Here are some of the more important events of the 1960s-1970s. They include the antecedents and descendants of the hippy movement, the Civil Rights, Antiwar, Black Power, Ecology, and Sexual, Women's, Gay Liberation movements. The psychedelic and the protest movements were greatly enhanced by the revolution in music, so we've included some influential music milestones. The information here has come from various sources. We've tried to verify as many as we could, but there's always a chance something is wrong. Please let us know if you see any inaccuracies or have anything to add. E-mail: timeline@hippy.com

1960 
January - Bob Dylan, age 19 plays at the Wha in Greenwich Village and visits Woody Guthrie in the Hospital.
Jan - Civil rights demonstrations in Atlanta. 
Feb 13 - France becomes the fourth nuclear power.
Mar 15 - Lunch-counter sit-ins spread to 15 cities in 5 southern states. 
May 6 - Civil Rights Act of 1960 signed by Eisenhower.
July - Sidney Cohen's survey of 5,000 individuals who had taken LSD 25,000 times concludes it is safe.
Aug 9 - Timothy Leary, 39, tries psilocybin mushrooms in Cuernavaca.
Aug 10 - Antarctic Treaty creates peaceful scientific preserve. 
Nov - JFK elected president. 
Nov 9 - Brian Epstein first sees the Beatles. 
Dec - Birth control pills go on sale in the US. 

1961 
Jan 17 - Eisenhower warns of increasing power of "military-industrial complex". 
Feb 1 - Four black students arrested at whites only lunch counter in Greensboro South Carolina. 
Feb 18 - Bertrand Russell, 89, leads march of 20,000 & sit-down of 5,000 anti-nuke outside U.K. Defense Ministry and is jailed for 7 days.
Mar - Richard Alpert (Ram Dass) takes psilocybin as part of the Harvard Project.
Mar 1 - John Kennedy initiates 17 billion dollar nuclear missile program, increases military aid to Indochina & announces creation of the Peace Corps.
Apr 11 - Bob Dylan's first billed performance at Gerde's Folk City. 
Apr 12 - Yuri Gagarin of the USSR is the first man in space.
Apr 25 - Bay of Pigs, Cuba U.S. planned invasion is defeated by Castro. 
May 4 - Freedom Riders leave DC for a southern tour to test integration in bus stations.
May 28 - Amnesty International Founded.
July - Ban The Bomb Demonstrations start worldwide.
July 19 - First Telstar Satellite Live TV Transmission across the Atlantic.
Aug 13 - East German border guards begin construction of Berlin Wall.
Sept 15 - U.S. starts underground nuclear testing.
Oct 6 - President Kennedy advises Americans to build fallout shelters.

1962 
Feb 16 - Boston SANE & fledgling SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) hold first anti-nuclear march on Washington with 4000-8000 protesters. 
Apr 25 - U.S. resumes atmospheric nuclear testing after 3 year moratorium.
Sept - Timothy Leary founds International Foundation for Internal Freedom (IFIF) to promote LSD research & publish The Psychedelic Review. 
Oct 22 - Cuban Missile Crisis - Soviet missile bases in Cuba, Kennedy orders naval blockade. 

1963 
Jan - Alabama Gov. Wallace's "Segregation Forever" speech at inauguration.
Apr 3 - SCLC & volunteers stage sit-in in Birmingham, Alabama.
Apr 12 - Martin Luther King & Ralph Abernathy go to jail in Birmingham.
Jun 11 - JFK Proposes the Civil Rights Bill.
Jun 12 - Civil rights leader Medgar Evers assassinated. 
July - Timothy Leary hosts Freedom House groups in Zihuatanejo, Mexico, Dominica & then Antigua.
July - Newport Folk Festival July 26-28, includes Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs and Pete Seeger.
Aug 5 - First Nuclear Test Ban Treaty signed.
Aug 28 - Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech, Wash DC Civil Rights March, 200,000 attend.
Aug 30 - U.S. -Soviet Hotline installed.
Sept - Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and other Harvard alumni LSD researchers move to the Hitchcock's estate in Millbrook, New York. 
Sept 24 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ratified by Senate.
Oct 10 - Nuclear Test Ban Treaty takes effect.
Oct 13 - Beatles on TV at London Palladium. 15 million get to see them perform "She Loves You" and "Twist and Shout". 
Nov 22 - JFK Assassinated in Dallas, Texas, LBJ sworn in.
Nov 22 - Aldous Huxley dying, decides to drop LSD one last time, dies tripping.
Nov 24 - LBJ escalates the Vietnam War.
Nov 29 - Beatles "I Want to Hold Your Hand" Released.

