1933
	Dec 5	Prohibition repeal ratification completed (21st 
                amendment)
	Dec 6	James Joyce's "Ulysses" finally declared 
                legal and publishable in U.S.
		C.G. Jung: "Modern Man in Search of a Soul"
		Ralph Borsodi: "Flight From The City"
	        George Orwell: "Down and Out in Paris and London"
		Gertrude Stein: "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
   		Mae West: "She Done Him Wrong"

1938,39
	Dec	Cafe Society opened at 2 Sheridan Square, NYC 
		by Barney Josephson as first integrated night spot
		Billy Holiday (24) opened it and remained nine months
		20,000 television sets in service in NY City
		James Joyce: "Innegans Wake"
		John Steinbeck: "The Grapes of Wrath"
		Pete Seeger drops out of Harvard, entertains striking
		dairy farmers, meets Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie.

1942
First electronic computer developed, US 
		Magnetic recording tape invented
		Duchamp back to NY

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1949-54
Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Little Richard: first records

1955

 

      Dec 5 Rosa Park's refusal to give up her 
		bus seat on Dec 1 starts year-long 
 		Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott by 
		30-40,000 Negro riders (out of a 	
		Negro population of 50,000), 
		of which Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., 
		26, is appointed leader	(to Dec 21, 56)"
	Dec 24 Aldous Huxley takes his first LSD

		DJ Alan Freed moves to WINS, NY
		7 of 15 pop best sellers are rooted in r&b, produced
		originally for the black music market
		Little Richard first record
		Chuck Berry first record (Maybelline)
		Charlie "Bird" Parker (35) dies
		Disneyland opens
		TV: "64,000 Dollar Question, Gunsmoke"
		James Dean in "Rebel Without a Cause, East of Eden"
		"The Blackboard Jungle": links "Rock Around the Clock"
		with juvenile delinquency,
		and comics also come under fire for causing j.d.
		Ingmar Bergman: "Smiles of a Summer Night"

		"Family of Man" - exhibit & book (Edward Steichen
		for Museum of Modern Art, NY)
		Joseph Heller: "Catch 22"
		J.P. Donleavy: "Ginger Man"
		"Mad Magazine" starts
		"Why Johnny Can't Read" - Rudolf Flesch
		("The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" - Sloan Wilson)

 
1956

  
1957

           
1958


	Dec 8 Douglas Engelbart demonstrated some ideas that became
		an integral part of your computer... The Mouse.
		The patent for all his ideas belonged to SRI which ..
            later on rewarded him with $10,000.  

	Musics:
		Everly Brothers: "Hey Bird Dog, All I Have to Do is Dream
		Chipmunks Song, Purple People-Eater, Lollipop, Tom Dooley"
		Coasters: "Yakety Yak"
		Jackie Wilson: "Lonely Teardrops" (first?)
		James Brown: "Try Me"
		Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode"
		Johnny Otis: "Willie and the Hand-Jive"
		Stereophonic recordings come into use

		Bobby Darin: "Splish Splash" (first?)
		Phil Spector starts producing records (?= start of Motown?)
		Kingston Trio: "Tom Dooley"
		Theodore Bikel Town Hall concert, NY
		John Coltrane: first album

 		TV: "Seventy-Seven Sunset Strip"
		"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"

		"The Ugly American" - William Lederer
		John Kenneth Galbraith: "The Affluent Society"
		Ferlinghetti: "The Coney Island of the Mind"
		Kerouac: "Dharma Bums" and "The Subterraneans"
		Paul Krassner starts publishing "The Realist"
		Lorraine Hansberry: "A Raisin in the Sun"

1959

 
 
	        Thalidomide children (Better Living Through
		Chemistry's first failure)
		First Barbie dolls
		Radio Station KPFK started in Los Angeles [see earlier]
		San Francisco Mime Troupe founded

		"rock music lull"
		"There Goes My Baby, Climb Every Mountain,
		Put Your Head on My Shoulder, A Teen-Ager in Love,
		He's Got the Whole World in His Hands, My Favorite Things"
		Bobby Darin: "Dream Lover, Mack the Knife"
		"The Twist" becomes #1 record  [must be wrong - see 1960]
		Limelighters, The Brothers Four
		Tom Dooley

		TV: "Bonanza, Rawhide"
		"Some Like It Hot" (Marilyn Monroe)
		Bergman: "The Virgin Spring, Wild Strawberries"
 		Fellini: "La Dolce Vita"
		"Hiroshima mon amour" (Alain Resnais)
		Eugene Ionesco: "Rhinoceros"
		"A Raisin in the Sun" (play)
		French New Wave cinema boom: 67 new directors make
		first feature films in the next two years 
		(24 in 1959, 43 in 1960)
		including Truffaut: "The Four Hundred Blows"
		and Jean Luc Godard: "Breathless"
		(Goldfinger w Ian Fleming)
		(Philip Roth: "Goodbye, Columbus")

		William Burroughs: "Naked Lunch" (Paris publication)
		Kerouac: "Dr. Sax, Mexico City Blues, Maggie Cassidy"
		Lawrence Lipton: "The Holy Barbarians"
		"A Seperate Peace": John Knowles
 		"Common Sense & Nuclear Warfare" - Bertrand Russell
	 	"Hawaii": James ?Michenor
		("The Manchurian Candidate" - Richard Condon
		about search for mind-control drug?)
		Erving Goffman: "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life"
		Norman O. Brown: "Life Against Death"
		Saul Bellow: "Henderson the Rain King"

		Yves Saint Laurent's skirt hems at knees.

