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President: Lyndon B Johnson, Vice
President: Hubert H. Humphrey |
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The population of the United States
is 195,576,000 |
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National Debt is 328.5 Billion
(+6.2 billion) |
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Unemployment is 4.5% |
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Life Expectancy: 70.2 years |
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Family median income = $7,400 (up
$500. from 1965) |
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Cost of a first-class stamp is
$0.05 |
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Academy Award : The Sound of Music (click to
buy)  (Best
Picture) |
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Grammy Award : Shadow of Your Smile (click to
buy)  (Best Song);
A Taste of Honey (click to
buy)  (Best
Album) |
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Pulitzer Prize : The Collected Stories of Katherine
Anne Porter (click to buy) 
(Fiction) |
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Pakistan and India reach a Peace
Agreement thus ending their 17-day war |
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Indira Gandhi is elected Prime
Minister of India after the death of Prime Minister Shastri |
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The unmanned Soviet Luna 9
spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on
the Moon |
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20,000 Buddhists march in
demonstrations against the policies of the military government in
South Vietnam |
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The Uniform Time Act is enacted
setting daylight savings time standards for the whole
country |
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President Johnson increases troop
strength in Vietnam throughout the year, first to 190,000 and
eventually up to 389,000 by years end |
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President Johnson orders the
bombing of targets in and around Hanoi in North Vietnam |
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The Communist Party of China issues
the "May 16 Notice", marking the beginning of the
Cultural Revolution |
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The Supreme Court rules that the
police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning
them called Miranda rights (Miranda v. Arizona) |
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The Freedom of Information Act, is
passed by Congress |
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Caesars Palace hotel and casino
opens in Las Vegas |
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The Beatles give their last public performance in
the U.S. at Candlestick Park in San Francisco (click for more
Beatles) |
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Grace Slick performs live with
Jefferson Airplane for the first time |
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The Cuban Adjustment Act allows
123,000 Cuban exiles to apply for permanent residency |
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Actor Ronald Reagan is elected
Governor of California |
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Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM)
in a single cell is developed paving the way for more powerful
computers |
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The complete decipherment of the
genetic code (DNA) is achieved by Har Gobind Khorana |
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Human Sexual Response by Masters
and Johnson is the first comprehensive scientific study of human
sexual activity |
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The Supreme Court rules that
material which, taken as a whole, appeals to a prurient interest
to be obscene |
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Nestle introduces Taster's
Choice freeze-dried instant coffee |
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Star Trek (the original series) created by
Gene Roddenberry debuts on NBC (click show
title for more info) |
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Also new on the little screen :
the Monkees,
Batman and
Mission
Impossible (click show title for more
info) |
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Left foot to red, right hand to
yellow, everybody was all tied up over the game called
Twister |
Pop History
/ 1966
