1957 AD to 1966 AD

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1957 AD to 1975 AD: The Vietnam War was won by North Vietnam against South Vietnam and the United States.

~ Asian flu led to 50,000 US dead. The Asian flu of the time touched me personally. But I scarcely noted the Hong Kong flu and the Swine flu.

~ About this time I was called to active duty in the U.S. Navy. I asked for a deferment so as not to leave my family too disrupted. I got only six months. I spent about 3 years on active duty and had money sent home to help my family which was minus my father. The amount of money I was able to have sent home was very little.

~ Michigan, USA: The Mackinac bridge opened to link the upper and lower peninsula.

~ Russia: Russians launched Sputnik I, the first satellite in space.

~ USA: Asian flue broke out and about 50,000 Americans died of it. I contacted in Naval Boot Camp.

~ to 1964, USA: I served in the United States Navy. Might have finished my service in 1963 after serving three years.

1958 AD: The yearly wage in the US in this year was $5,100 by 2020 the yearly wage was $34,250. What can this tell us about inflation? The weekly wage this 1958 year was $71. By 2020 the usual weekly wage was $860. What does this tell us about the value of the dollar?

~ to 1960, USA: Iwas in the U.S. Navy,

~ November, USA: Record low temperature for November in 29 Palms, 21 degrees in that Southern California desert.

~ to 1964 AD, USSR: Nikita Khrushchev was Premier.

~ USA: My family minus my father and myself are living in Redondo Beach, California.

1959 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam war, conflict in Haiti.

~ July, USA: The Longest US steel strike begins and lasts 96 days.

 

1960 AD to 1963 AD:  Canadians experienced what has been called a Quiet Revolution during these years.

~ U. S. war in Vietnam.

~ February to August, USA: I work as a set-up man and drillpress operator at Autonetics as I attend a Junior College.

~ Earth: With a polar precession of  minus 23.500 degrees.

~ to 1961, USA: I worked various odd jobs while studying at the University of California at Berkeley.

~  to 1963, USA; John Fitzgerald Kennedy elected president and was assassinated in 1963.

 

1961 AD to 1963 AD: The Democrat, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was the US president.

~ U.S. war in Vietnam.

~ to 1962 AD: Honduras: I taught English, drove for a timber buyer, after leaving Mosquitia. 

~ USA : I was a brakeman for Southern Pacific Railroad out Oakland and San Francisco Bay area, California. I was a busy Young man.

~ USA: Bill of Alcoholics Anonymous exchanges letters with Dr Carl Jung.

~ USA: I enroll as a student at the University of California at Berkeley.

~ April 12 th, Russia: Yuri Gagarin, the soviet cosmonaut, became the first man in outer space to orbit the the Earth. Gagarin received medals from around the world for his pioneering tour in space.

~ May, US: Alan Shepard became the first American in space and one of 12 americans to walk on the moon.

1962 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam War, Cold war: Cuban Missile Crisis, Marines fight Communists in Thailand.

~ USA: The United Farm Workers was founded.

~ USA, September: Cesar Chavez was elected president at first NFWA convention at Fresno, California. Farm Workers.

~ to August of 1963, Honduras: I taught English to adults.

~ USA, March 31st: Chavez began organizing California farm workers.

~ July, US: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth and the first to orbit the Earth more than once. He was a Marine Corps fighter pilot who joined NASA's astronaut program. In 1968 Glenn became the oldest person to fly in space, when at the age of 77 he flew on the space shuttle Discovery.

1963 AD to 1969 AD: The Democrat, Lyndon B. Johnson was US pres. 

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam War.

~ June 10th, USA: The Equal Pay Act was signed by J. F. Kennedy.

~ November, USA: John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

1964 AD, Chile: Eduardo Frei ran as a Christian Democrat in the presidential election. The CIA used a record amount of money to see him elected. He had seemed a particularly good an brilliant human being up to that time. There is a very great deal to be learned about these happenings. American citizens paid a very great deal to meddle in the politics of this little country.

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam War.

~ 1964 AD, Chile: American Citizens paid their CIA and other organizations to meddle in the democratic elections of Chile.

~ Chile: Eduardo Frei ran as a Christian Democrat in the Chilean election as a popular candidate.

~ USA: the Valdez, Alaska tidal wave at 200 plus feet, I believe was the largest recorded to this date.

~ September 3rd, USA: The U.S. Congress passed the Wilderness Act. It was said that it was passed to "secure for the American people of the present and future generations the benefits of an enduring resource of wilderness" This Wilderness Act passed after 8 years, 18 hearings, and 66 versions before it passed.This effort began in 1956 by distinguished conservationists, but had roods stretching back to the 1930 Minnesota Act and, some believe back through the ages beyond Noah. LBJ.

~ July 2nd, USA: Civil Rights Act signed by L. B. Johnson.

~ September, USA: Graphic Artists Union International founded.

1965 AD, Ireland: O' Neil - Lemass talks.

~ U.S. wars: Vietnam war, Occupation of Dominican Republic.

1965 AD to 1975 AD, USA: During this decade the New Indian movement returned National Parks to the consciousness of American Indians and awakened the national consciousness.

~ March 7th, USA: "Bloody Sunday" Selma Alabama. It was a Civil Rights March when 25 year old activist John Lewis led over 600 "Marchers" across the Edmund Pettus bridge which resulted in the murders of Jimmy Lee Jackson and Amelia Boynton Robinson as they protested against Jim Crow laws and for equal voting rights.

~ September, USA: Filipino Farm Workers, AWOC, launched a five year grape boycott in Delano.

1966 AD, U.S. wars: Vietnam War. U.S. occupation of Dominican Republic.

~ April 10th, USA: Farm Workers end a 300 mile March to Sacramento, California.

~ April 6th, USA: Farm workers, UFWOC, recognized by Schenley during March to Sacramento.

~ August, USA: UFW won first secret ballot election with Di Giorgio, co.

~ AWOC and NFWA merged to form UFWOC under Cesar Chavez.

~ Hockey League Players Association established.

 

1967 AD to 1970 AD: Nigerian Civil War won by Federal Government against Biafra.

~ Six Day War won by Israel against Egypt, Syria, Jorden, and Iraq.

1969 AD to 1974 AD: Republican, Richard Nixon was US Pres.

1970 AD, Ireland: Dublin Arms trial.

1971 AD: Pakistani civil war was one by East Pakistan, Bangladesh, and India against West Pakistan.

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