1964 
Jan 8 - LBJ declares "War on Poverty" in State of the Union address.
Jan 11 - U.S. Surgeon General declares cigarettes cause lung disease.
Jan 30 - New military junta takes over in South Vietnam.
Feb 7 - Beatles arrive in New York to 10,000 screaming fans.
Feb 9 - Beatles first appear on Ed Sullivan Show, 74 million people watch, then the largest audience in the history of television. 
Mar 16 - President Johnson requests $1 billion for the "War on Poverty."
Apr 23 - Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl.
May - Bob Dylan's first visit to England, meets The Beatles & Rolling Stones; turns The Beatles on to marijuana. 
July - Millbrook LSD sessions with Timothy Leary. 
July - Ken Kesey's First Magic Bus Trip to NY.
July 2 - LBJ signs US Civil Rights Act: public facilities opened to all.
July 18 - Race riot in Harlem, NY.
July 23 - Senate passes $947 million antipoverty bill.
July 30 - House of Representatives passes Wilderness Act, 373-1. The bill establishes 9.1 million acres of federally protected wilderness in national forests, and mandates more.
Aug - Ken Kesey & his Merry Pranksters visit Timothy Leary & Richard Alpert at Millbrook. 
Aug - Beatles first U.S. tour: 25 North American cities. 
Aug 4 - Three missing civil rights workers found dead in Mississippi.
Aug 11 - Beatles' A Hard Day's Night movie released.
Aug 20 - LBJ signs anti-poverty program.
Aug 23 - Beatles Hollywood Bowl concert.
Aug 28 - Race riots in Philadelphia.
Aug 31 - LBJ signs food stamp bill.
Sept 3 - LBJ signs Wilderness Act into law.
Oct 14 - Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize.
Nov 3 - Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey elected in a landslide victory over Senator Barry Goldwater.
Dec 10 - Martin Luther King awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
 

1965 
Time Magazine calls young people "generation of conformists".
Jan 4 - President Johnson outlines "Great Society".
Feb - Martin Luther King Jr. and 770 other protesters arrested in Selma, Alabama for picketing county courthouse to end discriminatory voting rights.
Feb 8 - U.S. starts bombing North Vietnam.
Feb 18 - Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara calls for nationwide network of bomb shelters. 
Feb 21 - Malcolm X shot and killed.
Mar 3 - Owsley starts LSD factory, making large quantities of acid available for the first time.
Mar 6 - First American soldier officially sets foot on Vietnam battlefields.
Mar 7 - Alabama State troopers attack 525 civil rights workers as they prepare to march.
Mar 8 - 3,500 Marines land to protect Da Nang air base.
Mar 16 - Quaker Alice Herz, 82, immolates self in Detroit in protest of the Vietnam War.
Mar 16 - Police break-up demonstration of 600 in Montgomery, Alabama.
Mar 17 - 1,600 people demonstrate at Montgomery, Alabama courthouse.
Mar 21 - Martin Luther King Jr. leads march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama joined by 25,000 marchers.
Mar 24 - SDS organizes first Vietnam War teach-in at University of Michigan 3000 show up.
Mar 25 - Civil rights worker shot and killed by KKK in Alabama.
Mar 28 - Martin Luther King calls for boycott of Alabama on TV.
Apr - 25,000 U.S. troops stationed in Vietnam.
Apr 2 - Ken Kesey busted for marijuana first time.
Apr 17 - SDS leads first anti-Vietnam War march in Washington. 25,000 attend including Phil Ochs, Joan Baez and Judy Collins.
Jun 11 - Beatles awarded the MBE by the Queen.
July 8 - Chicago school integration protests.
July 8 - U.S. forces, previously in Vietnam only as military advisers, authorized for combat for the first time.
July 10 - Rolling Stones' I Can't Get No Satisfaction #1.
July 24 - Bob Dylan's Like A Rolling Stone enters charts. 
July 25 - Dylan goes electric at Newport Folk Festival.
July 28 - President Johnson sends 50,000 more troops to Vietnam.
July 30 - LBJ signs Medicare bill.
Aug - Ken Kesey meets Hunter Thompson who introduces the Hells Angels to the Merry Pranksters; Allen Ginsberg & Richard Alpert are at the party. 
Aug 11 - Major race riot (6 days) in Watts, leaves 35 dead.
Aug 13 - National Guard enters Watts riots in Los Angeles.
Aug 14 - Sonny and Cher release "I Got You Babe".
Aug 23 - Premiere of Beatles' Help! 
Aug 31 - Burning draft cards becomes illegal.
Sept 5 - San Francisco 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. 
Sept 25 - “Eve of Destruction”, sang by Barry McGuire top of the charts.
Oct 1 - Anti-pollution bill sets emission standards for cars.
Oct 16 - 100,000 anti-war protesters nationwide in 80 cities.
Nov - "Unsafe at Any Speed" about the automobile industry's disregard for safety, published by Ralph Nader. 
Nov 2 - Quaker Norman Morrison self-immolates in front of Secretary of Defense McNamara's office. McNamara pukes.
Nov 22 - Bob Dylan marries Sarah Lowndes & moves to Woodstock, N.Y. 
Dec 25 - Timothy Leary busted for pot at the Mexican border.
 

