1975 June 7 Tom Hayden fails to defeat Calif. Sen. John Tunney
in the Democratic primary, but gets 36.7% of the vote
June 26 Shoot out on Oglala Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation,
South Dakota between xxx
(Leonard Peltier later blamed & indicted,
as described in In The Spirit of Crazy Horse)
75 Aug 11 Last Amer soldier leaves Vietnam
(total American casualties: 46,079)
(Almanac sez 57,939 killed or missing)
total Vietnamese casualties ??
Aug 23 Pathet Lao celebrate complete takeover of Laos
Aug 27 Kent State President & 27 National Guard
acquitted of all responsibility for shootings
Sept 5 Lynette `Squeaky' Fromme fires at Carter (Sacto)
75 Sept 9 New York City emergency plan to stave off default for three mo
nths
Sept 18 Patty Hearst found by FBI In SF & caught
Sept 22 Sara Jane Moore fires at Carter (SF)
Oct 1 OPEC raises oil prices another 10%,
but agrees to hold that price for 9 months
75 Oct Bruce Springsteen on cover of Time & Newsweek
Nov 10 French leave Angola
Nov 17 Cleaver arrested on return to US after 7 years
living in Cuba, Guinea, Algeria, N. Korea, Fr
(for Apr 68 Oakland shootout)
Nov 20 Franco dies, dictator of Spain 36 years
Dec 11 High-ranking govt official announces US has sent
$25 million in arms & support to Angola
over the past 3 months
Dec 19 US Senate bars further covert aid to Angola
1975 MUSIC / CINEMA / PUBLISHING
*Joni Mitchell: Hissing of Summer Lawns
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Natty Dread
Tommy
Dylan: Basement Tapes released
Patti Smith: Horses +?
*Sons of Champlin
*Germany: Kraftwerk
*Fleetwood Mac reformed with Buckingham & Nicks
NYC: First Punk bands
(The Ramones, Talking Heads, Blondie, Television)
Ireland: six traditional musicians meet in Dublin
& form The Bothy Band, start of many revival groups
what year? ? John Prine
TV: Saturday Night Live (yes) (starts)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Nicholson)
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (also seen as 74)
(Jaws)
Nashville
Rocky Horror Show
The Wiz (black musical)
Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth
in America - Suzanne Arms
Birth Without Violence: Frederick Leboyer (the book & the movi
e)
The Woman Warrior: Maxine Hong Kingston
Small Is Beautiful (I have this as 73)
Ernest Callenbach: Ecotopia
Fritzof Capra: The Tao of Physics
?Briarpatch Network
The Book of Tofu - Shurtleff & Aoyagi
The Postage Stamp Garden Book - Duane Newcomb
Edward Abbey: The Monkey Wrench Gang
First article on effect of carbon dioxide on global warming
(Greenhouse Effect) (Science magazine
& Journal of Atmospheric Sciences)
Philip Agee: Inside the Company (was this the first CIA expose
?)
Shogun - James Clavell (the book?)
Transcendental Meditation
est
sushi
1976 (Dollar strengthens on foreign exchange 76-77)
("Economic recovery")
Highest rate of bank failures since 1933 (385 in trouble)
76 Ford's "Whip Inflation Now" buttons
(U.S. Balance of Payments starts to go into red)
Lowest birth rate of the Baby Bust
Oldest baby boomers start turning 30
Bicentennial celebrations
when? kick-off : 30,000 demonstrators
First US/USSR grain sales treaty (minimum purchases)
Koreagate
South African invasion of Angola (Almanac has this as 81)
Cuba sends troops to Angola
James Buckley running for president
Cocaine becomes noticeably fashionable
76 Apple Computer started in Steve Jobs' basement in Mtn View
Congressional Black Caucus founded
Who's Deep Throat?
CB craze
Born again
Personal ads
"est"
("Peter Berg popularizes the term "bioregionalism" ")?ck CQ da
te
Tom Hayden establishes Campaign for Economic Democracy
Production of PCBs banned
U.S. 200th birthday celebrations
Feb 4 Earthquake in Guatemala -> Plenty
Feb Leonard Peltier arrested in Canada & trial
Feb 12 MPLA ("Soviet" Popular Movement for Liberation of Angola)
states that it has won the Angolan Civil War;
Unita (National Union for the Total Independence of Angola,
Jonas Savimbi, President - supported by U.S.)
forms? coalition with FLNA (Natl Frt for the Lib of Angola)
Feb 19 Four recruits die at Fort Dix of a new flu virus
which is a hybrid of Asian flu with one that causes
flu-like illness in pigs ("swine flu").
Worries about an epidemic similar to the 1918-19
swine flu epidemic which affected 500,000 Americans.
Big vaccination campaign started.
Mar 11 Stock Market tops 1,000 (highest since Jan 26, 73)
Mar 18 New trial ordered for Rubin "Hurricane" Carter
& John Artis (for 67 triple murder N.J.)
?When was Dylan's song?
Mar 28 FBI discloses it burglarized the Socialist Party
92+ times between 1960 and 1966
Apr 5 Howard Hughes dies
& Beijing demos against the Gang of Four
Apr 9 Phil Ochs hangs himself at his sister's house,
Far Rockaway, NY
76 Apr 25 Portugal's first free parliamentary elections in
50 years - Socialists & Popular Democrats share win
May 28 OPEC extends oil price freeze
June 5 Teton dam bursts, Idaho
June 16 US ambassador killed in Lebanon "civil war"
June 16 Uprising in Soweto, South Africa's biggest black
"township": 10,000 students demo
(asking to be taught in English instead of Afrikaans?)
Spreads to 7 other black townships
128 dead; 1,112 injured
By year's end, some thousands have died in demos
throughout the country
July? Is this the first month of the trade deficit
July 29 Legionnaires die at Philadelphia convention of
strange new disease
July 20 Viking I lands on Mars
Sept 30 Congress passes Hyde amendment, which would
prevent Medicaid reimbursements for abortions
Oct 4 Agric Sec Earl Butz's resigns due to racist remark
Oct 12 Three elderly deaths halt swine flu vac program
76 Oct Amory Lovins: Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken
(in Foreign Affairs) he was 28 explain!
(Democrats running for Pres: Henry Jackson,
Lloyd? Bentsen, George Wallace)
Wavy Gravy's Nobody for President campaign
Oct 22 Fed Dist Ct holds Hyde Amenment unconstitutional
76 Nov Carter/Mondale defeats Ford
Is this when Bill Clinton elected to first of
three terms in Arkansas?
Nov 15 Parti Quebecois gain control of Quebec govt
Tksg The Band: Last Waltz at Winterland (Graham) (movie 78)
76 Dec 17 OPEC agrees on two oil price raises: Saudi Arabia 5% raise,
other 11 OPEC nations 10% raise
Dec 20 Mayor Richard Daley, ruler of Chicago for 20 years, dies
-> first black non-Daley major (name) when?
Dec 22 Worst oil spill off US coast - Liberian tanker off Nantucket
Springsteen
Bob Dylan: Desire
McCartney: Wings over America tour
*Joni Mitchell: Hejira
*Warren Zevon
*Ramones
*Blondie
*Bunny Wailer: first solo
John Denver: Rocky Mountain High
Peter Frampton
The Captain and Tennille
76 *Sex Pistols (UK) - first Punk (late 76) ENGLAND
June - play in Manchester
TV: Charlie's Angels begins
Happy Days & Laverne and Shirley,
Little Hse on the Prairie, The Waltons (Note: all nostalgia)
Sat Night Fever (released)
Network
(A Chorus Line)
Rocky, Taxi Driver
All the President's Men
Three Days of the Condor
The Marathon Man (w Dustin Hoffman)
Werner Herzog's movies reviewed in Rolling Stone
Wim Wenders: Kings of the Road
Laurel's Kitchen
76 Roots (the book)
The Guide to Self-Sufficiency - John Seymour (U.K.)
The Solar Home Book - Anderson & Riordan
The Woodburner's Encyclopedia - Shelton & Shapiro
A Co-operative Method of Natural Birth Control-Margaret Nofzig
er
(The Joy of Running - Kostubala)
Passages - Gail Sheehy
When God Was a Woman - Merlin Stone
Mother Jones starts publication
In These Times starts publication
Rolling Stones Magazine write-in on the Sixties
1977 Dollar plummets (to 270 yen at the end of 77)
Alaskan pipeline completed (when started?)
Trans Dept announces seat belts required by 84
Carter ?renews draft evader amnesty
Carter declares energy conservation the "moral equiv of war"
Urban Development Action Grant: public redevelopment investmen
t
must be matched with private investment
?burn out phenomenon noticed
(goat cheese, Brooke Shields)
jogging
worst weather extremes of the 20th century:
North, East, South cold; West in last worst year of drought
?Elvis dies
July: unemployment in U.K. 1 million (get # for 76)
Jan explain Carter austerity, human rights campaign
when? Carter recommends abandonment of 18 porkbarrel dam projects
J 23-30 Roots on tv, watched by 36 million
Jan 27 Vatican bars women from priesthood
Mar Carter ends travel restrictions to Cuba, Vietnam,
North Korea, Cambodia, and lifts ban on spending
US dollars in Cuba
Mar 11 United?? Farmworkers & Teamsters sign agreement, Calif
(after 10 years of discord)
Mar Greens get first media attention in Fr with 12% win
Apr 11 Parents of 5 "Moonies" denied custody
Apr 18 Carter presents Energy Plan
77 Apr 22 UK: North Sea oil spill
May Unemployment down to 7% - lowest in 29 months
May 1-2 1,414 arrested as Clamshell Alliance occupies construction
site of nuclear power plant at Seabrook, New Hampshire
May 13 La Pasionaria returns to Madrid, 34 days after the
Communist Party is legalized in Spain
May 13 500 demonstrators arrested at Seabrook demo found
guilty of trespass
Jun 7 Dade County, Florida vote repeals anti-gay ordinance
(singer Anita Bryant is active in campaign against repeal)
June 17 EPA approves Seabrook
June 26 Marches throughout US in support of gays
100,000 San Francisco, tens of thousands in NY
July Record US trade deficit (13th consecutive monthly deficit)
26% rise in oil imports is said to be major factor
J 13-14 NYC black out
Aug 10 Son of Sam captured after 6 murders, 7 wounded
Sept 12 Stephen Biko dies in prison, South Africa
Sept 20 Vietnam finally admitted to UN
Oct US trade deficit 3.1 bill (first time over 3 bill in history)
Oct 12 Univ of Calif vs Bakke (trial starts - filed Sept 19) explain
77 Nov 4 United Nations votes South African arms embargo
Nov 5 Carter vetoes Tennessee Clinch River Breeder Reactor
Nov 18 KKK members convicted of 1963 bombing of Birmingham
church in which four young black girls were killed
(Nov 19 Egypt Pres? Sadat visits Israel)
(Dec 7 FBI finally releases JFK assas files due to
requests under Freedom of Information Act
Dec 10 First 61 of 300 Americans held in Mexican prisons on
drug charges released in prisoner exchange
(Dec 14 Farmers strike announced)
*Elvis Costello
*Patti Smith: first album
*Peter Tosh: first solo
*Talking Heads
77 *Clash and the first Big Year of Punk
77 *Lynyrd Skynyrd killed in plane crash
Fake Beatles put together
Rocky Horror Show starts at U.C.
