Johnson 
signed the Civil Rights Act 28 07 1964 US launches Ranger 7 to Moon 31 07 1964 
Ranger 7 transmits first lunar close-up photos before impact 04 08 1964 Bombing 
of North Vietnam begins 07 08 1964 The Gulf of Tonkin resolution passed, giving 
Pres. Johnson broad powers in dealing with North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces 
20 08 1964 President Johnson signs a nearly 1 billion dollar antipoverty bill 
22 08 1964 Mats Wilander, tennis star 24 08 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution; repealed 
in 1970 04 09 1964 NASA launches its first Orbital Geophysical Observatory (OGO-1) 
12 09 1964 Canyonlands National Park was established 01 10 1964 Cable Cars declared 
a National Landmark 05 10 1964 Fire Department Museum dedicated 12 10 1964 USSR 
launches first 3 man crew in space 13 10 1964 Voshkod 1 crew returns 14 10 1964 
Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 16 10 1964 China's 
first atomic bomb was exploded 25 10 1964 Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan 
Show 16 11 1964 Dwight Gooden, baseball player 21 11 1964 The Verrazano Narrows 
opened to traffic, linking the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Staten Island 
29 11 1964 The Roman Catholic Church in the U.S. instituted sweeping changes in 
the liturgy, including the use of English instead of Latin ?? ?? 1965 Ohio Flint 
adopted as the Official Gem Stone of the state 04 01 1965 T. S. (Thomas Stearns) 
Eliot, the poet died at 76 26 01 1965 Hindi made the official language of India 
27 01 1965 Groundbreaking for the 'Dragon Gateway' at Grant Avenue 15 02 1965 
Canada makes the maple leaf flag their official flag 21 02 1965 colm X shot to 
death as he was about to speak to a rally of followers in Harlem 07 03 1965 Flare 
up of racial tension during a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama 18 03 1965 
first walk in space by Russian Lieutenant-Colonel Leonev 21 03 1965 Martin Luther 
King marched in Montgomery, Alabama 23 03 1965 Gemini 3 launched, completes 3 
Earth orbits 06 04 1965 First Intelsat (Early Bird) launched 09 04 1965 Paulina 
Porizkova, actress-model 23 04 1965 First Soviet communications satelite launched 
01 05 1965 Spike Jones, American band leader, died 31 05 1965 Brooke Shields, 
actress-model 03 06 1965 First U.S. space walk, Edward White, Gemini 4 04 06 1965 
Andrea Jaeger, tennis player 07 06 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbit 07 06 1965 
Sony introduces the first home VCR for 995. By 1988 62 of U.S. homes have a VCR 
29 06 1965 Red Dog Saloon opens, Virginia City, NV 14 07 1965 Adlai Stevenson, 
US statesman, died 14 07 1965 First craft to fly by Mars, Mariner 4 21 07 1965 
Gemini 5 launched atop Titan V: Cooper & Conrad 24 07 1965 Joe Oliver, Cincinnati 
Reds catcher and Orlando native 29 07 1965 Gemini 5 returns after 12d 7h 11m 53s 
30 07 1965 President Johnson signed into law the Medicare bill, which went into 
effect the next yeare 07 08 1965 Merry Pranksters "Welcome Hell's Angels' Party", 
La Honda, CA 11 08 1965 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 13 08 1965 
Rock group Jefferson Airplane was formed 24 08 1965 Marlee Matlin, actress 29 
08 1965 Astronauts Cooper & Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 29 
08 1965 Gemini V, carrying Gordon Cooper and Charles "Pete" Conrad, splashed into 
the Atlantic after eight days in space 31 08 1965 The Department of Housing and 
Urban Development was established 27 09 1965 Clara Bow, silent-film actress, died 
30 09 1965 New York City fluoridates its water to the protest of many 15 10 1965 
First draft card burned 28 10 1965 the Gateway Arch (630 feet high) completed 
in St. Louis, Missouri 06 11 1965 Jefferson Airplane headline first Bill Graham 
show, SF 09 11 1965 Blackout of New York, New England, & Eastern Canada 16 
11 1965 Bill Ham first demonstrates psychedelic "Light Show" 22 11 1965 The musical 
"Man of la Mancha" opens 04 12 1965 Gemini 7 was launched 04 12 1965 San Jose 
Acid Test 08 12 1965 First Ph.D. awarded by Computer Science Dept, University 
