December 31, 1967
The Youth International Party was founded. Commonly called Yippies, it was a radically youth-oriented and countercultural revolutionary offshoot of the free speech and anti-war movements of the 1960s. They employed theatrical gestures, such as advancing a pig (“Pigasus the Immortal”) as a candidate for President in 1968 to mock the status quo; some called them “the Groucho-Marxists.”
