BOOMER TIME-LINE FOR MAY
By Jeri Maier, Deryl D. Danner Sr.



1945:
	May 7	Germany surrenders

1952:
		Korean War continues
		Nixon's"Checkers"speech
	Apr 22	First atmospheric bomb test - Yucca Flat, Nevada
	May	CORE holds first sit-ins in U.S. history
		Charlie Chaplin's US visa revoked
 
1953:
	May 4	Aldous Huxley (58) takes mescaline

1954:
	May 17	Brown v Bd of Education of Topeka: Supreme Ct strikes down 
		seperate but equal' doctrine, outlawing segregation in public schools
	May 8	Dien Bien Phu: French defeat in Vietnam

1955:
	May	Davy Crockett song (Bill Hayes version) tops best seller charts;
		other versions also in Top Ten

1956:
	May 27	Tallahassee bus boycott

1957:
	May17	MLK leads Prayer Pilgrimage to Washington D.C. - 30,000
		(Third anniversary of Brown vs. Bd of Ed decision)

1958:
	May	V.P. Nixon motorcade booed in Uruguay, Argentina,
		Bolivia, Peru, and Venezuela
	May	Elvis Presley goes into the army 
		(rock calendar sez enters Mar 24, 59)
	May 11	Last Poet's Follies, SF
		spring  Partisan: \fIThe Know-Nothing Bohemians\fR - Norman Podhoretz
	May	Art D'Lugoff opens Village Gate on Bleeker St.
		National attention on beats, 
		tour buses start touring North Beach

1959:
	May	US? sends two monkeys up in a rocket
	May 25	Billie Holiday's last performance (44) [dies 1959]
		First Newport Folk Festival: Joan Baez performs
		(summer Kesey, working at hospital & writing)

1960:

	May 1	Francis Gary Powers shot down in U-2 over USSR
		(public discovers spy flights have been routine)
	May 6	Civil Rights Act signed by JFK
	May 9	First oral contraceptive, Enovid, licensed
	May 13	during SLATE sit-in against non-admission to 
		HUAC hearings (SF City Hall) police attack 200 protestors
	May	Payola Scandel (radio)

	May ?	Dylan tapes John Birch Society Blues for the Ed Sullivan tv show (censored)
	May 2	Birmingham: 958 children go to jail for marching
	May 3	Connor orders fire houses & dogs turned on children
		marching out of the 16th St Baptist Church in Birmingham to keep
		them from marching out of the "Negro section"

1963:
	May 6 	(Mon) Birmingham: 1000 children & adults arrested,
 		making a total of about 2500\fR
		(Ella Baker, Dave Dellinger, James Forman, Dick
       		Gregory, Guy & Candie Carawan, Joan Baez in Birmingham)
		[when? JFK  "ordered Alabama National Guard placed under Federal
		control, used display of military force to impose deseg"]
	May 7	thousands of Negro children enter downtown "white" Birmingham
	May 8	Buddhist uprisings against Diem start in Hue
           	May 9	meetings between white & Negro leaders negotiate an end
           		to much of Birmingham segregation
	May 11	(Sat) KKK rally just outside of Birmingham and
		bombing of A.D. King's home & Gaston Motel,
            		followed by riot around the motel area
	May 16	sit-ins & marches throughout the south
            		next 10 weeks: 758 demonstrations in 186 cities, 
            		14,733 arrests in 11 southern states\fR
            		(throughout June & July)
	May  	Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (with Blowin in the Wind)
              	Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing at Monterey Folk
              	Festival, and Baez starts introducing Dylan at her concerts
              	when?   Cooper makes 22 orbits
	May 28	Medgar Evers gets agreement of negotiations in Jackson
              	which is then withdrawn; 4 students & professor harassed
              	during sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter
	May 31	600 children arrested for marching [Jackson?? or Birmingham?]

1964:
	May   	very first LA Free Press at first? KPFK Renaissance Faire
	May    	Dylan's first visit to England, meets Beatles,
            		Rolling Stones, Eric Burden of Animals (who is doing 
           		first "folk-rock" piece House of Rising Sun); 
           		turns Beatles on to marijuana

1964:
	May	Oldest baby boomers reach 18, graduate high school

1965:
	May 3	Drop City commune founded, ?in New Mexico? 
     		on Interstate Hwy 125 into Colorado
	May 6 	First two Marine divisions arrive Vietnam

1965:
	May    	Beatles: A Ticket to Ride hit
       	May    	Berkeley: Vietnam Day & teach-ins at many other colleges
	May 17	National Teach-in broadcast over radio from Wash.
  		D.C.
	May    	L.A. Free Press starts regular publication\fP
   		(the Mime Troupe)
 		Spring  Albin House concerts
	May 26 	Riverside County salmonella crisis causes new look at
     		water supplies in the US