Annie Hall
Close Enctrs of the Third Kind, Star Wars
The Turning Point (MacLaine, Bancroft)
Julie (Redgrave, Fonda)
(Goodbye Girl)
(Sat. Night Fever continues) (becomes hit)
Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000: Alain Tanner
?Man of Marble - Andrzej Wajda
The Women's Room - Marilyn French
Games Mother Never Taught You (Corporate Gamesmanship
for Women) - Harragan
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the
Rainbow Is Enuf: Ntozake Shange
77 Amory Lovins: Soft Energy Paths
Food First (the book)
Rainbook (Resources for Appropriate Technology)
Goodbye to the Flush Toilet - Stoner (Rodale)
77 A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
David Werner: Where There is No Doctor
The Moosewood Cookbook - Mollie Katzen
1978 "Dollar crisis" - dollar devalued 20% in foreign exchange
(the year I was in Europe)
Engineering recession
Koreagate
Coors boycott starts after 20-month strike is broken
Birth Control pill side effects
Free Base (cocaine derivative)
Sirius Community founded, Amherst, MA
Boat people
Dennis Banks granted asylum from extradition
to South Dakota by Jerry Brown
(Half a million letters to Governor Brown urge sanctuary)
Amer Ind Religious Freedom Act: right to use peyote as a
religious sacrament in Native American Church meetings
by Native Americans
78-79 Santa Monica rent control campaign
(when was Tom Hayden elected?)
Holocaust on tv
when? ERA Wash D.C. march
Jan Trade deficit jumps to 26.7 bill (eek! is this right)
(could this be 2.67?) - 4x the 1976 deficit
due to oil import increase (76-34 bill; 79-44.3 bill)
78 Feb 11 AIM Longest Walk starts from Alcatraz
Lois Gibbs brings U.S. to awareness of Love Canal
(near Niagara Falls, NY) (& residents evacuated this year)
Mar 5 China adopts new constitution stressing economic
development over revolutionary ideology
Mar Japan, Germany try to prop up the dollar
Mar 17 Worst oil spill off Brittany - supertanker Amoco Cadiz
breaks in two: 223,000 tons
Apr 7 Carter defers production of neutron bomb
May 21 4,300 rally at Bangor Naval Base, Wash
to protest U.S. Trident
May 27 40 meditators attend U.N. Disarmament Session's
Mobilization for Survival (convened May 23)
June Trade deficit 2.24 bill, smallest since Sept 77
but 24th consecutive month
78 June 6 Prop 13 passed - Calif (give name & explain)
June 15 Supreme Court rules TVA may not complete Tellico Dam
(based on the endangered Snail Darter)
June 28 Supreme Court upholds affirmative action programs in general,
but orders Alan Bakke admitted to UC Davis Medical College
July 17 AIM Longest Walk arrives Washington, D.C.
July 25 First test tube baby born (U.K.)
Aug 15 ERA deadline extended by Congress to June 30, 82
Aug 22 Sandanistas capture of Nic Natl Palace starts revolution
Sept Taz (Die Tageszeitung) starts publication in Germany
(S 5-17 Carter Camp David Sadat/Begin summit -> Accords)
Oct 13 Sid Vicious (former Sex Pistol bandmember) kills girlfriend
Oct 15 Carter Energy Package
Oct 15 Congress deregulates airlines
Oct 20 End of worst week in Stock Market's history
drops 59.08 to 838.01
O 25-30 Record dollar lows - Dollar drops to 178 yen end Oct
Meanwhile, gold at record high of 245/ounce
Oct 31 Stock Market drops to 792.45, lowest since Apr 13
Nov 18 Jim Jones' Peoples Temple mass suicide, Jonestown, Guyana - 91
1
Dec Communist China opens door to capitalist innovations
Dec 16 Cleveland defaults
78 Dec 17 OPEC raises oil prices 14.5% (12.70 -> 14.54/barrel)
Dec 31 Graham's Winterland's last concert
(Grateful Dead & Blues Bros.)
Stayin' Alive - BeeGees
78 *second Big Year of Punk
*Joni Mitchell: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
?Warren Zevon second album?
Coming Home
Deer Hunter
Blue Collar
Grease (the movie)
Woody Allen: Annie Hall and Interiors
An Unmarried Woman
The Buddy Holly Story
Dylan's Renaldo and Clara movie
Kristofferson all over the media
(Animal House)
(Superman)
78 Muddling Toward Frugality - Warren Johnson
The Unsettling of America - Wendell Berry
One Straw Revolution - Masanobu Fukuoka
Spiritual Midwifery - Ina May Gaskin
The Vegetarian Epicure, Book II - Anna Thomas
The Briarpatch Book
Reinhabiting a Separate Country: A Bioregional
Anthology of North America - Peter Berg (Planet Drum)
The Incredible Secret Money Machine - Don Lancaster
The Pregnancy After 30 Workbook - Brewer (Rodale)
Gyn/Ecology - Mary Daly
Linus Pauling: Vitamin C, the Common Cold, and the Flu
In Search of Enemies (A CIA Story) - John Stockwell
"Garry Trudeau" (?syndicates Doonesbury)
Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
radio show starts in U.K.
?Immanuel Velikovsky: Worlds in Collision
1979 U.S. Stagflation of 78-80 starts, dollar starts decline of 78-
80
12% inflation due to massive energy cost increases
Housing prices start to rise
Gold price goes to record high of 400/ounce
(Steel lay-offs)
(Volcker appointed to head Federal Reserve Board)
?U.S. reaches Zero Population Growth?
None of military services meets its recruiting quota
Dictators overthrown: Masie of Equatorial Guina,
Bokassa of the Central African "Empire"
Oil spill in the Atlantic
when? No-nukes D.C. march
when? Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II) signed
(U.S. Senate never ratifies)
?Dave Foreman founds Earth First!
Grameen Bank for micro business loans started in India
79 Over 1000 Shramadama work camps in Sri Lanka
KSAN progressive radio staff quits for good
78-79: Santa Monica rent control campaign
Jan 7 Pol Pot is overthrown in Cambodia
79 Jan 16 Shah of Iran deposed (when? hostages taken)
Feb 1 Ayatollah Khomeini in -> oil shortages
(Feb 5 Farmers demonstrate, Wash D.C.)
Mar 26 Israel/Egypt peace treaty signed
79 Mar 27 OPEC raises oil prices 9% to 14.546/barrel (?see Dec 17, 78)
taking advantage of the drop in Iran oil production
Mar 28 Three Mile Island (near Middletown, Pa.) nuclear
A 1-10 Teamsters strike
(A 4 Bhutto killed, Pakistan)
Apr 11 Idi Amin of Uganda is overthrown
Apr 12 GATT signed (talks started 73)
Apr 18 Lee Marvin's ex-live-in partner wins "Palimony"
(based on 76 Sup Ct ruling)
79 May 4 Margaret Thatcher elected Prime Minister of Britain
May 6 65,000+ Wash anti-nuke
May 8 California starts odd-even license gas distribution
79 May? OPEC raises oil prices again (2 1/2 x)
(?ca 8 dollars/barrel to 20 dollars/barrel??)
-> dollar/gallon gas
(-> inflation (13%) + unemployment 79-80)
79 June 3 Mexico's worst oil well blowout, 3.1 billion barrels
Bay of Campeche, near the Yucatan Peninsula,
twice as big as the 78 Brittany (Amoco Cadiz) spill
starts (finally capped Mar 24, 80)
Jun 7 Carter approves development of the MX missile
Jun 20 NY, Conn, NJ start odd-even license gas distribution
Jun 28 OPEC announces oil price rise 24% to 18/barrel
July 5 ACLU sues FBI over 65 murder of civil rights worker
Viola Liuzzo by KKK
July 17 Nicaragua: last Somoza of 46-year dynasty flees to Miami
Sandanistas take power
July 18 Gold price passes 300/ounce
Sept 29 200,000 anti-nuke lower Manhattan
+ ca 11 other demos around US
Oct 1045 anti-nuke arrested in frt of NY Stock Exchange
Oct 7 2,500 anti-nuke demonstrators attempt to occupy 2 nuclear
plants under construction Seabrook
Oct Federal Reserve System decides to allow more fluctuation
in interest rates
Oct 15 El Salvador President Romero is deposed by a military coup
(Feb 81 - US admits to having sent 18 advisors to help
the military junta. El Salv leftists claim 100 US advisors.)
