1945
April Allied forces attack Berlin; Hitler commits suicide
May 7 Germany surrenders
July 16 First atomic bomb explosion, Alamogordo, New Mexico
Aug8&9 "Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima, Nagasaki"
Sept 2 Surrender of Japan; "WORLD WAR II ends"
1946
First of 23 nuclear explosions 46-58, Bikini atoll
"first year of the Baby Boom (46-64)" Postwar birth rise
(1945: 2,873,000; 1946: 3.5 mill; 1947: 3.75 mill)
[Storming Heaven p.94 sez Baby Boom height 54-64
4 mill babies born/year]
[1950s "baby boom in every industrialized country" - Hall)
1948
Sept First Emmy Awards Ceremony telecast.
1951
Sept First transcontinental television broadcast
1955
Sept 14 Little Richard records 'Tutti Frutti'
Sept 30 James Dean dies in Porsche crash on
Highway 46/Highway 41 intersection east
of Highway 101 in Paso Robles.
He was on his to the the Rodeo in Salinas.
East of Eden released, but Rebel and Giant not
released yet at the time of his death.
1961
Sept Dylan plays Gerde's Folk City in Greenwich Village,
gets first review (Times)
Sept 17 U.K.: March & sit-down, Parliament Sq
large numbers & many arrests (while Russell in jail)
Sept 24 Herbert Lee, 52, local Negro leader & freedom school
attendee, Fayette City, shot by State Rep. Hurst (check)
fall Leary founds International Foundation for Internal Freedom
(IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The Psychedelic
Review;
IFIF rents two houses in Newton as "Freedom House"s
Sept SNCC voter registration drive leaders in Georgia sniped at
& churches burned & Mississippi (Ruleville)
Sept 30 -Oct 1 JFK calls out troops to allow James Meredith
to become the first Negro admitted to U Miss
(Dylan writes Oxford Town)
(troops stay until late summer 1963, after Meredith
has his degree)
1963
Sept? negative pieces on Leary/Alpert firing appear in
Esquire, Saturday Evening Post, Look (get?)
mid-Sep Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other Harvard alumni
LSD-researchers move to the Hitchcock's estate in
Millbrook, New York (+ The Psychedelic Exp going to printer)
Sept Birmingham fights over school integration
Sept 10 20 Negro children integrated into Birmingham schools
Sept 13 Wallace announces candidacy for president
Sept 15 16th St. Baptist church in Birmingham bombed, killing four
young Negro female Sunday School students
(Addie Mae Collins 14, Denise McNair 11,
Carol Robertson 14, Cynthia Wesley 11)
1964
Aug-Sept Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 North American cities
Sept 27 Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert 1964
fall Ralph Metzner, Harvard alumni of Leary's group, goes to India,
contacts & studies with Lama Govinda
(?The Way of the White Clouds)
fall Oldest baby boomers enter college
Sept Selective Service calls up 27,500, more than in
any month since 1953
Sept Wilderness Act becomes law (by 1988 adds 80 million
acres to the 11 million acres currently in the
wilderness system)
Sept early: Clark Kerr bans all politicking outside UC
Berkerly's main gate
Sept 27 Warren Commission Report on JFK assasination released;
says Oswald's was the only bullet
1965
fall Start of mini-skirts in stores-USA. (mini skirts already
perliferated London in late 1964 - Jeri)
fall Ballad of Green Berets tops charts
Sept 2 Beatles Cow Palace
Sept 5 SF Ex writer Michael Fallon applies the term "hippie"
to the SF counterculture in an article about the
Blue Unicorn coffeehouse where LEMAR (Legalize
Marijuana) & the Sexual Freedom League meet,
& hippie houses declares the Beat movement is
alive in the Haight Ashbury.
fall Millbrook house breaks up
fall Brigette Bardot in Time and Life
1966
Sept 9 SF Oracle starts
Sept 11 First Elections in South Vietnam
Sept first Lunar Orbiter photo of Earth
Vietnam Air War going on
Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam formed
George Harrison to India for 6 weeks to study
sitar with Ravi Shankar
Sept 15 Gemini 11 shoots pix of world surfaces
Sept 19 Joan Baez leads 160 Negro children to Mississippi
elem school.
Sept late: Leary holds press conf NY Advtg Club announcing
formation of a psychedelic religion - League for
Spiritual Discovery ("Turn on, tune in, drop out")
& starts nightly presentations at the Village Theater
Sept 25 LA Free Press headline: The lesser of two evils
is still an evil (explain) (?about Reagan?)
1967
Sept? Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in
Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until
he meets his guru
Sept 500,000 in South Vietnam, 600,000 in Southeast Asia
Sept Tom Hayden & 30 Americans meet North Vietnamese
leaders in Czechoslovakia; Hayden goes on to
Vietnam to help return three U.S. P.O.W.s (to Nov 11)
Sept 15 Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl.
