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POP CULTURE FROM 1965 TO 1968

Aiesha Pretlow

WORLD AND U.S. STATISTICS IN 1965 World population: 3.345 billion

U.S. population: 194,302,963

Life expectancy: 70.2 years

US Gross Domestic Product (GDP): $719.1 billion

Federal debt: $322.3 billion

Unemployment: 5.2%

Cost of a first-class postage stamp: $0.05

U.S. EVENTS

February 1: 2,600 arrested in Selma

February 21: Malcolm X assassinated at Harlem rally

August 11-16: African Americans riot in Los Angeles 34 died, over 1,000 injured, 4,000 arrested

SPORTS

World Series LA Dodgers defeat Minnesota

Pro Football NFL Champions: Green Bay AFL Champions: Buffalo

NBA Championship Celtics defeat Lakers

NCAA Basketball UCLA defeats Michigan

NCAA Football Alabama and Michigan State share the title

ENTERTAINMENT

The Sound of Music premieres and remains one of the most popular musicals

Bill Cosby in I Spy

ABC pays the NCAA $32 million for a four-year contract to broadcast college football games on Saturday afternoons.

MOVIES

Dr. Zhivago

The Sound of Music

A Thousand Clowns

Darling

Best Picture: My Fair Lady

TV SHOWS

Bonanza

Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.

Batman (5th)

Bewitched (7th)

The Beverly Hillbillies (8th)

BOOKS

James Baldwin, Going to Meet the Man

Amira Baraka, The Dead Lecturer

Heinrich Boll, The Clown

Alex Haley, The Autobiography of Malcom X

Peter Mathiessen, At Play in the Fields of the Lord

Ralph Nader, Unsafe at Any Speed

Sylvia Plath, Ariel, The Uncollected Poems

Eudora Welty, Thirteen Stories

MUSIC Record of the Year: “The Girl From Ipanema,” Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto

Album of the Year: Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto

Song of the Year: “Hello, Dolly!,” written by Jerry Herman

“My Girl,” The Temptations

“I Got You Babe,” Sonny and Cher

“Get Off My Cloud,” Rolling Stones

FUN FACTS

Miss America: Vonda Van Dyke (Arizona)

James Russell created CDs

Joseph Licklider’s idea become reality: THE INTERNET!

The “Big Bang” theory is confirmed by Amo A. Penzias and Robert W. Wilson

The first commercial communications satellite is launched Early Bird

The first rendezvous with another spacecraft occurred Gemini VI and Gemini VII

Edward White becomes the first American to perform a spacewalk on June 3

Most Popular Christmas Presents Operation Bouncing Wham-O’s Super Balls Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots

First T.G.I. Fridays opens in Manhattan

BIRTHS

The Undertaker

J.K. Rowling

Robert Downey, Jr.

Chris Rock

Sarah Jessica Parke

Kevin James

Charlie Sheen

Slash

Shania Twain

Melissa McBride

Martin Lawrence

Michael Bay

Brooke Sheilds

Ben Stiller

DEATHS

Winston Churchill

Nat King Cole

T.S. Eliot

Adlai Stevenson

Malcom X




U.S. GDP: $787.8 billion


Unemployment: 4.5%

U.S. EVENTS

July 1: Medicare begins

Miranda v. Arizona

Stokely Carmichael elected president of the SNCC

SPORTS

World Series Baltimore defeats LA Dodgers


NCAA Basketball Texas Western defeats Kentucky

Pro Football NFL Champions: Packers AFL Champions: Cheifs

NCAA Football Notre Dame and Michigan State share the title

ENTERTAINMENT

CBS decides not to broadcast Psycho for at-home viewing

September 8: Star Trek Episode 1: “The Man Trap” broadcasted

The new Metropolitan Opera house opens at the Lincoln Center with Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra

MOVIES

A Man for All Seasons

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Alfie

A Man and a Woman

Best Picture: The Sound of Music

TV SHOWS

Bonanza

The Red Skeleton Show

The Andy Griffith Show

The Jackie Gleason Show

BOOKS

John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy

Paul Bowles, Up Above the World

Truman Capote, In Cold Blood

Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists

Bernard Malamud, The Fixer

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

MUSIC Record of the Year: “A Taste of Honey,” Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra

Song of the Year: “The Shadow of Your Smile” from The Sandpiper, written by Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel

“These Boots Are Made For Walkin’,” Nancy Sinatra

“Hanky Panky,” Tommy James

“I’m a Believer,” The Monkees

FUN FACTS

Miss America: Deborah Irene Bryant (Kansas)

Insulin synthesized in China

Har Khorana finishes deciphering the DNA code

FDA declares “the Pill” safe for human consumption

Charles Brenton Huggins and Francis Peyton Rous win the Nobel Prize for studies in the hormone treatment of prostate cancer and the discovery of tumor-producing viruses

Burger King coined the phrase, “Have it your way”

John Lennon declared that The Beatles were “bigger than Jesus”.

