Trivia from the Sixties courtesy of http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1965.html and other Reunion Sites

In 1965

Cost of a gallon of regular gasoline is $.31.

Average cost of a new home is $21,500.

Cost of a first class stamp is $.05.

The first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam.

The miniskirt makes its appearance, in time for 35 million boomer women (and, perhaps, a few men).

25% of all milk is delivered to homes by milkmen (and, perhaps, a few women). Cost of a gallon of milk is $.95.

The L.A. Dodgers win the World Series over the Minnesota Twins. (4-3)

In November, the worst power failure in history blacks out Ontario and nine U.S. states, including New York. The power is out for 12 hours. Nine months later, a whole lot of post-boomer babies are born.

Amos and Andy is taken off the air amid protests of racial stereotyping.

The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is completed.

Medicare is created.

Health warnings appear on cigarette packs.

The Voting Rights Act becomes law, outlawing literacy test.

Digital Equipment Corp. introduces the first minicomputer, considered to be the first "personal computer." Cost: $18.500.

Deaths include: Winston Churchill, Nat "King" Cole, Adlai Stevenson, Edward R. Murrow, and, assassinated Black Muslim leader, Malcom X.

Russian cosmonaut Aleksie Leonov makes the first space walk.

Lyndon Johnson is President. Hubert Humphrey is Vice-President.

Dr. Martin Luther King leads a 54 mile march between Selma and Montgomery, Alabama, know as the "freedom march."

105 Air Force cadets resign for cheating on exams.

The US female Figure Skating championship is won by 16-year-old Peggy Fleming.

The NFL adds the 6th official and changes penalty flags from white to bright gold.

Bill Crosby, starring in I Spy, becomes the first African American to headline a television show.

Days of Our Lives premieres on television.

Tom Jones wins a Grammy Award for Best New Artist.

New words, "flower power," "discotheque," "kook," "dude," "groupie," and "no way," become part of the vernacular.

The Astrodome, the first domed stadium, is completed.

90% of silver is removed from coins, only a "clad" cover is silver.

Silicon chips are introduced.

Muhammad Ali KO's Sonny Liston, in the first round, for heavyweight boxing title.

Music of the Sixties

TOP SONGS OF 1965

1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ( The Rolling Stones)
2. I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch) (Four Tops)
3. Wooly Bully (Sam The Sham and The Pharaohs)
4. My Girl (Temptations)

5. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' (Righteous Brothers)
6. Downtown (Petula Clark)
7. Help! (The Beatles)
8. Can't You Hear My Heartbeat (Herman's Hermits)
9. Crying In The Chapel (Elvis Presley)
10. You Were On My Mind (We Five)
11. I Got You, Babe (Sonny and Cher)
12. Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter (Herman's Hermits)
13. The Birds And The Bees (Jewel Aikens)
14. Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me (Mel Carter)
15. Shotgun (Jr. Walker and The All Stars)
16. Help Me, Rhonda (Beach Boys)
17. This Diamond Ring (Gary Lewis and The Playboys)
18. The "In" Crowd (Ramsey Lewis Trio)
19. King Of The Road (Roger Miller)
20. Stop! In The Name Of Love (Supremes)

Top Television Shows in 1965
Bonanza
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
The Lucy Show
The Red Skelton Hour
Batman (II)
The Andy Griffith Show
Bewitched
The Beverly Hillbillies
Hogan's Heroes
Batman (I)

Top Movies in 1965
The Sound of Music (Best Picture)
Doctor Zhivago
Thunderball
The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Sons of Katie Elder
A Thousand Clowns
Cat Ballou
Ship of Fools
The Pawnbroker
The Agony and the Ecstasy

1964-1965 Prices

Bread: $0.21/loaf	House: $21,000
Milk: $1.06/gal	Stamp: $0.05/ea
Eggs: $0.98/doz	Avg Income: $7,336/yr
Car: $2,350	Min Wage: $1.25/hr
Gas: $0.30/gal	DOW Avg: 874

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Academy Award Winners

1964	1965
*Best Picture: My Fair Lady* Directed By George Cukor**	Best Picture: The Sound Of Music Directed By Robert Wise
Best Actor: Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady	Best Actor: Lee Marvin in Cat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins	Best Actress: Julie Christie in Darling

