15 May 1969
Reagan was involved in high-profile conflicts with the protest movements of the era. On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at UC Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway Patrol and other officers to quell the protests, in an incident that became known as "Bloody Thursday." Reagan then called out 2,200 state National Guard troops to occupy the city of Berkeley for two weeks in order to crack down on the protesters. Wh...
UC Berkeley Events
| 1967 Feb 2 |
Students Stage Protest at California State Capitol
Students stage an orderly demonstration in front of the California State Capitol protesting budget cuts and the governor’s request that a tuition be imposed for the first time in the Univ...
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| 1969 May 15 |
Ronald Reagan Cracks Down on People's Park Protests at UC Berkeley
Reagan was involved in high-profile conflicts with the protest movements of the era. On May 15, 1969, during the People's Park protests at UC Berkeley, Reagan sent the California Highway ...
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| 1980 |
Rogue is Included in the Berkeley Standard Distribution UNIX Distritbution 4.2
A student at University of Berkeley, called Ken Arnold, had designed a library of C functions which allowed programs to do cursor addressing, which means that the programs could put a cha...
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| 2009 Nov 20 |
Students at Berkeley University Occupy Building in Protest Fee Increases
Students occupied a building Friday on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley, in an escalation of protests over large fee increases at UC campuses statewide that echoed the...
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