of Pennsylvania 09 12 1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" was shown for the first 
time 10 12 1965 First Fillmore Auditorium show (2nd Mime Troupe benefit), SF 15 
12 1965 1st rendezvous in space: Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 link up 15 12 1965 Gemini 
6 & 7 make first space rendevous 16 12 1965 Somerset Maugham, novelist and 
dramatist, died 18 12 1965 Big Beat Club Acid Test, Palo Alto, CA 18 12 1965 Borman 
and Lovell Splash down in Atlantic to end two week Gemini VII mission 02 01 1966 
Psychedelic Shop opens, Haight St. SF 08 01 1966 Acid Test Fillmore Aude of Dublin 
. SF 21 01 1966 Longshoreman's Hall Trips Festival, SF, ended 23rd 31 01 1966 
Luna 9 launched for Moon 03 02 1966 First rocket assisted controlled landing on 
the moon; by the Soviet Luna IX 03 02 1966 Luna 9 first craft to softland on Moon 
11 02 1966 Last day of JOSS service at RAND Corp 11 02 1966 Watts Acid Test, Compton, 
CA 01 03 1966 Venera 3, first probe to land on Venus 12 03 1966 Pioneer Plaza 
dedicated 15 03 1966 Watts, Los Angeles, riots kill two, injure 25 23 03 1966 
The Pope meets the Archbishop of Canterbury for the first time in 400 years, in 
the Sistine chapel 31 03 1966 Luna 10 launched to Moon 03 04 1966 Soviet Union 
announces success of Luna 10, first spacecraft to achieve lunar orbit 12 04 1966 
Lake Eola Fountain's name changed from Centennial Fountain to Linton Allen Fountain 
to honor one of the originators of the project 17 04 1966 System 360 was introduced 
27 05 1966 First Avalon Ballroom show, SF 02 06 1966 Surveyor 1 makes first US 
lunar soft landing 03 06 1966 US launches Gemini 9 06 06 1966 Gemini 9 completes 
45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator', (Agena with undetached launch 
shroud): Stafford and Cernan 06 06 1966 James Meredith, Black activist, was shot 
as he walked along a Mississippi highway to encourage black voter registration 
13 06 1966 US Supreme Court issued landmark decision: Miranda vs Arizona, granting 
constitutional rights to suspects 14 06 1966 The Vatican announces that the Index 
of Prohibited Books was abolished 01 07 1966 Construction crews begin tearing 
up Market St. to build BART 10 07 1966 Orbiter 1 launched toward Moon 18 07 1966 
Carl Sagan turned one billion seconds old 18 07 1966 Launch of Gemini X, John 
Young and Mike Collins 01 08 1966 Charles Whitman shot and killed 15 people from 
the bell tower at the University of Texas before he was killed by police 03 08 
1966 Lenny Bruce died of morphine overdose 03 08 1966 The first Batman movie, 
"Batman: The Movie", was released 04 08 1966 John Lennon states "the Beatles are 
more popular than Jesus" 10 08 1966 Launch of Lunar Orbiter 1 14 08 1966 US Orbiter 
1 starts orbiting the moon 29 08 1966 The Beatles gave their last public concert 
at Candlestick Park 08 09 1966 "Star Trek" debuts on NBC 12 09 1966 Gemini 11 
achieves rendevous and docking during first orbit 23 09 1966 Jefferson Airplane/Muddy 
Waters headline first Winterland dance, SF 26 09 1966 Japan launches its first 
satellite in to space 01 10 1966 SF State College Acid Test 05 10 1966 part of 
a fuel core of an experimental breeder reactor near Detroit melts down 06 10 1966 
LSD declared illegal 06 10 1966 LSD was made an illegal drug 07 10 1966 First 
Winterland show as "The Grateful Dead", SF 15 10 1966 Peace Festival, Mt. Tapais, 
CA 26 10 1966 Dead play at North Face Ski Shop opening, SF 07 11 1966 NBC becomes 
the first network to go all color 08 11 1966 Edwrd W. Brooke of Massachusetts 
becomes the first U.S. senator elected by popular vote 11 11 1966 Gemini 12 launched, 
takes first solar eclipse photos from space 16 11 1966 Probably one of biggest 
meteor showers in history in the northern latitudes of the Pacific (also on the 
night of the 17th) 17 11 1966 46,000 meteoroids fall over AZ in 20 minutes 18 
11 1966 U.S. Roman Catholic bishops did away with the rule against eating meat 
on Fridays 27 11 1966 The first tidal power station in the world, opens near St. 
