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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Culture; American culture
On August 1, 1964, North Vietnamese torpedo boats attacked an American destroyer as it conducted espionage in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam. Two nights later, two vessels ...
Watergate
Culture; American culture
On June 17, 1972 Washington, DC police arrested five burglars at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate apartment complex. These men, employees of ...
William/My Lai Calley
Culture; American culture
On March 16, 1968, Lieutenant William Calley Jr., led twenty-five American soldiers into a small hamlet in South Vietnam on a routine search-and-destroy mission. There the platoon ...
Times Square
Culture; American culture
On New Year’s Eve, New York City, NY’s Times Square becomes the focus of thousands gathered in the cold and of a televisual nation that marks the countdown as an illuminated ball ...
Stonewall Riot
Culture; American culture
On the evening of June 27, 1969 a routine police raid on a homosexual bar, the Stonewall Inn, in New York City, NY’s Greenwich Village turned into what the New York Mattachine ...
Buffalo, NY
Culture; American culture
Once a thriving multi-ethnic manufacturing and transportation center on Lake Erie, suburban flight and aging industries have reduced its population to 300,000 (metro 1,184,000) at ...
rap/hip hop
Culture; American culture
Once derided as a flash in the pan, rap emerged as the dominant popular musical style at the end of the twentieth century. Many people call it rap, but the later coinage “hip hop” ...
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