Flashback
Here's what was happening in the world while we were in school....
1965
- 630 foot high Gateway Arch completed in St. Louis
- U.S. government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
- Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow
- Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
- U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Ferdinand Marcos inaugurated as president of the Phillipines
- Beatles: Help,
- Supremes: I Hear a Symphony, My World is Empty Without You
- Rolling Stones: Get Off of My Cloud
- F-Troop, Lost in Space, Get Smart, Days of Our Lives, A Charlie Brown Christmas premiere
- Willie Mays’ 500th HR (off Don Nottebart), Giants 11th straight win
- 60 year old Satchel Paige of Kansas City A’s pitches 3 scoreless innings
- Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Floyd Patterson in Las Vegas
- Gale Sayers of Chicago Bears scores 6 TDs, ties NFL record
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1966
- All U.S. cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"
- Georges Pompidou appointed French premier
- Lyndon Baines Johnson says U.S. should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression ends
- 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
- Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points
- 215,000 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
- Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
- Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
- Stokely Carmichael launches "Black Power" movement
- Medicare goes into effect
- Lyndon Baines Johnson signs Freedom of Information Act
- Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas
- Lyndon Baines Johnson signs a bill creating Department of Transportation (DOT)
- Joean Baez and 123 other ani-draft protestors arrested in Oakland
- National Organization of Women founded
- 1st U.S. bombing of Hanoi
Music:
- Simon and Garfunkel: Sounds of Silence, I Am a Rock
- Beatles: We Can Work It Out, Paperback Writer
- John Lennon, says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
- Barry Sadlers: Ballad of the Green Berets
- Rocker Jan Berry crashes his corvette into a parked truck
- Rolling Stones: Aftermath, Paint it Black
- Kingsmen: Louie Louie
- Mamas and Papas: Monday, Monday
- Beach Boys: Sloop John B
- Napoleon XIV: They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha! Ha!
- Bob Dylan hurt in motorcycle accident near Woodstock New York
- Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, SF)
- Donovan: Sunshine Superman
- Neal Diamond: Cherry Cherry
- Rolling Stones perform on Ed Sullivan Show
- Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hey Joe
- Monkees: I'm a Believer
- "Batman" with Adam West and Burt Ward, Rowan and Martin Show, 1st sci-fi soap opera Dark Shadows, Jerry Lewis’ Muscular Dystrophy telethon, Star Trek, That Girl, Dr. Seuss “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” premiere
- 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
Sports:
- Red Auerbach wins his 1,000th game as coach of NBA Boston Celtics and retires
- San Francisco Giant Willie Mays signs highest contract, $130,000 per year
- Wilt Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
- Sandy Koufax pitches 3rd 300-strikeout season
- In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41
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1967
- Albert DeSalvo (Boston Strangler) sentenced to life in prison
- Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee
- Treaty banning military use of nuclear weapons in space, signed
- U.S. troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
- Teamster President Jimmy Hoffa begins 8-year jail sentence for defrauding the union and jury tampering (commuted Dec 23, 1971)
- 100,000,000th U.S. phone connected
- Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end "6-Day War" with United Nations help
- Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
- Blacks in Newark, riot, 26 killed, 1500 injured and over 1000 arrested
- 43 die in race riot in Detroit (2,000 injured, 442 fires)
- Fire aboard carrier USS Forrestal in Gulf of Tonkin kills 134
- Nguyen Van Thieu elected President of South Vietnam under a new constitution
- Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
- "Hair" premieres on Broadway
- Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
- 1st human heart transplant performed (Dr. Christian Barnard, South Africa)
- Lyndon Johnson's daughter Lynda marries in White House
- DNA created in a test tube
- 474,300 U.S. soldiers in Vietnam
- "Graduate," starring Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft, premieres
Music:
- Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
- Sonny and Cher: Beat Goes On
- Rolling Stones: Let's Spend the Night Together, We Love You
- Jimi Hendrix: Purple Haze
- Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful busted for drugs
- Beatles: Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields, All You Need is Love, Magical Mystery Tour
- Pink Floyd: Arnold Layne
- The Turtles: Happy Together
- 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
- Aretha Franklin: Respect
- Keith Richards, Brian Jones and Mick Jagger arrested on drug charges
- Doors: Light My Fire
- Bobbie Gentry: Ode to Billie Joe
- Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
- Gladys Knight and Pips: I Heard it Through the Grapevine
- Otis Redding: Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
TV:
- Milton Berle Show, Fugitive, and What’s My Line last air
- Newlywed Game, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Mission Impossible premiere
- PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network
- Star Trek's "Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
Sports:
- Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
- Rocky Marciano retires as undefeated boxing champ
- Muhammad Ali refuses induction into army and stripped of boxing title, sentenced to 5 years
- New York Yankee Mickey Mantle hits career HR #500 off Stu Miller
- Robert "Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles
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1968
