East Brunswick High School - Emerald Yearbook (East Brunswick, NJ)

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France blocks Britain's ■ § Common Market bid. Pope john XXIII dies; Cardinal Montini becomes Pope Paul VI. Khrushchev stripped of power. Russians put first woman in space. Lord's Prayer banned in schools. Civil rights groups march on Washing- ton. Medgar Evers murdered. Robert Frost dies. President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas. Lyndon johnson takes oath as 36th President. Lee Harvey Oswald, alleged assassin of JFK, killed by Jack Ruby. Beatlemania strikes - long hair, screaming girls and I Wanna Hold Vour Hand. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith seeks presidency. North Viet PT-boats attack two US destroyers. Congress passes Tonkin Gulf Resolution. Sen. Barry Goldwater becomes GOP candidate for President. Dems nominate LBJ in Atlantic City convention. LBJ reelected by biggest margin in history. Smoking reported to be major cause of lung cancer. Ted Kennedy in near-fatal plane crash. Robert Kennedy wins Senate seat in New York. New York World's Fair opens. Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Mike Collins land on the moon. War continues to divide men: Arab and Israeli, Nigerian and Biatran, South and North Vietnam. US troops enter Cambodia. US and Russia agree to limit spread of nuclear arms. Demonstrations at Kent State, Jackson State marred by deaths of students. Wichita State and Marshall University football teams perish in separate plane crashes. 965 Deaths of Sir Winston Churchill, T. S. Eliot, Adlai Stevenson, Malcolm X, Albert Schweitzer. Russia's Luna 7 crashes on moon. Ed White becomes first American to walk in space. Watts explodes — 35 killed in riots. Voting rights bill passed, giving all Americans the right to vote. Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg named US Ambassador to UN. Richard Hughes reflected NJ governor. Massive blackout in New York and northeast US. Grape pickers strike in California. Dwight D. Eisenhower given hero's funeral in Washington, DC. Nixon begins withdrawl of troops from Vietnam. 400,000 gather at Woodstock. Broadway Joe Namath and the Jets are Super Bowl champs. Tommy Seaver and the amazin' Mets win World Series. Tiny Tim marries Miss Vicki Budinger. Apollo 12 makes second moon landing. Hair and Oh, Calcutta big hits on Broadway. Peru seizes US fishing boats. Jordan regulars and commandos clash; series of airline hijacks follow. Lamar mob attacks buses transporting black students to previously all- white schools. Postal workers strike across nation. New York townhouse blows up as militants make mistake while build- ing bombs. Earthquakes devastate Peru. Supreme Court orders 18-year old vote in federal elections. Cease fire in middle East.