At the XIXth Olympiad, in Mexico City, Mexico, Tommie C. Smith and John W. Carlos, of the United states Track and Field team, win the gold and bronze medals respectively for the 200-meter dash.  At the medal ceremony, during the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner,” both athletes raise a clenched fist in solidarity with “human rights.”

       Postscript: The next day, at the insistence of President Avery Brundage, of the International Olympic Committee, both Smith and Carlos were barred from any further competition, and sent home.

       [restored 10/23/2022]

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are in Vietnam, “united in … determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) President Lyndon Johnson signs the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, “[t]o achieve the fullest cooperation and coordination of activities among the levels of government … to establish coordinated intergovernmental policy and administration … to provide for the acquisition, use, and disposition of land within urban areas by Federal agencies.”

       [added 10/23/2022]