1966 
Jan 3 - The Psychedelic Shop head shop opens on Haight Street, San Francisco. 
Jan 14 - March on Atlanta to protest ouster of Julian Bond.
Jan 17 - B52 collides, drops 4 10-megaton H bombs on Spain, none explode, cover-up follows.
Jan 20 - Ken Kesey busted again with Mountain Girl on the roof. 
Jan 21 - First light show, Grateful Dead, 10,000 people in S.F. 
Feb 19 - Jefferson Airplane and Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin perform at the Fillmore.
Mar 3 - GI Bill grants veterans rights to education, housing, health and jobs.
Mar 11 - Timothy Leary sentenced in Texas to 30 years for trying to cross into Mexico with a small amount of marijuana.
Mar 25 - Anti-Vietnam war protests in NY bring out 25,000 on 5th Ave. Other protests in 7 US cities and 7 foreign cities. 
Apr - FBI releases file on LSD, drug gets bad press due to unvalidated propaganda (Hoover plot).
Apr - 30 Mississippi blacks build tent city under President Johnson's window to protest housing conditions in their state.
Apr - Discotheques are the rage in NY and LA. Andy Warhol puts on light shows.
Apr 7 - Sandoz stops supplying LSD to researchers due to controversy.
Apr 12 - NY Stock Exchange hit with anti-war leaflets.
Apr 16 - Timothy Leary busted at Millbrook by G. Gordon Liddy & FBI for possession of marijuana.
May 15 - Antiwar demonstration in Washington D.C., 10,000 attend.
July 29 - Bob Dylan's motorcycle accident.
Aug 5 - Lennon says Beatles more popular than Jesus.
Aug 18 - Red Guard begins to wipe out western influence in China.
Sept - George Harrison goes to India for 6 weeks to study sitar with Ravi Shankar. 
Sept - Timothy Leary holds press conference at NY Advertising Club announcing formation of a psychedelic religion - League for Spiritual Discovery ("Turn on, tune in, drop out") & starts nightly presentations at the Village Theater. 
October 6 - LSD becomes illegal, Love Pageant Rally in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park, San Francisco to protest by eating blotter acid.
Oct 29 - The National Organization for Women founded in Washington D.C. Activist, feminist organization seeks economic equality, abortion, sexual and reproductive rights for women.
Oct 31 - Acid Test Graduation for Kesey and the Merry Pranksters.
Nov 5 - Walk for Love and Peace and Freedom: 10,000 + in New York City.
Dec - Cream's first album: Fresh Cream released. Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, and Ginger Baker. 
 

