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Aug 28, 1963
Martin Luther King delivers his "I Have A Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March On Washington. On hand are "It Ain't Me, Babe" songwriter Bob Dylan and Peter, Paul & Mary
Nov 21, 1963
When president John F. Kennedy visits San Antonio, Texas, eight-year-old Steve Earle is taken out of school to watch the motorcade pass by. The following day, JFK is killed in Dallas
Nov 22, 1963
President John F. Kennedy is killed in a Dallas parade. RCA subsequently delays its planned release of George Hamilton IV's "Fort Worth, Dallas Or Houston." Buddy Starcher will draw similarities between Kennedy and Abraham Lincoln in his 1966 single "History Repeats Itself"
Mar 21, 1965
In its third attempt, a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery begins in Alabama. Led by Martin Luther King, participants include Leonard Bernstein and Peter, Paul & Mary, whose Peter Yarrow earns a country hit later as the writer and producer of Mary MacGregor's "Torn Between Two Lovers"
Apr 9, 1965
Houston opens the Astrodome, the later site of a live Sonny James album, and the long-time home of the Houston Livestock & Rodeo
Jul 30, 1965
President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965, which establishes Medicare. The program will be referenced in George Jones' 1992 single "I Don't Need Your Rockin' Chair"
Oct 2, 1966
Several hundred hippies protest the criminalization of LSD with a Love Pageant Rally in San Francisco's Panhandle Park. Janis Joplin, who will record "Me And Bobby McGee," drinks cheap wine at the event's periphery
Nov 8, 1966
Ronald Reagan is elected governor of California. In the position, he pardons Merle Haggard in 1972 for an attempted robbery conviction from the late 1950s
Nov 15, 1966
Los Angeles youth and police clash on Sunset Strip, leading to a temporary ban on live rock music after dark. The Troubadour, on Santa Monica, reacts by ending a ban on electric instruments, luring fans and becoming a country-rock breeding ground
Sep 28, 1967
There stands the glass: Nashville voters bring the city out of the dark ages, approving the sale of alcohol by the ounce in hotels, restaurants and private clubs. Booze is, of course, one of the hallowed topics of country music
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