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New On TV

1964	1965
Combat	Hogan's Heroes
Branded	Green Acres
The Munsters	Daniel Boone
The Addams Family	Batman
The Lawrence Welk Show	Wild, Wild West
Bewitched	Daktari
Gilligan's Island	Get Smart
Peyton Place	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	Peyton Place
Flipper	I Dream of Jeannie
Other TV Shows In 64 / 65
1960-1968 The Andy Griffith Show	1962-1968 The Lucy Show
1965-1966 Batman	1962-1970 The Beverly Hillbillies
1960-1972 Bonanza	1962-1966 The Dick Van Dyke Show
1960-1964 Candid Camera	1955-1970 The Ed Sullivan Show
1951-1968 The Red Skelton Show	1956-1975 Gunsmoke
1961-1964 The Donna Reed Show	1951-1969 Dragnet
1961-1964 Dr. Kildare	1951-1964 The Jack Benny Show
1961-1964 Hazel	1954-1966 I've Got a Secret
1958-1964 Perry Mason	1963-1967 Petticoat Junction
1963-1965 The Fugitive	1963-1965 My Favorite Martian
1962-1969 The Virginian	1960-1971 My Three Sons
1956-1968 Lassie	1963-1965 The Patty Duke Show
1962-1964 To Tell the Truth	1963-1965 McHale's Navy
1952-1964 What's My Line	1963-1964 The Danny Kaye Show
1961-1970 Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1963-1964 The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
1963-1967 Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater
1953-1969 The Jackie Gleason Show
1957-1964 The Danny Thomas Show

Hot New Toys

1964	1965
· Nutty Mads · Gun That Shoots Around The Corner · Bobbing Head Beatles Dolls · Foto-Electric Pro Football Hall of Fame Game · Addams Family "Thing" Bank · Easy Bake Oven · Agent Zero-M Invisible Ink Set · Creepy Crawlers · Mad Magazine Straight Jacket	· Secret Sam Exploding Binoculars · Shooting Cane · Weird Clyde · Screaming Mee-Mee Gun · G.I. Joe · Operation · Man From U.N.C.L.E. · Headquarters Transmitter · Battleship · Green Ghost Game

Top Ten Hit Songs


1964	1965
The House of the Rising Sun by The Animals	Help! by The Beatles
Can't Buy Me Love by The Beatles	Yesterday by The Beatles
Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison	I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher
I Feel Fine by The Beatles	You've Lost The Lovin' Feelin' by Righteous Brothers
I Want to Hold Your Hand by The Beatles	Turn! Turn! Turn! by Byrds
She Loves You by The Beatles	Satisfaction by Rolling Stones
There! I've Said It Again by Bobby Vinton	Downtown by Petula Clark
Baby Love by Supremes	Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits
Chapel of Love by Dixie Cups	I Can't Help Myself by Four Tops
I Get Around by The Beach Boys	This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis & the Playboys

1965 the war in Vietnam continues to worsen as whatever the Americans do including major bombing of North Vietnam they continue to lose more men , at the same time the Anti-War movement grows and in November 35,000 march on Washington as a protest against the war. There is also civil unrest with rioting, looting and arson in Los Angeles. This was also the first year mandated health warnings appeared on cigarette packets and smoking became a no no. The latest craze in kids toys was the Super Ball and The Skate Board. Fashions also changed as womens skirts got shorter mens hair grew longer as the The miniskirt makes its appearance. Sony introduces it's doomed Betamax Recorder and Hypertext is introduced for linking on the Internet. The St Louis Arch is completed and The Beatles release 4 new albums including "Help".

Technology 1965

Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program

Ranger 9 sends back live TV broadcast when it crashes on to the moon

Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space

Major Edward H. White II becomes the second human to walk in space during the flight of Gemini 4

Sony introduces it's Betamax video recorder

Space Walk

Optical Disk

Hypertext

Respirator

Popular Culture

The Mary Quant designed Mini Skirt appears in London and will be the fashion statement of the 60's
One of most popular films "Sound of Music" released
The Beatles Release The Movie and Album Help!
The Beatles Play Live Concert Shea Stadium
The Grateful Dead with Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia play their first concert, in San Francisco

Popular Films

Mary Poppins
The Sound of Music
Goldfinger
My Fair Lady
What's New Pussycat?
Cat Ballou

Books Released

Dune
The Man with the Golden Gun
Hotel

Popular Musicians

The Beatles
The Rolling Stones
Freddie and the Dreamers
The Animals
The Kinks
The Searchers
The Seekers
Moody Blues
Donovan
Cilla Black
Dusty Springfield
Tom Jones

How Much Cars Cost in the Sixties

Top Actors of the Sixties