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1967 |
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News Headlines Communist China Announces H-bomb test Christiaan Barnard Performs First Heart Transplant in Capetown South Africa US Bombers Raid Hanoi Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's Daughter Defects To West Newark Black Riots End After Six Days 26 Dead Detroit Riots End after 8 Days 43 Dead 3 Astronauts Die In Apollo I Fire On Launch Pad US Suffers highest Weekly Casualties in Vietnam Draft Board Refuses Exemption For Ali Man Said To Be Boston Strangler Is Recaptured
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In The News Troop level in Vietnam reaches 525,000 Anti-War protesters make night march to Pentagon Expo "67" opens in Montreal Dow high 943 low 786 Rene Favaloro, Cleveland Clinic develops first coronary bypass operation Ali won't serve, loses title Israel smashes Arabs in six day war Jane Mansfield dies in car crash |
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1968 |
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News Headlines North Korea seizes "Pueblo" Martin Luther King Assassinated In Memphis Robert Kennedy's assassin Sirhan Sirhan Arrested James Earl Ray Arrested in Murder of Martin Luther King Nixon Elected by Margin Of 500,000 Jackie Kennedy weds Aristotle Onassis 50,000 March In Capital For Poor People Soviet Tanks Invade defiant Prague Huey Newton Found Guilty In Shooting
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In The News Viet Cong begin Tet offensive in South Vietnam 1968 Civil Rights Act is passed Actress Jane Mansfield dies Wide ties are in For Women, rings on all fingers is the style Dr. Benjamin Spock indicted for his anti-draft advice Billie Jean King wins third Wimbledon tennis Title
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| 1969 |
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News Headlines Sirhan Sirhan Convicted of the Assassination Of Robert Kennedy Ted Kennedy Admits to Part In Chappaquiddick Death Of Mary Jo Kopechne Neil Armstrong First Man To Walk On The Moon Fred Hampton Black Panther Leader Killed In Chicago Police Raid Lt. William Calley To Be Tried For My Lai Massacre Charles Manson Cult Charged with murder Of Sharon Tate and 3 others 400,000 Attend Woodstock Music Festival in Bethel, NY
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In The News Giant oil slick contaminates Santa Barbara coast James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years for killing Martin Luther King Supreme Court Justice Warren Burger appointed by Nixon First Draft Lottery is held Dwight D. Eisenhower dies Horror film actor Boris Karlof Dies First commercial 747 airplane goes into service Concord makes first Trans-US flight Seattle to New York
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