o, France 15 12 1966 Walt Disney, animator and film producer, died 17 12 1966 
'Death and Rebirth of the Haight A. and Death of Money' parade, SF 24 12 1966 
Luna 13 lands on Moon 31 12 1966 First New Year's show Fillmore Auditorium, SR 
?? ?? 1967 25th Amendment allows President to step aside temporarily, then resume 
?? ?? 1967 Thurgood Marshall was first black to become a justice on Supreme Court 
14 01 1967 Human Be-In, Golden Gate Park, SF, Dead, Airplane, Quicksilver 27 01 
1967 Grissom, Chaffee & White die in Apollo 1 fire during a simulated launch 
23 02 1967 the 25th amendment passes defining presidential succession 05 04 1967 
ATS II launched but failed to reach orbit 23 04 1967 USSR Soyus 1 launched; Vladimir 
Komarov becomes first cosomonaut to make 2 flights 28 04 1967 Muhammad Ali (Heavyweight 
Champ) refused to be inducted into Army 16 05 1967 Sammie Smith, Miami Dolphins 
running back (from Apopka Florida) 20 05 1967 The Jimi Hendrix Experience signed 
by Reprise Records 01 06 1967 Beatles release "Sgt. Pepper" 01 06 1967 Haight 
Ashbury Free Clinic opens, SF 01 06 1967 The Beatles release their album "Sargent 
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 02 06 1967 First issue of Computerworld 05 06 
1967 beginning of "The Six Day War" in the Middle East 14 06 1967 Launch of Mariner 
5 for Venus flyby 15 06 1967 Dead play at Straight Theatre christening party, 
SF 16 06 1967 Monterey Pop festival opens 17 06 1967 China explodes its first 
Hydrogen bomb 18 06 1967 Dead at Monterey Pop Festival 04 07 1967 William Hitchcock's 
mansion, Millbrook, NY 22 07 1967 Carl Sandburg, poet, died at Flat Rock, North 
Carolina 25 07 1967 Construction begins on SF MUNI METRO (Market Street subway) 
29 07 1967 fire on the aircraft carrier Forrestal kills 134 10 08 1967 Violent 
encounters between Red Guards and workers in Canton 03 09 1967 Motorists in Sweden 
began driving on the right rather than the left 11 09 1967 Chinese and Indian 
forces engage in heavy fighting on the border of Sikkim in the Hiayas 29 09 1967 
Mickey Hart's first show, Straight Theatre, SF 02 10 1967 710 Ashbury Street bust 
02 10 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn as first black Supreme Court Justice 03 10 
1967 AF pilot Pete Knight flies x-15 at a record 4,534 mph 03 10 1967 Woody Guthrie, 
folk singer, died 06 10 1967 'Death of Hippie' ceremony, SF 09 10 1967 Dr. Ernesto 
(Che) Guevara was executed 17 10 1967 "Hair" opens at New York City's Public Theater 
18 10 1967 USSR Venera 4 became first craft to make controlled descent into Venusian 
atmosphere 19 10 1967 Mariner 5 flies by Venus 22 10 1967 the Israeli destroyer 
