- 1861
| Jul 17 | Congress authorizes paper money. | Ref: 5 |
- 1960
| Jan 01 | US census at 179,245,000. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 18 | US & Japan sign joint defense treaty. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 19 | Eisenhower & Premier Kishi sign US-Japanese Security pact. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | The U.S. Senate approves 23rd Amendment calling for a ban on the poll tax. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 26 | For $105 you could buy a do-it-yourself fallout shelter. A full-size model of one was on display in a bank in New York. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 29 | A report from the White House stated that America’s kids were getting too fat. | Ref: 4 |
| Feb 29 | The first Playboy Club opens at 116 E. Walton, Chicago, IL. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 15 | Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 10 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 14 | First underwater launching of Polaris missile. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | American Samoa sets up a constitutional government. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 18 | The Mutual Broadcasting System was sold to the 3M Company of Minnesota for $1.25 million. Previously, the network had been owned by MONY (Mutual of New York). | Ref: 4 |
| Jun 23 | Cleon Turner finally found an entrance to what would become known as Crystal Onyx Cave. Turner had been searching for the place for 30 years. He and a friend found a promising location on the side of Pruitt’s Knob (Kentucky) on this day. They had been digging and digging and digging. Finally, with the help of a little dynamite, they created the new entrance. | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 04 | America's 50-star flag, honoring Hawaiian statehood, was officially unfurled in Philadelphia. | Ref: 70 |
| Jul 07 | USSR shoots down a US aircraft over Barents sea. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 08 | Storer Broadcasting Company purchased WINS radio in NY City for $10 million. It was the highest price paid for a radio station (to that time). Many great radio personalities including Murray the K, Bruce Morrow and Alan Freed were stars on WINS Radio. WINS, under Storer ownership, also aired some very clever promotions, including the time they drove the NY media crazy. It was a discovery (thought to be a rare find) in the back seat of a NY taxicab: a clay tablet that looked to be Egyptian and had carvings on it. Upon closer examination, it read, “Everybody’s mummy listens to 10-10 WINS!” | Ref: 4 |
| Jul 20 | First submerged submarine to fire Polaris missile (George Washington). | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | The ABM early warning system, Thule Greenland, detects the moonrise as a large Russian missile contingent headed for the US | Ref: 62 |
| Oct 14 | Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy suggested formation of a Peace Corps during a talk at the University of Michigan. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 19 | The United States imposed an embargo on exports to Cuba covering all commodities except medical supplies and certain food products. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 28 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians" from the Soviet bloc. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 10 | Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 14 | President Dwight Eisenhower orders U.S. naval units into the Caribbean after Guatemala and Nicaragua charge Castro with starting uprisings. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 18 | Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 22 | Sailors and helicopters of the USS Valley Forge rescue 27 men from the oil tanker SS Pine Ridge as it breaks up in heavy seas off Cape Hatteras, NC. (XDG, p 4A, 12/22/2000) | Ref: 83 |
- 1961
| Jan 03 | The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 03 | Adam Clayton Powell elected Chairman of House Education & Labor. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 05 | US breaks diplomatic relations with Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 30 | JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | "Jail, No Bail" Jail-in movement starts in Rock Hill SC. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 25 | John F. Kennedy names Henry Kissinger national security adviser. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 28 | JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 08 | US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from South Carolina in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hours. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes president of US Communist Party. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 13 | JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 29 | The 23rd amendment, allowing residents of Washington, D.C. to vote for president, is ratified. (TWA, 1989) | Ref: 95 |
| Apr 14 | Cuban-American invasion army departs Nicaragua. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 17 | About 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. | Ref: 2 |
| May 17 | Cuban leader Fidel Castro offered to exchange prisoners captured in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion for American heavy tractors. | Ref: 5 |
| May 21 | Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery AL. | Ref: 2 |
