1964President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act into law, allocating $1 billion for anti-poverty social programs. It was central to Johnson’s Great Society legislation program and provided work training, educational programs, employment incentives and other measures.1986U.S. Post Office employee Patrick Sherrill shot 14 co-workers in Oklahoma before killing himself. The attack was one of several among a trend that inspired the phrase “going postal.”