1967 
Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000-50,000 attend in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California.
Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space.
Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border.
Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle, Yesterday.
Mar - Scientist reports LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated). 
Mar 3 - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow").
Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies.
Mar 13 - Senator Eugene McCarthy introduces the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in the Senate. He had 37 co-sponsors.
Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000 tons of oil onto English shores.
Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend.
Apr 5 - Grayline tour bus company starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury.
Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft demonstrations.
Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have "dropped acid.".
May 9-12 - Boston to Pentagon Walk for Peace and sit-in inside Pentagon.
May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi 
May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC
May 26 - The Food and Drug Administration reports that there are no known psychedelics in banana peels
June 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles released. 
June 9 - Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic opened
June 16 - Monterey Pop Festival, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, Mamas & the Papas, Ravi Shankar, and many others perform.
June 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park.
June 25 - Beatle Song, "All You Need Is Love" debuts on T.V., 100,000 flower children now in the Haight-Ashbury area.
June 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam.
July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco.
July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore.
July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1.
July 7 - Time magazine cover: The Hippies, The Philosophy of a subculture.
July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer.
July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history.
July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland.
July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale vie for #1.
Aug 7 - George Harrison pays a visit to Haight-Ashbury.
Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced?" hits the charts.
Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death, overdose.
Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru. 
Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl.
Oct 3 - Folk singer Woody Guthrie dies.
Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops.
Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with Janis Joplin at top of LP charts. 
Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of three civil rights workers.
Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon.
Oct 21 - "Diggers" exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647 arrested.
Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws or interfere with recruitment.
Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution.
Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established.
Dec - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour".
Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to date, 60% died in 1967. 
Dec - "Stop the Draft" movement organized by 40 antiwar groups, nationwide protests ensue. 
Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center. 585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London.
Dec 8 - Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay".
Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash.
Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid.
Nov 30 - Senator Eugene McCarthy enters the presidential race running on an antiwar platform.
Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, & friends pronounce themselves "Yippies".

1968 
Jan 1 - The United Nations inaugurates the International Year of Human Rights.
Jan 15 - The Jeanette Rankin Brigade, a coalition of women's peace groups, demonstrates against the Vietnam war at the opening of Congress. 5000 women attend.
Jan 16 - Youth International Party (Yippies) founded.
Jan 18 - Eartha Kitt visiting LBJ at White House speaks out against the war.
Jan 21 - Battle of Khe Sanh begins; 5,000 Marines isolated and under attack by 20,000 North
 Vietnamese troops.
Jan 22 - B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland.
Jan 23 - USS Pueblo seized by Korea.
Jan 31 - Viet Cong launch Tet Offensive a massive 25-day assault throughout South Vietnam, surprising the US forces by its size and scope. Antiwar sentiment in US increases.
Feb - Timothy Leary evicted from Millbrook house.
Feb - Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh on the Ganges river. Mia Farrow, Donovan follow. 
Feb 4 - Neal Cassady, Beatnik, Dharma Bum, Merry Prankster, found dead in Mexico.
Feb 8 - George Wallace announces candidacy for President on law and order platform. Senator Robert Kennedy says the US cannot win the Vietnam War.
Feb 13 - US sends 10,500 more combat troops to Vietnam.
Feb 16 - President Johnson ends draft deferments for graduate students.
Mar 6 - Walter Cronkite, breaking a code of neutrality among major newscasters, opposes the Vietnam War in a national television broadcast.
Mar 9 - General William Westmoreland requests 206,000 more troops for Vietnam.
Mar 12 - Eugene McCarthy wins 42% of New Hampshire vote in presidential primary.
Mar 16 - My Lai massacre 200 - 500 Vietnamese villagers killed. LBJ decides to send 35,000 to 50,000 more combat troops to Vietnam. Robert F. Kennedy announces candidacy for President.
Mar 31 - LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial Vietnam bombing halt. Gallup Poll shows only 26 percent approve of Johnson's handling of the war.
Apr 4 - Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis, Tennessee.
Apr 5-12 - The week following Martin Luther King Jr.'s murder sees black uprisings in 125 cities across the U.S. 
Apr 6 - Oakland Police ambush Black Panthers. Eldridge Cleaver arrested with a bullet-shattered leg. Bobby Hutton shot and killed. 
Apr 8 - Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (DEA).
Apr 11 - LBJ signs civil rights bill banning housing discrimination. Major call-up of reserves for duty in Vietnam. Love-in at Malibu Canyon, California.
Apr 15 - Start of Spring Mobilization against the Vietnam war. Chicago Mayor Daley tries to get his city under control during riots; orders "shoot-to-kill" in cases of arson, looting, or rioting. 
Apr 23 - SDS leads students, takes over 5 buildings at Colombia University for a week. 700 arrested.
Apr 24 - 300 Black students occupy administration building at Boston Univ. demanding black studies and financial aid.
Apr 25 - Paul Horn, flautist, records in the Taj Mahal.
Apr 26 - Two hundred thousand students boycott classes to protest war.
Apr 29 - The rock musical HAIR opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theater.
May 6-30 - Student demonstrations in France result in a general strike. Ten million workers strike as 10,000 battle police in Paris.
May 10 - Vietnam peace talks begin in Paris.
May 29 - Poor People's Campaign protesters storm Supreme Court building.
June 3 - Andy Warhol shot by Valerie Solanis, author of S.C.U.M. manifesto.
June 5 - Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning California primary. 
June 10 - General Westmoreland sees no military victory in Vietnam due to political restraints.
June 14 - Dr. Benjamin Spock and three others convicted of conspiracy to abet draft evasion.
June 24 - National Guard ordered out in Washington D.C. as looting breaks out in black section of city.
July 1 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty signed by 61 nations.
July 20 - LBJ tells South Vietnamese President Thieu the US will continue Vietnam War at current pace.
July 25 - Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes calls National Guard back to slum areas.
Aug 1 - 541,000 U.S. Troops in Vietnam.
Aug 8 - Nixon and Agnew nominated during Miami riots.
Aug 10 - Eight GIs killed by friendly fire in Vietnam. Senator George McGovern announces candidacy for President.
Aug 21 - Soviets invade Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" reform movement.
August 25-29 - Democratic Convention in Chicago. Demonstrations & police riot 10,000 demonstrators vs. 11,000 Chicago police; 6,000 National Guard; 7,500 U.S. army troops; and 1,000 FBI, CIA & other services agents 
Aug 28 - Humphrey and Muskie nominated (on platform supporting the war) amid violent antiwar protests in Chicago. Bystanders and press also beaten by police.
Oct 18 - John & Yoko Busted. Two black Olympians raise fists in black power salute when receiving medals at Olympics.
Nov - First "Whole Earth Catalog" published by Stewart Brand. 
Nov 5 - Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP. Defeated Humphrey by only half a million votes.
Nov 6 - Student Strike at SF State.
Nov 28 - More than 200 women from 37 states and Canada convene in Chicago for the first national Women's Liberation Conference. Jimi Hendrix performs at New Youk Philharmonic Hall.
Dec 13 - Vietnam death toll now 30,057 Americans since January 1, 1961.
 

