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1964

hawaii vietnam memorial - for some reason, my earliest memories start around this time (4yrs old)...

 

January 18 - Plans to build the New York World Trade Center are announced.

January 20 - Meet the Beatles, the first Beatles album in the United States, is released

February 1 - The Beatles vault to the #1 spot on the U.S. singles charts for the first time, with "I Want to Hold Your Hand,"

March 30 - Merv Griffin's game show Jeopardy! debuts on NBC

April 8 - Gemini 1 is launched on the first unmanned test of the 2-man spacecraft

April 17 - In the United States, the Ford Mustang is officially unveiled to the public

May 1 - At 4:00 a.m., John George Kemeny and Thomas Eugene Kurtz run the first program written in BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code)

July 27 - Vietnam War: The U.S. sends 5,000 more military advisers to South Vietnam, bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000

August 4 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin

September 24 - The Warren Commission Report, the first official investigation of the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy, is published

October 10-October 24 - The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo

October 31 - Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society.

December 3 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the UC, Berkeley, following their takeover and massive sit-in at the administration building

December 10 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace

 

taken: 03/23/2007 - walking to work

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