Arts and Culture
• Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi Mahesh Yogi at Rishikesh on the Ganges River . Mia Farrow, Donovan follow (Feb)
• The rock musical "Hair!" opened on Broadway at the Biltmore Theatre and included public nudity (Apr 29)
• First "Whole Earth Catalog" published by Stewart Brand (Nov)
• Number of divorce and divorce rate both jump by 12%
• Beatles go to India to visit Maharishi (Ringo stays 10 days, Paul 9 weeks, John & George longer) (Feb)
• Two Virgins: Picture of John Lennon & Yoko Ono naked (May)
• Yellow Submarine movie (July)
• Doors: Waiting for the Sun
• Hendrix: Axis Bold as Love & Electric Ladyland
• 2001, directed by Stanley Kubrick
• Tom Wolfe: Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
• Dr. Kenneth Cooper coined the term "aerobics"
Social Change and Activism
• Martin Luther King shot and killed in Memphis , Tennessee (Apr 4)
• SDS leads students, takes over 5 buildings at Colombia University for a week. 700 arrested (Apr 23)
• More than 200 women from 37 states and Canada convene in Chicago for the first national Women's Liberation Conference.
• Women's movement groups start in Berkeley
• First Whole Earth catalog (Nov)
• Sr. Paul Ehrlich & Dr. Thomas Eisner found ZPG (Zero Population Growth ) at Yale
Economics and Politics
• Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs established (Apr 8)
• Bobby Kennedy assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan moments after winning California primary (June 5)
• Democratic convention in Chicago . Demonstration & police riot 10,000 demonstrators vs. 12,000 Chicago police; 6,000 National Guard; 7,500 US army troops; and 1,000 FBI and CIA and other services agents (Aug 25-29)
• Nixon elected President, Spiro T. Agnew, VP Defeated Humphrey by only half a million votes (Nov 5)
• B-52 carrying H-bomb crashes in Greenland
• LBJ announces decision not to run again and offers partial Vietnam bombing halt (Mar 31)
• The week following Martin Luther King Jr's murder sees black uprisings in 125 cities across the U.S.
• Democratic convention in Chicago . Demonstrations and Police riot.
• Nixon defeats Humphrey. Narrowest victory since 1912. only 7%.
• First black female, Shirley Chisolm, elected to House (from New York ) (Nov 5)
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