Our Timeline

To submit information to add to the timeline email alumni@beloit.edu with "1970 Timeline" in the subject line.

Class members can upload photos and scanned documents to the Photo Gallery section of the class website. There is a folder for “Undergraduate Years” and one for “Archive Documents”

Source for checking memories: Digital archive of the Round Table: Beloit College Digital Publications Archive https://digitalpublications.beloit.edu

Term	Year	Date(s)	Event	Photo/ Document
	1964	August	Tonkin Gulf Resolution
	1965	March	First anti-war teach-ins
	1965	July	Johnson signs Medicare Bill
	1965	August	Voting rights act passes
Summer	1966		Prepare to enter Beloit. Underclass Common Course assigned reading: Satre’s The Stranger
Fall	1966	Sept. 4-7	New Student Days Arrive on campus
Fall	1966	Sept. 6	President’s Ox Roast Cookout, Aldrich Field
Fall	1966	Sept. 8	Classes begin
Fall	1966	Sept	Star Trek debuts
Fall	1966	Sept. 10	All-College Assembly, Field House, address by President Upton
Fall	1966	Sept. 15	All-College Assembly, Field House, Address by Dean William L, Kolb, “The Disciplines in Liberal Arts Education”
Fall	1966	Oct. 29-30	Homecoming, Football vs. Monmouth,	Photos
Fall	1966	October	March on the Pentagon
Fall	1966	October	Black Panther Party Founded
Fall	1966	November	McNamara resigns as Sec of Defense
Winter	1967
Winter	1967	January	Super Bowl I
Summer	1967
Summer	1967	Summer	"Summer of Love"
Summer	1967	July 2	Jefferson Airplane concert, Field House
Summer	1967	August	Thurgood Marshall confirmed to SCOTUS
Fall	1967
Fall	1967	November	First issue of Rolling Stone
Winter	1968
Winter	1968	January	Tet Offensive
Winter	1968	February	Cronkite urges negotiations to end war
Winter	1968	March	My Lai massacre
Winter	1968	March 14	Visit from Presidential Candidate Richard Nixon, Field House
Winter	1968	March 31	President Lyndon Johnson “I will not run” speech
Winter	1968	April 4	Martin Luther King assassinated, riots in major cities
Winter	1968	May 15-19	Dedication of the Science Center
Summer	1968
Summer	1968	June 6	Robert Kennedy assassinated
Summer	1968		Student trips around midwest to campaign for Eugene McCarthy
Summer	1968
Summer	1968	Aug. 26-29	Democratic National Convention, riots in Chicago
Fall	1968	Sept. 5	Classes start
Fall	1968		Damnation Army Band performed on the steps of Chapin Hall	Source
Fall	1968	September 27	Harry Belafonte concert at UW Field House, tickets were $3	Source
Fall	1968	Oct. 12	Homecoming
Fall	1968	Nov. 5	Presidential Election, Richard Nixon elected
Fall	1968	December	Apollo 8 circles the moon
Winter	1969	Jan. 6	Classes start
Winter	1969	Jan. 31	Campus attack at Burr House	Source
Winter	1969	March 3	Black Demands issued	Source
Winter	1969	March 5	Infirmary firebombed
Winter	1969	March 7	Porter-Whitney arson fires, general vandalism (hall phones & pay phones damaged, student uprisings across the US)
Summer	1969	May 1	Classes start
Summer	1969	July 20	Apollo 11 landing on the moon
Summer	1969	August	Woodstock
Fall	1969	Sept. 4	Classes start
Fall	1969	September	Chicago 7 trial begins
Fall	1969	October	2 million take part in peace moratorium
Fall	1969	Oct. 10-12	Homecoming Weekend, Football game vs. Carleton, B.B. King performed in the Field House on Sunday	Source
Fall	1969	October	First email sent
Fall	1969	November 8	G E College Bowl team chosen to compete in New York City	Source
Fall	1969	December 1	Draft Lottery	Source
Winter	1970
Winter	1970	March or April	Registrar's office firebombed
Winter	1970	April 17	Apollo 13 astronauts return to earth
Winter	1970	April 19	120th Commencement Exercises, Baccalureate Celebration, Eaton Chapel, 8pm (Baccalaureate processional was originally going to be an organ piece written by Pam Pettibone, but Max was ill and couldn’t practice it.)
Winter	1970	April 20	120th Commencement Exercises, Conferring of Degrees, Field House, 10 am Processional March: Here Comes the Sun Class Address by Stewart F. Taylor, Jr. Commencement address, “The Practice of Idealism”, Joel Pritchard Smith’55, President of Denison University Recessional March: Yellow Submarine	Photos Documents
	1970	April 22	First Earth Day	Source
	1970	May	Kent State shootings