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* 1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
* November 28 – Vietnam War: In response to U. S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for " more flags " in Vietnam, Philippines President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
The Great Society program, with its name coined from one of Johnson's speeches, became Johnson's agenda for Congress in January 1965: aid to education, attack on disease, Medicare, Medicaid, urban renewal, beautification, conservation, development of depressed regions, a wide-scale fight against poverty, control and prevention of crime, and removal of obstacles to the right to vote.
One of the most pervasive myths is that several of Ketchel's teeth stuck in Johnson's glove, because the filmed fight shows Johnson touching his wrist after having knocked Ketchell out.
The outcome of the fight triggered race riots that evening — the Fourth of July — all across the United States, from Texas and Colorado to New York and Washington, D. C. Johnson's victory over Jeffries had dashed white dreams of finding a " great white hope " to defeat him.
The movement to censor Johnson's victory took over the country within three days after the fight.
The organizers of the fight explained the fiasco by asserting that Jack Johnson's left arm was broken in the third round.
He was rumoured to be suffering from the effects from jaundice or influenza, and weighed in at just — lighter than his previous fight, and well below Johnson's.
Johnson's cavalry defeated Tecumseh's main force on September 29, took British supply trains on October 3, and was one of the factors inducing Procter to stand and fight at the Battle of the Thames on October 5, as Tecumseh had been demanding he do.
Previous Heavyweight Champion John L. Sullivan ( the man who had erected the color bar in the heavyweight division when he refused to fight African American contenders ) remarked during an interview with The New York Times that Jeffries ' personal doctor was so amazed at Johnson's physical condition that he felt Jeffries could only win if Johnson had a lack of skill on the day.
Johnson began dominating the fight in rounds five through twelve as his opponent faded in the heat and from Johnson's onslaught.
Johnson's challenge once again proved unsuccessful as the fight was stopped in the seventh round for his second loss.

Johnson's and 4
The Supreme Court agreed and, in a 5 – 4 vote, reversed Johnson's conviction.
Congress, on December 4, 1865, rejected Johnson's moderate Presidential Reconstruction, and organized the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, a 15-member panel to devise reconstruction requirements for the Southern states to be restored to the Union.
Mounds, Illinois July 4, 1910-One dead and one mortally wounded is the result of an attempt by four negroes to shoot up the town in honor of Jack Johnson's victory at Reno tonight.
Those convictions affirmed Neill's death sentence and Johnson's death sentence was changed to 4 life prison sentences with the possibility of parole.
President Johnson's " War on Poverty " speech was delivered at a time of recovery ( the poverty level had fallen from 22. 4 % in 1959 to 19 % in 1964 when the War on Poverty was announced ) and it was viewed by critics as an effort to get the United States Congress to authorize social welfare programs.
Johnson's testimonial match and farewell to competitive rugby, held at Twickenham on 4 June 2005, was one of the biggest rugby events of the year.
Tennis was played at the Johnson's Glendewar ( east of the Airport Terminal buildings ) until they moved to Cumberland ( See The Argus 23 7 1914, page 4 .).
Johnson's defence saw him both reach the final and come within 4 frames of victory.
While in New York, he played three seasons ( 1997 – 1999 ) under Bill Parcells, who in two seasons would turnaround the Jets from 1 – 15 in 1996, Johnson's rookie year to 9 – 7 in 1997 & 12 – 4 in 1998 & the franchise's first ever AFC East Division title.
A British diarist and Samuel Johnson's friend, Hester Thrale, in her book Observations and reflections made in the course of a journey through France, Italy, and Germany, describes a Polish plait she saw in 1786 in the collection of the Elector of Saxony in Dresden: " the size and weight of it was enormous, its length four yards and a half 4. 1 m ; the person who was killed by its growth was a Polish lady of quality well known in King Augustus's court.
In Johnson's first regular season game since his injury, he rushed for 74 yards on 22 carries with an average of 3. 4 yards per carry against the New England Patriots on September 7, 2008.
When Johnson's name came before the Republican controlled General Assembly on January 4, 2005, the day after Bradley's resignation, it was the first time a governor had appointed a new lieutenant governor and consequently the legislature had no experience with such a nomination.
Rookie running back J. J. Johnson's 2-yard touchdown run finished the drive with 4: 46 left in the game, and the Seahawks could not score again.
He made history by becoming Randy Johnson's 4, 000th strikeout victim on June 29, 2004.
Johnson's big moment came in Game 4: when the score was tied at 105, teammate Larry Bird had the ball in the last seconds.
In Johnson's rookie season, he started and played in all 16 games, recording 66 receptions for 976 yards and 4 touchdowns.
David Cameron's and Boris Johnson's period in the Bullingdon Club was examined in the UK Channel 4 docu-drama When Boris Met Dave, broadcast on 7 October 2009 on More 4.
Eventually George opted to sign a $ 14. 8 million 4 year contract with the Washington Redskins as Brad Johnson's backup.
It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1867 to March 4, 1869, during the third and fourth years of Andrew Johnson's U. S. Presidency.
George signed a two-year $ 4. 2 million contract with the Mavericks as a free agent in August 2006 and as the season continued he gained coach Avery Johnson's trust and became more integral to the Mavericks ' gameplan.
Johnson then notched his last Finals MVP award as the Lakers defeated their archrival Celtics in the finals, highlighted by Johnson's running " baby hook " shot to win Game 4 at Boston Garden with two seconds remaining.

