On July 1 in U S Political History
Part VI
Part VI
On July 1st in 1966 The Medicare federal insurance program went into effect.
On July 1st in 1966 The U.S. Marines launched Operation Holt in an attempt to finish off a Vietcong battalion in Thua Thien Province in Vietnam.
On July 1st in 1968 The United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. India refused to sign.
On July 1st in 1971 President Nixon ordered chief of staff H. R. Haldeman to have the Brookings Institute burglarized. Nixon met with Haldeman and Kissinger and told them: "We’re up against an enemy, a conspiracy, that (sic) are using any means."
On July 1st in 1971 The US Post Office Department was transformed into the US Postal Service as an independent establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States. The US government changed the Post Office to a quasi-government body with a mandate to be financially self-sustaining.
On July 1st in 1971 The state of Washington became the 1st US state to ban sex discrimination.
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