The '60s at 50

4.20.2017

Saturday, April 22, 1967: Birth of the Big Mac

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The Big Mac -- advertised as a hamburger "made with 2 freshly ground patties, tangy melted cheese, crisp lettuce, pickle and our o...
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4.15.2017

Saturday, April 15, 1967: Spring Mobilization to End the War in Vietnam

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Tens of thousands of people march in anti-war rallies in New York and San Francisco. The rallies themselves were evidence of American...
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4.11.2017

Tuesday, April 11, 1967: Robert Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta

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CLEVELAND, Mississippi -- Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., trekking through poverty pockets in rural Mississippi, said Tuesday t...
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4.07.2017

Friday, April 7, 1967: KMPX

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Tom Donahue takes over the 8 p.m.-to-midnight shift at FM radio station KMPX in San Francisco, extending the station's embrace of w...
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4.04.2017

Tuesday, April 4, 1967: 'Beyond Vietnam'

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his most public and comprehensive statement against the Vietnam War. Addressing a crowd of 3,000 ...
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3.31.2017

Friday, March 31, 1967: Jimi Hendrix sets guitar on fire

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During a show at London's Finsbury Park Astoria, Jimi Hendrix puts a match to his lighter-fluid-soaked guitar, a stunt that would be ...
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3.30.2017

Thursday, March 30, 1967: Photo shoot for 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'

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The image on the album cover is composed of a collage of celebrities. There are 88 figures, including the band members themselves. Pop ...
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1.26.2017

Friday, January 27, 1967: Apollo 1

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A flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first pi...
1.16.2017

January 1967: 'The Peter Principle'

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"The Peter Principle" first appeared as an article in Esquire magazine in January 1967; two years later, Laurence J. Peter ...
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1.14.2017

Saturday, January 14, 1967: 'Human Be-In'

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Anybody who was nobody was there.      And if there were any anybodys, nobody knew.      It was the city's big...
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1.12.2017

Thursday, January 12, 1967: Cryogenics

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Phoenix, Arizona -- The body of an elderly California professor who died of cancer will arrive here this week for storage in a steel ca...
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11.20.2016

Sunday, November 20, 1966: Women's right to vote in Switzerland

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     Switzerland, the last civilized country to withhold the vote from its women, will continue to do so, its male voters decided Sunda...
11.08.2016

Tuesday, November 8, 1966: U.S. elections

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Alabama: Lurleen Wallace      A triumphant Lurleen Wallace reigned unchallenged as Alabama's first woman governor-elect today while...
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10.29.2016

October 1966: Founding of Black Panther Party for Self-Defense

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The Black Panther Party was created October 15, 1966, in Oakland, California, by Merritt Junior College students Huey P. Newton (right ...
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