1960

 
	Dec	Boynton vs. Virginia: Supreme Court prohibits
            segregation in waiting rooms & restaurants
            serving interstate bus passengers
	Dec 20 Look: The Explosive Generation - ed. 
             George Leonard.   
      Dec Birth control pills go on sale in the US
		[when were I.U.D.s?? - around 1962 also]
	 	Charles Van Doren is among 13 contestants
            on television show "21" arrested for
            perjury in testifying that answers 
 		to questions were not given them in advance

	 	The Place & The Co-Existence Bagel Shop close 
		(Grant Ave in San Francisco's North Beach)

		Beatles first trip to Hamburg, Germany

		8 musicians meet in Ireland to form the Ceoltoiri
		Chualann; 5 of them later form the Chieftains
		Congress investigates payola, Teamsters Union
		Nineteen new nations emerge in Africa

		Sammy Davis Jr marries Swedish actress Mai Britt

		Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,
		Are You Lonesome Tonight?, Green Fields
		*Everly Bros: Cathy's Clown
		Drifters: Save the Last Dance for Me
		Hank Ballard: Finger Poppin' Time 
		& original version of The Twist 
		Chubby Checker, 19, records The Twist
		Joan Baez first album

		television sets: 
            US 85 mill; 
            Brit 10.5 mill; 
            WGer 2 mill; 
            Fr 1.5 mill
		
            TV: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, My Three Sons
		Jean Paul Belmondo first movie, Breathless 
		(by Godard) becomes U.S. hit
		Hiroshima Mon Amour  [recheck - have this earlier]
		Never on Sunday

		Exodus

		Big Deal on Madonna Street
		(Psycho: Hitchcock)
		Last Year at Marienbad - Alain Resnais

		Paul Goodman: "Growing Up Absurd"
		"Black Like Me": John Howard Griffin
		John Updike: "Rabbit, Run"
		Allen Watts: "Beat Zen, Square Zen, & Zen"
		Kerouac: "Visions of Cody, 
            The Scripture of Golden Eternity"
		Ginsberg: "Kaddish"
		"To Kill a Mockingbird": Harper Lee
		John Barth: "The Sotweed Factor"
		Summerhill: "A Radical Approach to 
            Child Rearing" - A.S. Neil 
1961  

   

Dec 9	U.K.: Committee of 100 (w Russell) demos at various
		U.S. air & nuc bases
	D 10-15 SNCC Freedom Rider test of ICC ruling in Albany, Georgia
		leads to five days of arrests of 469/500 students for
		marching around city hall. Some 350 choose to stay in
		jail as part of the Albany movement.
	Dec 11 First two U.S. Army helicopter units land in South Vietnam
	Dec 16 MLK arrested Albany, Georgia with some 250 
             more demonstrators 
	Dec 23-30 
		Sat Eve Post: "Youth - The Good Generation"
		(in response to Look?

1961		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		The Twist -> #1 record for the second time
		(Watusi, Hully-Gully, Stop; Swim, Mashed Potato +)
		Michael Row the Boat Ashore, Moon River, Big Bad John, 
		Hit the Road Jack, Little Sister, Barbara Ann, 
		Runaround Sue, Where the Boys Are
		Ricky Nelson: Travelin Man
		The Dovells: Bristol Stomp
		Chris Kenner: I Like It Like That
		Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Pete Seeger
		Ramblin' Jack Elliot starts
		Judy Collins first album

		Breakfast At Tiffany's, 
		West Side Story [rechck-have as earlier]
		Truffaut: Jules et Jim
		Kurosawa: Yojimbo
		Godard: A Woman Is a Woman (his 3rd feature) - 
		also Belmondo
		Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc: Pull My Daisy

		Salinger's Franny and Zooey published as a book
		Baldwin: Nobody Knows My Name
		Eric Berne: Transactional Analysis in Psychotherapy
		Carl Rogers: On Becoming A Person
		Heinlein: Stranger in a Strange Land
		John Lilly: Man and Dolphin
		Jane Jacobs: The Death and Life of Great American Cities
		Miller's Tropic of Cancer finally legally published in US
		Harvard ?Student Union's first edition of Let's Go!