Johnson's and months
On March 5, 1868, the impeachment trial began in the Senate and lasted almost three months ; Reps. George S. Boutwell, Ben Butler and Thaddeus Stevens acted as managers ( prosecutors ) for the House and William M. Evarts, Benjamin R. Curtis and Attorney General Henry Stanberry served as Johnson's counsel ; Chief Justice Chase served as presiding judge.
Johnson's approval ratings stayed below 50 percent ; by January 1967, the number of his strong supporters had plunged to 16 percent, from 25 percent four months before.
During the final years of his life, Mantle purchased a luxury condominium on Lake Oconee near Greensboro, Georgia, near Greer Johnson's home, and frequently stayed there for months at a time.
The 1755 edition of Bailey's dictionary bore the name of Joseph Nicol Scott also ; it was published years after Bailey's death, but months only after Johnson's dictionary appeared.
Many of the orphan children were psychologically scarred by Johnson's experiment after Tudor spent four months in 1939 conditioning them to stutter through negative speech therapy in which she belittled them for their own normal speech imperfections.
During the months of July and August you can go to one of two information centers run by the Nature Conservancy of Canada about the shorebirds in either Johnson's Mills or Mary's point.
Her earliest known acting role was in a Johnson & Johnson's No More Tears baby shampoo television commercial at age 10 months in 1969.
Johnson's playing career was interrupted by eleven months spent as an MLB coach.
Leura Canary did not submit voluntary recusal paperwork until two months after Siegelman attorney David Cromwell Johnson's press conference in March 2002.
On January 23, 1978, a few months after Chicago XIs release, Terry Kath, regarded by many as the soul of Chicago, accidentally and fatally shot himself during a party at a roadie Don Johnson's house.
Crosby managed the Conservative Party's 2005 general election campaign in the United Kingdom, and also appointed to run ( the successful ) Conservative Boris Johnson's London 2008 Mayoral election campaign, at a cost to the party of £ 140, 000 for four months of work.
Three months later in February 2004 the two met once again in Sheffield this time at the Ponds Forge Centre, the result this time going Johnson's way after 12 rounds.
Johnson's presidential campaign and his first six months as president temporarily brought more media attention and members to Alliance Quebec, as the PQ government and Quebec nationalist groups publicly criticized AQ's new, more confrontational tone.

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