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==Appendix III==
{{DISPLAYTITLE:''An American Dream'' Expanded/Timeline of Events, 1962–1966}}
===Timeline of Events, 1962-1966===
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|1962||align=center|January 30|| style="background:#dfd;"|NM’s first volume of poems, Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters), is published by Putnam’s
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="11"|1962||align=left|January30|| style="background:#fed;"|NM’s first volume of poems, [[Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)|''Deaths for the Ladies (and Other Disasters)'']], is published by Putnam’s.
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|align=center|February 7|| style="background:#fed;"|The [[Republic of Bolivia]] changes its name to the '''[[Plurinational State of Bolivia]]'''. [[La Paz]] and [[Sucre]] remain the capitals.
|align=left| Late March || style="background:#fed;"| NM divorces his second wife, [[w:Adele Morales|Adele Morales]], in Juarez, Mexico.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2008||align=center|August 27|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Russian Federation]] recognizes the independence of the '''[[Republic of South Ossetia]]''' and the '''[[Republic of Abkhazia]]''' from [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. Georgia and much of the [[international community]] maintain that they are both were [[Occupied territories of Georgia|illegally occupied by Russia]] during [[Russo-Georgian War]] and legally remain integral regions of Georgia. Their capitals are [[Tskhinval]] and [[Sukhumi]], respectively.  
|align=left| April || style="background:#fed;"| NM marries Lady Jean Campbell and they move into his apartment at 142 Columbia Heights in Brooklyn.
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|align=center|May 28|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
|align=left| Mid-August || style="background:#fed;"| NM submits the first (of 14) columns, titled [[The Big Bite|“The Big Bite,”]] for publication in the November [[w:Esquire (magazine)|''Esquire'']].
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|align=center|February 17|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija]] declares its independence from the [[Republic of Serbia]] as the '''[[Republic of Kosovo]]'''. [[Priština]] remains the capital. Serbia maintains that Kosovo remains a part of Serbia.
|align=left| August 18|| style="background:#fed;"| NM’s third daughter, Kate, born to Jean Campbell.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2007||align=center|October 22|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Republic of Montenegro]] changes its name to '''[[Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
|align=left| September 22|| style="background:#fed;"| NM debates [[w:William F. Buckley, Jr.|William F. Buckley, Jr.]] on “The Role of the Right Wing” before an audience of 4,000 in Chicago.
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|align=center|February 21|| style="background:#ffd;"|The [[French Republic]] separates the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Barthélemy]]''' and the '''[[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Martin]]''' from the [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Gustavia, Saint Barthélemy|Gustavia]] and [[Marigot, Saint Martin|Marigot]] are the capitals respectively.
|align=left| September 25 || style="background:#fed;"| NM covers the heavyweight prizefight between [[w:Floyd Patterson|Floyd Patterson]] and [[w:Sonny Liston|Sonny Liston]] in Chicago.
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|align=center|January 15|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Kingdom of Nepal]] changes its name to the '''[[State of Nepal]]'''. [[Kathmandu]] remains the capital.
|align=left| October-November || style="background:#fed;"| '''[[w:Cuban Missile Crisis|Cuban Missile Crisis]]. The Soviet Union removes missile sites from Cuba after the U.S. threatens a military attack.'''
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2006||align=center|October 7|| style="background:#eff;"|The '''[[Republic of Palau]]''' moves its capital from [[Koror]] to [[Ngerulmud]].
|align=left| Late fall || style="background:#fed;"| NM separates from Jean Campbell.
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|align=center|August 14|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Republic of Nigeria]] transfers sovereignty of [[Bakassi]] to the '''[[Republic of Cameroon]]'''.
|align=left| December || style="background:#fed;"| NM publishes the first of six columns of reflections on [[w:Martin Buber|Martin Buber’s]] [[w:Tales of the Hasidim|''Tales of the Hasidim'']] in [[w:Commentary (magazine)|''Commentary'']].
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|align=center|June 5|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[Republic of Serbia]]''' supersedes the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
|align=left| December 20 || style="background:#fed;"| “An Open Letter to JFK from Norman Mailer” appears in the [[w:Village Voice|''Village Voice'']].
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|align=center|June 3|| style="background:#eef;"|[[Montenegro]] secedes from the [[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]] as the '''[[Republic of Montenegro]]'''. [[Podgorica]] remains the capital.
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="18"|1963||align=left| January-February || style="background:#fee;"| [[w:Playboy|''Playboy'']] publishes in two parts the NM-Buckley debate.  