Eilat was sunk by Egyptian missiles 30 10 1967 USSR Kosmos 186 and 188 make first 
automatic docking 05 11 1967 US ATS-3 takes first pictures of full Earth disk 
09 11 1967 First issue of "Rolling Stone" published 09 11 1967 First issue of 
Rolling Stone published, SF 09 11 1967 First unmanned Saturn V flight tests Apollo 
4 reentry module 16 11 1967 Lisa Bonet, actress 20 11 1967 The population clock 
at the Department of Commerce turns over to 200M people at a few minutes past 
11 am 22 11 1967 Boris Becker, tennis player 29 12 1967 The first showing of the 
Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles" ?? ?? 1968 Rev. Martin Luther King, 
Jr. murdered in Memphis ?? ?? 1968 Richard M. Nixon became 37th US President 07 
01 1968 U.S. First postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents 14 01 1968 Soyuz 4 launched 
15 01 1968 Soyuz 5 launched 17 01 1968 Soyuz 4 & 5 complete first docking 
of 2 manned spacecraft 22 01 1968 Apollo 5 launched to Moon, unmanned lunar module 
tests 23 01 1968 The USS Pueblo was seized by the North Koreans 30 01 1968 The 
Tet Offensive 04 02 1968 Neal Cassady died 14 02 1968 Dead/Airplane open Carousel 
Ballroom, SF 18 02 1968 Molly Ringwald, actress, was born 19 02 1968 "Mister Roger's 
Neighborhood" premiers on PBS 24 02 1968 Discovery of first pulsar announced 03 
03 1968 Haight Street, SF, free concert 08 03 1968 Fillmore East opens, NYC 09 
03 1968 Edsgar Dijkstra published "Go To Statement Considered Harmful" 15 03 1968 
US Mint stops buying and selling gold 16 03 1968 MyLai Massacre; 300 non-combatant 
villagers killed by U.S. infantrymen 22 03 1968 President Johnson's daughter, 
Lynda, ordered off Cable Car because she was eating an ice cream cone (no food 
on cars) 27 03 1968 Gagarin and Seryogin die in aircraft accident 27 03 1968 Japanese 
Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated 27 03 1968 Yuri Gagarin and 
Seryogin die in aircraft accident 28 03 1968 Yuri Gagarin was killed in a plane 
crash 04 04 1968 (Unmanned) Apollo 6 launched atop Saturn V 04 04 1968 Martin 
Luther King. Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee 15 04 1968 Data General was 
founded 18 04 1968 San Francisco's Old Hall of Justice demolished 23 04 1968 Methodist 
and Evangelical Bretheren merged to become the United Methodist Church 29 04 1968 
"Hair" premiers on Broadway 21 05 1968 DEC announces PDP-8 21 05 1968 Last communication 
from the U.S. Scorpion with 99 men aboard 24 05 1968 The last US Cavalry horse 
died. His name was Chief 30 05 1968 PDP 8 was announced 01 06 1968 Helen Keller, 
writer and spokeswoman for the deaf and blind, died 05 06 1968 Sen. Robert F. 
Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded 14 06 1968 First Fillmore East show 18 07 
1968 Intel Corporation was incorporated 29 07 1968 Pope Paul VI reaffirms Catholic 
Church's stand against artificial means of birth control 04 08 1968 Newport Rock 
Festival, Costa Mesa, CA 20 08 1968 First Fillmore West show, SF 20 08 1968 The 
Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations invades Czechoslovakia to crush the 
"Prague Spring" liberalization movement 22 08 1968 Pope Paul VI, begins the first 
papal visit to Latin America 03 09 1968 Dead at Sky River Rock Festival, Washington 
14 09 1968 USSR's Zond 5 was launched on first circumlunar flight 17 09 1968 Zond 
5 completes lunar circumnavigation 22 09 1968 Zond 5 completes flight 24 09 1968 
The CBS television magazine "60 minutes" debuted 08 10 1968 First 'Mickey and 
the Harbeats' show, The Matrix, SF 11 10 1968 Apollo 7 launched, 1st manned flight 
of the Command & Service modules 11 10 1968 First manned Apollo flight launched 
(Apollo 7) 18 10 1968 U.S. Olympic Committee suspended two black athletes for 
giving a "black power" salute during a victory ceremony in Mexico City 19 10 1968 
Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars 20 10 1968 Former first 
lady Jacqueline Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis 22 10 1968 Apollo 7 crew returns 
26 10 1968 USSR Soyuz 2 launched 31 10 1968 President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered 
a halt to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, hoping his action would lead to peace 
talks 10 11 1968 USSR launches Zond 6 to Moon 15 11 1968 The last voyage of the 
Queen Elizabeth ends 26 11 1968 Cream performs their farewell concert at Royal 
Albert Hall 13 12 1968 Playland at the Beach reopens 20 12 1968 John Steinbeck, 
author, died 21 12 1968 Apollo 8 was launched on its way to man's first orbit 
of the moon 23 12 1968 First men to orbit Moon: Borman, Lovell & Anders 24 
12 1968 Apollo 8 Christmas Eve telecast made from lunar orbit ?? ?? 1969 Ohioan 
Neil Armstrong took one sl step for a man, onto the moon 10 01 1969 Venera 6 launched 
toward Venus 17 01 1969 Justice Department begins IBM suit 17 01 1969 Justice 
Dept. begins IBM antitrust suit 17 01 1969 Led Zeppelin's first album released 
24 01 1969 Data General Nova computer introduced 30 01 1969 US/Canada launch ISIS 
1 to study ionosphere 04 02 1969 Cybernet inaugurated 09 02 1969 the Boeing 747 
takes its 1st commercial flight 12 02 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill 24 02 1969 
Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby 10 03 1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder 
of Martin Luther King Jr 15 03 1969 Benefit for SF Symphony ('Black and White 
Ball') Hilton Hotel, SF 28 03 1969 Dwight Eisenhower, American statesman and soldier, 
died 03 04 1969 "The Smother's Brothers" TV show was canceled by CBS for their 
controversial political comedy 17 04 1969 Sirhan Sirhan was convicted of assassinating 
Sen Robert Kennedy 20 04 1969 People's Park planted, Berkeley 21 04 1969 Jack 
Kerouac, Canadian-born American author, died 11 05 1969 100 pounds of plutonium 
catches fire at Rocky Flats, Colorado 15 05 1969 Emmit Smith, University of Florida 
football running back 18 05 1969 Launch of Apollo 10 to rehearse lunar landing: 
Cernan, Stafford, and Young 22 05 1969 the Isle of Lundy was acquired by the British 
National Trust 07 06 1969 Gay Liberation Movement starts with the Stonewall Bar 
riots in New York. The riots lasted three days and were precipitated by a police 
raid 09 06 1969 The Senate confirmed Warren Burger to be chief justice of the 
United States, succeeding Earl Warren 22 06 1969 Central Park, NYC free concert 