| May 31 | JFK visits Charles de Gaulle in Paris. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 01 | The first community air-raid shelter was built -- in Boise, Idaho. The shelter had a capacity of 1,000 people and family memberships sold for $100. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 17 | The Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | President John F. Kennedy appoints General Lucius D. Clay as his personal representative in Berlin. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 04 | US authorizes Agency for International Development. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 05 | John F. Kennedy signs first anti-hijack legislation. | Ref: 10 |
| Sep 22 | President John Kennedy signs a congressional act establishing the Peace Corps. | Ref: 2 |
| Sep 30 | The Peace Corps is established. | Ref: 3 |
| Oct 10 | Otis M Smith appointed to Michigan Supreme Court. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 10 | Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 15 | Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | JFK & British PM MacMillan meet in Bermuda. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Fidel Castro announces Cuba will release 1,113 prisoners from failed 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion for $62 million worth of food & medical supplies. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 31 | The Marshall Plan expired after distributing more than $12 billion in foreign aid. | Ref: 70 |
- 1962
| Jan 12 | The United States resumes aid to the Laotian regime. | Ref: 2 |
| Jan 31 | Samuel Gravely assumes command of destroyer escort "USS Falgout". | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | President Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 07 | President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 22 | A Soviet bid for new Geneva arms talks is turned down by the U.S. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 01 | First K-Mart department store opens at Garden City, MI. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | US promises Thailand assistance against communist aggression. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 28 | The U.S. Air Force announces research into the use of lasers to intercept missiles and satellites. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 08 | Bay of Pigs invaders get thirty years imprisonment in Cuba. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 16 | Brazil nationalizes US businesses. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 21 | Century 21 Exposition opens in Seattle, Washington. | Ref: 5 |
| May 01 | JFK authorizes Area Redevelopment Act (ARA). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 07 | President John F. Kennedy signed National Security Action Memorandum 177. This memorandum enhanced the government's foreign police-training program. In connection with this program, Director Hoover agreed to accept up to 20 foreign police officers into each session of the FBI National Academy. | Ref: 14 |
| Sep 01 | Former White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers is born. | Ref: 6 |
| Sep 20 | The Senate votes 86-1 to authorize the President to use force in Cuba to counter a Soviet-backed military buildup. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 26 | The House votes 384-7 to authorize the President to use force in Cuba to counter a Soviet-backed military buildup. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Sep 27 | US sells Israel, Hawk anti-aircraft missiles. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | (Berlin Wall) The House votes 312-0 to authorize the President to use force in Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 10 | (Berlin Wall) The Senate votes by voice to authorize the President to use force in Germany after the building of the Berlin Wall. (USA Today, p 5A, 10/08/2002) | Ref: 13 |
| Oct 16 | The Cuban missile crisis began as President Kennedy was informed that reconnaissance photographs had revealed the presence of missile bases in Cuba. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 22 | President Kennedy goes on national television to announce that the USSR, contrary to its assurances, had been building missile and bomber bases in Cuba. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 22 | Pacific Science Center opens at Seattle Center. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 24 | The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 27 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 02 | JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 06 | Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | US lifts blockade of Cuba. | Ref: 5 |
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| Dec 06 | US abandons Skybolt ballistic missile program. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 21 | US & Cuba accord, releases Bay of Pigs captives. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 23 | Cuba starts returning US prisoners from the Bay of Pigs invasion. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 25 | The Department of Commerce Census Clock in Washington, DC recorded the U.S. population on this day as 188,000,000. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 25 | The Bay of Pigs captives, upon their return to the United States, vow to return to Cuba and topple Fidel Castro. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 31 | Governor Edmund G. Brown of CA announced that his state was the most populous of the 50 United States. NY’s governor, Nelson Rockefeller, disagreed and refused to concede. | Ref: 4 |
- 1963