Oct 17 Mother T?eresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize
Nov 3 KKK kill 5, wound 8 anti-Klan demos in march Greensboro, NC
Nov 4 Iranians seize Amer Embassy, Tehran, take 90 hostages
(65 Americans)
Nov US Steel closes 15 plants: 13,000 out of work
Nov 24 US General Accounting Office admits that thousands of US
troops were exposed to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War
Dec 5 Gold is selling for less than 136.49/ounce
D 25-26 USSR invades Afghanistan
Dec US gov persuades NATO to accept stationing of additional
464 Cruise & 108 Pershing II missiles in Europe
(in addition to 5000+ already there)
79 Dec U.S. bail-out of Chrysler starts, UAW accepts pay cuts
Dylan: Slow Train Coming ("Dylan finds Jesus")
*Joni Mitchell: Mingus
The China Syndrome (Fonda)(just before Three Mile Isld - Mar 7
9)
Hair (the movie)
Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
Being There
Kramer vs Kramer
Woody Allen: Manhattan
La Cage Aux Folles
Breaking Away
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Last Wave
Nosferatu
(Rocky II) (Star Trek - the movie)
(The Electric Horseman) (Redford, Fonda)
(TV: Mork and Mindy)
Tom Wolfe: The Right Stuff
James Lovelock Gaia hypothesis published as book
The Integral Urban House Book - Farallones Institute
Underground Houses - Roy
Godel, Escher, Bach
The Dancing Wu Li Masters (An Overview of the New Physics) -
Gary Zukaw
(A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams)
1980 U.S. Industrial output lowest in 5 years
Unemployment soaring
Housing prices skyrocket (I say)
Govt tight money anti-inflation policy
Japanese cars & semiconductors? jump in sales to U.S.
(Japanese investment in U.S. starts to grow ($1.2 bill in 80)
Banks deregulated
Abscam scandel (into Jan 81 - Apr 81 convictions)
Pay raise for armed service recruits -> turnaround
U.K.: Planning Act shifts powers from counties to districts
80 Guardian Angels founded
First Right Livelihood Awards from Sweden
Rev Jerry Falwell claims Moral Majority has registered 4 mill
36-yr Sup Court Justice Wm O Douglas dies
(MCI wins settlement from AT&T)
(Color Me Beautiful - Carole Jackson)
(The Official Preppie Handbook)
USSR invades Afghanistan, US boycotts Moscow Olympics
Jerry Brown running for Pres (second time)
Biotech breakthroughs
Castro allows Cubans to leave
Audubon Society & U.S. Fish & Wildlife begin
California Condor Recovery Program
Supreme Court rules that organisms created by genetic
enginnering can be patented (sez EWJ)
Jan Myles Horton, founder of Highlander, dies
Jan 2 Gold price rise starts: 562.85/ounce
80 Jan 4 Carter announces USSR grain sales embargo
(in the wake of USSR Afghanistan invasion)
Jan Carter proposes peacetime m/f draft
Jan 15 Gold price rises to 700/ounce
Jan 16 Interferon made by gene-splicing
J 14-18 gold goes up ?$176 to $835/ounce
80 Feb global oil glut -> price starts to lower
Mar 27 Silver plummets to 10.80/ounce,
destroying Hunt brothers silver empire
which they started building in summer 79
Apr 2 Carter signs the Windfall Profits Oil Tax
Apr 17 Zimbabwe, once Rhodesia, gains independence from U.K.
Apr 17 Recession begins
May 4 Tito dies, Yugoslavia, xx years head of state
M 17-19 Black uprising, Miami
(May 18 Mount St. Helens erupts)
May 21 Carter announces state of emergency at Love Canal
80 June 800,000 anti-nuke march NYC (with Coretta King)
Jn 3&6 Computer errors trigger 2 false nuc alarms
June Congress approves small peacetime draft
(June Employees buy-out Rath Packing)
July US car makers report record losses, 2nd quarter 80
Aug 14 After 2 months of labor turmoil,
16,000 Polish workers seize the Lenin Shipyard, Gdansk
Aug 30 Polish govt allows formation of independent unions
80 -> Solidarity formed
Sept 22 After 10 months of skirmishes,
Iran-Iraq war starts, halting 60% of world's oil traffic
Sept 23 Maine referendum shuts down Maine's only nuc plant (Yankee)
Sept 30 Recession believed ending
80 Oct Socialists win in Spain (first democracy since 39)
Oct 17 Recession ends
but inflation continues
80 Nov Reagan defeats Carter
plus many Republican Senators ride in "on R's coattails)
Nov surge in mortgage rates starts
Nov 14 Guinea-Bissau govt falls
Nov 25 Upper Volta president ousted
Dec 3 Congress passes Superfund (ck) $1.6 bill
to clean up toxic sites
80 Dec 8 John Lennon shot and killed
Dec Dingas leave Muktananda's Oakland ashram
Dec 10 Second instance of surrogate motherhood reported (Tenn)
80 Dec 16 Saudi Arabia raises oil prices $2 to $32/barrel,
then OPEC allows others to rise to 40/barrel
Dec 16 Leaders of Solidarity, leaders of a new government, and
reps of Catholic Church + 150,000 gather in Gdansk to
recognize the dramatic change which has come to
Poland
Dec 18 Hunger strike in Northern Ireland is called off after 7 weeks
80 First Rap hit: Sugarhill Gang's Rapper's Delight ("79")
Weavers reunion concert
The Elephant Man
(The Shining)
(Blues Brothers)
?Return of the Secaucus Seven - John Sayles
Alvin Toffler: The Third Wave
Lester Thurow: The Zero-Sum Society
The Next WE Catalog
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
Medical Self-Care (the book) - Tom Ferguson, M.D.
The Toilet Papers: Designs to Recycle Human Waste & Water:
Dry Toilets, Greywater Systems, & Urban Sewage - Sim Van der R
yn
The Old House Journal Catalog
Drawing Down the Moon - Margot Adler
(Clan of the Cave Bear) (the book)
1981 Oil at its highest price (1.35-40?/g) and starts to drop
US Inflation rate starts to drop
US Interest rates around 16%
Japanese investment in U.S. doubles to $3 billion
Number of young families buying homes drops
Worldwide Stagflation of 1981-83
81 + In the wake of oil price increase, third world less
81 able to repay 400 billion in debts incurred 71-80
Savings & Loans continue to become insolvent
?U.S. Steel decides to buy Marathon Oil instead of
modernizing its plants
81-82 "terror in the Guatemala countryside"
Morris Dees starts? the Southern Poverty Law Center
& takes the Texas KKK to court to stop them from
harassing Viet-American fishermen in Galveston Bay
U.K.: black uprisings in Brixton (s. London), Toxteth
(Liverpool) & Moss Side (Manchester)
Indian Point Reactor fizzled
(kiwi)
25.5 million people over 65, 28% increase over 1970
Earth First! founded
CED? elects majority to Santa Monica City Council
(& Dennis Zane elected mayor) [but see82]
Socialist Bernard Sanders elected mayor Burlington, Vermont
Pac Man copyrighted 1980/81
Oldest baby boomers start turning 35
? -> up against the clock starts?
Assassination attempt on the Pope
81 Jan 5 Second draft registration held
Jan 16 Bernadette Devlin shot
Jan 20 Iranian hostages released minutes after Reagan inaug
Jan 23 Atlanta: 16th child disappeared or found dead in 18 months
(continues into Feb)
Jan 28 Reagan abolishes oil price controls
Jan 30 Endangered Species List de-emphasized "to concentrate on
recovery rather than reporting new species"
Feb 2 Sect of Education proposes bilingual education plans
Feb 4 Reagan cuts synthetic fuel projects
81 Mar? James Watt appointed Secretary of Interior
By 87 national environmental group membership has
rises from 4 million to 7 million
Mar 2 ?Reagan cuts 35.1 billion from spending
& reduces taxes 23% (check)
Mental Health Institutions cut back (Soc. Sec.)
Reagan: tax act benefits high-income taxpayers and
large corporations
Mar 2 US sends 20 more military advisors & $25 million
military equipment to El Salvador Duarte ?junta
(Mar 30 Reagan wounded in assas attempt - Hinckley)
81 Apr A group of Lakota & Sioux Indians occupy a section
of South Dakota's Black Hills & set up Yellow Thunder Camp
(part of national forest officially returned to them in 80)
Apr 9 Robert (Bobby) Sands elected to Parliament in 6th week of
hunger strike
A 11-12 Uprising in Brixton, Jamaican section of London
Apr 24 Reagan ends curb on sales of wheat to USSR
May 5 Robert (Bobby) Sands dies in Maze Prison near Belfast,
N. Ireland, after 66-day hunger strike asking the
British government to grant political prisoner status
to Irish Nationalist inmates, instead of treating
them as common criminals
May House passes Nuclear Freeze, to be tabled by Senate
May 23 30th black youngster found dead in Atlanta
June First half-dozen cases of AIDS diagnosed - LA
81 June 6 Backlog of 6,000 Haitians facing deportation hearings
June 21 Arrest in Atlanta finally stops killings
Jl-Sep California fruit fly battle; first mis-use? of IPM
July 3 195 demonstrators arrested in series of White House
sit-downs against Reagan administration cuts
& involvement with El Salvador
Jl 3-14 Neo-Nazi Front riots in London & a dozen other English cities
July 29 Prince Charles weds Lady Diana
Aug IBM introduces the Personal Computer (PC)
Aug Reagan ?signs? income tax reductions for rich (explain)
Aug 1 Seventh hunger striker dies, Belfast
Aug 3 12,000 air-traffic controllers go on strike
Aug 5 Reagan breaks air-traffic controllers strike
by hiring non-union workers
Aug 6 Reagan endorses neutron bomb
Aug 20 Tenth & last hunger striker dies, Belfast
81 end Aug Mexico announces inability to pay interest on its debt
Aug 24 South Africa invades Angola
Sept Mortgage rates 17.71%
Oct Weatherpeople surface with bungled robbery
Oct Papandreou & Socialist party elected in Greece,
on platform including a call for shutdown of American bases
Oct 22 Cancun: 22 Third World leaders convene in Mexico
Nov West German protest (?Cruise)
Dec CQ: Bioregional Quiz
81 Dec 13 Solidarity crushed in Poland - martial law imposed
Dec 26 Supreme Court upholds right of 3 Indian tribes to use gill
nets to fish in Lakes Michigan, Superior, & Huron
Bob Marley dies
when? Michael Jackson
Reds, Tell Me A Riddle
My Dinner with Andre (Louis Malle)
Cutter's Way, Soldier Girls
Heartland, Gallipolli
El Salvador: Another Vietnam
(Raiders of the Lost Ark)
Pixote, Zoot Suit
Ragtime
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Mon Oncle d'Amerique - Alain Resnais
Perfumed Nightmare - Kidlat Tahimik
?Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
?Man of Iron - Andrzej Wajda
Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Fisher & Ury
1982 Recession of 81-82 ("Worst since the 1930s")
("Due to Paul Volcker's tight money policies")
Highest unemployment since 1940/WWII: 10.8% / 11 mill people
Peak year of U.S. arms exports to third world countries
mid-year: Stock market starts great rise
Highest rate of business failures since 1933
(including Banks - from ca 9 to 42 & S&L's)
Texas (Houston) oil-based boom starts to go bust
Three +? increases in prime rate (July: 13%)
Unemployed steelworkers organize ad hoc relief
programs such as Northeastern Minnesota Food Shelves
Divorce rates, rising through the 60's & 70's,
peak in 1979 and 1981, and stabilize
early 82: public officials disclose that toxic solvents
from Fairchild semiconductor's south San Jose plant
have contaminated Silicon Valley water supply
(-> high tech not so clean)
82 NY Fire Dept hires women
Congress places moratorium on ocean dumping of nuclear
wastes until the end of 84
Amory & Hunter Lovins found Rocky Mountain Institute
Mime Troupe: Factwino Meets the Moral Majority
& Last Tango in Huahuatenango
(Jane Fonda workout)
John Belushi dies
(USA Today started)
?First nuclear-free zone municipality declared
Santa Monica mayor Ruth Yanatta Goldway loses re-election
to David Epstein of All Sa Mo Coalition
?to Dennis Zane??