1969 
Jan - Sex education in schools attacked by the John Birch Society, called "communist".
Jan 28 - Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout.
Feb - Massive strike at University of California Berkeley for ethnic studies.
Feb - "The Bitch Manifesto." published by the radical feminist group Redstockings. They sought to raise the consciousness of women.
Feb 11 - 200 students smash computers with axes & set computer center on fire during sit-in protesting professor's racism at St. George Williams College, Montreal.
Feb 13 - 33 students arrested at administration building sit-in at University of Mass. 
Feb 18 - Students seize building and boycott started at Howard University.
Feb 24 - Students occupy Administration building at Penn State.
Feb 27 - Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders at U.C. Berkeley.
Feb 27 - Thousands rampage through nine buildings at U of Wisconsin, Madison over black enrollments.
Mar 12 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman.
Mar 20 - John & Yoko fly to Gibraltar, get married then fly to Amsterdam for one week "lie-in" for peace.
Mar 20 - James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 
Apr - 543,000 US troops now in Vietnam.
Apr 4 - Smothers Brothers TV show canceled because it is too controversial.
Apr 9 - 300 Harvard students led by SDS seize University Hall and evict eight deans.
Apr 10 - Police called into Harvard, 37 injured, 200 arrested.
Apr 11 - Start of 3 day student strike at Harvard.
Apr 22 - Harvard faculty votes to create black studies program & give students vote in selection of its faculty.
Apr 22 - City College of NY closed after black & Puerto Rican students lock selves inside asking higher minority enrollment.
Apr 23 - Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death for murder of Bobby Kennedy.
Apr 24 - U.S. B-52s launch biggest attack on North Vietnam. Protests in 40 cities.
May 15 - Hippies in People's Park in Berkeley attacked by police and National Guard. 
July - Stephen Gaskin starts The Farm commune in Tennessee. 
July 3 - Brian Jones of Rolling Stones dies.
July 14 - Easy Rider premieres.
July 20 - Men walk on the Moon. "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.".
July 27 - Police raid on gay bar in Greenwich Village, NYC results in Stonewall Uprising. 2000 protesters battle 400 police, start of Gay Liberation Movement.
Aug - Blind Faith forms, with Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker from Cream and Steve Winwood from Traffic. 
Aug 9 - Sharon Tate & LaBiancas found murdered by Charles Manson & Crew.
August 15 - 17 Woodstock Music Festival draws 500,000 people gathered for three days of music and peace that changed the world.
Aug 24 - Movie 'Alice's Restaurant released with Arlo Guthrie.
Aug 26 - FBI reports 98% increase in marijuana arrests from 1966 - 1968.
Sept 3 - Ho Chi Min, leader of North Vietnam, dies.
Sept 24 - Chicago Eight trial begins. Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin et. al charged with conspiracy to incite riots.
Oct - Is Paul dead? Beatles controversy.
Oct 8-11 - The Weathermen's "Days of Rage" bombings of corporations.
Oct 15 - Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide, many wearing black armbands. First Vietnam Moratorium. 30,000 participate in Candlelight March past White House, lead by Martin Luther King Jr.
Oct 21 - Jack Kerouac, beat author of "On the Road" dies. 
Oct 30 - Supreme Court orders desegregation nationwide.
Nov 15 - 500,000 + march in Wash. DC for peace. Largest antiwar rally in U.S. history. Speakers: McCarthy, McGovern, Coretta King, Dick Gregory, Leonard Bernstein. Singers: Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul, & Mary, John Denver, Mitch Miller, touring cast of Hair. 200,000 protest in San Francisco. 
Nov 17 - First round of SALT talks in Helsinki.
Nov 20 - 78 American Indians seize Alcatraz Island and demand its return.
Nov 20 - DDT use banned in residential areas.
Nov 24 - Lt. William Calley charged with murdering 102 So. Vietnamese civilians at My Lai.
Nov 25 - President Nixon orders all US germ warfare stockpiles destroyed.
Dec 1 - First draft lottery since W.W.II held in NYC.
Dec 8 - Raid on Black Panther headquarters in LA - four hour shoot-out.
Dec 24 - Rolling Stones "Altamont" concert erupts in violence, one spectator killed.