1965:
	May   	Dylan: Blonde on Blonde
	May    	Beatles: Paperback Writer/Rain
	May 10 	Vietnam: General Thi dismissed
  		from government by Ky; Buddhist revolt starts
	May 15 	10,000+ picket White House & rally at Wash Mon w 63,000
    		(SANE + 4 other organizations)
	May 20-23 Buddhist & labor union demonstrations against Ky govt in Saigon
	May 26	Second day of Internatl Days of Protest: 20,000 Fifth Ave, NYC
     		called by "National Coordinating Committee to End the
   		War in Vietnam"
	May 29 	Buddhist nun immolates self in Hue, the first of
            		eleven immolations in next three weeks

1967:
	May    	first week \fBOakland Black Panthers demonstrate in the State
    		legislature; first national media attention 
		Stokely Carmichael turns over Chair SNCC to H. Rap Brown
	May    	Bertrand Russell's War Crimes Tribunal meets in
   		Stockholm, denounces U.S. leaders for
    		crimes against humanity in Vietnam
	May    	'End of Provo' event - Vondelpark, Amsterdam	
            		--> formation of Kabouters

1968:
	May   	Life: "Who Says College Kids Have Changed?
            		At Indiana Univ, the students' main concern is
            		looking out for No. 1"
	May     	Paul McCartney reveals that Beatles have all taken acid
            		(May 20 NYC: Flower Power Day)
	May 27 	Scott MacKenzie: Are You Going to San Francisco enters charts
	May 30 	Biafra declares independence from Nigeria
	May 30 	(Mem. Day) NYC, Tompkins Square Park, Lower East Side:
		confrontation between hippies & Puerto Ricans

1969:
	May   	when? Fifteen people enter Chicago central draft depository
            		and destroy all records of twelve local draft boards
           		and some files of eight others
	May    	when? John and Yoko: Montreal bed-in week
            		and record "Give Peace a Chance"
	May 7  	Lou Gottlieb deeds Morning Star Ranch to God
	May 13 	Nixon sends draft reform plan to Congress
	May 14 	Sup Ct Justice Abe Fortas resigns under fire for
            		personal conduct (first in history)
	May 14 	Night: police build fence around People's Park
	May 15 	People's Park\fR: James Rector (25) killed
           		Reagan: "If it's a blood bath, then let it be now."
            		orders gassing of U.C. campus 60 wounded,
		including Alan Blanchard blinded for life, Steve Carr
		-> 17 days of street fighting, ending in march by 30,000
         		150 demonstrators shot & wounded
	May 19 	Sup Ct overturns Leary conviction for crossing Mex to
            		Texas w mj - overturns 2 fed anti-mj laws
	May 20 	134 day class boycott of San Francisco State settled
	May 21?	Police in helicopters drop teargas on U.C. Berk campus rally
	May 22 	Colombia\fR: 100 (SDS) students flee 2 bldgs after warrants
		(asking no military recruitment on campus,
            		end to ROTC, black studies program)
            		+ Queens (NYC) & Cornell
            		when?   "Canadian govt allows Am mil deserters to settle in Canada"
	May 30 	(Mem Day) 20,000 people in People's Park - with permit
            		flowers on the fences
	May    	Apollo 8 photo of earthrise over the moon published
          		as US postage stamp & circulated widely, 
          		as Buckminster Fuller uses the term "spaceship earth"

1970:
	May    	First week: 30 ROTC bldgs burned or bombed,
           		Natl Guard on 21 campuses in 16 states
	May 1 	(Saturday) ROTC bldg ransacked College Park, Wash D.C.
            		"M 1-2" New Haven: new protests over the pending trial of Seale
         		& Ericka Hu/iggins -> 20,000 by Sunday
	May 2 	(Sunday) ROTC bldg burned down at Kent State
	May 3 	Yale Day: 15,000 protest 9 Black Panthers awaiting
          		trial in New Haven
	May 4	Kent State University, Ohio: National Guard fires into crowd 
           		at anti-war demonstration, 4 students killed & 8 wounded\fR
	May 4 	5,000 demo at College Park, Wash D.C., 450 policemen
           		unable to disperse, 600 Natl Guard sent in
	May 6-20?  The Strike 448 colleges\fR 1 million+ students
		"4 million students"
          		Gitlin: 750+ campuses (of 2500 nationwide), demos at 1200+
          		(demonstrations against sending troops to Cambodia)\fR
           		when?   ?including? Stanford "worst riots in its history"
           		(75 campuses stayed closed thru rest of the school year
	May 8 	(ck) Nixon fire Gen. Lewis Hershey as director of the
           		Selective Service & agrees to withdraw all U.S. troops
          		from Cambodia within 30 days
	May 9	Mobilization: 100,000+ in Wash D.C. on only 10 days notice (Git)
	May 9-11	50-60,000 demonstrators gather in Washington
	May 13	Movement for a New Congress - to elect peace
           		candidates founded at Princeton Univ
	May 14/15  Jackson State College woman's dorm, Mississippi:
            		two black students killed, 9/12/12 wounded - no media coverage
	May    	Philip Berrigan captured, sent to Federal Penitentiary
          		Also H. Rap Brown jumps bail on way to Maryland trial
          		for inciting riot & arson
	Ma/Jun	Alcatraz removals