82 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) founded
Scandel at Swami Muktananda's ashram
In the 10 years since DDT banned, bald eagle, osprey,
brown pelican & peregrine falcon populations have increased
Return of Halley's Comet after 77 years
First implant of an artificial heart
82 Jan Greece asks removal of American nukes
if no progress in making Balkan peninsula nuke-free zone
Jan 7 Reagan continues draft registration
Jan 8 AT&T lawsuit settled: AT&T gives up the 22 local Bell
System phone companies
Feb 1 General Motors announces small profit for 4th qtr 81
(Feb Mexico devalues peso)
Feb Dresden peace demo - first in E Ger since 54
call for disarmament & sing Lennon's Give Peace A Chance
Mar 2 Great Britain reduces price of its North Sea oil by
4 dollars/barrel to 31 dollars/ barrel (2nd cut in a
month by Brits)
Mar 20 OPEC agrees to cut its oil production to 17.5 mill
barrels/day (1979 production was 31 mill barrels/day)
Apr 2 Argentina seizes the Falkland Islands, U.K. sends navy
82 Apr U.S. orders demolition of homes in Navajo/Hopi
"Joint Use Area", elders resist
A 18-25 Ground Zero Week - Nuclear Freeze
Apr 19 U.S. re-bans travel to Cuba
Apr ? United Nations Law of the Sea, international sea treaty,
completed after ten years negotiations among 151
nations (rejected by Pres Reagan in July & still not
signed by US)
May 18 Rev. Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax fraud
June 1 The Revolutionary Cells Terrorist Group explodes bombs
at 4 U.S. military bases in West Germany
June 12 700,000 Nuc Freeze march from U.N. to Central Park
Largest protest in NYC's history
NY Central Park & LA Rose Bowl: hundreds of thousands
sing Lennon's "Imagine"
when? Peace & Freedom NYC march (is this the same?
June when? Tom Hayden elected to Calif State Assembly
($1.7 mill campaign)
June?? Gore Vidal not elected to Calif. Senate
June Calif: Peripheral Canal (Prop. 9) defeated
June 15 USSR announces at U.N. that Brezhnev has pledged
no first use of nuclear weapons
June Reagan vetoes Congressional settlement of American Indian
water rights claim (Papago tribe of Arizona)
June 17 Natl Marine Fisheries Service of US Dept of Commerce,
after 14 month SAM-SCAM investigation of illegal fish sales on
the Columbia River - using wire taps, body microphones,
aerial reconnaissance photography & river patrols, &
zeroing in on the 147-mile stretch between the Bonneville
and McNary Dams where only Indians fish under the 1974
Boldt decision based on the 1855 treaty, raids camp of
and arrests David SoHappy, 50, Howard Jim, 65,
& 73 other Indians.
June 24 ERA supporters admit defeat: 33 states have ratified in 10
years, 3 short of the three-quarters needed by the
June 30 deadline
Jul 15 Rev Sun Myung Moon performs a mass-marriage for 4,150
Jul 23 International Whaling Commission votes to ban all
commercial whaling effective 86
Aug 4 US Court of Appeals rules that all new autos
sold after Sept 83 must have seat belts
Aug IRS rules Mother Jones magazine is commercial
& removes its tax exempt status
Aug Interest rates start to fall,
Stock Market starts series of sharp rises
Sept 12 First dump trucks loaded with PCBs drive into Afton,
Warren County, North Carolina, the poorest county in
the state, are met by vigil of 50 to 300 protestors
waiting daily for the last month; 510 arrests made
82 Sept First Amer Indian International Tribunal held at
Deqanawida-Quetzalqualtal Univ in Davis to gather
testimony from native peoples of the world on the
economic effects of U.S. foreign & domestic policies
Also world pilgrimage of indigenous peoples from 450
countries arrives at Yellow Thunder Camp in South
Dakota to help save it from usurpation by coal and
uranium corporations
Oct 8 Polish government bans Solidarity
Oct 19 John Delorean, chairman of Delorean Motor Co,
arrested LA on possession of 59 lbs cocaine (explain)
82 Nov Deukmejian elected gov Calif (was this vs Bradley?)
(end of Jerry Brown's term as Calif governor)
Nov 3 Stock Market rises record 43.41 points
to close at all-time high of 1,065.49
But recession is deepening: Oct unemp rose to 10.4%
(11.6 million) & industrial production has 13th decline
in 15 months; utilization of factory capacity is 68.4%,
the lowest since record-keeping began in 1948
Nov 5 Demo at Honeywell, Minnesota's largest defense contractor,
36 arrested
Nov 13 Viet Veterans Memorial "Wall" dedicated, Wash. D. C.
Dec In These Times: Jerry Rubin holding Business
Networking salons
Dec? Bethlehem Steel lays off 10,000
Dec 17 Federal District Court Judge decides not to grant
preliminary injunction against completion of the
Gasquet-Orleans Road thru Siskiyou Indian religious area
82 Dec 22 Congress passes first version Boland amendment (411-0)
which prohibited covert efforts by the President to
overthrow the Nicaraguan government
*Springsteen: Nebraska
Eddie Murphy
U2: War (is this their first?)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five: The Message
(first Hip-Hop)
late 82: First Hearts of Space on KQED
Sophie's Choice, Tootsie, Diva, Missing,
Soldier Girls, El Salvador: Another Vietnam, Missing
Blade Runner
Quest for Fire, E.T., Poltergeist
Fitzcarraldo, Burden of Dreams
Koyanisqatsi
Yol
(Chan is Missing - Wayne Wong)
Moonlighting (Pols in London)
(Xica)
(The World According to Garp)
(Atomic Cafe)
Jonathan Schell: The Fate of the Earth
Edible Landscaping
Dreaming the Dark - Starhawk
G Spot
Frances Moore Lappe publishes revised Diet fora Small Planet
1983 First year of (small) U.S. trade deficit with Europe
Bank failures continue to rise (ca 47)
but "economy expanding" for next 6 years
Number of Americans over 65 surpasses number of
teenagers (July) (WER Spring 89 p.85)
First Calif condor chick born in captivity
Sally Ride becomes first Amer woman in space
253 Marines killed in suicide bombing in Beirut
Scott Nearing dies at age 100
May 15 NYT: Vast Office Glut Plagues Downtowns:
Average vacancy rate across the nation hits 10.8% in March
(includes Denver, Houston, Chicago, etc) up from 3.4% in 1980
AIDS worries
deaths from PCP/angel dust
Garry Trudeau takes a year off doing Doonesbury
break-dancing
digital
ripped sweatshirts "a la Flashdance"
anti-nuke: Shoreham
83 (Apple Computer hires Sculley)
when? Southern Poverty Law Center firebombed by KKK.
Three KKK caught & convicted.
early Hopi & Navajo both elect new tribal chairs (Hopi: Ivan
Sidney; Navajo: Peterson Zah) who work to resolve
historic dispute between the two tribes
Jan New Calif Gov Deukmejian extradites Dennis Banks (52)
to South Dakota, where most of the
40 AIM members murdered since 74 were killed.
Banks flees to New York.
Jan 3 Times Beach, Mo. declared disaster area due to dioxin
contamination
Jan 4 Colorado farmers protest foreclosures
Jan 22 3000 West Germans protest construction of new runway at
Frankfurt airport
Feb Economic indicators begin to show upturn in economy
83 Mar 14 OPEC lowers oil prices for the first time
(34 to 29 dollars/barrel)
Mar Greens win over 5% of vote in W German elections
Mar Animal rights activists confront U.C. Berkeley over
E.I.R. for new animal facility
Mar 25 Congress passes legislation to "rescue" the Social
Security System from bankruptcy (by putting a greater
burden on younger wage-earners) (explain)
April SF Zen Center roshi asked to leave
April Reagan vetos Congressional settlement of American Indian
land claims (Pequot tribe of Connecticut)
Apr 12 First black mayor of Chicago elected (Harold Washington)
May 4 House passes (watered down) Nuc Freeze, to be tabled in Senate
May Over 1 million Sicilians have signed a petition against
US base at Comiso (1/5 of total pop of Sicily)
May Gasquet-Orleans Road bulldozers blockaded by
Earth First! & the Kalmiopsis Action Alliance
Injunction finally granted in late May
June Alice Kahn's article on Yuppie in Express
July 14 Earth First! & the Oregon Natural Resources Council
granted preliminary injunction against building of the
Bald Mountain Road, after over 40 arrests
Aug 6-7 (Hiroshima Day)
French freeze movement launched in meetings at Larzac
Aug 21 Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino killed Manila
83 Aug 27 300,000 march in Washington on 20th anniversary of MLK march
for "Jobs, Peace, & Freedom"
(NYT estimates 200,000) (Almanac sez 250,000)
Sept? First Conference on the Fate of the Earth
Sept? Craxi & Socialist Party win power in Italy from
40 years of Christian Democrats
Sept Continental & Eastern Airlines file bankruptcies
(the first fall-outs to deregulation?)