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|align=center|2005||align=center|November 6|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Union of Myanmar]]''' moves its capital from [[Yangon]] to [[Naypyidaw]].
|align=left| February || style="background:#fee;"| “Ten Thousand Words a Minute,” NM’s account of the first Patterson-Liston fight, is published in ''Esquire''.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="3"|2004||align=center|September 1|| style="background:#fff;"|The [[Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty]] administering '''[[Antarctica]]''' and all lands and waters south of the [[60th parallel south]] establishes its headquarters in [[Buenos Aires]], [[Argentina]].
|align=left| March || style="background:#fee;"| NM meets [[w:Beverly Bentley|Beverly Bentley]].
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|align=center|February 27|| style="background:#eff;"|The [[French Republic]] elevates the [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]] to the '''[[Overseas Country of French Polynesia]]'''. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
|align=left|March 24 || style="background:#fee;"| NM speaks on [[w:existentialism|existentialism]] and [[w:psychoanalysis|psychoanalysis]] at [[w:Harvard University|Harvard]].
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|align=center|January 4|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] changes its name to the '''[[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]]'''. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
|align=left|May 31 || style="background:#fee;"| NM presents “An Existential Evening” at [[w:Carnegie Hall|Carnegie Hall]], discussing the [[w:Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]], [[w:John F. Kennedy|President Kennedy]] and [[w:Communism|Communism]] with the audience.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="7"|2003||align=center|May 26|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Rwandese Republic]] changes its name to the '''[[Republic of Rwanda]]'''. [[Kigali]] remains the capital.
|align=left| Summer || style="background:#fee;"| “The First Presidential Paper,” NM’s essay on heroes and leaders, is published in [[w:Dissent (American magazine)|''Dissent'']].
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="5"|March 28|| style="background:#eef;"|The '''[[French Republic]]''' revises its [[Constitution of France|constitution]]. New [[polity|polities]] include:
|align=left| July-August || style="background:#fee;"| NM and Beverly drive cross-country and back, stopping in Arkansas, Las Vegas (where they see Liston defeat Patterson for the second time), San Francisco and Georgia.
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|align=left|August 28|| style="background:#fee;"| '''[[w:Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King, Jr.]] delivers his [[w:I Have a Dream|“I Have a Dream”]] speech at the [[w:Washington Monument|Washington Monument]] during the [[w:March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|Civil Rights March]] on the [[w:Washington, D.C.|Capital]].'''
*The [[Overseas Region of Réunion]]. [[Saint-Denis, Réunion|Saint-Denis]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Territory of French Southern and Antarctic Lands]]. [[Port-aux-Français]] remains the administrative center.
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|align=left| Late Summer || style="background:#fee;"| [[w:Scott Meredith|Scott Meredith]] becomes NM’s literary agent and helps broker the sale of an unwritten novel to [[w:Dial Press|Dial Press]] and [[w:Dell Publishing|Dell Books]]. NM proposes and ''Esquire'' editor [[w:Harold Hayes|Harold Hayes]] agrees to the serial publication of this novel in the magazine, January through August 1964.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of French Polynesia]]. [[Papeetē]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Wallis and Futuna]]. [[Mata-Utu]] remains the capital.
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|align=left|September 29 || style="background:#fee;"| NM’s review of [[w:Victor Lasky|Victor Lasky’s]] ''J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth'' appears in ''Book Week ([[w:New York Herald Tribune|N.Y. Herald Tribune]])''.
*The [[Overseas Region of Guadeloupe]]. [[Basse-Terre]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Region of Martinique]]. [[Fort-de-France]] remains the capital.
*The [[Overseas Collectivity of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon]]. [[Saint-Pierre, Saint Pierre and Miquelon|Saint-Pierre]] remains the capital.
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|align=left| Mid-October || style="background:#fee;"| NM turns in the first of eight installments of the novel to ''Esquire''.
*The [[Overseas Region of Guyane]] ([[French Guiana]]). [[Cayenne]] remains the capital.
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|align=center|February 4|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]] changes its name to the '''[[State Union of Serbia and Montenegro]]'''. [[Belgrade]] remains the capital.
|align=left|November 8 || style="background:#fee;"| Putnam’s publishes [[The Presidential Papers|''The Presidential Papers'']], a collection of assorted prose focused on J.F.K.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2002||align=center|May 21|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland]] changes the title of each of its [[British Dependent Territories]] to that of a [[British Overseas Territory]]. The citizens of each British Overseas Territory gain full [[British citizenship]].
|align=left| Mid-November || style="background:#fee;"| The December ''Esquire'' containing NM’s final “Big Bite” column is published. NM announces in it that he will write a novel called [[An American Dream|''An American Dream'']], in eight installments, beginning in the January 1964 issue.
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|align=center|May 20|| style="background:#fee;"|[[East Timor]] gains independence from the [[Portuguese Republic]] as the '''[[Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste]]'''. East Timor was occupied by [[Indonesia]] in 1975, and was placed under [[United Nations]] administration in 1999. [[Dili]] remains the capital.
|align=left|November 22 || style="background:#fee;"| '''President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|Vice President Johnson]] is sworn in as President.'''
