Chronology

Selected Events for Beats and counter culture
Year	Month	Day	Event	Related Resource
1951			J.D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye is published.
1960	March		Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), a radical youth group established in the United States in 1959 that developed out of the youth branch of an older socialist educational organization, the League for Industrial Democracy, holds first organizational meeting.	Link
1961			Catch-22, Joseph Heller's dark satire on the horror and insanity of war is published.
1963	May	27	"The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" is released. Songs include: 'Blowin' In The Wind,' 'Girl From The North Country, Masters Of War,' 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall,' and 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.'	Link
1964	June		With Neal Cassady at the wheel, Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters leave La Honda, California and begin their psychedelic cross-country trip in "Furthur", the legendary day-glo painted 1939 International Harvester school bus.	Link