February 10, 1968 — Andy Warhol introduces the concept of 15 minutes of fame
Andy Warhol understood one thing about the general acceleration of life and culture in the self-reinforcing media spiral of the...
January 24, 2017
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March 16, 1968 — Members of the US Army massacre civilians at Mỹ Lai
The Mỹ Lai Massacre is the best known American military atrocity in history. It was committed by U.S. Army soldiers...
January 19, 2017
April 4, 1968 — Martin Luther King is assassinated
Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, after years of non-violent struggle for civil rights. By 1967,...
January 14, 2017
July 22, 1968 — The Doors release “Waiting For The Sun”
“Waiting for the Sun” was the third studio album released by the Doors, although ironically, the title track of this...
January 9, 2017
August 20, 1968 — The Prague Spring is crushed by the Soviet Army
For eight glorious months in 1968, it appeared that some of the liberalisation that was sweeping the West had taken...
January 4, 2017
October 15, 1968 — Donald Trump is classified 1-Y by the Draft Board
On September 17, 1968, a podiatrist diagnosed Donald Trump, then a 22 year old who was eligible for military service...
January 2, 2017
March 20, 1969 — John Lennon and Yoko Ono marry
One of the most controversial relationships in modern cultural history, John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s love began inauspiciously, as an...
December 29, 2016
March 25, 1969 — John and Yoko stage their first Bed-In
After getting married on March 20, 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono proceeded to have possibly the strangest honeymoon ever....
December 24, 2016
June 22, 1969 — The Cuyahoga River catches fire. Again.
Between 1868 and 1969, there were thirteen separate fires on the Cuyahoga River, the worst occurring in 1952. It was...
December 14, 2016
July 12, 1969 — “In The Year 2525” reaches #1 on the US charts
Proving both that there really were serious amounts of drugs around in the Sixties, and that science fiction is harder...
December 4, 2016
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