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|align=center|March 10|| style="background:#dfd;"|The '''[[Union of the Comoros]]''' reabsorbs the ''[[de facto]]'' independent [[State of Anjouan]] and the [[Democratic Republic of Mohéli]]. [[Mutsamudu]] and [[Fomboni]] yield to [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] as the capital.
|align=left|November 27 || style="background:#fee;"| NM begins working on the third installment.
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|align=center|February 14|| style="background:#fee;"|The [[State of Bahrain]] changes its name to the '''[[Kingdom of Bahrain]]'''. [[Manama]] remains the capital.
|align=left| Mid-December || style="background:#fee;"| The January issue of ''Esquire'' containing the first installment appears.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="4"|2001||align=center|December 23|| style="background:#dfd;"|The [[Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros]] changes its name to the '''[[Union of the Comoros]]'''. [[Moroni, Comoros|Moroni]] remains the capital.
|align=left|November 16 || style="background:#fee;"| After obtaining a Mexican divorce from Jean Campbell, NM marries Beverly Bentley in New York.
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|align=center|November 13|| style="background:#fee;"|The '''[[Islamic State of Afghanistan]]''' supersedes the [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]. [[Kabul]] remains the capital.
|align=left|December 26 || style="background:#fee;"| NM contributes to a [[w:New York Review of Books|''New York Review of Books'']] symposium on J.F.K.
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|align=center|July 1|| style="background:#dfd;"|The "temporarily independent" [[Puntland State of Somalia]] adopts a new constitution explicitly identifying itself as part of the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Garowe]] yields to [[Mogadishu]] as the capital.
| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="17"|1964||align=left| Mid-January || style="background:#dfd;"| The fourth installment of the novel is completed.  
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|align=center|January|| style="background:#fee;"|[[Taloqan]], the ''[[de facto]]'' capital of the [[Islamic State of Afghanistan]] government, falls to the '''[[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan]]'''. The capital moves to [[Fayzabad, Badakhshan|Fayzabad]].
|align=left| Late January || style="background:#dfd;"| NM debates William F. Buckley, Jr. in New York on a taped television program.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="2"|2000||align=center|July 16|| style="background:#dfd;"|[[Somalia]] changes its name to the '''[[Somali Republic]]'''. [[Mogadishu]] remains the capital.
|align=left| January 29 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''American premiere of [[w:Dr. Strangelove|“Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb”]]'''.
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|align=center|February 6|| style="background:#eef;"|The [[Chechen Republic of Ichkeria]] capitulates and is reabsorbed by the '''[[Russian Federation]]'''. [[Grozny|Ƶovxar-Ġala]] (Grozny) yields to [[Moscow]] as the capital.
|align=left| February 3 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''[[w:The Beatles|The Beatles]] arrive in America.'''
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|align=left| February 11 || style="background:#dfd;"| The fifth installment is completed.
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|align=left| February 25 || style="background:#dfd;"| NM is in the audience in Miami when [[w:Muhammad Ali|Muhammad Ali]] defeats Sonny Liston for the heavyweight championship.
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|align=left| March 17 || style="background:#dfd;"| Beverly gives birth to Michael Burks Mailer, NM’s first son, at about the same time that he completes the sixth installment.
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|align=left| April 20 || style="background:#dfd;"| The seventh installment is completed.
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|align=left| Late May || style="background:#dfd;"| [[w:Warner Bros.|Warner Brothers]] buys an option on the film rights to ''An American Dream''.
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|align=left| Early June || style="background:#dfd;"| The final long installment of the novel is completed. The Mailers go to Provincetown where NM will revise the ''Esquire'' version for book publication.
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|align=left| July 2 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''President Johnson signs the [[w:Civil Rights Act of 1964|Civil Rights Act]] against discrimination.'''
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|align=left| Mid-July || style="background:#dfd;"| NM break off work on the revision to the novel to cover the [[w:Republican National Convention|Republican Convention]] in San Francisco. His account, “In the Red Light,” appears in the November ''Esquire''.
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|align=left| August 7 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The U.S. Congress passes the [[w:Gulf of Tonkin Resolution|Tonk Gulf Resolution]] in authorizing the President to use military force in Vietnam.'''
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|align=left| September || style="background:#dfd;"| '''The [[w:Free Speech Movement|Free Speech movement]] begins at the [[w:University of California, Berkeley|University of California at Berkeley]].'''
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|align=left| October 12 || style="background:#dfd;"| An advertisement for ''An American Dream'' in book form appears in [[w:Publishers Weekly|''Publishers’ Weekly'']] and gives a January 1965 publication date.
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|align=left| November 3 || style="background:#dfd;"| '''Johnson elected President.'''
