1969
Jan 28 : Santa Barbara, Ca. oil well blowout
Feb : Massive strike at U.C. Berkeley for ethnic studies
Feb 11 : 200 students smash computers with axes & set computer center on fire during sit:in protesting prof's racism at St. George Williams College, Montreal
Feb 13 : 33 students arrested at admin bldg sit:in at Univ of Mass.
Feb 18 : Students seize building and  boycott started at Howard University
Feb 24 : Students occupy Admin bldg at Penn State
Feb 27 : Police charge student picket lines, club and arrest two Chicano leaders at U.C. Berkeley
Feb 27 : Thousands rampage thru 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 Univ 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
Apr 30 : Clint Vander Klok is BORN!!
May 15 : Hippies in People's Park in Berkeley attacked by police and Nat'l 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
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 Festival 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 : The Weatherman "Days of Rage"
Oct 15 : Peace Day. 500,000 protesters nationwide. First Vietnam Moratorium
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
1969
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 : Over 100,000 US troops dead or injured in Vietnam.
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