Oct 4- Vietnam: A Television History (13 weekly segments)
Oct 9 James Watt resigns as Interior Secretary
83 Oct 22 1.2 mill Germans, including 180,000 at Bonn
and 64 mile human chain between Stuttgart & New Ulm
(+ Hamburg, W. Berlin)
+ huns of thous London + 350,000 Rome
+ 100,000 Vienna
25,000 Paris, 20,000 Stockholm, 4000 Dublin
+ 140 sites in US
Oct 23 U.S. Marine hdqs in Beirut bombed - 241 killed;
(U.S. Marines have been there since 1958, when 5000 were
sent to protect the elected government from threatened
overthrow July-Oct [ck]); In Feb, Reagan removes all
marines from Lebanon
83 Oct 25 U.S. invasion of Grenada
Oct 30 500,000 Dutch anti-missile rally, the Hague
Oct 31 Conference on "The Long Term Worldwide Biological
Consequences of Nuclear War", Wash D.C.: Nuclear Winter
Scientists from the U.S., U.S.S.R. & other nations participate
Nov German government report finds great damage to Germany's
forests due to air pollution and acid rain
mid-Nov Cruise deployed in England
Nov 20 The Day After shown on tv - 100 million watch
Nov 20 German opposition Soc Dem party opposes Cruise
Dec Dow stops manufacture & sale of 2,4,5-T
(Agent Orange ingredient) in US
Dec 11 20,000 women demo at Greenham Common anti-nuke
(?85- encampment)
Dec U.S. Steel lays off 15,500 & closes all or part of 29 mills,
the largest shut-down in American history
83 Dec Dennis Banks granted asylum in the Onandaga Indian
Nation, NY (50,000 letters delivered to Governor Cuomo)
Hearts of Space goes national
Bergman: Fanny & Alexander
Never Cry Wolf
Gandhi
Trading Places (black man becomes prince)
Baby It's You - John Sayles
Staying Alive (Travolta)
Flashdance
Terms of Endearment
Local Hero
The Big Chill
Streamers - Altman (Viet)
?Four Corners: A Natl Sac Area?
The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Monty Python: The Meaning of Life
Season of Thunder (Philippine resistance)
Alsino and the Condor (Nicaraguan struggle)
Under Fire (Nicaraguan struggle)
The Year of Living Dangerously (Thai? war)
83 The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings,
Community Abandonment & the Dismantling of Basic
Industry - Bluestone & Harrison (ck - saw as 82)
In The Spirit of Crazy Horse - Peter Mathiessen (sp?)
1984 U.S. trade deficit with Europe jumps to $13 billion
U.S. trade deficit with Japan is $36.8 billion
"due to high U.S. dollar"
and U.S. banks also borrow $21.6 billion
Japanese invest $4.7 billion in the U.S.
Mergers/takeovers skyrocket (from $52.2 bill (83) to 124.8 bil
l)
Bank failure rate skyrocket to worst since 1938 (79 banks)
(Debt $172 billion - $111 billion interest on past debts)
Farmers going bankrupt
Farm Policy Reform Act not adopted by Reagan
84 Foreign debt repayment worries 2
U.S. deficit worries
Foreign investment has doubled since 1979
British miners fight Thatcher's coal pit closures
European left asking for 35-hour week
Gary Hart, Jesse Jackson (& hymie statement)
Abortion-clinic bombings
male empowerment
Indians at Wounded Knee, aided by Tiyospaye Crisis
Center in Dever, starting to plant gardens,
arrange to re-release wild horses & re-introduce buffalo
Institute for Transportation & Devpmt, Wash begins
sending bicycles to Nicaragua
84 Southern Poverty Law Center's Klanwatch program goes to
court to outlaw a paramilitary army built by the
North Carolina Klan, which had been marching through
black neighborhoods.
When court order violated (arsenal built of stolen
military weapons) Klanwatch wins second suit which
puts North Carolina Klan out of business.
Chavez calls grape boycott to persuade growers not
to use five pesticides
84 Mime Troupe: Steeltown & 1985
(Newsweek: year of the Yuppie (Dec 31, 84 issue)
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to Oregon?
BCA majority in Berkeley
First conception of a human ovum in a surrogate mother
Identification of the AIDS virus
Astronauts fly free in space for the first time
Buckminster Fuller dies
U.K.: building begins at self-build community at Lightmoor
in Telford new town, awarded top prize by Prince Charles
for Royal Institute of British Architects, June 1987
Jan Weirton Steel employees buy-out plant
Jan 12 Cholesterol is linked to heart disease after 10-yr study
by the National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute
Jan 25 INFACT (Infant Formula Action Coalition) wins settlement
with Nestle Corporation after seven year boycott
Feb 13 FTC approves Texaco purchase of Getty Oil
Mar 5 Standard Oil of Calif buys Gulf
Mar Major U.S. banks raise prime lending rate from 11 to 11.5%,
the first increase since August 83
Mar 13 Reagan agrees to cleanup Bikini Atoll of nuclear
contamination so Bikinians can return (est 42 million)
Mar 14 Hard Rock Cafe
Mar 30 U.S., Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, & Colombia agree to give
Argentina $500 million aid to meet its payments
on its $43.6 billion debt
Apr 5 Banks raise prime rate from 11.5 to 12% (highest since Oct 82)
Apr 6 Federal Reserve Board raises its rate from 8.5 to 9%
Apr CIA reveals its participation in / mining of Nicaraguan harbor
s
84 May Dutch government appears to conclude
it cannot accept missile deployment
May 3 Iran, Iraq attack ships in Persian Gulf
May 7 Veterans & 7 chemical companies settle Agent Orange suit
(out of court): 15,000 vets & families to get $180 mill
May 10 US govt held negligent in above-ground testing of nuclear
weapons in Nevada from 51 to 62, though only one cancer
victim compensated
84 May The MX program barely survives a House vote
May 15 Senate Foreign Relations Committee rejects Reagan nominee
(for head of U.S. Information Agency)
M21-26 First North American Bioregional Congress meets in
Excelsior Springs, Ozarkia bioregion, Missouri
May 23 Contra Eden Pastora admits receiving CIA aid
May 24 Longest Run leaves NYC, 51 days to Sacto
Jun 1 Dutch cabinet votes to postpone its decision on
accepting Cruise missiles until Nov 1, 85
Jun 9 150,000 in London protest Cruise missiles
Jun 14 Reagan agrees to talks with USSR about nuc weapons control
J 22-24 SLATE reunion, Berkeley
July Reagan's Advisory Council on Oceans and Atmosphere recommend
that the U.S. govt "reconsider" disposal of nuclear
waste at sea
July P.M. David Lange of New Zealand comes out against
nuclear warships in New Zealand's waters
July In the biggest environmental protest in the Soviet countries,
6-7,000 Hungarians have signed a petition protesting plan
to dam or divert the Danube River for a hydroelectric project
Jul 25 Volcker says Fed will not tighten growth in money supply
to control inflation (any more)
Jl 30- Aug 3 Heaviest trading ever on Stock Market
Stock Market rises 87.46 pts to 1,202.08 (Aug 3 - 36 pts)
Even as economy slows
fall? Voter Registration in attempt to defeat Reagan:
xxx new voters registered (ITT)
84 Aug 2 Census Bureau: Poverty rate up 15.2% in 83, highest since 65
(to 35.3 million poor)
Aug Australia, New Zealand, and 12 other Pacific island members
of the Pacific Forum declare the area a nuclear-free zone,
including ban on French nuclear testing & possible dumping
of nuclear waste by Japan and the U.S.
Oct 17 Britain drops its oil price 1.35/barrel
Oct 18 Nigeria, member of OPEC, drops its oil price 2/barrel
Oct 20 Reagan vetoes bill to improve Federal health care
for American Indian reservations
Oct 20 Repeat of European anti-missile protests
Oct 28 OPEC decides to cut oil production
Nov Boston area is prohibited from adding new commercial sewer
connections until it cleans up its aged sewer system
which has been dumping 6 billion gallons raw sewage
a year into Boston harbor
Nov Pledge of Resistance campaign
when? Mitch Snyder, head of the Community for Creative Non-Violence
goes on hunger strike to get fed govt to make an abandoned
bldg available to street people. Eve of election,
Reagan & Dept of Health & Human Services capitulate
84 Nov Reagan re-elected (versus Mondale/Ferraro)
but Democratic Congress
Dec 3 Bhopal Union Carbide pesticide factory disaster
kills 2,000 and injures some 50,000 in India
Dec 11 20,000 women anti-nuke demo at Greenham Common
Dec Department of Energy narrows choice of nuclear waste
sites west of the Mississippi River to three:
Washington, Texas, Nevada (after activism on original
nine sites through the late 70s)
Dec 22 Bernhard Goetz, riding on NYC subway, shoots & wounds
4 teen-age boys after one of them asks for 5 dollars
Dec? FSM 20-year celebration (is this when it was?)