		Alan Watts speaking on campuses around US
 
1962

        
	Dec	Mariner 2 sends photos of Venus

		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Let Me In, Wah-Watusi, Mashed Potato, 
		He's a Rebel (Gene Pitney/Crystals),
		Lonely Tear Drops, Girl From Ipanema
		June 2: Isley Bros: Twist and Shout
		Twisting the Night Away
		*Everly Brothers: Crying in the Rain
		*Beach Boys: Surfin' & Surfin' Safari
		Dick Dale: Surfer's Choice
		Ian & Sylvia first record (from Canada)
		Little Boxes - Malvina Reynolds

		TV: Beverly Hillbillies
		Fellini: Boccaccio ?70
		Lolita
		Vaughn Meader doing JFK improvisations

		Abraham Maslow: Toward a Psychology of Being
		Harrington: The Other America
		Kerouac: Big Sur
		Rachael Carson: Silent Spring
		Miller: Tropic of Capricorn
		Ken Kesey: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
		Aldous Huxley: Island (utopian community)
		Alan Watts: The Joyous Cosmology
		?Adelle Davis: Exploring Inner Space
		Euell Gibbons: Stalking the Wild Asparagus

		Esalen Institute founded
		Findhorn Foundation (Scotland) founded
1963    

  
 		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Hello Muddah, The Singing Nun
		Guantanamara, If I Had a Hammer, 
		Puff the Magic Dragon, ?Charlie off the MTA?
		There But For Fortune - Phil Ochs
		Chad Mitchell Trio (with John Denver)
		Beach Boys: Surfin' USA & Surfer Girl (with Little Deuce Coupe)
		Jan & Dean: Surf City
		Ventures: Surfing
		Chris Kenner: Land of 1000 Dances
		LIVERPOOL!
		Beatles: first album
		Tom Paxton: The Last Thing on My Mind (?album)
		Dave Van Ronk starts
		Judy Henske records three albums
		Buffy Sainte-Marie: It's My Way (1st album) w Universal Soldier
		*Freewheelin' Bob Dylan  w Blowin in the Wind
		Bo Diddley first album
		Otis Redding first album
		Little Stevie Wonder
		(Bunny Wailer, Marley, Tosh start playing together)

		Fellini: Eight and a Half
		(Great Escape)
		Dr. Strangelove, directed by Kubrick

		Mary MacCarthy: The Group
		Book of the Hopi - Frank Waters
		Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique
		James Baldwin: The Fire Next Time
		John Cage: A Year From Monday
		Vonnegut: Cat's Cradle  (ice 9)
		Leary +: The Psychedelic Experience 
		(version of the Tibetan Book of the 
		Dead/Bardo Thodol)

		height of the Mods and Rockers 
		in UK (according to Quadrophenia)
	
 1964  


	Dec 2	Joan Baez sings on Sproul Hall steps 
	Dec 2-3 FSM overnight sit-in in Sproul Hall to protest 
		discipline of four who took part 
		in the October police car 	
		sit-in; 800 arrests 
	Dec 4	900 students boycot classes
	Dec 7	U.C. Berk administration presentation 
		at the 'Greek Theatre to 18,000; 
		followed by strike by 9,000 of the 27,000
		students; faculty resolution (824 to 115) 
		supporting FSM
	Dec 10 MLK awarded Nobel Peace Prize
	Dec 11 Singer Sam Cooke dies of gunshot wounds, 
		Los Angeles

		In 1964, California surpassed New York 
		as most populous state

 		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Walk On Boy, We'll Sing in the Sunshine, 
		Baby Love,
		King of the Road, A Spoonful of Sugar
		Jan & Dean: Ride the Wild Surf & 
		Little Old Lady from Pasadena
		*from UK: Pacemakers, Herman's Hermits, 
		Chad Stuart & Jeremy Clyde, 
		Petula Clark (first hit: Downtown),
		The Kinks, Manfred Mann, The Hollies,
		Dave Clark Five: I Like It Like That)
		*The Rolling Stones first record      
		12 x 5?
		Fred Neil first album
		Phil Ochs first album 
		(w There But For Fortune?? see lista63))
		*Dylan: The Times They are a Changin'
		*Another Side of Bob Dylan

		TV: Gomer Pyle, Gilligan's Island, 
		U.N.C.L.E.
		Zorba the Greek the movie (when was the book?)
		Woman of the Dunes
		It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
		(people are basically mad, so
		there's no hope for the world)
		La Jette: Chris Marker (Fr)