1970 
January 1 - Nixon signs National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Feb - Timothy Leary sentenced to 10 years for Texas/Mex marijuana bust.
Feb 4 - Riot in Isla Vista, Calif. protesting Chicago verdicts.
Feb 4 - President Nixon proposes environmental cleanup and Environmental Protection Agency.
Feb 18 - Chicago Seven acquitted of conspiracy charges.
Feb 19 - Chicago Seven Trial verdict: Dellinger, Davis, Hayden, Hoffman, & Rubin found guilty of crossing state lines to incite riot.
Feb 19 - Explosions in 3 office buildings in NY; and in Calif; Wash; Maryland; Mich, possibly done by the Weathermen.
Feb 25 - Isla Vista, Santa Barbara Bank of America bombed.
Feb 26 - U.S. Army discontinues surveillance of civilian demonstrations and files of demonstrators.
Mar 6 - Three Weathermen blow themselves up in Greenwich Village, NY.
Apr 1 - Cigarette advertising banned on radio and TV.
Apr 7 - Referring to student unrest, Ronald Reagan, Governor of California says; "If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with." 
Apr 10 - Paul McCartney announces breakup of Beatles.
Apr 22 - First Earth Day. Millions participate.
Apr 30 - Nixon sends troops into Cambodia.
May 4 - Four College Students Killed by National Guard at Kent State University, Ohio.
May 5 - Nuclear nonproliferation treaty takes effect.
May 8 - Construction workers attack antiwar demonstrators, Wall St., NY.
May 9 - 100,000 attend antiwar rally, Wash. D.C. 
May 14 - Police kill two at Jackson State during violent student demonstrations. 
Jun 15 - Supreme Court OKs conscientious objector status on moral grounds.
June 11 - Daniel Berrigan arrested by FBI for kidnapping/bombing conspiracy. 
Aug 10 - The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by the U.S. House of Representatives by a vote of 350-15.
Aug 26 - The "Women's Strike for Equality" organized by NOW celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. 50,000 women march on Fifth Avenue in New York and across the country more than 100,000 women were involved in demonstrations and rallies in more than 90 major cities and towns.
Sept 12 - Timothy Leary escapes prison (San Luis Obispo) with help from the Weather Underground, joins Eldridge Cleaver in Algiers. 
Sept 18 - Jimi Hendrix dead at age 27.
Oct 4 - Janis Joplin dies.
Oct 13 - Angela Davis arrested on kidnapping, murder and conspiracy charges.
Dec - Paul McCartney sues to dissolve Beatles. 
Dec 2 - Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) activated.
 

