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‘Let us close the springs of racial poison. Let us pray for wise and understanding hearts. Let us lay aside irrelevant differences and make our nation whole.’ Lyndon Johnson 36th. U.S. President Served Nov. 22, 1963 – Jan. 20, 1969
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World events
• Radio Caroline becomes the first “pirate” radio station in Britain on March 28, broadcasting from an anchored ship outside the U.K.’s territorial waters. • The Rolling Stones release their selftitled debut album April 16. • President Johnson and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of nuclear material April 20. • Pabloe Picasso paints hi sfourth “Head of a Bearded Man” on May 23. • The Charter of the Palestine Liberation Organization is released by the Arab League on May 28. • Nelson
Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa on June 12. • The U.S. sends 5,000 military advisers to South Vietnam on July 27, bringing the total number of U.S. forces in Vietnam to 21,000. • American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam on Aug. 5 in retaliation for strikes against U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. • Twenty-three men and 31 women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall on Oct. 5. • Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union on Oct. 15.
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Leonid Brezhnev and Alexei Kosygin assume power.
U.S. News
• President Johnsons declares a national “War on Poverty” on Jan. 8 during his first State of the Union Address. • Chicago’s Vee-Jay Records releases “Introducing... The Beatles” on Jan. 10, 10 days before Capitol Records’ release of “Meet the Beatles!” The two companies battle over Vee-Jay’s release in court. • Plans to build New York’s World Trade Center are announced Jan. 18. • The 24th Amendment is ratified Feb. 4, outlawing the poll tax. • The Beatles appear on “The Ed Sullivan Show” on Feb. 9, launching “Beatlemania” and becoming the catalyst of the “British Invasion.” • Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
marry for the first time Disney’s “Mary Poppins” hits theaters. March 15. • Geraldine Jerrie Mock begins her solo flight around the world March 19. She is dent John F. Kennedy on Sept. 24, conthe first woman to do so. cluding Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. • The Great Alaskan Earthquake strikes • Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the March 27 at a magnitude of 9.2, killing youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace 125 people. It is the most powerful earthPrize on Oct. 14. quake to hit the U.S. • Police arrest about 800 students at the • “Jeopardy!” debuts March 30 on NBC. University of California, Berkeley, on Dec. Art Fleming is the host. 3 after they staged a sit-in. • Sidney Poitier becomes the first black • Singer and songwirter Sam Cooke is man to win Best Actor at the Academy shot and killed Dec. 11 at a motel in Los Awards on April 13. Angeles. • Ford officially unveils the Mustang to the public April 17. Movies • Congress recognizes Bourbon as a “dis• “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to tinctive product of the United States” on Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” May 4. • “Mary Poppins” • Twelve men publicly burn their draft • “My Fair Lady” cards in New York City on May 12 — the • “A Fistful of Dollars” first such act of war resistance. • “Goldfinger” • President Johnson signs the Civil Rights • “Zulu” Act of 1964 on July 2. The • “Marnie” law, abolishing racial seg• “Murder Ahoy” regation in the U.S., passed • “Mail Order Bride” Congress after a 75-day fili• “Goodbye Charlie” buster in the Senate. • “Mary Poppins” preMusic miers Aug. 27. The film • “Oh, Pretty Woman,” Roy Orbison would be Disney’s biggest • “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” money maker and win five The Beatles Academy Awards. • “She Loves You,” The Beatles • The Warren Commis• “I Feel Fine,” The Beatles sion publishes its report on • “House of the Rising Sun,” The Anithe assassination of Presimals
BORN THIS YEAR: Sandra Bullock, actress (July 26). Above left: Michelle Obama, first lady (Jan. 17); Rob Lowe, actor (March 17); Barry Bonds, baseball player (July 24); Trisha Yearwood, musician (Sept. 19).
• “A Hard Day’s Night,” The Beatles • “Non Ho L’Eta Per Amarti,” Gigliola Cinquetti • “Can’t Buy Me Love,” The Beatles • “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,” The Righteous Brothers • “Hello Dolly,” Louis Armstrong
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