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The party grew into a national organisation known for armed self-defence and community programmes, but FBI repression, internal splits and legal battles led to its decline by the early 1980s.
An estimated 75,000 to 100,000 young people gathered in San Francisco, spreading hippie culture worldwide but leaving the Haight with crowding, drug and crime problems.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violated the Fourteenth Amendment, ending such bans in all US states.
All three astronauts died; NASA redesigned the Apollo command module, and crewed Apollo flights resumed with Apollo 7 in October 1968.
The protest brought the women's liberation movement to national attention and gave rise to the lasting myth of feminist bra-burning.
Smith and Carlos were suspended by the US team and sent home, but their silent protest became one of the most famous images of the twentieth century.
King died about an hour after being shot; unrest broke out in more than 100 US cities, and James Earl Ray later pleaded guilty to the murder.
The crew orbited the Moon ten times and returned safely, proving the Saturn V and Apollo spacecraft for a lunar landing.
Armstrong and Aldrin landed and walked on the Moon and the crew returned safely to Earth, fulfilling the goal set by President Kennedy in 1961.
The occupation ended with the removal of the last 15 occupiers, but it inspired the Red Power movement and helped shift federal policy towards Native self-determination.
An estimated 400,000 people attended a largely peaceful but chaotic festival that became the defining symbol of the 1960s counterculture.
Several nights of protest against police harassment turned gay rights into a mass movement and led to the first Pride marches in 1970.