22 06 1969 Judy Garland, actress and singer, died in London 23 06 1969 IBM unbundles 
software 02 07 1969 Felix Pappalardi & Leslie West form Mountain 16 07 1969 
Launch of Apollo 11: Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins 18 07 1969 Senator Edward Kennedy 
drives his car off of a bridge and into a tidal pool on Martha's Vineyard. The 
passenger Mary Jo Kopechne drowns in the car 20 07 1969 First men on the Moon: 
Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 21 07 1969 Eddy Merckx won his first of 
five Tour de France victories 21 07 1969 Neil Armstrong steps on the moon at 2:56:15 
AM (GMT) 09 08 1969 Helter Skelter...the Charles Manson murders 14 08 1969 British 
troops arrive in Ireland to put down sectarian violence between Roman Catholics 
and Protestants 15 08 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival, NY (Dead 8-16), 
thru 8-17 15 08 1969 Woodstock, 3 day rock concert, begins. 400,000 people show 
up! 17 08 1969 Donnie Wahlberg, singer 17 08 1969 The Woodstock Music and Art 
Fair concluded near Bethel, N.Y 31 08 1969 Dead at New Orleans Pop Festival 01 
09 1969 A coup in Libya brought Moammar Gadhafi to power 02 09 1969 The last "Star 
Trek" episode was telecast 03 09 1969 Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president, 
died 23 09 1969 "Paul was dead" rumors sweep country 24 09 1969 The trail of the 
Chicago Eight (later seven) begins 15 10 1969 Bank of America World Headquarters 
(555 California) dedicated 17 10 1969 a fuel loading error at the Saint-Laurent 
reactor in France leads to a partial meltdown 21 10 1969 Jack Kerouac died 21 
10 1969 Jack Kerouac, American "beat" poet, died 26 10 1969 Charles Kuralt heads 
off "on the road". He will wear out seven mobile homes and log over one million 
miles 10 11 1969 "Sesame Street" made its debut on PBS TV 14 11 1969 Apollo 12 
blasted off for the moon from Cape Kennedy 15 11 1969 Moratorium Day, Lanai Theatre, 
Crockett, CA 20 11 1969 The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential 
use of DDT to be followed by a total ban in 1971 15 12 1969 SF Fire Dept. replaces 
leather helmets with plastic ones 18 12 1969 Death penalty for murder was abolished 
in Britain 31 12 1969 Jimi Hendrix introduces Band of Gypsies at Fillmore East 
31 12 1969 New Year's Eve at The Ark, Boston, MA 01 01 1970 The Epoch (Time 0 
for UNIX systems, Midnight GMT) 05 01 1970 Joseph Yablonski, his wife and daughter 
are found shot in their home. United Mine Workers chief Tony Boyle was later convicted 
of the killing 22 01 1970 Honolulu Civic Aude of Dublin . (first show in Hawaii) 
28 01 1970 Jimi Hendrix headlines Madison Square Garden 31 01 1970 Dead busted, 
New Orleans 31 01 1970 Grateful Dead busted (New Orleans) 11 02 1970 Fillmore 
East, NYC (w/ Duane and Gregg Allman, Peter Green) 11 02 1970 Japan becomes fourth 
nation to launch artificial satellite 13 02 1970 'Bears Choice' recorded at Fillmore 
East, NYC (also 14 02 1970) 15 02 1970 Chicago Seven convicted 23 02 1970 Jefferson 
Airplane headline benefit for Dead's N.Orl. bust, Fill. W 25 02 1970 HP stock 
splits 2 for 1 at 103.28 a share 28 02 1970 Bicycles now permitted to cross Golden 
Gate Bridge 11 03 1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, writer and creator of Perry Mason, 
died 13 03 1970 4-day strike by SF city employees starts 13 03 1970 Digital Equipment 
Corp introduces the PDP-11 minicomputer 26 03 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory 
made a City Landmark 28 03 1970 DEC announces PDP-11 10 04 1970 Paul McCartney 
announces departure from Beatles 11 04 1970 Apollo 13 Moon launch: Lovell, Haise, 
