300,000 demonstrate in peace rallies across Australia. Four East Timorese arrested in Warton, England, at the British Aerospace factory where Indonesian Hawk fighter jets, used in the ongoing occupation and genocide of their homeland, are built. Congress overrides Pres. Boycott of segregated schools begins, South Africa. 100,000 Vietnamese demonstrate in Da Nang against U.S. and South Vietnamese governments.
Civil unrest spreads to Hue and Saigon.
Native Americans, including a young activist named Leonard Peltier, stage a third attempted occupation of Fort Lawton in an effort to force the city of Seattle to return the land to its original owners. The campaign eventually results in the establishment of Daybreak Star Cultural Center in adjacent Discovery Park. A Boston trader visits and describes Neah Bay, a principal village of the Makah. Martin Luther King, Jr., launches a voter registration drive in Birmingham, Alabama. Unemployed riot in Union Square, New York City.