| Jan 14 | George C Wallace sworn in as Governor of Alabama, his address states "segregation now; segregation tomorrow; segregation forever!" | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 21 | Glen Canyon Dam was dedicated | Ref: 62 |
| Feb 06 | The United States reports that all Soviet offensive arms are out of Cuba. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 19 | The Soviet Union informed President John F. Kennedy it would withdraw "several thousand" of an estimated 17,000 Soviet troops in Cuba. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 19 | In Costa Rica, President John F. Kennedy and six Latin American presidents pledge to fight Communism. | Ref: 2 |
| May 08 | JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 20 | The United States and Soviet Union signed an agreement to set up a hot line communication link between the two superpowers. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 22 | US and Soviet Union signed an agreement to establish hot line | Ref: 62 |
| Jun 26 | President Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he made his famous declaration: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 27 | Pres Kennedy spent first full day in Ireland. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 16 | Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia broke House Speaker Sam Rayburn’s record of service in the US Congress, as he celebrated serving 48 years, 8 months and 13 days. | Ref: 4 |
| Aug 30 | The U.S. Defense Department announced that a direct communications link between Washington and Moscow was operational. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 15 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev arrives in the US to begin a 13-day tour. (XDG, p 4A, 9/15/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Sep 24 | First authorized photograph taken of the United States Senate in session. | Ref: 10 |
| Sep 27 | At 10:59 AM the census clock, records US population at 190,000,000. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | Hyde St Pier re-opens as State Historical Park. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 07 | Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 11 | A newspaper report showed that women outnumbered men by almost 4 million in the U.S. | Ref: 4 |
| Nov 18 | First Touch-Tone telephone with ten push buttons goes into service in Pennsylvania. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 23 | Horatio Alger Society founded. | Ref: 5 |
- 1964
| Jan 11 | Panamá ends diplomatic relations with US. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 23 | The 24th amendment to the Constitution, eliminating the poll tax in federal elections, was ratified. (TWA, 1997) | Ref: 95 |
| Jan 24 | 24th Amendment to US Constitution goes into effect & states voting rights could not be denied due to failure to pay taxes. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 02 | GI Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 04 | 24th Amendment abolishes Poll tax. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 06 | Cuba blocks the water supply to Guantanamo Naval Base in rebuke of the United State's seizure of four Cuban fishing boats. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 09 | Anti-US rioting breaks out in the Panama Canal Zone. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 17 | US House of Reps accept Law on the civil rights. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 18 | The United States cuts military aid to five nations in reprisal for having trade relations with Cuba. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 26 | Lyndon B. Johnson signs a tax bill with $11.5 billion in cuts. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 29 | President Lyndon B. Johnson reveals U.S. secretly developed the Lockheed A-11 jet fighter. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 29 | Constructions begins on The Gateway Arch (630ft/192m high), in St. Louis, Missouri. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 11 | Senator Carl Hayden broke the record for continuous service in the U.S. Senate. He completed 37 years and seven days in the upper chamber. | Ref: 4 |
| Mar 15 | President Johnson asks for a War on Poverty. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 16 | President Lyndon B. Johnson submits a $1 billion war on poverty program to Congress. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 24 | Kennedy half-dollar issued. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 03 | US & Panama agree to resume diplomatic relations. | Ref: 5 |
| May 14 | Underground America Day is first observed. | Ref: 5 |
| May 22 | LBJ presents "Great Society". | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 10 | The U.S. Senate voted to limit further debate on a proposed civil rights bill, shutting off a filibuster by Southern lawmakers. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 18 | Lyndon B. Johnson makes call to Japanese PM Hayato Ikeda inagurating transoceanic cable. | Ref: 10 |
| Aug 20 | President Johnson signs Economic Opportunity Act (totaling nearly $1 billion). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 30 | California officially became the most populated of the United States. | Ref: 4 |
| Sep 03 | Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B Johnson. | Ref: 5 |
| Sep 12 | Canyonlands National Park was established | Ref: 62 |
| Oct 01 | The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of CA at Berkeley. | Ref: 70 |
| Nov 03 | Coleman Vote Tally System counts 600 ballots a minute in Hamilton County, OH & several in Calif. | Ref: 10 |
| Nov 24 | For the first time since 1800, residents of Wash DC are permitted to vote. | Ref: 26 |