- 1st class postage raised from 5 cents to 6 cents
- Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
- Spy ship USS Pueblo and 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by N Korea and later released
- Country's 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Ala
- 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
- U.S. Mint stops buying and selling gold
- My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
- North Vietnam agrees to meet U.S. reps to set up preliminary peace talks
- Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated and buried in Atlanta
- President Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act
- London Bridge is sold to U.S. oil company to be erected in Arizona
- Students seize administration building at Ohio State
- Vietnam peace talks began in Paris between the U.S. and North Vietnam
- Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
- Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies next day
- 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
- Republican convention in Miami Beach nominates Nixon for pres
- Police and anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Dem National Convention and Democrats nominate Hubert H Humphrey for president (Chicago)
- 1st Boeing 747 rolls out
- Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
- 1st live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7)
- Golden Gate Bridge charges tolls only for southbound cars
- President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
- Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey
- "National Turn in Your Draft Card Day" features draft card burning
- President Nixon names Henry Kissinger security advisor
- Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell and Anders) 1st manned Moon voyage and astronauts read passages from Book of Genesis
- Israeli assault on Beirut Airport
- Bobby Goldsboro: Honey
- Classics IV: Spooky
- Beatles: Lady Madonna, Hey Jude
- LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
- Rolling Stones: Jumping Jack Flash
- Simon and Garfunkel: Mrs Robinson
- Iron Butterfly: In-a-gadda-da-vida (1st heavy metal song to hit charts)
- David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash premiere together in California
TV:
- "GE College Bowl" quiz show, nighttime version of Hollywood Squares, One Life to Live, 60 Minutes, and Hawaii Five-O premiere on TV
- Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on U.S. network TV
- "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV
Sports:
- Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to jump Caesar's Palace Fountain
- Vince Lombardi resigns as coach of Green Bay Packers
- 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
- Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
- Lee Trevino is 1st to play all 4 rounds of golf's U.S. open under par
- Brave Hank Aaron hits his 500th HR off San Francisco Giant Mike McCormick
- 19th Olympic games open at Mexico City, Mexico
- U.S. Olympic Committee suspends Tommie Smith and John Carlos for giving "black power" salute as a protest during victory ceremony
- NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
- Pitcher's mound drops from 15" to 10" and strike zone reduced from knees to shoulders to top of knees to armpits, to help hitters
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- Concorde jetliner's 1st test flight from Bristol England
- 25 members of U.S. aircraft carrier Enterprise die during maneuvers
- Soviet Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform 1st transfer of crew in space
- The Palestine National Congress appointed Yasser Arafat head of PLO
- U.S. population reaches 200 million
- Last edition of Saturday Evening Post
- Golda Meir sworn in as Israel's 1st female prime minister
- Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
- Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention
- North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea
- 1st human eye transplant performed
- U.S. B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
- Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
- U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
- Walt Disney World construction begins
- U.S. troop withdrawal begins in Vietnam
- 1st men on Moon, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Apollo 11 -- Neil Armstrong steps on Moon at 2:56:15 AM, GMT
- Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
- Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders
- Libyan revolution, Col Moammar Gadhafi deposes King Idris
- Soyuz 6 launched; Soyuz 7 and 8 follow in next 2 days
- Bank of America World Headquarters dedicated
- Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders
- Apollo 12 (Conrad/Gordon/Bean) launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
- Wendy's Hamburgers opens
- 1968 massacre of civilians at Mylai South Vietnam, by U.S. is 1st reported
- Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
- U.S. government holds its 1st draft lottery since WW II
Music:
- Supremes: I'm Livin' In Shame, Someday We’ll Be Together
- BJ Thomas: Hooked on a Feeling
- Beatles perform last live gig (42-min concert on roof of Apple HQs)
- Jim Morrison arrested for exposing himself at Dinner Key Auditorium
- Simon and Garfunkel: Boxer
- John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Give Peace a Chance
- Tommy James and Shondells: Crystal Blue Persuasion
- Rolling Stones: Honky Tonk Woman
- 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (Fillmore East, New York)
- Woodstock Music and Art Fair opens in New York State (Max Yasgur's Dairy Farm)
- Blues artist Muddy Waters involved in a car crash that kills 3
- Peter, Paul and Mary: Leaving on a Jet Plane
TV:
- Jerry Lewis Show second run, last episode of Star Trek (Turnabout Intruder), and Smothers Brothers comedy Hour last air on TV
- "Hee Haw" with Roy Clark and Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
Sports:
- 1st major league baseball game outside U.S. played (Montreal Canada)
- After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets
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