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1963 President John F. Kennedy is shot in Dallas, Texas, by 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald from New Orleans. 1963 The bald cypress is named Louisiana’s state tree. 1964 Governor McKeithen becomes an active salesman for the state of Louisiana
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1969 Scientists begin to realize that the Louisiana coastline is shrinking at a rate of 16.5 square miles a year. 1969 “Moon” Landrieu assembles a coalition of blacks and whites in New Orleans that helps him get elected Mayor. 1970 LSU professor T. Harry Williams wins a Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Huey Long. Through the 70s, Crude oil prices skyrocketed producing tremendous revenues for Louisiana. |
1976 Petrified palmwood and agate are named Louisiana’s state fossil and gemstone respectively. 1977 Organized Labor and organized business clash in a battle over the so-called “Right-to-Work” law.
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1985 Tulane University no longer supports a basketball program, after a point-shaving scandal. 1985 Governor Edwin Edwards is “indicted on federal racketeering charges”. 1986 Governor Edwin Edwards is acquitted of all charges. |
1991 The U.S. Geological Survey confirms Louisiana wetlands loss has dropped to 25 square miles a year. 1992 Edwin Edwards is elected governor 1992 The black bear is named Louisiana’s state mammal. |
1998 Bobby Jindal is selected to head a Medicare improvement program in Washington, D.C. 1999 The largest Dead Zone appears in the Gulf of Mexico at 20,000 square kilometers 1999 Mike Foster is re-elected one hundred years after his grandfather held the same office. |
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1960 Two public schools in New Orleans are desegregated 1960
Construction begins on Louisiana’s two east-west interstate highways, I-10 and I-20.
1960 In the 1960s, the state’s farming population would drop from 233,000 to 171,000 by the end of the decade. |
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1965 Hurricane Betsy moves through Southern Louisiana destroying hundreds of homes. 1966 The brown pelican is named Louisiana’s state bird. 1967 The state legislature appropriates the funds to build the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans 1967 Voters approve an amendment to the state constitution allowing the re-election of Governor John McKeithen. |
1971 Dorothy Mae Taylor becomes the first African-American woman to hold a state office.
1973 Governor Edwards changes the way the state taxes the oil and gas industry. 1973 Corrine “Lindy” Boggs becomes Louisiana’s first congresswoman. 1974 Louisiana rewrites its constitution
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1979 Between 1979 and 1982, oil and gas revenues produced more than $1 billion dollars for Louisiana.
1979 The catahoula leopard dog is named Louisiana’s state dog.
1983 Despite dramatic budget cuts, Louisiana ends the fiscal year with a $100 million dollar deficit. 1983 The coldest December ever is recorded |
1987 New Orleans hosts a visit from Pope John Paul II. 1988 Louisiana voters approve creation of the Wetland Conservation and Restoration Fund 1988 Buddy Roemer is elected Governor 1989 David Duke is elected to legislature. 1990 Congress passes the Coastal Wetlands Planning, Protection and Restoration Act 1990 A new state lottery is approved as “gaming” |
1993 The green tree frog and the white perch are named Louisiana’s state amphibian and freshwater fish respectively. 1994 Marc Morial, son of Ernest Morial, is elected Mayor of New Orleans 1995 Harrah’s casino, Louisiana’s only land-based casino files for Chapter 11 protection. 1995 Mike Foster is elected to the first of two terms as Louisiana governor. 1996 Louisiana voters choose whether they want to ban video poker in their parishes 1996 Mary Landrieu becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Louisiana. |
2002 Edwin Edwards begins serving a ten-year sentence in a federal penitentiary in Fort Worth, Texas. 2003 Kathleen Blanco defeats Bobby Jindal and becomes the first female governor |
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