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Arrested. 12,000. The 1971 May Day protests against the Vietnam War were a series of large-scale civil disobedience actions in Washington, D.C., protesting the United States' continuing involvement in the Vietnam War. The protests began on Monday morning, May 3 and ended on May 5. In all, more than 12,000 people were arrested, in what was the ...
April 15. The National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam [22] stages an anti-war demonstration in New York City marching from Central Park to the United Nations, with over 400,000 attendees. Speakers included Martin Luther King Jr., [23] [24] Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
History of Oklahoma City. The history of Oklahoma City refers to the history of city of Oklahoma City, and the land on which it developed. Oklahoma City's history begins with the settlement of "unassigned lands" in the region in the 1880s, and continues with the city's development through statehood, World War I and the Oklahoma City bombing.
5 September 1970 - 8 October 1971. Operation Jefferson Glenn was the last major ground operation in which U.S. troops participated in the Vietnam War. Three battalions of the 101st Airborne Division patrolled the area west of the city of Huế, called the "rocket belt", to try to prevent PAVN/VC rocket attacks.
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November. November 15: The Intel 4004, the first commercially available microprocessor, is released. November 6 – Operation Grommet: The U.S. tests a thermonuclear warhead at Amchitka Island in Alaska, code-named Project Cannikin. At around 5 megatons, it is the largest ever U.S. underground detonation. November 12.
April 29, 1971 (Thursday) Avianca Flight 81, a Boeing 720 flying from Los Angeles, California, United States, to Bogotá, Colombia, was hijacked by a lone man who demanded to be flown to Cuba. The airliner diverted to Panama City, Panama, where the hijacker was arrested. [131] The Grateful Dead in rehearsal.