		Herbert Marcuse: One Dimensional Man
		Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
		Carl Jung: Man and His Symbols
		I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Hannah Green
		David Halberstam: The Making of a Quagmire

		op art
		Rudi Gernreich: topless bathing suit
		textured stockings

1965    

  
		184,000 American troops in Vietnam

		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		My Girl, I Got You Babe, 
		Hang on Sloopy, 
		Help Me Rhonda,
		Stop in the Name of Love, 
		Woolly Bully
		R.E.S.P.E.C.T. - Otis Redding
		The Year of "Folk-Rock"
		Simon & Garfunkel: 
		Sounds of Silence
		*Donovan: Catch The Wind 
		& Fairytale
		*Rolling Stones Now! & 
		Out of Our Heads 
		w Satisfaction & December's Child
		*Dylan: Bringing It All Back Home 
		Mr. Tambourine Man
		Hwy 61 Revisited   
		Like A Rolling Stone
		*Beatles: We Can Work It Out/
		Day Tripper
		Rubber Soul - Yesterday
		*Byrds: Mr. Tambourine Man
		& Turn! Turn! Turn!
		when was Eight Miles High with sitar
		*(Paul) Butterfield Blues Band
		*frm UK: Animals (w Eric Burdon): 
		We Gotta Get Out of this Place
		*from UK: Yardbirds (with Eric Clapton): 
		For Your Love
		*frm UK: Them (with Van Morrison)
		Turtles
		Lovin Spoonful
		The Fugs in the Village 
		(rock musicians with poets Ginsberg, Corso)

		The Knack - And How to Get It
		Fellini: Juliet of the Spirits
		Help!
		The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh (Forest Lawn)

		John Barth: The Sot-Weed Factor
		listed under 1960 also
		Malcolm X Autobiography (published posthumously)
		(written by Alex Haley)

		Manchild in the Promised Land - Claude Brown
		Unsafe At Any Speed - Ralph Nader
		Light on Yoga - B.K.S. Iyengar
		Dune - Frank Herbert
		?African Genesis

		George Leonard of Look Mag & Michael Murphy, 
                founder Esalen Institute, found Human Potential 
                Movement
		Pop art and Op Art.
1966


	1966	end: 385,000 American troops in Vietnam
      	
	Dec	Cream's first album: Fresh Cream 
		(Eric Clapton from John Mayall, 
		Jack Bruce from Manfred Mann, and drummer 
		Ginger Baker from Graham Bond's Organization)
	Dec 17 Death & Rebirth of the Haight-Ashbury
		(Hairy Henry + Fyllis bust)
	
		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Alfie 
		Green Berets
		Jacques Brel at the peak of popularity in France
		Suzanne - Leonard Cohen
		Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
		Beatles: Yesterday and Today  *Revolver
		*John meets Yoko
		*RS: Aftermath  & Got Live
		*Byrds: Turn, Turn, Turn  (or was it 65?)  
		*The Fifth Dimension
		*Donovan: Sunshine Superman
		*The Who
		Monkees 
		*Mamas & Papas: California Dreamin, 
		Monday Monday
		Beach Boys: Good Vibrations
		*Simon & Garfunkel: 
		Wednesday Morning 3 A.M.
		*Sounds of Silence
		*Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme
		:Scarborough Fair
		*Hollies (from UK)
		The Association
		Judy Collins: In My Life

		Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf 
		(Prod. Mike Nichols: "raw dialogue"  
		Liz Taylor)
		Bergman: Persona
		Antonioni: Blow Up
		King of Hearts first released
		Cul-de-Sac directed by Roman Polanski
		Fahrehheit 451 directed by Truffaut
		Morgan! with Vanessa Redgrave
		Tom Jones
		Raquel Welch
		Alfie, A Man & A Woman
		Fantastic Voyage (movie)
		Georgy Girl with Lynn Redgrave

		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)
		Eric Berne's Games People Play  (recheck if 65)
		Rod McKuen: Stanyan Street (?and other poems?)

		Foxfire project started, Rabun County High School, Georgia
		National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) founded
		when?	Free University in New York
		?Ledbetter's in LA

1967   

   
     	Dec	Life: Return of the Red Man
	Dec 4	MLK announces Poor People's Campaign in Wash D.C.
		(to start late spring)
	Dec 5	Opening of Apple Shop, Baker St, London
		with murals by The Fool
		Black boycott of Olympics (announced?)
	Dec 5-8	"Stop the Draft Week" at Whitehall, NY Army 
		Induction Center
		546/585 arrested, including Spock & Ginsberg   
		+ Madison, Manchester N.H., Cincinnati, New Haven
	Dec 8?	Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay", his only major hit
	Dec 10	Otis Redding dies at 26 in plane crash
	Dec 22	Owsley busted in Orinda (stops production of acid)
	        solst	"people started to leave for the country"
	Dec??	Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
	Dec 31	Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory,
		& friends pronounce themselves "Yuppies"

	 	By the year end: 486,000 American troops in Vietnam
		Of the 15,000 killed, 60% died in 1967