| Dec 02 | Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley; 800 students arrested largest Calif. mass arrest in history. | Ref: 10 |
| Dec 03 | Police arrested some 800 students at the University of CA at Berkeley, one day after the students stormed the administration building and staged a massive sit-in. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 13 | In El Paso TX, LBJ & Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to reshape US-México border. | Ref: 5 |
- 1965
| Jan 08 | Senator Everett Dirksen introduces a bill to make marigold the national flower (didn't pass). | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 03 | 105 USAF cadets resigned for cheating on exams. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 15 | Addressing a joint session of Congress, President Johnson calls for new legislation to guarantee every American's right to vote. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 24 | The Freedom Marchers, citizens for civil rights, reach Montgomery, Alabama. | Ref: 2 |
| Apr 28 | US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until October 1966. | Ref: 5 |
| May 02 | 14,000 US troops arrive in the Dominican Republic to prevent Communists from seizing control of the unstable government. | Ref: 17 |
| May 11 | Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 16 | With the assistance of 20,000 National Guardsmen, a race riot in south-central Los Angeles, California, was suppressed after six days of violence, mass arrests, and property damage. | Ref: 2 |
| Aug 31 | Congress establishes the Dept of Housing & Urban Development. | Ref: 62 |
| Sep 30 | President Lyndon Johnson signs legislation that establishes the National Foundation for the Arts and the Humanities. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 06 | Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador. | Ref: 2 |
| Oct 28 | The Gateway Arch, a 630-foot tall parabolic arch made of steel, designed by architect Eero Saarinen, is completed as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial along the waterfront of St. Louis, Missouri. | Ref: 3 |
| Dec 28 | The United States bars oil sales to Rhodesia. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 31 | On this New Year’s Eve, Criswell made a TV appearance to announce his annual predictions for the coming year. Included in these predictions was one concerning Ronald Reagan. Criswell said Reagan would be the next governor of California. Criswell was right. Reagan was right, too. | Ref: 4 |
| Dec 31 | California becomes the largest state in population. | Ref: 2 |
- 1966
| Jan 18 | Robert Clifton Weaver is sworn in as head of the newly created Department of Housing and Urban Development, becomes the first African-American to hold a post in the presidential cabinet. | Ref: 3 |
| Mar 18 | Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for $1. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 24 | Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 13 | The Uniform Time Act of 1966 (15 U.S. Code Section 260a) which is signed into Public Law 89-387 by President Lyndon Johnson, created Daylight Saving Time to begin on the last Sunday of April and to end on the last Sunday of October. Any State that wanted to be exempt from Daylight Saving Time could do so by passing a State law. The law is later mended to the first Sunday in April. Ref. | |
| Apr 13 | The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes. | Ref: 2 |
| May 16 | National Welfare Rights Organization begins. | Ref: 5 |
| Jul 04 | President Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FBI records eventually became subject to the FOIA. | Ref: 14 |
| Aug 18 | The first batch of redesigned $100 bills featuring the now-familiar motto "In God We Trust" were printed on this day. | |
| Oct 15 | President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill creating the Department of Transportation. | Ref: 70 |
- 1967
| Jan 01 | The FBI's National Crime Information Center (NCIC) became operational. Law enforcement officials from across the country could tap this electronic database of criminal histories and other information to identify suspects and learn more about persons arrested. | Ref: 14 |
| Jan 05 | President Johnson signs an executive order cutting off virtually all trade between the US and Rhodesia. | Ref: 17 |
| Jan 09 | Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 14 | New York Times reports Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 16 | Alan S. Boyd was sworn in as the first secretary of transportation. | Ref: 70 |
| Feb 09 | Georgia legislature seats Representative Julian Bond. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 10 | The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, dealing with presidential disability and succession, goes into effect. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 15 | First anti-bootleg recording laws enacted. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 23 | 25th amendment (Presidential succession) declared ratified. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 01 | House of Representatives expels Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr (307 to 116). | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 06 | Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum at the US Embassy in New Dehli, India. | Ref: 17 |
| Mar 09 | Svetlana Allilueva, author: The Faraway Music; daughter of Russian leader, Joseph Stalin; defected to the West in New York City. (TWA, 1968) | Ref: 95 |
| Mar 31 | President Lyndon Johnson signs the Consular Treaty, the first bi-lateral pact with the Soviet Union since the Bolshevik Revolution. | Ref: 2 |
