Crab Pulsar Discovery
With David Staelin, detects the pulsar associated with the Crab Nebula.
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Crab Pulsar Discovery
With Edward Reifenstein, detects radio pulses from the Crab Nebula neutron star.
CSN&Y
Founder Member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
CSN&Y
Founder Member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
CSN&Y
Founder Member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Death of Albert Lewin
Death of Albert Lewin
Deep-Inelastic Electron Scattering
Uses high-energy electrons to probe protons, revealing point-like constituents inside nucleons.
Deep-Inelastic Electron Scattering
Uses high-energy electrons to reveal point-like constituents inside protons and neutrons.
Discusses US access to Kampuchea if it is invaded by North Vietnam
Discusses US access to Kampuchea if it is invaded by North Vietnam with Sihanouk
Education
A Rhodes scholar at Oxford between 1968 and 1970
Election
The Tet Offensive results in Johnson having to bow out of the Presidential elections
Election
Kissinger signs on as an adviser to Richard Nixons presidential campaign
Election
Appointed campaign manager for Richard Nixons election as President
Emmy Award Lucy Show Actress
Lucille Ball won an Emmy for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series for The Lucy Show.
Field-Emission STEM
Develops a high-brightness field-emission scanning transmission electron microscope for atomic-scale imaging.
Forty-Seven Volume Structure
Under Gelb's direction the project is organized as a forty-seven-volume classified historical study.
Funny Girl
Directs, Funny Girl
General
Appointed Chief of Staff for the US Army
General
Appointed Chief of Staff of the Army
Golden Globe
Golden Globe Award for Best Director The Graduate
Government
Appointed Ambassador of Germany
Hang Em High
Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur
Hang Em High
Stars in the revisionist western Hang Em High with Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle and Dennis Hopper.
Hang Em High
Clint Eastwood stars in the American revisionist western Hang Em High, featured alongside Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle, Dennis Hopper, Ed Begley, Alan Hale, Ben Johnson, Bruce Dern, and James MacArthur
Igloo White
Sensors are dropped on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, activity triggers off bombing raids
Investigation
New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in the fall of 1966, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination
Investigation
New Orleans D.A. Jim Garrison began an investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy in the fall of 1966, after receiving several tips from Jack Martin that a man named David Ferrie may have been involved in the assassination
Live at Folsom Prison
Johnny Cash records Live at Folsom Prison
Malpaso Productions
Establishes Malpaso Productions to gain greater control over his American film projects.
Malpaso Productions
Using money earned from the Dollars trilogy, accountant and Eastwood adviser Irving Leonard helps establish Eastwoods own production company, Malpaso Productions, named after Malpaso Creek on Eastwoods property in Monterey County, California
Men in Dark Times
Arendt published Men in Dark Times, a collection of biographical and critical essays.
Miami and the Siege of Chicago
"Miami and the Siege of Chicago". "Armies of the Night"
Mobilization
By the end of 1968 550,000 are stationed in Vietnam
Myra Breckinridge
Publication of "Myra Breckinridge"
National Book Award
Awarded a National Book Award
Nixon Campaign Manager Appointment
Appointed campaign manager for Richard Nixons election as President
Olympic Gold Medal
Wins the Olympic heavyweight title
Olympic Gold Medal
Winner of the Olympic high jump Gold Medal, with the "Fosbury flop"
Once Upon a Time in the West
Stars as Harmonica in Once Upon a Time in the West, director, Sergio Leone, once called him "the greatest actor I ever worked with", and had wanted to cast Bronson for the lead in all three of his previous westerns, now known as the Dollars trilogy
Peace
Sent as representitive to forward proposals to cease bombing, conditions are rejected
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