1971 
Jan 7 - DDT use outlawed by U.S. Court of Appeals.
Jan 12 - Rev. Philip Berrigan and 5 others indicted for conspiracy to kidnap Henry Kissinger and bomb federal buildings.
Jan 12 - Ralph Nader forms Earth Act group.
Jan 25 - Charles Manson and followers found guilty of murder.
Jan 25 - Supreme Court makes first decision against sexual discrimination in hiring.
Mar 1 - Bomb explodes in Capitol men's room. Weather Underground claims responsibility "in retaliation for the Laos decision".
Mar 1 - U.S. stops licensing commercial whale hunters.
Mar 8 - Supreme Court rules that objection to a particular war is not sufficient grounds for conscientious objection.
Mar 23 - Congress votes to lower voting age to 18.
Mar 29 - Lt. Calley convicted for My Lai massacre.
Mar 29 - Charles Manson, et al sentenced to death after longest trial in Calif. history.
Apr 19 - Over 1000 Veterans demonstrate against the Vietnam war in Wash D.C., throwing their medals over the Capitol fence.
Apr 20 - School busing upheld to end segregation by Supreme Court.
Apr 23 - Vietnam veterans return medals and ribbons in antiwar protest.
Apr 24 - Over 350,000 Veterans march in Wash D.C. and SF to protest war in Vietnam.
Apr 26 - 50,000 demonstrators in Washington D.C., set up "Algonquin Peace City".
May 3-5 - May Day antiwar protest, protesters attempt to shut down Washington D.C. Over 13,000 arrested.
May 11 - Indian occupation of Alcatraz ends after 19 months.
Jun 13 - Pentagon Papers appear in NY Times.
June 30 - The 26th Amendment to the Constitution ratified, giving 18-year-olds the right to vote as well as kill (Vietnam). 
July 3 - Jim Morrison of The Doors dies in Paris.
Nov - Nixon starts withdrawing troops from Vietnam. 
Nov 20 - Women's March on Washington D.C. demanding the repeal of abortion laws, repeal of contraception laws and an end to forced sterilization. 2500 show up (25% men).
Dec. - Greenpeace founded in Vancouver, Canada.

1972 
Jan 25 - Shirley Chisholm first black woman to run for President.
Feb - Life Magazine states: "Today's high school generation is interested security, stability, & comfort." 
Feb 24 - After 16 months in prison, Angela Davis is released.
Feb 28 - President Nixon arrives in China, the first president to ever visit.
Mar 22 - 13-member National Commission on Marijuana & Drug Abuse recommends legalization of marijuana.
Mar 22 - Equal Rights Amendment prohibiting sex discrimination passes Senate.
Mar 30 - North Vietnamese launch massive attack. Troops go south through the DMZ into South Vietnam, U.S. resumes bombing.
Apr 10 - Biological Warfare Treaty signed by U.S. and 120 nations.
Apr 15 - President Nixon & Canada P.M. Pierre Trudeau sign pact to clean up Great Lakes.
May 2 - FBI director J. Edgar Hoover Dies.
May 9 - President Nixon orders mining of N. Vietnam's ports.
May 15 - Gov. George Wallace shot during primary campaign in Maryland.
May 18 - Margaret Kuhn starts Gray Panthers to protest discrimination against elderly.
May 22 - Nixon makes first U.S. presidential trip to Moscow.
May 26 - U.S. and USSR freeze nuclear weapons at current level.
June 4 - Black activist Angela Davis found not guilty of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy charges.
Jun 14 - EPA bans DDT in the USA.
Jun 17 - Watergate Break-In.
Jun 29 - Supreme Court rules state death penalties unconstitutional - cruel and unusual punishment.
July - First Rainbow Gathering in Colorado.
July 1 - Gloria Steinem launches feminist magazine, Ms. 
July 10 - Democratic Convention nominates George McGovern for president of the United States.
Aug 11 - Last U.S. military unit in Vietnam withdrawn.
Aug 18 - Water Pollution Control Act passed by Congress over Nixon's veto.
Aug 21 - Republican National Convention nominates Nixon and Agnew again.
Aug 23 - 1100 antiwar protesters arrested outside Republican National Convention.
Aug 28 - Consumer Product Safety Commission established.
Sept 5 - Arabs kill Israeli athletes at Munich Olympics.
Nov 8 - Nixon re-elected in a landslide. McGovern's complaints about the Watergate break-in ignored.
Nov 13 - U.S. and 90 countries sign International Oceanic Pollution pact.
Dec 18 - Full scale bombing of N. Vietnam resumes.

