Vietnam Veterans For Peace marching from Jinotega reach Wicuili, Nicaragua. Great Britain imposes direct rule on Northern Ireland. Andrew Johnson's veto of Civil Rights Bill and gives equal rights to all men born in the U.S. except Indians. 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.
Blacks riot in Chicago in response to police brutality. Unemployed riot in Union Square, New York City. Mass meetings of non-whites to protest againt apartheid, South Africa. Jackie Robinson appears in first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers, becoming the first African-American to play major league baseball after 78 years of segregation. The game, until a franchise moved to Atlanta in the mid-1960s, was played entirely in northern cities.