Swigert 13 04 1970 Apollo 13 oxygen tank ruptures, destroying service module and 
aborting lunar landing 13 04 1970 Ricky Schroder,actor 17 04 1970 Apollo 13 crew 
returns safely to Earth 22 04 1970 The first "Earth Day" observed 24 04 1970 China 
becomes 5th nation to launch artificial satellite 27 04 1970 Gypsy Rose Lee, American 
entertainer and author, died 04 05 1970 Four Kent State students protesting invasion 
of Cambodia are shot by Ohio National Guard 04 05 1970 four students killed by 
national guardsmen during student demonstration against Cambodia incursion at 
Kent State University 06 05 1970 MIT, Cambridge, MA free concert 08 05 1970 Helmeted 
construction workers broke up an anti-war protest 15 05 1970 Two women were named 
generals, the first ever in U.S. History 16 05 1970 Gabriela Sabatini, tennis 
player 24 05 1970 Hollywood Festival Newcastle, England (first European show) 
26 05 1970 Europe '72 tour ends, Lyceum, London 31 05 1970 Tens of thousands of 
people in Peru died in an earthquake 19 06 1970 Andrian Nikolayev and Vitalii 
Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 24 06 1970 Senate repeals Gulf of Tonkin 
resolution 29 06 1970 Canadian Train Tour begins, Toronto, ends 7-3 29 06 1970 
US forces withdraw from Cambodia 08 07 1970 Mississippi River Festival, Edwardsville, 
IL 23 07 1970 The sultan of Muscat and Oman was deposed by his son 23 07 1970 
Two canisters of CS gas (type used by Britain in North Ireland) are thrown into 
the House of Commons 31 07 1970 Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ending 'Huntley-Brinkley 
Report' (No more "Goodnight, David"Goodnight, Chet") 12 08 1970 Postal reform 
measure signed creating an independent U.S. Postal Service 17 08 1970 USSR launches 
Venera 7 to Venus 18 08 1970 colm-Ja Warner, actor 24 08 1970 Tonkin Gulf Resolution 
repealed 31 08 1970 Debbie Gibson, singer 03 09 1970 Vince Lombardi, football 
coach, died in Washington D.C 12 09 1970 USSR Launches Luna 16 to Moon 18 09 1970 
Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist, died of drug overdose 18 09 1970 Rock star Jimi 
Hendrix died in London at age 27 21 09 1970 Luna 16 leaves the Moon 24 09 1970 
First Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 1 04 10 1970 Janis Joplin died 
05 10 1970 PBS becomes a network 12 10 1970 Kirk Cameron, actor 26 10 1970 The 
debut of the "Doonesbury" comic strip in 28 newspapers 28 10 1970 US/USSR sign 
agreement to discuss joint space efforts 09 11 1970 Charles de Gaulle, French 
military and political leader, died 15 11 1970 Fillmore East, NYC w/ Winwood, 
Wood, Capaldi, Ramblin' Jack Elliot 19 11 1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes 
a California State Historical Landmark 27 11 1970 Pope Paul VI was attacked at 
the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest ?? ?? 1971 26th 
amendment gives 18 yeare olds the vote 02 01 1971 Cigarette adds are banded from 
television 10 01 1971 Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, died 13 01 1971 Apollo 
14 launched (what was that about rockets can't fly?) 25 01 1971 Major-General 
Idi Amin deposes President Obote in Uganda 27 01 1971 Montgomery St. Station, 
last link in BART, 'holed thru' 31 01 1971 Apollo 14 launched toward Moon 02 02 
1971 Idi Amin declares himself to be absolute ruler for "ever and ever"in Uganda 
02 02 1971 The project that produces the HP-35 calculator, the calculator that 
replaced the slide rule, begins 05 02 1971 Apollo 14 lands on Moon 19 02 1971 
ESP Experiment show, Capital Theatre, Portchester, NY 20 02 1971 The National 
Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered all radio and TV stations 
to go off the air. The mistake was not corrected for 30 minutes 23 02 1971 Lt. 