 		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		SAN FRANCISCO!
		Beatles: Magical Mystery Tour
		*RS: Between the Buttons    w Ruby Tuesday
		      & Flowers
		      & Satanic Majesty
		*Donovan: Mellow Yellow
		      *Wear Your Love Like Heaven 
		San Francisco - John Phillips
		*Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow (second album)
		*Grateful Dead
		*Big Brother & the Holding Co (w Janis Joplin)
		*Byrds: Younger Than Yesterday
		*Buffalo Springfield
		*Country Joe and the Fish
		*Jimi Hendrix: Experienced
		*Doors: Light My Fire  & first album
		     & Strange Days
		     when was The End with sitar?
		*Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
		*Velvet Underground: first
		*Van Morrison (on his own) (from UK)
		*Bee Gees (from UK)
		*Spencer Davis Group (from UK)
		*Pink Floyd (from UK)
		*Procol Harum (from UK)
		*UK: John Mayall ?Bluesbreakers(with Eric Clapton)
		Incredible String Band (from UK)
		*Canned Heat
		*Moby Grape
		*Pearls Before Swine
		Arlo Guthrie: Alice's Restaurant
		Simon & Garfunkel: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary
		     & Thyme???         w Feelin Groovy
		Janis Ian (16)'s first hit?: Society's Child
		     (about interracial dating)
		Judy Collins: Who Knows Where the Time Goes
		Leaving on a Jet Plane - John Denver
		Waist Deep in the Big Muddy - Pete Seeger
		*Laura Nyro
		Fifth Dimensions   :Up Up & Away

		TV: Smothers Brothers
		D.A. Pennebaker's Don't Look Back (Dylan)
		Bonnie & Clyde
		The Battle of Algiers
		Ingrid Bergman returns to US stage for first time 
		   after her US career was "killed by scandel" in the late 40s
		La Guere est Finie directed by Alain Resnais
		How I Won the War with John Lennon 
		The Graduate directed by Mike Nichols
		(The Dirty Dozen)
		Planet of the Apes [check]

		R. D. Laing: Politics of Experience
		Richard Brautigan: Trout-fishing in America

		Twiggy
		Lama Foundation, San Cristobal, New Mexico, founded
		(Washington Mag says maxis)

1968
		
                MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Abraham, Martin & John
		*RS: Beggar's Banquet
		?Beatles: White Album   [or was this 69?]
		     Hey Jude; Lady Madonna
		Dylan: John Wesley Harding
		*The Band: Music from the Big Pink
		*Donovan: From a Flower to a Garden 
		     & Hurdy Gurdy Man
		Simon & Garfunkxx: Bridge over Troubled Water
		*Doors: Waiting for the Sun
		*Hendrix: Axis Bold As Love 
		     & Electric Ladyland
		*Fleetwood Mac
		*Steve Miller
		*Quicksilver
		Dr. John: first solo
		*Sly and the Family Stone
		Creedence Clearwater Revival
		*Blue Cheer ("Heavy Metal")
		*Iron Butterfly ("Heavy Metal")
		*Velvet Underground: White Light/White Heat ("H M")
		*Deep Purple ("Heavy Metal")
		*Moody Blues
		*Electric Flag
		*Blood, Sweat & Tears
		*Seatrain (formed from Blues Project)
		*Jeff Beck Group (from UK)
		*Traffic (from UK)
		*Joe Cocker (from UK)
		*Bonzo Dog Band (from UK)
		*Pentangle (from UK)
		*Joni Mitchell (first)
		*Leonard Cohen
		*Randy Newman
		Taj Mahal
		?Cream [at UCLA May 68]
		Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airma?n
		     moves from Detroit to SF
		(?Roberta Flack)

		Z
		If . . .
		Yellow Submarine
		2001 directed by Kubrick
		Hair (from April 29)
		(Planet of the Apes, Barbarella)
		??I Am Curious - Yellow
		
		first Zap Comix
		Tom Wolfe: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
		Eldrige Cleaver: Soul on Ice
		Dr. Paul Ehrlich: The Population Bomb
		Akwesasne Notes starts publication
		Carlos Castaneda: The Teachings of Don Juan
		Aerobics - Dr. Kenneth Cooper 
		     (first use of the term for exercise)
		
		Tiny Tim
		Peter Max
		"Unisex clothing"
		Jogging
		Forty heart transplants
		Joan Baez marries David Harris and
		     David Harris starts 3 year jail sentence
		     for refusing to register for the draft
		Auroville Cooperative, India, founded
		Ananda Cooperative Village, Nevada City, California, founded



	Dec 1	\fBFirst Draft Lottery\fP
	Dec 4	\fBPanthers Fred Hampton (21) & Mark Clark (22) shot and 
		killed in their beds by Chicago police during raid"
		making at least 19 Panther leaders (they claim 28)
		killed in 18 months (+ Huey Newton currently in prison)
	Dec 24	\fBManson `Family' indictments
		Rolling Stones free concert at end of tour,
		Altamont racetrack, Ca: 300,000 attend
		Meredith Hunter (18) killed"


1969 

     
         	By year end, over 100,000 Americans have died in Vietnam
		65,000 troops brought home to U.S.