The Astro Dome gets AstroTurf

Ford installs 8-tracks in cars

Kevlar created

Allen Astles sets the record for the most tiddlywinks

Most popular Christmas gifts: Twister Barrel of Monkeys Spirograph Crazy Maze

BIRTHS

Adam Sandler

Abby Lee Miller

Janet Jackson

Halle Berry

Mike Tyson

Gordon Ramsay

Patrick Dempsey

Helena Bonham Carter

Cindy Crawford

Bill Goldberg

Martina McBride

John Cusack

Tea Leoni

DEATHS

Montgomery Clift

Walt Disney






Unemployment: 3.8%

Median Household Income: $7,143

U.S. EVENTS

January 27: Astronauts Colonel Edward White II, Colonel Virgil I. Grissom, and Lutinent Commander Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch

July 23: Detroit Riots 7,000 National Guardsmen ordered to restore peace

October 2: Thurgood Marshall sworn in as Supreme Court justice

Abbie Hoffman and 50,000 followers visit the New York Stock Exchange and the Pentagon

SPORTS

World Series St. Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox

Super Bowl I Green Bay defeats Kansas City

NCAA Football Champion USC

NBA Championship 76ers defeat San Francisco Warriors

NCAA Basketball Championship UCLA defeats Dayton

ENTERTAINMENT

Congress creates PBS

New York Magazine and Rolling Stone debut

MOVIES

The Graduate

Bonnie and Clyde

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

In the Heat of the Night

Cool Hand Luke

Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons

TV SHOWS

The Andy Griffith Show

Gunsmoke (4th)

Family Affair (5th)

The Dean Martin Show (8th)

MUSIC Record of the Year: “Strangers in the Night,” Frank Sinatra

Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music

Song of the Year: “Michelle,” John Lennon and Paul McCartney

The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band

“Respect,” Aretha Franklin

“All You Need is Love,” The Beatles

“(Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay,” Otis Redding

“Light My Fire,” The Doors

FUN FACTS Miss America: Jane Anne Jayroe (Oklahoma)

Multiple Independently Targetable Reetry Vehilce (MIRV) is developed

December 3: South African surgeons perform the first successful human heart transplant

Slurpees became available in all 7/11 locations

Super bowl ad cost $42,000

First handheld calculator invented

Most Popular Christmas gifts: Kerplunk, Talking G.I. Joe action figures, Ants in the Pants game

BIRTHS

Vin Diesel

Kurt Cobain

Kane

Julia Roberts

Jamie Foxx

Will Ferrell

Tim McGraw

Keith Urban

R. Kelly

David Guetta

Anna Nicole Smith

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Harry Connick, Jr.

Vanilla Ice

Faith Hill

Pamela Anderson

DEATHS

Ernesto “Che” Guevara

Spencer Tracy

Woody Guthrie

Langston Hughes

Alice B. Toklas

John Coltrane

Otis Redding






Median Household Income: $7,743

Unemployment: 3.8%

Cost of a first-class postage stamp: $0.06

U.S. EVENTS

March 31: President Johnson announces he will not seek reelection

April 4: Martin Luther King, Jr. killed in Memphis James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years

June 6: Robert F. Kennedy dies from gunshot wound in Los Angeles

Petroleum discovered in Alaska

Apollo 8 orbits the moon

SPORTS

World Series Detroit defeats St. Louis Cardinals

Super Bowl II Green Bay defeats Oakland

NCAA Football Champion Ohio State


NCAA Basketball Champion UCLA defeats North Carolina

OLYMPICS IN MEXICO CITY

Countries Gold Silver Bronze Sum.

United States 45 28 34 107

Soviet Union (USSR) 27 30 30 87

Hungary 10 10 12 32

East Germany 5 11 10 26

Japan 11 7 7 25

OLYMPICS IN GERNOBLE

Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total1 Norway 6 6 2 14

2Soviet Union

5 5 3 13

3 France 4 3 2 94 Italy 4 0 0 49 United

States1 5 1 7

ENTERTAINMENT

60 Minutes airs on CBS Longest-running prime-time news magazine

Hair opens on Broadway

MOVIES

2001: A Space Odyssey

Romeo and Juliet

Funny Girl

The Lion in Winter

Oliver!

Best Picture: In the Heat of the Night

TV SHOWS

Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In

Mayberry R.F.D. (4th)

Julia (7th)

Here’s Lucy (9th)

BOOKS

William H. Gass, In the Heart of the Heart of the Country

Gore Vidal, Myra Breckenridge

MUSIC

Record of the Year: “Up, Up, and Away,” 5th Dimension

Album of the Year: Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, The Beatles

Song of the Year: “Up, Up and Away,” written by Jimmy L. Webb

“Mrs. Robinson,” Simon & Garfunkel

“Hey Jude,” The Beatles

“I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” Marvin Gaye

FUN FACTS

The motion picture rating system debuts

Miss America: Debra Dene Barnes (Kansas)

Roy Jacuzzi invents the first whirlpool bath, the Jacuzzi

Super bowl ad cost $54,000

Most popular Christmas gifts: Don’t Break the Ice Hot Wheels Silly Putty Battling Tops

BIRTHS

Will Smith

Tony Hawk

Celine Dion

LL Cool J

Marc Anthony

Ashley Judd

Molly Ringwald

Shaggy

Kenny Chesney

Guy FierI

Lisa Marie Presley

Terry Crews

Lucy Liu

Rachel Ray

Gary Coleman

DEATHS

MLK

Robert Kennedy

Marcel Duchamp

Helen Keller

Upton Sinclair

John Steinbeck

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