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1946 - Born in Ladysmith, Wisconsin on the 4th of July.
1964 - Served in US Marine Corps in Vietnam War.
1968 - In combat on the 20th of January, he was shot and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1972 - Disrupted Richard Nixon's renomination acceptance speech at Republican National Convention.
1974 - He led a group of disabled Vietnam Veterans in wheelchairs on a 17-day hunger strike inside the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston.
1976 - Kovic was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention, seconding the nomination of draft resister Fritz Efaw for Vice President of the United States.
2003 - In November, he joined protests in London against the visit of George W. Bush.
2007 - In March, Kovic checked into the Ernst Bors Spinal Chord Injury ward of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California, for an undisclosed illness.
1964 - Served in US Marine Corps in Vietnam War.
1968 - In combat on the 20th of January, he was shot and suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed from the chest down.
1972 - Disrupted Richard Nixon's renomination acceptance speech at Republican National Convention.
1974 - He led a group of disabled Vietnam Veterans in wheelchairs on a 17-day hunger strike inside the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston.
1976 - Kovic was a speaker at the Democratic National Convention, seconding the nomination of draft resister Fritz Efaw for Vice President of the United States.
2003 - In November, he joined protests in London against the visit of George W. Bush.
2007 - In March, Kovic checked into the Ernst Bors Spinal Chord Injury ward of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Long Beach, California, for an undisclosed illness.
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