          Dec 6  300,000 fans show up for the free rock festival 
                at Altamont; there are four deaths, one a murder 
                perpetrated by Hell's Angels right in front of 
                the Rolling Stones and Maysles Film's rolling cameras.
 		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		*Beatles: Abbey Road
		*Lennon & Plastic Ono Band: Give Peace a Chance
		*Lennon & Ono: Two Virgins
		*Harrison: Wonderwall
		*RS: Let It Bleed
		*Rod Stewart
		*Dylan: Nashville Skyline
		Great White Wonder (first Dylan bootleg)
		*Baez: David's Album (late 69)
		*Joni Mitchell: Clouds
		*Santana
		*Mother Earth
		*Dan Hicks
		*Janis Joplin: Kozmic     w Bobby McGee?
		Jim Croce
		*Neil Young (from Buffalo Springfield) first solo
		Jethro Tull
		*Captain Beefheard: Trout Mask Replica
		*Led Zeppelin
		*MC5 ("Heavy Metal") 
		*Black Pearl ("Heavy Metal") 
		*Grand Funk Railroad ("Heavy Metal")
		*King Crimson
		*Chicago
		*Miles Davis
		(*Desmond Decker: The Israelites - pre-Reggae)
		?  Jim Kweskin's Jug Band (with Maria Muldaur)

		Fellini: Satyricon
		Midnight Cowboy; Alice's Restaurant; 
		Monterey Pop; Easy Rider*; 
		Putney Swope*; Medium Cool*; 
		Last Summer*; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice;
		Goodbye, Columbus; 
		They Shoot Horses, Don't They?; Oh! What a Lovely War;
		The Who pop opera film; 
		Wild Bunch [recheck - have this earlier]; Butch Cassidy;
		Startrek taken off tv after 3 yr run
		
		Vonnegot: Slaughterhouse-Five
		French Lieutenant's Woman - John Fowles
		Everything You've Always Wanted to Know about Sex
		     But Were Afraid to Ask - David Reuben (more 70?)
		Portnoy's Complaint - Philip Roth
		The Strawberry Statement-James Simon Kunen
		I'm OK - You're OK - Thomas Harris (Eric Berne's 
		     transactional analysis)
		The Peter Principle - Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull
		Charles Bukowski: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
		Theodore Roszak: The Making of a Counterculture
		Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: On Death and Dying
		Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
		How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive - John Muir
		Custer Died for Your Sins - Vine Deloria, Jr.
		Arcology: The City in the Image of Man - Paolo Soleri
		
		maxi coats (floor length)
		first? unixsex haircutting salon

1970 

 
		Common Cause founded
		Jim Hightower founds Agribusiness Accountability Project,
		Nader-type group to investigate conglomerate influence over 
		U.S. food supply
		Celestial Seasonings founded, Boulder, Colorado
	when?	Dem. Party Commission (Sen. Geo McGovern, chair) begins reform
		174 bombings on college campuses between fall 69 and spring 

		400,000 Americans soldiers in Vietnam, sez EWJ

	Dec	McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles
	Dec	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band : "the Primal album"
		God is a Concept, the dream is over
		(Lennon's first solo album)
	Dec	Hundreds of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testify at 
		"Winter Soldier" investigations in Detroit
		about Vietnam atrocities
		Senate votes to halt funds for SST development
	Dec	Geronimo Pratt, Black Panther's Defense Minister,
		charged with murder & starts 17 years in prison
	Dec	Nixon signs Natl Air Quality Control Act, requiring
		90% reduction in car-exhaust pollution by 75 

		1966-70 Military desertion rate 300%
		1967-70 Conscientious objectors 20,000 -> 40,000
		1971  80,000 draft resistors have fled to Canada
		1970 another 140,000 troops brought home to U.S.
		(Stock market at a low, starts recovery)

 
        Dec 4   Cesar Chavez jailed for lettuce boycott 
                (was this the first?)
        Dec 15  Bank of America bombing, Santa Barbara
        Dec     McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles
        Dec     John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band : "the Primal album"
                God is a Concept, the dream is over
                (Lennon's first solo album)
        Dec     Hundreds of Vietnam Veterans Against the War testify at 
                "Winter Soldier" investigations in Detroit
                about Vietnam atrocities
                Senate votes to halt funds for SST development
        Dec     Geronimo Pratt, Black Panther's Defense Minister,
                charged with murder & starts 17 years in prison
        Dec     Nixon signs Natl Air Quality Control Act, requiring
                90% reduction in car-exhaust pollution by 75 

                1966-70 Military desertion rate 300%
                1967-70 Conscientious objectors 20,000 -> 40,000
                1971  80,000 draft resistors have fled to Canada
                1970 another 140,000 troops brought home to U.S.
                (Stock market at a low, starts recovery)



