r court-martialled, with just one, Lieutenant Calley, found guilty. He was sentenced to life imprisonment but served 3 ½ years before release on parole. This event turned many civilians within the US against the Vietnam War.
16/2/1968, The first 911 emergency phone service was inaugurated in the USA, at Haleyville, Alabama. It was free; other phone calls cost 10 cents.
23/1/1968, The USS Pueblo, an intelligence ship, and its 89 man crew was seized by North Koreans in the Sea of Japan.
12/9/1967. Governor Reagan called for an escalation of the Vietnam War.
28/8/1967, Death of Charles Darrow, US inventor of the board game Monopoly.
15/4/1967. 100,000 protested against the Vietnam War in New York.
4/4/1967, Martin Luther King denounced the Vietnam War.
26/3/1967. 10,000 hippies held a rally in New York's Central Park.
10/3/1967. The US bombed industrial targets in North Vietnam.
26/2/1967, The US stepped up the Vietnam war with an attack on the Vietcong HQ.
18/2/1967, Robert Oppenheiner, American scientist who developed the US atom bomb, died in Princeton, New Jersey.
3/1/1967, Jack Ruby, who shot Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy, died of natural causes at a Dallas hospital. Mr Ruby was awaiting the retrial of his murder case.
1966, The Department of Transportation was created, and began operations in 1967.
15/12/1966, Walt Disney, US film producer and leader in animation, died
For more events of Vietnam War see South East Asia
26/10/1966. US President Johnson visited US troops in Vietnam.
5/7/1966. Dozens of captured USA airmen in the Vietnam War were paraded through the streets of Hanoi to shouts of ‘death to the American air pirates’.
3/7/1966. Anti-Vietnam war protests outside the US Embassy, London.
23/3/1966. In New York, 20,000 people marched down Fifth Avenue demanding an end to the Vietnam War.
20/2/1966, Chester Nimitz, American General and Pacific Fleet Commander in World War II, died in San Francisco, four days before his 81st birthday.
1965, The US Department of Housing and Urban Development was created.
9/11/1965. A transmission relay in New York City failed, sparking a domino effect that led to a blackout across New York State, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and parts of Pennsylvania and Ontario.
17/10/1965. Anti-Vietnam War protests in the UK and USA.
10/9/1965, Yale University published a map showing that the Vikings discovered America in the 11th century.
9/9/1965, The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development was established.
28/7/1965. US President Lyndon Johnson sent a further 50,000 ground troops to Vietnam. The US now had 175,000 troops in Vietnam.
29/6/1965, The first US military ground action began in Vietnam.
11/6/1965, President Johnson declared that the promotion of learning the English language should be a major policy in American foreign aid, and directed the Peace Corps, the United States Agency for International Development and other organizations to encourage the such study, in what was viewed as elevating "the status of English as an international language.
23/4/1965. Heavy US air raids on North Vietnam.
17/4/1965, US students protested against US bombing in Vietnam.
4/4/1965. US jets shot down by North Vietnam.
27/9/1964, The Warren Report was published, stating that Lee Harvey Oswald alone was responsible for the assassination of President Kennedy. Conspiracy theorists were not satisfied.
18/7/1964, Race riots in Harlem, New York; start of the ‘ghetto revolts’.
1/7/1964, Roscoe Pound, US legal scholar, died aged 93.
10/6/1964, The U.S. Senate voted closure of the Civil Rights Bill after a 75-day filibuster.
5/4/1964, Douglas MacArthur, American General and commander in the Pacific during World War Two, died in Washington DC aged 84.
14/3/1964. Jack Ruby, aged 52, was found guilty in Dallas of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of President Kennedy (see 22/11/1963). He was sentenced to death but died of a blood clot on the lung in 1967.
8/2/1964, The Beatles began their first US tour.
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