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| January 12~"Hullabaloo" debuts on NBC-TV in response to ABC's successful show, "Shindig!" On the opening show, host Jack Jones introduces Gerry and the Pacemakers, the New Christy Minstrels, and comedian Woody Allen. Boom p. 47 |
| January 21~The Animals cancel a show scheduled for New York's Apollo Theater after the U.S. Immigration Department, continuing its crackdown on British bands, forces the band to leave the theater. Rock Almanac p. 98 |
| February 13~Mowtown group Jr. Walker and the All Stars enter both the pop and R&B charts with "Shotgun," which establishes the band's trademark hard-driving "roadhouse" R&B, featuring the vocals and sax of leader Walker. Rock Almanac p. 99 |
| February 21~Malcolm X, 39, is assassinated at a rally in Harlem by Black Muslims from whom he had defected. Born Malcolm Little, he was the son of a Baptist preacher who was an enthusiast for Marcus Garvey's "Back to Africa" movement. Boom p. 249 |
| March 7~After weeks of futile efforts to register to vote, several hundred blacks march in protest through Selma, Ala., and are confronted by hundreds of helmeted and mounted state troopers and deputies, ordered by Gov. George Wallace to stop the march. Boom p. 250 |
| March 8~Thirty-five hundred Marines land at Da Nang in the first deployment of U.S. ground troops in Vietnam, raising the total U.S. strength to 27,000. Boom p. 251 |
| March 28~The U.S. Supreme Court issues two verdicts that give federal law enforcers new powers to prosecute on conspiracy charges persons suspected of being enveloped in civil rights killings. The rulings will give the Justice Department a potent weapon for dealing with civil rights violence trials not settled in state courts. Boom p. 251 |
| April 9~The $32 million, 44,500-seat Harris County Domed Stadium, better known as the Astrodome, is host to the first indoor pro baseball game. The Worlds largest indoor arena, The Astrodome will create a revolution in baseball and football stadiums. Boom p. 192 |
| April 11~Both the Beatles and the Rolling Stones perform at the New Musical Express' poll winners' concert. Rock Almanac p. 101 |
| April 17~More than 25,000 people, mostly young, demonstrate in Washington, D.C. against the Vietnam war. The event, the first national mobilization organized by Students for a Democratic Society, is the largest protest to oppose American intervention in an ongoing foreign war. Boom p.252 |
| May 25~Blues Giant Sonny Boy Williamson, born Aleck "Rice" Miller on December 5, 1899, dies in his sleep of natural causes in his Helena, Arkansas, home. Rock Almanac p. 102 |
| August 6~In what is turning into a flurry of legislative victories for the White House, President Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Congressional passage of the law will strengthen existing civil rights laws by eliminating stringent qualifications imposed on Southern blacks to "qualify" as voters (including reading tests that many whites could not pass). Boom p. 252 |
| August 7~Ken Kesey and friends host a party for the Hell's Angels at Kesey's six-acre spread in the hills south of San Francisco. Kesey has assembled a group of locals who've dubbed themselves the Merry Pranksters, known for promoting theatrical cosmic jokes on the straight world. Now, the Pranksters and the Angels are partying together. The Angels, no strangers to drugs, will soon be introduced to acid by Kesey and friends and they all will trip merrily for more than two days in a mind-bending and -boggling sex-and-drug orgy. Boom p. 194 |
| August 13~Two thousand National Guardsmen are called in after three days of rioting in the Watts section of Los Angeles. The final toll: 33 dead, 900 injured, 3,480 arrested, 200 buildings destroyed, 500 buildings damaged, total damage estimated at $200 million. Boom p. 253 |
| September 16~The United Farm Workers (UFW) union votes to strike against grape growers in the Central Valley district of Delano, Calif. The UFW is a three-year-old organization started by Mexican-American Cesar Chevez, who has been attempting to organize migrant farm workers against California's $170 million grape-growing industry. Boom p. 254 |
| October 15~The first large antiwar rallies are held in four U.S. cities. At a rally in Berkeley, Calif., poet Allen Ginsburg introduces the term "Flower Power" to describe his philosophy of cooperation toward change. Boom p. 254 |
| November 9~A massive power failure blacks out New York City and much of the East Coast. The major networks will broadcast the evening news to the rest of the nation by candlelight, using emergency generators. Without TV to watch, Was Coast couples will find other things to do, and nine months later maternity wards will be overflowing. Boom p.130 |
| November 18~The Pentagon reports that 1,095 Americans have died in Vietnam, more than double the number only four months ago. Americans in Vietnam now total 170,000. Boom p. 254 |
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