Boy George
?Madonna
*Springsteen: Born in the USA
"World Beat"
TV: Saturday Night Live (still)
(Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom)
Wild Style (break dancing) (or was this 83?) (or 82)
Breakin'
Seeing Red
84 Silkwood (movie)
Paris, Texas - Wim Wenders
Moscow on the Hudson
Sugar Cane Alley
The Cotton Club
Erendira
When the Mountains Tremble (Guatemalan struggle)
84 El Norte (Guatemalan refugees) (shot in Mexico)
Nicaragua: No Pasaran (David Bradbury, Australian)
farmers: The River, The Dollmaker, Country
Iceman (prehistoric man)
?Hopi: Songs of the Fourth World
The Gods Must Be Crazy
The Brother From Another Planet - John Sayles
(Ah Ying - Allen Fong (did Father & Son - 81)
The Sixties Papers
Green Politics - Fritjof Capra & Charlene Spretnak
?Robert Reich: The Next American Frontier
Alperowitz & Faux: Rebuilding America
Indian Country: Peter Matthiessen
William Gibson: Neuromancer
Utne Reader
1985 Dollar reaches peak high: ca 250 yen and ca 3.50 mark
"Yen suddenly doubles in value, largely at US instigation"
U.S. a debtor nation (Sept 20 NYT)
U.S. arms exports to third world countries decline strongly
Worries about glut economy
T-Boone Pickens?
Ivan Boesky pleads guilty of fraud on Wall Street
Europeans having trouble with unemployment
Farmers recession ("due to high dollar")
No longer lower wages overseas
People Express (airline)
?GM-Toyota joint venture auto plant opens Fremont, Calif.
?Sanctuary movement (gets media notice)
(actually began 80 in Arizona)
Mother of Michael Donald, young black man who was lynched
in 81 by KKK, sues KKK with the Southern Poverty Law Center
Fundamentalists Anonymous formed
Use of crack cocaine becomes a national problem
Ecstasy
85 Swiss become first country in Europe to require catalytic
converters on automobiles & to begin selling lead-free
gasoline needed to work with them, in effort to deal
with the death of their forests
Petris bill requiring warning signs when dangerous
pesticides are sprayed on a field finally passed by
California legislature but vetoed by Gov. Deukmejian
Efforts to pass bottle bills in Florida, NJersey, Penn
(7 other states already have them)
Work begins at VPL on creation of Virtual Reality machinery
DSA active through 85-> (Michael Harrington dies July 89)
Virtual ban on leaded gasoline
U.K.: black uprisings in Handsworth (Birmingham)
& Broadwater Farm [hsg devmt] (Tottenham, ne London - Oct)
85 Jan P.M. David Lange of New Zealand refuses to allow US Navy
destroyer into port which might be carrying nuclear weapons
Jan Mono Lake (Rush Creek) fight starts?
Jan 30 OPEC cuts oil prices
Feb 5 P.M. Robert Hawke of Australia refuses to allow US use
of bases to monitor an MX missile test
Feb US auto workers announce record profits (= recovery)
Feb 13 South African police arrest 13, nearly all the leaders
of the United Democratic Front (main opposition group)
F 18-21 South African police kill 18 demonstrators at Crossroads
near Capetown, injure 200
Feb by end, some 1900 arrested in the US demonstrating against
South African apartheid in last several months
Feb? On 25th anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre (1960),
South African police kill 69
Mar 1 ABC bought by Capital Cities Communications, Inc.
(Biggest merger in US history outside the oil industry)
Mar 21 During funeral march for 3 killed in Sharpeville
memorial demo, South African police kill 19
85 Mar 11 Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of U.S.S.R.
Mr-Ap? Kesterson starts?
Apr Mono Lake (Rush Creek) decision
Apr Farley Mowat denied entry into U.S.
Ap 1 EPA orders end to dumping of sludge off the New Jersey coast
Apr 4 Congress rejects Reagan's appeal for support for Nic contras
Apr 7 Gorbachev announces USSR moratorium (til Nov) on deployment
of intermediate-range nuclear missiles
A 16-My South Africa divestment (UC Berk) (shantytowns)
Apr 18 Ted Turner launches bid to take over CBS
85 May Nature publishes new research by Dr. Joe Farman
which indicates ozone layer levels are falling
May 1 Reagan ends U.S. trade with Nicaragua
May 2 Senate votes to limit Pentagon spending to 85 levels,
adjusted for inflation
May 12 Washington Post reports Lebanese counterterrorist unit
responsible for car bomb in Beirut suburb which killed
80 on March 8 was trained by the CIA
May 12 Philadelphia police bomb & destroy 61 row houses & kill 11
in confrontation with anarchist group MOVE
May 17 Fed cuts interest rate to 7.5% (lowest since 78)
Two major banks immed drop rate 10.5 to 10%
May 20 (Next trading day) Stock Market rises 19.54 pt
to finish above 1300 for the first time
May 23 Reagan & Senate agree to compromise limiting MX missiles to 50
June 2 General Motors acquires Hughes Aircraft
June 5 Senate votes to ask Reagan to stay within SALT II treaty limit
s
June 10 Reagan announces U.S. will
June 11 Gorbachev calls for economic reforms in USSR
June 27 Senate refuses to approve Reagan appointee for
associate attorney general
June? Pesticide Action Network names list of "Dirty Dozen"
pesticides used internationally which should be banned
85 July 13 Live Aid Concert raises $70,000 for African famine relief
17 hour broadcast on radio & tv to 152 countries
from live locations in London & Phil attended by 160,000
Baez, Bowie, Dylan, Jagger, McCartney, Elton John,
Tina Turner take part
(previously did USA for Africa with "We Are the World")
J 15-27 12,000 women attend U.N. World Conference of Women, Kenya
July Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior, protesting France's
approaching nuclear tests in the region, is sunk in
Auckland harbor, NZ by French secret service
August United Farm Workers starts campaign against "Deadly
Dozen" worst pesticides still in use in the U.S.
85 Aug 11 Leakage of toxic gas from Union Carbide ?pesticide plant,
W. Virginia
Sept 1 To avert Senate's passage of South African sanctions,
Reagan announces more restrained sanctions
(11 western nations have already imposed sanctions)
Sept Unemployment, which has stayed at 7.2% for 6 months,
finally drops to 6.9% (lowest since 1980)
Sept? Mex City earthquake gets too much aid
85 Oct Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh arrested (& deported)
Oct 26 Australian govt gives Ayers Rock back to the Aborigines
Nov 15 Great Britain & Republic of Ireland sign agreement giving
the Republic consultive role in governing of N. Ireland
85 Nov Oil prices about 28/barrel
Dec 2 General Dynamics execs indicted for defense contract fraud
Dec 8 OPEC announces new strategy to compete for world oil market
In next few days, oil futures drop from 28.74 to
25.23/barrel, then recover somewhat
(Dec 8 Guatemala elects civilian pres after 30 yrs mil rule)
(is this significant?)
Dec 11 General Electric to buy RCA
Dec 11 Congress passes Gramm-Rudman forced reductions in deficit
Dec Uprising of New Zealand Maori youths, Auckland
"Big music scene LOS ANGELES" (RS: Madchester article)
?Rambo
The Killing Fields (end 84) (saw again as 84)
Witness (Amish)
Alamo Bay - Louis Malle (Viet fishermen in Texas)
(Carmen)
White Nights (Gregory Hines & Baryshnikov as defectors)
85 Brazil
Kerouac
85 Desperately Seeking Susan
(Back to the Future)
Mime Troupe: Troupers (the movie)
Habits of the Heart - Bellah et al
Women Who Love Too Much - Robin Norwood
Deep Ecology - Devall & Sessions
Acid Dreams - Lee & Shlain
Uncovering the Sixties: The Life & Times of the
Underground Press - Abe Peck
1986 Volcker tight money policy almost causes another recession
Interest rates down (ca 8%)
worries over third world debts
U.S. bank failures ca. 140 and rising;
1600 banks in trouble (FDIC list)
U.S. trade deficit with Japan grows to $58 billion ?51
and U.S. banks borrow $46 billion
Dollar starts to drop steeply against the yen and mark
(or is it be devalued?) -> tourism to U.S. increases
Insurance companies raise their liability rates
(at end of 86, declare 11.5 billion net income)
Ivan Boesky accused
Fourteen socially responsible investment funds
Sanctuary Movement court case (get more)
(creole cuisine?)
when? California voters adopt Prop 65 Toxics Initiative
with mechanism for citizen enforcement -> law suits
when? Calif leg passes Bottle Bill (AB 2020)
when? Immigration Reform Act (ck name) grants amnesty
to illegal immigrants workers (ck details)
86 U.K.: Greater London Council & 6 metropolitan counties
abolished
86 Jan 1 Gorbachev asks for world ban on atomic weapons
Jan NYC finally stops pumping up to 150 million gallons of
raw sewage into the Hudson River daily, with the opening
of new North River Water Pollution Control Plant
Jan 16 Energy Dept announces 12 potential nuclear waste sites
in eastern U.S., including Penobscot site in Maine only
re-granted to them six years before and four other tribal site
s
Jan 20 U.S. officially observes Martin Luther King Day for first time
Jan oil prices lowered again (from 15 to 10 dollars/barrel)
(worries about the effect of lowered oil prices)
(effect on Texas starts) (also Mexico starts to go into debt)
Jan 28 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes, space program put on hold
Jan Unemployment rate 6.6%, lowest in 6 years
Feb (mid) oil prices in the 15-16/barrel range
-> Stock Market buying frenzy
Feb 6 Stock Market closes above 1600 for first time
Feb Texas Air takes over Eastern Airlines to create
largest U.S. airline
86 Feb Field testing of genetically engineered bacteria to
reduce frost damage on strawberry plants planned by
Advanced Genetic Sciences of Oakland, California
banned by Monterey (Calif.) County Board of Supervisors
Feb 16 Duvaliers flee Haiti after 28-year rule by the family
Feb 19 Senate finally ratifies 1948 U.N. treaty outlawing genocide
(90 other nations have already ratified)
Feb 27 Stock Market closes above 1700 for first time
Feb 27 Marcos's flee Philippines, Aquino in after Feb 7 election
Feb Consumer prices fall for first time since who knows when,
continue dropping into May
Mar 7 Fed cuts prime rate 7.5 to 7% (lowest since 78)
following lead of central banks in W Ger, Fr, Japan
Mar Two Lyndon LaRouche supporters chosen in
Illinois Democratic primary for Lt Gov & Sec State
Attention turns to LaRouche supporters who have gotten
themselves onto other state ballots
Mar 19 Reagan & Canada's Mulroney finally agree on acid rain actions
(Mar 27 Senate approves 100 mill for Nic contras)
Apr 15 US bombs Libya base
Apr 18 South Africa finally ends pass laws
86 Apr 25 Explosion starts meltdown at Chernobyl near Kiev
in the USSR Ukraine
May 12 Drexel Burnham Lambert charged with illegal "insider trading"
May 25 Hands Across America: 5 million attempt to form human
chain across US & donate 10 dollars to aid hungry & homeless
in US, from Battery Park, NYC to Long Beach, Calif.