1968
Sept 8 Huey Newton (leader Black Panther Party) convicted
Oakland vol manslaughter Oak policeman
Sept Stock Market starts 18 month +? downhill slide
Sept American Indian Movement (AIM) born as a volunteer
street patrol to combat police brutality, Minneapolis
Sept 18 Troops invade Mexico City Natl Univ (demos since mid summer)
Sept "Eldridge Cleaver banned from lecturing on U.C.
Berkeley campus"
1969
Sept 3 North Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh dies at 79.
Sept 13 Toronto: Lennon & "Plastic Ono Band"
Sept 13 Viet Cong launch an artillery attack against
a South Vietnamese civilian village which leaves
more than 100 dead.
Sept 15 David Brower announces founding of Friends
of the Earth
Sept 19 President Nixon announces a 50,000-man cut in
planned draft calls for the rest of the year.
Sept 16 President Nixon announces a withdrawal of about
35,000 US troops from South Vietnam.
Sept 24 "Trial of Chicago Eight" starts
(David Dellinger, Rennie Davis, Thomas Hayden,
Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, John Froines, Lee Weiner,
Bobby Seale)
Sept 28 W Germany: first (postwar) Socialists take power
(Willy Brandt & Social Democrats in coalition with
Free Democrats)
1970
Sept Selective Service Systems report: 271 "anti-draft
occurrances" since January
Sept 12 Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help from
the Weather Underground, joins Cleaver in Algiers
Sept 18 Jimi Hendrix dies at 27
Monterey Folk Festival (Kris Kristofferson)
1971
Sept Attica Federal Prison: 5 day revolt ends with 1000
state & local police & prison guards storming
the prison, 41 prisoners? dead
Sept 16 Japan: 5,000 farmers & students battle 5,000
police in demo to prevent govt taking of land
for Tokyo International Airport at Narita
1972
Sept 5 Arabs kill Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics (at the
Athelete Village)
1973
Sept Chile coup overthrows Salvador Allende
Sept 11 Allende killed
Sept Jim Croce dies
Sept Lennon to LA with May Pang & Spector sessions
Sept 12 Nixon Resigns
1974
Sept Ford grants amnesty to draft evaders
(Sept Green Revolution plan announced)
Sept 16 US Dist Ct dismisses all charges against Banks
& Means for Wounded Knee takeover
1975
Sept 5 Lynette `Squeaky' Fromme fires at Carter (Sacto)
Sept 9 New York City emergency plan to stave off default
for three months
Sept 18 Patty Hearst found by FBI In SF & caught
Sept 30 Congress passes Hyde amendment, which would
prevent Medicaid reimbursements for abortions
1980
Sept 22 After 10 months of skirmishes,
Iran-Iraq war starts, halting 60% of world's oil traffic.
1981
Sept Mortgage rates at 17.71%
1982
Sept First Amer Indian International Tribunal held at
Deqanawida-Quetzalqualtal Univ in Davis to gather
testimony from native peoples of the world on the
economic effects of U.S. foreign & domestic policies
Also world pilgrimage of indigenous peoples from 450
countries arrives at Yellow Thunder Camp in South
Dakota to help save it from usurpation by coal and
uranium corporations
1983
Sept? First Conference on the Fate of the Earth
Sept? Craxi & Socialist Party win power in Italy from
40 years of Christian Democrats
Sept Continental & Eastern Airlines file bankruptcies
(the first fall-outs to deregulation?)
1985
Sept 1 To avert Senate's passage of South African sanctions,
Reagan announces more restrained sanctions
(11 western nations have already imposed sanctions)
Sept Unemployment, which has stayed at 7.2% for 6 months,
finally drops to 6.9% (lowest since 1980)
1986
Sept 4 Stock Market hits all time high of 1919.71,
starts to level off
Sept 11 Stock Market has fallen 86.61 pts to 1792.89
Sept 15 Texas Airlines buying out People Express & its
ill-advised acquisition, Frontier Airlines
Sept 21 35 nations adopt treaty to reduce risk of accidental
war, including USSR agreement to on-site inspections
Sept 27 Congress passes Tax Reform Act (affects 87)
(after 2 yrs)
1998
Sept 8 Mark McGwire broke Roger Maris's 61 home run
record with #62 home run at St. Louis Cardinal's
Busch Stadium in front of over 50,000 fans
exactly at 8:18 pm EST.
SOURCES:
Judy Goldsmith's Timeline
Bill Murrey's Timeline
Fox Sport TV (Big Mc's 62 - 98)
Life Magazine CD
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