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In 1969, the U.S. troop presence in Vietnam reached its peak of 549,000, [5] and Black people often made up a disproportionate 25% or more of combat units in Vietnam, while constituting only 12% of the military. 20% of black males were combat soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines, while the percentage of Whites in combat roles was lower.
On October 6, 1969, the statue commemorating the policemen killed in the 1886 Haymarket affair in Chicago was blown up by a group including William Ayers. [7] The blast broke nearly 100 windows and scattered pieces of the statue onto the Kennedy Expressway below; [ 8 ] no one was ever arrested for the bombing. [ 9 ]
Young men burn their draft cards in New York City on April 15, 1967, at Sheep Meadow, Central Park. Draft-card burning was a symbol of protest performed by thousands of young men in the United States and Australia in the 1960s and early 1970s as part of the anti-war movement.
The initial blackout lasted around 9 hours where at 21:00 local time power to most of the affected areas was restored, [236] with almost 20 hours of blackout in total. Initially, the PLN (Indonesia's state electricity company) stated that cause of the outage was due to disruptions in a number of plants in Java, [ 237 ] but later said that the ...
"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." That epic sentence was uttered by NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong from the surface of the moon 46 years ago and was broadcast around the world.
A map of the states and provinces affected. Not all areas within the political boundaries were blacked out. The northeast blackout of 1965 was a significant disruption in the supply of electricity on Tuesday, November 9, 1965, affecting parts of Ontario in Canada and Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont in ...
Government satellite images from the night of the storm show a black gash across six states in the Southeast, where millions were left without power in the wake of the storm that has killed 166 ...
1863 – New York City draft riots, occurred July 13 through 16 in response to government efforts to draft men to fight in the ongoing American Civil War. [9] 1870 – First New York City Orange riot, occurred July 12 when demonstrators clashed with hecklers and laborers during a parade [4]