& Sport Aid: 20 million in 266 cities in 76 countries
run in benefit for hunger in Africa
June 11 South Africa: "State of Emergency" imposed
June 16 Despite arrests, millions stay home in South African
black trade union strike on 10th anniversary Soweto uprising
Aug 4 OPEC agrees to cut oil production
Within days, oil prices rise from 11.50 to 15/barrel
86 Sept 4 Stock Market hits all time high of 1919.71, starts to level of
f
Sept 11 Stock Market has fallen 86.61 pts to 1792.89
Sept 15 Texas Airlines buying out People Express & its
ill-advised acquisition, Frontier Airlines
Sept 21 35 nations adopt treaty to reduce risk of accidental war,
including USSR agreement to on-site inspections
Sept 27 Congress passes Tax Reform Act (affects 87) (after 2 yrs)
Oct 2 Congress overrides Reagan's veto to pass South African sanctio
ns
Oct 3 Congress requires schools to inspect for asbestos hazards
86 Nov 1 Rhine River disaster: 30 tons of mercury and pesticides
wash into the river during a
fight against a fire at Sandoz AG warehouse in Basel, Switz;
several days later, Ciba-Geigy admits it "accidentally" releas
ed
900 pounds of pesticide into the river hours before
Dec 4 Hundreds of thousands of French students march
against Chirac's higher education bill
Dec 20 Three black men attacked by bat-wielding young whites
in Howard Beach neighborhood, Queens, NYC;
one of them, Michael Griffith (23) hit by a car and
dies during flight
??Paul Simon: Graceland (or was this 87?)
The Color Purple - the movie (Dec 85)
Woody Allen: Hannah & Her Sisters
My Beautiful Launderette
She's Gotta Have It
(Peggy Sue Got Married)
??Kiss of the Spider Woman
Men - Doris Dorrie (Ger)
A Great Wall - Peter Wang
(Aliens)
(Salvador)
(Sid and Nancy)
Star Trek IV
Contrary Warriors (Crow Indian struggle)
1987 First trillion-dollar national budget
SPLC's Klanwatch wins 7 million dollar judgement against
the KKK for Michael Donald's murder - including deed to
national headquarters of the United Klans of America
135+ counties and municipalities have voted to become
nuclear-free zones
Over half the couples getting married have lived
together beforehand (Manchester Guard Wkly, Dec 31, 89)
Gorbachev announces policies of glasnost & perestroika
Intifada uprising starts among Palestinians in Israel
Safe sex ads
?? restriction of foreign musicians
?? John Berger's book on restoration volunteer heroes
when? Prairie Home Companion last show
when? Columbia protest
when? First national U.S. Greens conference (Amherst, Mass.)
when? Congress extends Clean Water Act (over Reagan's veto?)
Joseph Giovannini coins the word "deconstructivism"
to describe the new architectural style of Frank Gehry,
Peter Eisenman, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, and
the Coop Himmelblau
spring? Max Headroom, computer-generated character from
Britain, premiers on U.S. tv
Jan Greens win 8.3% in German elections
Jan Environmentalists, unionists & community members from
BASF plant in Louisiana join Green Party in W. Ger.
to protest Rhine River damage by BASF
Feb?? Mar: Brazil announces suspension of debt payments
87 Mar? Contra cease-fire - Nicaragua
Apr Dollar starts to fall, but is propped up & rises
Stock market soars
Brazil suspends payment of interest on debts
U.S. threatening to tariff Japan if it does not stop
"dumping" microchips
Apr 1,100 demo at Honeywell, Minneapolis against
manufacture of nuclear weapons;
arrests since 81 total 1,820 (NYT Business 9/20/87)
Apr 16 U.S. Patent Office announces genetically engineered
animals can be patented when was seed patent law?
Apr New Jersey requires statewide garbage seperating
May Start Stock Market downfall predictions
May 4? Immigration amnesty program (1 year) starts
June Soviet doctors visit Leonard Peltier in prison (Canada)
(June Sup Ct decision on So Cal church vs LA County flood control)
87 July First debt-for-nature swap announced
(Bolivia's Beni Biosphere Reserve)
May-
July Hearings on Iran-Contra (Oliver North, etc)
Aug 200 dolphins washed ashore from Virginia to Maine,
dead of unknown disease; thousands of fish, crabs,
& eels suffocated in North Carolina estuaries,
apparently due to low levels of oxygen;
disease ravaged Chesapeake Bay oyster beds;
lobsters were asphyxiated in their pots by a
brown tide of algae
Aug 6 Hodel: Hetch Hetchy
Aug 7 Cease fire Central America (Arias peace plan)
and no S.F. homeporting
Aug 12 Stock Market crashes
87 Aug 15&16 Harmonic convergence
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Sept 1 Brian Wilson loses legs at Concord Naval Weapons Station
Sept (Turning third world debt into bonds)
Sept? Ecuador debt-for-nature swap
wk of S14 Reagan & Gorbachev to sign arms reduction treaty
Oct 5 Supreme Court refuses to hear Peltier appeal
Oct? Bork hearings
Oct 11 Second Lesbian Gay March, Wash DC, again unreported by press
Oct prime interest rate raised to 9 1/4 (fifth raise this year)
Oct 16&19 Wall Street: stock market falls 508 points
& US attack on Iran oil platforms
Nov? Cuban refugees uprising - Oakdale? prison
Nov 12 Unita/SA defeat in Angola (re-check)
Nov California Rural Legal Assistance and
California Agrarian Action Project win suit (started
1979) against University of California for preferential
research for large agri-business farmers
?Ruben Blades
?Ladysmith Black Mambazo
TV: Vietnam series, Thirtysomething
87 Woody Allen: Radio Days
Dirty Dancing
La Bamba (Luis Valdez plays Richie Valens)
Platoon (saw as 86)
Cry Freedom, Mandela, Walker
Hollywood Shuffle, Ironweed
(Matewan - Sayles)
Withnail and I
(The Witches of Eastwick)
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Good Morning, Vietnam
(Fatal Attraction)
(Hope and Glory)
(My Life as a Dog)
Sammy and Rosie Get Laid
Fire From the Mountain (Nicaraguan struggle)
Walker
The East/The West (film by Kiyoshi Miyato on American Indians)
Do What You Love, The Money Will Follow - Sinetar
Growing a Business - Hawken
The Great Depression of 1990 - Ravi Batra (summer?)
1988
when? nearly every W. Af. country receives offers for
accepting hazardous waste
?ARDIS (Assoc for Responsible Dissent): Philip Agee,
John Stockwell, Verne Lyon, Ralph McGehee,
Philip Roettinger, Ilona Maria Lorenz
?Brits buying up US?
?Loni Hancock elected mayor of Berkeley
NIMBY
Worst drought in 50 years & warmest Jan-May on record
Farms in south & midwest devastated
Forest fires
Global warming draws public interest
Three million homeless in U.S. (sez EWJ)
Federal "Drug Czar" appointed to lead war on illegal drugs
Jan Restoring the Earth Conference
Jan 26 Aust Aborigines mark Aust 200th anniversary as "invasion day"
Feb EEC decides on 1992 Single European Market
(end to internal barriers)
Feb Costa Rica's La Selva Protected Zone debt-for-nature swap
Feb G.E. workers agree to pay cut to keep their jobs
Feb 3 Contra-Aid debate, Ft. Bragg offshore oil drilling hearing
Mar 16 Puget Sound oil spill, Iranscam indictments
Mar 17 US soldiers sent to Honduras
Mar 24 Another Stock Market drop
Apr 18 Attack on Iraq + Palestinian leader shot
Apr 26 ?Shell oil spill - Suisun
88 Apr 25 Greenpeace & the Danish Government debate
Association of Martime Incinerators before scientific
committee of the London Dumping Convention over
proposal for world-wide
ban on incineration of toxic wastes at sea, which
European countries have been doing since 1969
(about 90,000 tons toxic waste a year)
(May U.S. inflation worries starting again)
May Hungary: Kadar out after 32 years
May Lilco agrees to sell unfinished Long Island Shoreham
nuclear power plant to NY for $1 to be dismantled
(ck for more recent ???)
88 May-Jun Reagan visits Gorbachev in Moscow
& signs xxx
June 1 Brazilian govt recognizes Indian right to remain
in their territories
Jn? Australian govt agrees to negotiate first treaty with Aborigin
es
Jn/Jl Dollar rises (through summer) 120 to 135 yen
June The Khian Sea, which left Philadelphia Oct 86 with
10,000 tones of incinerator ash, has been refused
permission to dump in the Bahamas, Dominican Republic,
Honduras, Haiti, & Guinea-Bissau
July- U.K.:Big summer of House Party/Acid House all-night dance even
ts
(Ecstasy at The Hacienda, Manchester)
88 July Hospital wastes found on east coast beaches
Jul Sunday before 31st: 100,000 people linked hands on the
north German coast to protest government complacency in
fighting epidemic which has killed 4000 North Sea
seals in the last three months
Aug Cease fire in Angola (13 yrs civil war)
Cease fire in Iran-Iraq war (8 yrs)
USSR starts withdrawal from Afghanistan (8 1/2 yrs)
100,000 troops to be out by Feb 15
(13,00 have been killed; 22,000 wounded)
Hopeful initiatives underway in Cyprus & Western Sahara
"Vietnam may withdraw from Cambodia"
Poland agrees to talk with Walesa (8 yrs)
Aug 27 55,000 attend 25th anniversary Washington Civil Rights March
Sept 8 Boise, Idaho: 4 white supremacists plead guilty to
plotting bombings, robberies & the murder of Morris Dees
Sept NYT: Is the cold war drawing to a close?