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|align=left| December 20 || style="background:#dfd;"| Working on the Dial Press galleys, NM completes a second revision of the novel.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="20"|1965||align=left| Early January || style="background:#ffd;"| NM testifies on behalf of [[w:William S. Burroughs|William Burroughs’s]] novel, [[w:Naked Lunch|''Naked Lunch'']], at its Boston obscenity trial.
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|align=left| January 27 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM writes to his Japanese translator that Warner Brothers has purchased the film rights to the novel. It sells for $200,000.
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|align=left| February 21 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''[[w:Malcolm X|Malcolm X]] is assassinated.'''
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|align=left| March || style="background:#ffd;"| '''U.S. troops arrive in force in Vietnam, escalating the [[w:Vietnam War|War]].'''
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|align=left| March 14 || style="background:#ffd;"| [[w:Tom Wolfe|Tom Wolfe’s]] negative review of the novel appears in ''Book Week ([[w:The Washington Post|Washington Post]])''.
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|align=left| March 15 || style="background:#ffd;"| Official publication date of ''An American Dream'' by Dial Press.
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|align=left| March 19 || style="background:#ffd;"| [[The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer|“The Big Comeback of Norman Mailer,”]] a positive review by [[w:John W. Aldridge|John W. Aldridge]], appears in [[w:Life (magazine)|''Life'']]. NM pays to reprint the heart of the review in the spring number of [[w:Partisan Review|''Partisan Review'']] to “accompany” [[w:Elizabeth Hardwick (writer)|Elizabeth Hardwick’s]] negative review.
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|align=left| March 27 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number four on the bestseller list of the [[w:Chicago Daily News|''Chicago Daily News'']].
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|align=left| April 1 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM travels to Alaska for a four-day visit, speaking at the [[w:University of Alaska system|University of Alaska]]. He uses his impressions for his 1967 novel, [[Why Are We in Vietnam?|''Why Are We in Vietnam?'']]
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|align=left| April 11 || style="background:#ffd;"| The novel rises to number eight on the bestseller list of the ''New York Times Book Review''.
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|align=left| April 20 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM arrives in London to promote the British edition of ''An American Dream'', published by [[w:André Deutsch|Andre Deutsch]] on 26 April.
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|align=left| May 21 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks out against the Vietnam War at the Berkeley campus of the University of California.
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|align=left| July 15 || style="background:#ffd;"| NM speaks at a [[w:Teach-in|Harvard teach-in against the Vietnam War]].
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|align=left| Late July || style="background:#ffd;"| NM travels to Puerto Rico for the [[w:José Torres|Jose Torres]]-[[w:Tom McNeeley|Tom McNeeley]] prizefight and meets with Muhammad Ali.
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|align=left| August 6 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''[[w:Voting Rights Act of 1965|Voting Right Act of 1965]] signed into law by President Johnson.'''
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|align=left| August 11 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''Race riots break out in Watts, Los Angeles.'''
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|align=left| Fall || style="background:#ffd;"| NM contributes to a ''Partisan Review'' symposium, “On Vietnam.”
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|align=left| September 24 || style="background:#ffd;"| [[w:Brock Brower|Brock Brower’s]] biographical article on NM appears in ''Life''.
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|align=left| September 29 || style="background:#ffd;"| '''[[w:National Endowment for the Arts|National Endowment for the Arts]] signed into law by President Johnson.'''
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|align=left| Late December || style="background:#ffd;"| NM addresses the [[w:Modern Language Association|Modern Language Association]] meeting in Chicago on the American novel. His talk is published in the March 1966 issue of ''Commentary''.
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| style="text-align:center;" rowspan="8"|1966||align=left| March || style="background:#eff;"| The Dell paperback edition of ''An American Dream'' is published.
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|align=left| March 10 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s second son, [[w:Stephen Mailer|Stephen McLeod Mailer]], is born to Beverly.
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|align=left| June || style="background:#eff;"| NM purchases a house at 565 Commercial Street in Provincetown.
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|align=left| August || style="background:#eff;"| The first stage version of NM’s 1955 novel, [[The Deer Park|''The Deer Park'']], with Beverly Bentley as Lulu Meyers, is presented at Act IV, a Provincetown theater.
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|align=left| August 26 || style="background:#eff;"| The film version of ''An American Dream'' premiers.
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|align=left| August 28 || style="background:#eff;"| NM’s review of [[w:Mark Lane (author)|Mark Lane’s]] [[w:''Rush to Judgment''|''Rush to Judgment'']], an analysis of the [[w:Warren Commission|Warren Commission Report]] on J.F.K.’s assassination, appears in ''Book Week (Washington Post)''.
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|align=left| August 29 || style="background:#eff;"| Dial Press publishes [[Cannibals and Christians|''Cannibals and Christians'']], NM’s third volume of collected prose and poetry.
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|align=left| October 29 || style="background:#eff;"| [[w:National Organization for Women established|'''National Organization for Women established''']].  
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