Calley confesses, implicates Captain Medina in Vietnam massacre 05 03 1971 Black 
Panther benefit, Oakland Aude of Dublin . (1st show there), CA 26 03 1971 Emerson, 
Lake, & Palmer record "Pictures at an Exhibition" live 01 04 1971 US/Canada 
ISIS II launched to study the ionosphere 06 04 1971 Igor Stravinsky, composer 
of "The Firebird" and "The Rite of Spring", died in New York City 14 04 1971 Fort 
Point dedicated as 1st National Park in Bay Area 19 04 1971 USSR Salyut 1 launched; 
first manned lab in orbit 20 04 1971 Supreme Court unanimously rules in favor 
of busing to achieve racial desegregation 26 04 1971 Fillmore East, NYC w/ Duane 
Allman 26 04 1971 San Francisco Lightship replaced by automatic buoy 27 04 1971 
Fillmore East, NYC w/ Beach Boys 28 04 1971 Fillmore Eest, NYC w/ Tom Constanten 
29 04 1971 Fillmore East, NYC last show 03 05 1971 Anti-war protest disrupts business 
in Washington 03 05 1971 National Public Radio begins 15 05 1971 Donald F. Duncan, 
inventor of the yo-yo, died 16 05 1971 First Mail now costs 8 cents (was 6 cents) 
19 05 1971 Ogden Nash, humorist, died 25 05 1971 USSR launches Mars 3 to Mars 
30 05 1971 Mariner 9 launched; first craft to orbit Mars 06 06 1971 First human 
visit to space station; USSR Soyuz 1 10 06 1971 Embargo on exporting goods to 
China was lifted by President Nixon 13 06 1971 "Pentagon Papers" (re: Vietnam); 
first published in New York Times 21 06 1971 Chateau de Herouville, France, free 
concert 27 06 1971 Bill Graham closes Fillmore East 27 06 1971 Fillmore East, 
NYC closes 29 06 1971 All three members of the crew of the Soyuz II space capsule 
were killed during re-entry over the U.S.S.R 29 06 1971 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 
1 for 22 d 01 07 1971 Golden Gate Bridge paid for (so why was there still a toll?) 
02 07 1971 Last Fillmore West show, SF 03 07 1971 Jim Morrison, rock singer with 
the Doors, died of drug overdose in Paris 04 07 1971 Fillmore West closes, SF 
05 07 1971 The 26th amendment giving voting rights to 18 yeare olds passes 07 
07 1971 Apollo 15 returns after 12d 7h 11 m 53 s 26 07 1971 Launch of Apollo 1 
30 07 1971 Apollo 15 lands on Moon 31 07 1971 The Lunar Roving Vehicle was operated 
for the first time during the Apollo 15 mission 01 08 1971 Concert for Bangla 
Desh (Madison Square Garden) 04 08 1971 US launches first satellite into lunar 
orbit from manned spacecraft Apollo 15 01 10 1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, 
Florida opens 16 10 1971 Amphitheater in McLaren Park dedicated 19 10 1971 Keith 
Godchaux's first show, Northrup Aude of Dublin ., Minn., MN 25 10 1971 The UN 
removes Taiwan and admits the People's Republic of China 12 11 1971 Arches National 
Park approved by Congress 13 11 1971 Mariner 9 orbits Mars 14 11 1971 Quarter 
Pounder price raised from 0.53 to 0.55 in violation of Nixon price controls (but 
okayed by Price Commission after for request from McDonald's) 19 11 1971 more 
than 50000 gallons of radioactive waste water was accidentally released into the 
Mississippi River when waste storage overflows at Monticello, Minn. reactor 23 
11 1971 the People's Rebublic of China was seated in the UN security council 24 
11 1971 Hijacker Dan Cooper parachuted from a 727 over washington state with 200,000 
in ransom and has not been heard from since 25 11 1971 Christina Applegate, actress 
02 12 1971 First semi soft landing made by Russia's Mars 3 03 12 1971 Montreux 
Casino burns down during Frank Zappa concert 06 12 1971 Bangladesh (formerly East 
Pakistan) was recognized by India 14 12 1971 Golden Gate Bridge lights out all 
night from power failure 15 12 1971 First craft to land on Venus, Venera 7 16 
12 1971 Don McLean's "American Pie" released