1970		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		Hot Tuna out
		Ry Cooder
		CSN&Y: Deja vu
		*Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon
		*Dylan: New Morning
		?Lennon: A Working Class Hero (what album was this)
		*Eric Clapton
		*Hendrix: Band of Gypsys
		*RS: Get Yer Ya Ya's Out
		*Harrison: All Things Must Pass
		*Beatles: Let It Be
		*Black Sabbath ("Heavy Metal")
		Judy Collins: Whales & Nightingales
		*Linda Ronstadt
		*James Taylor
		Rita Coolidge
		*CSN & Y: Deja Vu
		*Stephen Stills first solo
		*Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water
		*John McLaughlin
		*Allman Brothers Band
		Johnny Winter
		*Elton John (from UK)
		*Jimmy Cliff: first
		*John Renbourn: first solo
		*Cat Stevens
		Eric Clapton's first solo (Easy Now)
		Harrison: All Things Must Pass
		Delanie & Bonnie & Friends: Mad Dogs & Englishmen tour 
		     (with Rita Coolidge along)
		
		TV: Dick Cavett show starts
		Bergman: The Passion of Anna
		Fellini: The Clowns
		Bertolucci: The Conformist
		Five Easy Pieces
		They Shoot Horses, Don't They (I have this as 69 too)
		M*A*S*H (war humor) (the movie) 
		     (was this when the tv show started?)
		Catch 22 the film
		Women In Love (" ")
		Hair all over the world
		Woodstock the film
		Little Big Man
		Performance
		Virgin & the Gypsy
		(Love Story)
		
		Living on The Earth  - Alicia Bay Laurel
		The Tassajara Bread Book
		Our Bodies Ourselves
		Painless Childbirth - Fernand Lamaze (translated from 
		     the French edition published around 1956)
		Domebook One - Lloyd Kahn & Bob Easton
		The Greening of America - Charles Reich
		Tom Wolf: Radical Chic
		Scott & Helen Nearing's Living the Good Life republished 
		     & sells 170,000 copies
		Jerry Rubin: Do It!
		More than 50 underground anti-war military newspapers 
		     being published
		Sexual Politics - Kate Millett
		Alvin Toffler: Future Shock
		I and Thou - Martin Buber
		Zen Mind, Beginners Mind - Suzuki Roshi
		Deschooling Society - Ivan Illich
		Vitamin C and the Common Cold - Linus Pauling
		Arthur Janov: The Primal Scream
		What Color is Your Parachute? - Richard Bolles
		Up the Organization - Robert Townsend
		Jonathan Livingston Seagull - Richard Bach
		Erik Van Daniken [.. over a] - Chariots of the Gods
		Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 100 Years of Solitude 
		       (orig? translation?)
		
		Paulo Soleri starts building Arcosanti
		Swami Muktananda introduced to US (by Ram Dass) 
		       - Siddha meditation

1971   

    
	Dec 1	National Commission on the Causes 
		Prevention of Violence 
		releases "Walker report" which censures Chicago 
		Police for behavior during "Police Riot" at 
		Democratic Natl Convention
	Dec 2	NY City high school students uprising: 
		Brooklyn +
	Dec 13-16	San Mateo College closed
	Dec 21-27 Apollo 8 with three astronauts circles 
		moon ten times; takes photo of earth 
		rising behind the moon on Dec 24
	Dec 4	Cesar Chavez jailed for lettuce boycott 
		(was this the first?)
	Dec 15 Bank of America bombing, Santa Barbara
	Dec 2	Dollar dives in reaction to reports that
		Nixon is considering devaluation 
		(326.76 yen; 3.289 Deutsche marks)
	Dec 3	War breaks out in Bangladesh
	Dec 11 Third retrial of Huey Newton ends in mistrial
	Dec 14 Detective Frank Serpico tells 
		Knapp Commission
		of widespread police corruption in NY
	D 17-18 Dollar devalued 8.57%
	Dec 26 15 Viet Vets sit-in inside Statue 
		of Liberty to protest bombing
	Dec 28 80+ Viet Vets arrested Lincoln Memorial, 
		trying to block entrance with a human chain

		Greenpeace formed, Vancouver, Canada
		Use of DES discontinued after 7 cases of 
		a rare cancer found among women at
	      one Boston hospital
		(20,000 -> 100,000 women a year were 
		prescribed DES for prevention of miscarriage
		 between 1960 and 1970)

1971		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		RS: Sticky Fingers
		Hendrix: Cry of Love & Rainbow Bridge
		John Lennon: Imagine
		*Joni Mitchell: Blue
		*Carole King     ?Tapestry?
		*Carly Simon
		*Cat Stevens
		*Elmerson, Lake & Palmer
		*Herbie Hancock
		*Weather Report
		*Tyrannosaurus Rex
		*Earth, Wind & Fire ("Funk")
		Led Zeppelin "more popular than Beatles": 
		Stairway to Heaven
		(*Bob Marley & the Wailers: first)
		Alice Cooper group
		