| May 11 | 100,000,000th US phone connected. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | Mayor-council form of government instituted for Washington, DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 08 | Israeli forces raided the Liberty, a U.S. Navy ship stationed in the Mediterranean, killing 34 US Navy crewmen. Israel called the attack a tragic mistake. Subsequent account indicate the attack was purposeful, but no rationale could be sustained. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 23 | President Johnson and Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin held the first of two meetings in Glassboro, New Jersey. (XDG, p 4A, 6/23/2003) | Ref: 83 |
| Jul 04 | Freedom of Information Act goes into effect. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 04 | Shortwave group ANARC's first convention (Chicago). | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 22 | The population clock at the US Department of Commerce turns over to 200M people at a few minutes past 11 AM. | Ref: 62 |
| Aug 22 | President Lyndon B. Johnson welcomed the Shah of Iran to the U.S. for a two-day visit. Two months later, Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi was crowned King of Kings. One of the Shah’s major proclamations provided for a general amnesty for political prisoners overflowing Iran’s jails. | Ref: 4 |
| Oct 27 | 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary IN. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 07 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. | Ref: 2 |
| Nov 20 | At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 21 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 15 | President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the meat bill in the presence of Upton Sinclair the author of the controversial book The Jungle. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 30 | Great Western Forum opens in Los Angeles. | Ref: 5 |
- 1968
| Jan 02 | Robert Clark is seated as the first black legislator in Mississippi in 74 years. | Ref: 17 |
| Feb 16 | The nation's first 9-1-1 emergency telephone system was inaugurated, in Haleyville, AL. | Ref: 70 |
| Mar 14 | CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA. | Ref: 5 |
| Mar 23 | Reverend Walter Fauntroy, is first non-voting congressional delegate from Washington DC. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 06 | HemisFair 1968 opens in San Antonio, Texas. | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 11 | President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | Ref: 5 |
| May 25 | The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated. | Ref: 5 |
| May 29 | Truth in Lending Act signed into law. | Ref: 5 |
| Jun 01 | Congress enacted Public Law 90351 providing for the appointment of the FBI Director by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate to a 10 year term. The act was to take effect after Director Hoover's tenure. | Ref: 14 |
| Jun 24 | "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington DC, was closed down by authorities. | Ref: 70 |
| Jun 26 | Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US. | Ref: 5 |
| Aug 21 | Democratic Convention opens in Chicago. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 07 | The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system. | Ref: 70 |
| Oct 25 | Chicago recognizes Jean Baptiste Pointe de Sable as its first settler. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 02 | President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 13 | President Lyon B. Johnson and Mexico's President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz meet on a bridge at El Paso, TX, to officiate at ceremonies returning the long-disputed El Chamizal area to the Mexican side of the border. | Ref: 2 |
| Dec 27 | (or 28th) The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. By that same year the jet was incorporated widely into the Air Force inventory. | Ref: 2 |
- 1969
| Jan 03 | Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr seated by Congress. | Ref: 5 |
| Jan 26 | California is declared a disaster area after two days of flooding and mud slides. | Ref: 2 |
| Feb 03 | Endangered Species Act passed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. | Ref: 10 |
| Feb 05 | US population reaches 200 million. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | President Nixon visits West-Berlin. | Ref: 5 |
| Feb 27 | Thousands of students protest President Richard Nixon's arrival in Rome. | Ref: 2 |
| Mar 23 | Rally for Decency (Miami). | Ref: 5 |
| Apr 15 | North Korea shoots at US airplane above Japanese sea. | Ref: 5 |
| May 16 | US sub Guitarro sinks at the pier at San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA. | Ref: 5 |
| Oct 05 | In an embarrassing breach of the United States' air defense capability, a Cuban defector enters U.S. air space undetected and lands his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base near Miami, Florida. | |
| Oct 27 | Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders. | Ref: 5 |
| Nov 20 | The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT as part of a total phaseout. | Ref: 70 |
| Dec 01 | The U.S. government held its first draft lottery since World War II. | Ref: 70 |
- 1985
| May 02 | One of the largest US brokerage firms, EF Hutton, pleads guilty to charges of bank fraud. | Ref: 17 |
- 1996
| Aug 10 | Cascading power outages hit parts of nine western states. | Ref: 6 |
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US History 1960 to 1969 Chronology