--- In [email protected], akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> http://www.hippy.com/php/article-15.html
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> I find timelines can be interesting -- jogging memories of what we
> were doing when these events occurred -- and can help in
> reconstrucing other timelines like the TMO (this course had to be near
> these dates because I remember the announcement about ... dying."
>
Start of a TMO Timeline (TMO stuff preceeded by ***** -- interspersed
with the rest of counter culture / world. Please feel free to add.
1967
***** Early 1967 or Late 1966, MMY announces he will return to India
and go into lifetime silence.
Jan 14 - Gathering of the Tribes, First Human Be-In, 20,000, S.F.
Jan 27 - US, USSR, UK sign treaty banning nuclear weapons in space
Feb - 25,000 US troops sent to Cambodian border
Feb - Beatles release Strawberry Fields Forever, Penny Lane, Michelle,
Yesterday
Mar - Scientist report LSD causes chromosome damage (never validated).
Mar - The Berkeley Barb starts the smokable banana rumor (based upon
Donovan's song "Mellow Yellow")
Mar 3 - Alice B. Toklas dies
Mar 18 - First U.S. supertanker wreck. Torrey Canyon spills 90,000
tons of oil onto English shores
Mar 26 - Be-In at Central Park in NY. 10,000 attend
***** Spring 1967 TMer Robbie Krieger, part of LA SIMS Gayley Ave
UCLA wave of initiates writes "Lighter My Fire". Other song written by
Krieger or Morrison -- later on first Doors album "Take it as It Comes."
Apr 5 - Grayline starts hippie tours of Haight/Ashbury
Apr 10 - Vietnam Week starts. Draft card burnings and anti-draft
demonstrations
Apr 15 - Anti-Vietnam War protest. 400,000 march from Central Park to
UN. Speeches by Martin Luther King, Stokely Carmichael and Dr.
Benjamin Spock
May - Paul McCartney announces that all the Beatles have "dropped acid."
May 19 - First U.S. air strike on Hanoi
May 20 - Flower Power Day in NYC 1967
Jun 2 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album by the Beatles
released.
Jun 16 - Monterey Pop Festival
**** Early Summer 1967 -- Beatles initiated into TM
Jun 21 - Summer Solstice Party in Golden Gate Park
Jun 25 - Beatles sing "All You Need Is Love" on TV 1967
Jun 30 - 448,400 US troops now in Vietnam
July - The Summer of Love in San Francisco
July - Summer of Rioting in the US. Blacks take to the streets in
Chicago, Brooklyn, Cleveland and Baltimore
July 1 - Sgt. Pepper hits #1
July 11 - Newark riots start long hot summer
July 24 - 43 Die in Detroit rioting, worst in U.S. history
July 26 - H. Rap Brown arrested for inciting a riot in Maryland
***** July 29 - Door's Light My Fire and Procol Harem's Whiter Shade
of Pale vie for #1
Aug 26 - Jimi Hendrix's "Are You Experienced" hits the charts
Aug 27 - Beatles in India with Maharishi informed of Brian Epstein's death
***** Above is in original timeline. I beleive it is partially an
error. the Beattles were with M in London. yes? Rishikesh course was
spring of 1968.
Sept - Richard Alpert meets Bhagwan Dass at the Blue Tibetan in
Katmandu, stays in India & follows him until he meets his guru.
Sept 15 - Donovan performs at the Hollywood Bowl
***** Early Oct 1967 MMY lectures on west coast. Two public lectures
at filled Berkeley Community Theatre. Says "no need to give up
anything for cosmic consciousness." Crowd cheers. Flyers handed out
inviting all Students of the World to gain Cosmic Consciousness in
five years. TM 2x day for 20 min and a week residence cours 2x (?) /
year.
Berekely Channing Ave Center opened. Grand building (former upscale
frat house)
Oct 3 - Woody Guthrie dies
Oct 8 - Che Guevarra killed in Bolivia by US-trained troops
Oct 12 - Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills with
Janis Joplin at top of LP charts.
Oct 20 - Seven KKK members convicted of conspiracy in 1964 murders of
three civil rights worker
Oct 21-22 - Anti-war protesters storm the Pentagon
Oct 21 - "Diggers" exorcise the Pentagon. 35,000 Demonstrate, 647
arrested
Oct 26 - Draft deferments eliminated for those who violate draft laws
or interfere with recruitment
**** Nov 2-7, or so, people lined up around the block to be initiated
into TM. Jerry Jarvis, Carol Hanbie, Pete Ports (I think), Colin
Harrision (?), Terry Gustafson ("get back jojo") intiated day and
night for a week. Pauley Ballroom at UC Berkeley filled for
three-nights checking. Awesome group meditations.
***** UCB dedicates a large room on campus as "meditation room".
Nov 14 - Air Quality Act provides $428 million to fight air pollution
Nov 20 - National Commission on Product Safety established
Dec - Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
Dec - 486,000 American troops in Vietnam, of the 15,000 killed to
date, 60% died in 1967.
Dec - "Stop the Draft" movement organized by 40 antiwar groups,
nationwide protests ensue.
Dec 5 - 1000 antiwar protesters try to close NYC induction center.
585 arrested including Allen Ginsberg and Dr. Benjamin Spock
Dec 5 - Beatles open Apple Shop in London
Dec 8 - Otis Redding records "Dock of the Bay"
Dec 10 - Otis Redding dies in plane crash
Dec 22 - Owsley busted, stops making acid
Dec 31 - Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Paul Krassner, Dick Gregory, &
friends pronounce themselves "Yippies"
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