		TV: All In The Family (starts Jan. 12)
		A Clockwork Orange directed by Kubrick
		The Last Picture Show
		Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)
		Harold & Maude
		Klute
		Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
		Gimme Shelter (Altamont movie)
		Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
		?King of Hearts re-release (is this when?)
		El Topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky)
		Jesus Christ Superstar rock opera "worldwide success"
		(The Exorcist)
		
		Michael Harrington: The Other America 
		     focuses awareness on continuing US poverty
		Germaine Greer: The Female Eunuch (US publication)
		Diet for a Small Planet - Frances Moore Lappe
		Buckminster Fuller: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth 
		     (I have this as 69)
		Carlos Castaneda: A Separate Reality
		Be Here Now: Baba Ram Dass, Lama Foundation
		Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: Dee Brown (sez EWJ)
		The Crack in the Cosmic Egg: Joseph Chilton Pearce
		The Massage Book - George Downing
		Another Roadside Attraction
		Love Story
		East West Journal, Brookline, Massachusetts
		
		Vitamin C 
		Hot Pants, men's shoes with heels
		?Day-care centers
		Christiania free city founded in Copenhagen
		Helen Caldicott begins (successful) campaign to stop nuclear
		     atmospheric testing in France
		Gray Panthers founded


1972     


	Dec	Nixon makes last attempt to get North Vietnam to submit:
		18 days of "carpet" bombing of homes, hospitals,
		and civilians of Hanoi & Haiphong through Christmas; 
		first B-52 pilots refuse to fly missions 
	Dec 29	last Life Magazine after 36 years)
		(when did People Mag start?)
	Dec 30	Nixon orders end to bombing

1972		MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
		RS: Exile on Main St and summer tour
		Eric Clapton with Derek & the Dominoes
		McCartney touring with Wings
		*David Bowie: Ziggy Stardust
		Glitter Rock - New York
		*Lou Reed (from Velvet Underground): first solo
		*Blue Oyster Cult (Heavy Metal)
		*Uriah Heep (Heavy Metal)
		*Alice Cooper (Heavy Metal)
		*Yes
		Rare Earth?
		*Leon Russell: first solo
		*Chick Corea  with Return to Forever
		*Eno
		*Fairport Convention (from UK)
		*Joni Mitchell: For the Roses
		*Bonnie Raitt
		*Steely Dan
		*Jackson Browne
		*Eagles
		Curtis Mayfield
		Don McLean: American Pie
		Bette Midler
		Nitty Gritty Dirt Band with country music stars: 
		     Will the Circle Be Unbroken
		
		The Godfather (Coppola)
		(first time regular movie prices are 
		raised to over 4 dollars)
		Last Tango in Paris (Bertolucci)
		Play It Again, Sam & Everything ... 
		Sex - Woody Allen
		Brother Sun, Sister Moon (St. Francis of Assisi)
		Jodorowsky working on The Holy Mountain
		Grease "50s revival"
		Godspell
		Deliverance
		Fritz the Cat
		Deep Throat (seized Aug 18, ruled obscene Mar 73)
		
		Ms. Magazine starts (actually Dec. 71)
		I.F. Stone stops publishing The Weekly
		The Vegetarian Epicure (I) -
		The Joy of Sex - Alex Comfort
		The Massage Book - George Downing (I have this as 71)
		The Alexander Technique - Wilfred Barlow
		Carlos Castaneda: Journey to Ixtlan
		Mandala - Jose & Miriam Arguelles
		Ringolevio - Emmett Grogan
		Jonathan Livingston Seagull 
		    (I have this as 70) (saw again as 72)
		Watership Down - Richard Adams
		The Foxfire Book published, a compilation of reprints
		     from quarterly Foxfire magazine, a teenage
		     staff's reports on dying folk customs and arts
		     of the Georgia Appalachians
		Joan Baez takes a year off to volunteer for Amnesty Intl
		Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess introduces 
		     the idea of deep ecology
		
		bikes
		"szechwan food"
		"below the knee hemlines"
		"use of Ms"
		Mark Spitz (Munich Olympics)  & that Russian gymnast?
		Burt Reynolds "first" nude male portrait in Cosmopolitan
		
1973


      

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           Dec 8 John Lennon was shot to dead in New York City in
                 front of his apartment building.
	
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1988


          Dec 21, 1988 Pan-Am flight 103, Lockerbie bombing,
          270 people lost their lifes.    

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SOURCES:
                Judy Goldsmith's Timeline
                Bill Murrey's Timeline	
		History Channel Web Site
                Life Magazine CD,
		Compton Encyclophedia
                Internet Research - Jeri

  
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