March 7, 1965 — The Selma to Montgomery March begins
The Selma to Montgomery marches were a series of civil rights protests held in Alabama during March 1965. The first...
June 9, 2017
Politics & War
April 28, 1965 — US Marines occupy Santo Domingo
The Dominican Civil War was not even a week old before Lyndon Johnson decided that it posed a threat to...
June 1, 2017
January 3, 1967 — Jack Ruby dies
On November 24, 1963, Jack Ruby changed the course of history when he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald before...
April 19, 2017
January 17, 1967 — The County Borough of Blackburn reports on its potholes
The County Borough of Blackburn was, in 1967, the governing body of the Blackburn area. Blackburn is an industrial town...
April 14, 2017
November 9, 1967 — The first issue of Rolling Stone hits the stands
From slight beginnings, Rolling Stone magazine would go on to become one of the world’s great organs of music journalism,...
February 22, 2017
February 8, 1968 — Police shoot black protestors in Orangeburg, South Carolina, killing three
About 200 protestors gathered outside a bowling alley in Orangeburg, South Carolina to demonstrate in favour of the civil rights...
January 29, 2017
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
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
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
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