1973 
Jan 27 - Vietnam ceasefire agreement signed after 58,000 US casualties, U.S. military draft ends.
Jan 30 - McCord and Liddy found guilty of Watergate burglary & wiretap attempt.
Feb 28 - 250 American Indians (AIM) occupy Wounded Knee.
Mar 29 - Last American troops withdrawn from Vietnam.
Apr 16 - US bombs Laos.
Apr 30 - Nixon accepts resignation of H.R. Haldeman & John Ehrlichman & fires John Dean. Nixon denies knowledge of break-in or cover-up.
July 20 - Senate subpoenas Watergate tapes.
Aug 8 - Nixon Resigns amid Watergate scandal.
Oct 10 - Spiro Agnew resigns.
Oct 16 - Kissinger awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
Oct 23 - Nixon Impeachment begins (note Aug 8!).
Nov - Congress passes "Freedom of Information" act. 
Nov 7 - War Powers Act passed over Nixon's veto - requires congressional approval for military actions over 60 days.
Nov 9 - Six Watergate defendants sentenced.
 

1974 
Feb 4 - Patty Hearst, 19, kidnapped by the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army).
Feb 12 - SLA demands that Randolph Hearst begin food distribution to poor.
Apr 1 - Jane Fonda arrives in Vietnam on second visit.
Apr 15 - Patricia Hearst participates in bank robbery with SLA members.
May 17 - SLA shoot-out in LA.
July 30 - Two articles of impeachment voted against President Nixon.
Sept 4 - Nixon pardoned by President Ford.
Sept 7 - CIA operation against Chile's Marxist Govt. disclosed.
Sept 16 - President Ford announces conditional pardon for draft evaders and deserters.
Nov 21 - Freedom of Information Act passed over President Ford's veto.
Dec 21 - NY Times reports on CIA illegal domestic activities during Vietnam War.

1975 
Apr 17 - Khmer Rouge takes over Cambodia.
Apr 30 - Fall of Saigon. North Vietnamese troops enter Saigon.
Sept 18 - Patty Hearst captured in San Francisco.
Nov 20 - CIA and FBI charged with illegal surveillance of US Citizens and plotting to assassinate foreign leaders.

1976 
Feb 12 - Production of Red Dye No. 2 banned.

1977 
May 2 - 2000 members of Clamshell alliance occupy site of nuclear reactor in Seabrook, NH, 1400 arrested.
Jun 6 - Washington Post reports U.S. developing neutron bomb.

1978
Jun 15 - Tellico Dam project in Tennessee halted by snail darter per Endangered Species Act.
July 18 - American Indian Movement (AIM) leads march from Alcatraz to Wash D.C. to protest legislation depriving Indian land rights.

1979 
Feb 1 - Patty Hearst released from jail.
Mar 28 - Three Mile Island Radiation Accident.
Sept 23 - 200,000 in NYC for nuclear weapons protest.

1980 
Dec 8 - John Lennon murdered outside his apartment entrance in NYC. 

1981 
May 11 - Bob Marley dies from brain cancer. 

1986 
Apr 26 - Chernobyl Nuclear accident in Soviet Union. 

1995 
Aug 9 - Jerry Garcia, RIP, dies at age 53.

1996 
May 31 - Timothy Leary's Dead or so it seems... 

1997 
Apr 5 - Allen Ginsberg dies.

1998
Jan 5 - Sonny Bono dies in ski accident.