Sept 19 Burma & Haiti rebel
(Sept Savings & loans failures continuing)
88 Sept 29 80,000 in West Berlin protest IMF policies, 400 arrested
Oct Albert Hoffman Institute founded L.A.
& Switzerland re-legalizes LSD research
Oct Energy Dept finally admits problems with nuclear arms industry
and nuclear plants
Oct (oil prices dropping again - below 10 dollars/barrel)
88 Nov Robert Morris sends Internet Worm (computer virus)
88 Nov Bush elected (vs Dukakis)
but with Democratic Congress
and with both candidates supporting environmentalism
Also Insurance reforms (Calif)
(Dec 7? U.N. adopts global weather resolution) (explain?)
Dec 8? Gorbachev speech at U.N.
(then hurries home after Georgia earthquake)
Dec 14 US agrees to talk to PLO
Dec 23? Peace in Namibia
Dec? Chico Mendes, rubber tapper & rain forest activist,
murdered in Brazil
Dec "intifada started"
Tracy Chapman
Michelle Shocked
K.D. Lang
?Baez, Collins, + Cohen
+ Iggy Pop, Patti Smith, Pere Ubu
Dinosaurs
?Japanese Taiko drums
Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares
tv: thirtysomething (when did it start?)
Miami Vice (ditto)
88 The Unbearable Lightness of Being (from Kundera)
(Bird)
Moonstruck
Babette's Feast
School Daze (Spike Lee)
The Milagro Beanfield War
Wings of Desire - Wim Wenders
Bagdad Cafe
Colors (Dennis Hopper)
(Who Framed Roger Rabbit)
88 Stand and Deliver (Edward Olmos plays Jaime Escalante)
The War in El Cedro (Viet vets go to Nicaragua)
The Last Temptation of Christ (Scorsese)
(Salam Bombay)
Tucker (Coppola)
Imagine: John Lennon
(Working Girl)
?Rain Man
Mahaharata (theater)
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (film)
The Beat Generation: An American Dream (movie) (actually 87)
(Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)
88 Paul Kennedy: The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
Japan Inc.
The Chalice & the Blade
Matthew Fox: The Coming of the Cosmic Christ
Fukuyama?: The End of History?
William Gibson: Mona Lisa Overdrive
EEC/US "on the brink of trade war"
Benazir Bhutto elected in Pakistan
1989 U.S. average family income regains 1973 level
(only with two wage-earners)
Jan 5 Riots against African students in China
? Creation Spirituality priest's banning
Jan Japanese Emperor Hirohito dies
Libyan chemical weapon plant
Jan? African-American (huh)
Jan? Germans & Nazi statement
Jan 24 "Dow Jones back to Oct. 17 level"
J30-F3 Record cold E & N U.S. (Alaska storm)
Feb 4 Paraguay: Stroessner (dictator 35 years) unseated in mil coup
Feb 9 Michael Manley, dem. socialist, re-elected P.M. Jamaica
Feb? Antarctic oil spill
Feb ?First? public demonstrations of Virtual Reality
F-early March
Feb-Mar Tower not? confirmed (Defense Secretary)
Whitestock
when? Jerry Brown appointed head Dem. Party, Calif.
Mar 10 Moslems win in Nazareth
Mar 10 Hungary: new constitution
& Lithuania: Si-u-dees(t) to win 30/42
Mar 13 Tibet demos
Neo Nazis win 6% in Hesse, Frankfurt
Chilean grapes - cyanide
Calif: handguns outlawed
third world debt
89 Mar 24 Exxon Valdez oil spill - Alaska
Mar 27 USSR: first contested elections
Mar-Apr UK: "No winter in Europe this last year
& things are blooming 2 months early
Apr 6 Viet vol GIs return, after 2 month visit
Apr 7 Annual reclaim the test site demo ?starts
Apr 9 Georgia, ?USSR: 17 die
Wash D.C. Pro-Choice March 100,000
Apr 10 Gas prices raised
Apr 12 Abbie Hoffman dead
Bush? announces renewal all water leases:
Orange Cove near Fresno, Friant Dam
Apr 13 Military child care hearings
Apr 26 Beijing demos was this Tian?men (sp?) Square
Apr 28 170 conscientious objectors have left South Africa in 4 years
Mobil leaves South Africa due to end of tax credits
May 8 (eve) Georgia demo - 20 killed (USSR)
May 11 Panama: govt calls election void, Bush sending troops
May 15 Russians getting Viet to pull out of Cambodia
(by Sept.) -> talks w China
Gorbachev to China today
89 May 18 China demos in Tienamen? Square during USSR-China talks
May 31 "18th day" China demos ?100,000 in Tienamen Square
Jn 3-4 China: police attack demonstrators ?
June 4 Solidarity wins in Poland
June 5 Khomeini dead
Prime 11 1/2 -> 11%
June 6 Sacramento: Rancho Seco voted down
J 5-10 Uzbeck youths Fergona Valley attack Misketi Turks
June 12 Expansion of Nat Am water rights upheld by Sup Ct
3rd anniversary Infact vs General Electric
(Livermore demo)
Second? anti-affirmative action Sup Ct
Falwell announces Moral Majority to end Aug. 31
June Heavy rains in Ohio, flooding in 13 eastern U.S. states
U.K.: drought (most since summer 1976)
?summer another attempt at re-introducing the mini
July 3 Sup Ct anti-abortion ruling
Aug 6 S.F. Examiner announces the existence of
Wes Thomas's "Friday the 13th" computer virus
Aug 23 2 million in Balkans form human chain
on the 50th anniversary of the secret agreement
which made them part of the Soviet Union
Oct 7 Wash: Housing Now! march
Oct 13 Dow drops 190? points
(Oct 17 SF Earthquake)
Oct East Germans leaving
Oct Hungarian Communist party becomes officially socialist
Oct 28 Ortega of Nicaragua announces he won't extend the cease-fire
Nov 4 500,000 demonstrate in East Berlin
Nov 9 /fBEast Germany opens its borders - "Berlin wall comes down"/f
R
(Nov 10 East Germans cross into West Germany)
N 13-14 Czechoslovakia opens its borders
Nov 14 El Salvador
Nov 17 Czech: 10-20,000 teens try to march to Wenceslaus(sp?) Square;
400 injured
Nov 18 Czech: strike at schools, invitations of forbidden speakers;
Town meetings start; Civic Forum formed
N 21-22 Czechoslovakia: 1 million demonstrators
over next week becomes general strike
Nov 28 Czechoslovakia announces it will adopt new constitution
and Hungary announces first free election
Dec 14 NATO announces troop reduction
Dec 18 demonstrations in Romania
(Dec 19 764,000 in current army)
89 Dec 20 US invades Panama
Dec 22 Caescescu overthrown, Rumania
(Dec 27 disco line dance craze)
Mississippi Burning
(36 Fillette)
High Hopes (U.K.)
Dangerous Liasons
New York Stories - Woody Allen
Dead Poets Society
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee)
Batman
Comic Book Confidential
(She-Devil)
Story of Women/Une Affaires des Femmes (Chabrol)
Woody Allen: Crimes and Misdemeanors
Sidewalk Stories
Born on the Fourth of July
Downwind Downstream
Sex, Lies and Videotape
Roger and Me (more 1990)
Distant Voices, Still Lives (UK)
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1990 Robert Bly
Jan Myles Horton dies
Jan 22 Stock Market drops 77 points
Jan 24 Secret Service agents raid homes of Acid Phreak
and Phiber Optik and confiscate computer? equipment
(Calif Drought Year #4)
wk before Feb 2? South African transit workers win strike
Feb 2 Secret Service agents raid Len Rose, aka Terminus
Feb 2 South African government legalizes ANC
Feb 4 Colombia gives half its forest to indigenous tribal peoples
Feb 7 /fBUSSR legalizes multi-party/fR
Feb 7 Secret Service raids three more computer hackers
Feb 11 /fBSouth Africa: Mandela released/fR
Feb 14 Drexel Burnham Lambert junk bond kings: bankruptcy
Feb 15 Secret Service raids Craig Neidorf, editor of Phrack
on-line magazine
Feb 16 /fBLithuania ? declares independence?
when? Latvia & Estonia declares independence /fR
90 Feb 21 Tokyo stock market drop (1000 yen?) "due to interest drop"
(4.5%)
Feb 25 Nicaraguan election: Sandanistas defeated by Chamorro
Mar 1 Secret Service raids Steve Jackson Games
Mar 16 GOP Lee Atwater's change of heart
May 9 Secret Service announces 28 new hacker raids under
Operation Sun Devil
the year of the 20 years after Earth Day
and I bet this was the start of New York City's enviro group w
hat's their name?
Aug Iraq invades Kuwait
Oct 3 Germanys reunite
Nov 12 -14 "Clearing squatters E. Berlin"
Nov 19 Paris: CFE treaty signed, 22 nation
what movies?
1991
(Jan MacWorld: multimedia)
Jan 16- U.S. bombs Iraq out of Kuwait
Feb 1 Calif emergency drought plan
Feb 20 Albania uprising
Mar 11 LA: citizen videos cop beating
when? USSR crack down on Lithuania
June 11 FDIC insolvent - 440 banks failing;
S&Ls 80 bill + 50 bill coming +
June 17 N Ireland: half population under 28;
all parties but Sinn Fein meet about home rule
("after 17 years of England's involvement since
troubles started") 1974-
June 21 Sup Ct: states can outlaw nude dancing;
no on burning draft cards
June 21 S Af: ends ban law
Aug 18 attempted USSR coup
Sept 2 rioting in Britain
recession, city and county bankruptcies
Oct 20 Oakland fire (+ Bill Graham dead)
USSR: the hungry winter starts
Dec or Jan 92? USSR reformation as commonwealth
Dec 31? cease fire in El Salvador
when was Dead Poets Society
Awakenings
Alice (Woody Allen)
The Doors
To Sleep with Anger, A Rage in Harlem etc
Thelma & Louise
Dances with Wolves
Paris Is Burning (gay scene)
The Fisher King
The Commitments
Dec? or Jan 92? Simon tour to S Africa
(Jan MacWorld: announcement of Quicktime video capabilities)
Jan Wilson's budget: state college tuition hikes
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