MOLLY'S DELICIOUS

Where Were You in 1965?
A timeline of news and events surrounding the action of the play

• Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in for his own full term as U.S. President (January 20).
• Winston Churchill dies at the age of 90 (January 24).
• Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City (February 21).
• Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama: Some 200 Alabama State Troopers attack 525 civil rights demonstrators (March 7).
• Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam, becoming the first American combat troops in Vietnam (March 8).
• Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space (March 18).
• The first draft card burnings take place at the University of California, Berkeley (May 5).
• The Twin Cities Tornado Outbreak of 1965 kills 13 people and causes more monetary damage than any other weather event up to that point in Minnesota’s history (May 6).
• Gemini 4: Astronaut Edward Higgins White makes the first U.S. space walk (June 3).
• Bob Dylan elicits controversy among folk purists by "going electric" at the Newport Folk Festival (July 25).
• President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000 (July 28).
• President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid (July 30).
• U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law (August 6).
• The Watts Riots begin in Los Angeles, California (August 11).
• Rock musician Bob Dylan releases his influential album Highway 61 Revisited, featuring the song "Like a Rolling Stone" (August 30).
• Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs. The opposing pitcher, Bob Hendley, allows only one run, which was unearned (September 9).
• The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) are created as separate and independent agencies. (September 29).
• Pope Paul VI visits the United States (October 4).
• In Washington, DC, a pro-Vietnam War march draws 25,000 (October 30).
• Northeast Blackout of 1965: Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13½ hours (November 9).
• Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters picket the White House, then march on the Washington Monument (November 27).
• A Charlie Brown Christmas, the first Peanuts television special, debuts on CBS, becoming one of the great Christmas television specials, and an annual tradition (December 9).
–adapted from www.wikipedia.com

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