1971:
	Apr 26	50,000 demonstrators (Vets?) in Washington D.C. set up
                        	"Algonquin Peace City" (in West Potomac Park),
	May 1  	attempt to blockade govt for a day; 
         		5,000 District police, 1,500 Natl Gd & 8,000 fed troops
     		start evacuating: 7,000 arrested
          		[another source: "20,000 Natl Gd & police, 10,000 paratroopers"]
	May 3-5 	1,200 arrested - final total 12,614 (record)
	May     	Amtrak starts operations (182 trains to service 300 cities)
	May    	England's former prime minister Harold Wilson says LBJ
            		could have ended the Viet war in Feb 67
	May 4   	Dollar crisis starts in Europe, as five currencies are
            		freed from parity with US dollar 
	May     	Bobby Seale released after charges of ordering murder 
           		of Black Panther Alex Rackley in New Haven dropped,
           		out on bail on 4 year Chicago trial contempt charges
	May 13 	"13 Black Panthers acquitted" (is this the same?)
	May 15	Second anniversary of People's Park demo, "instigated"
            		by Daily Cal, leads to Daily Cal moving off U.C. Berkeley campus
	May 25 	Bobby Seale & Ericka Huggins case dismissed (same as second?)
	May    	Philip & Daniel Berrigan indicted for "conspiracy to
           		kidnap" a high govt official ie. the Pres.
	May    	Gaskin's caravan arrives in Tennessee
	May     	The Last Whole Earth Catalog
	May    	French left joins Larzac farmers in protest against
            		French government's planned expansion of military base
	May     	Life: Rosie Grier does needlework
	May    	Airlines start super cheap flights to Europe

1976:
	May 28	OPEC extends oil price freeze

1977:
	May   	Unemployment down to 7% - lowest in 29 months
	May     	1-2 \fB1,414 arrested as Clamshell Alliance occupies construction
         		site of nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire\fP
	May 13 	La Pasionaria returns to Madrid, 34 days after the
         		Communist Party is legalized in Spain
	May 13 	500 demonstrators arrested at Seabrook demo found
           		guilty of trespass

1978:
	May 21	4,300 rally at Bangor Naval Base, Wash 
           		to protest U.S.  Trident

1979:
	May 4  	Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister 
        		of Britain
	May 6   	65,000+ Wash anti-nuke\fP
	May 8   	California starts odd-even license gas distribution
	May?   	OPEC raises oil prices again (2 1/2 x)

1980:
	May 4  	Tito dies, Yugoslavia, xx years head of state
	May 17-19  Black uprising, Miami
	May 18  	Mount St. Helens erupted in
        		Washington State.
	May 21 	Carter announces state of 
            		emergency at Love Canal 

1981:
	May 	House passes Nuclear Freeze, to be tabled by Senate
	May 23 	30th black youngster found dead in Atlanta                        
                         
	May 18	Rev. Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax fraud 

1983:
	May 15	NYT: Vast Office Glut Plagues Downtowns:
            		Average vacancy rate across the nation
           		hits 10.8% in March
            		(includes Denver, Houston,
          		Chicago, etc) up from 3.4% in 1980 
           		AIDS worries
          		deaths from PCP/angel dust
          		Garry Trudeau takes a year
          		off doing Doonesbury
          		break-dancing
            		digital
         		ripped sweatshirts "a la Flashdance"
        		anti-nuke: Shoreham        

1984:
	May    	Dutch government appears to conclude 
            		it cannot accept missile deployment
	May 3  	Iran, Iraq attack ships in Persian Gulf
	May 7  	Veterans & 7 chemical companies settle 
		Agent Orange suit 
           		(out of court): 15,000 vets & 
		families to get $180 mill 
	May 10 	US govt held negligent in 
		above-ground testing of nuclear
            		weapons in Nevada from 51 to 62,
		though only one cancer
            		victim compensated
	May     	The MX program barely survives a
		House vote
	May 15 	Senate Foreign Relations 
		Committee rejects Reagan nominee
         		(for head of U.S. Information Agency)
	May 21-26  First North American Bioregional Congress meets in
         		Excelsior Springs, Ozarkia bioregion, Missouri
	May 23 	Contra Eden Pastora admits receiving CIA aid
	May 24	Longest Run leaves NYC, 51 days to Sacto

1985:
	May  	Nature\fP publishes new research by Dr. Joe Farman
          		which indicates ozone layer levels are falling
	May 1  	Reagan ends U.S. trade with Nicaragua
	May 2  	Senate votes to limit Pentagon spending to 85 levels,
            		adjusted for inflation
	May 12 	Washington Post reports Lebanese counterterrorist unit
     		responsible for car bomb in Beirut suburb which killed
     		80 on March 8 was trained by the CIA
	May 12 	Philadelphia police bomb & destroy 61 row houses & kill 11
          		in confrontation with anarchist group MOVE
	May 17 	Fed cuts interest rate to 7.5% (lowest since 78)
        		Two major banks immed drop rate 10.5 to 10%
	May 20 	(Next trading day) Stock Market rises 19.54 pt
          		to finish above 1300 for the first time
	May 23 	Reagan & Senate agree to compromise
           		limiting MX missiles to 50
 
  
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