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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1965!
IN THE NEWS:
- Lyndon B. Johnson begins his first full term as the 36th President
- Hubert Humphrey sworn in as Vice President
- Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) founded
- MEDICARE established
- Civil Rights March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, resulting in the arrest of Martin Luther King, Jr. and 2,600 other blacks during the three-day demonstrations against voter registration rules
- Black nationalist leader Malcolm X assassinated at a Harlem Rally in New York City
- Los Angeles’ Watts section explodes with racial rioting over a six-day period leacing 1,000 injured, 4,000 arrested, 34 dead, and more than $175 million in property damage
- A power failure in Ontario, Canada, plunges the East Coast, including Boston and New York City, into darkness
- U.S. continues to send troops to Viet Nam
- James Russell invents the compact disc
- Stephanie Louise Kwolek patents KEVLAR
- COMSAT launches Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite
- The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is unveiled
- Between April 11 and April 12 over 48 tornados rip paths of destruction through Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, and Ohio leaving 271 people dead and over $200 million in damage in what would become known as the Palm Sunday Outbreak
- Los Angeles Dodgers defeat Minnesota Twins in the World Series
- Ralph Nader’s, Unsafe at Any Speed, cautions Americans against driving the popular Corvair
ON THE RADIO:
- Heartbeat Theater
- Meet the Press
- Theater Five
- Sherlock Holmes
ON TELEVISION:
- I Dream of Jeannie
- Get Smart
- The FBI
- The Legend of Jesse James
- Run For Your Life
- F Troop
- My Mother, The Car
- Please, Don’t Eat the Daisies
- Gidget
- The Big Valley
- Lost in Space
- I Spy
- Dean Martin Show
- Wild Wild West
- Hogan’s Heroes
- Smothers Brothers’ Show
- Man from U.N.C.L.E.
- Gilligan’s Island
- Green Acres
FADS & FASHION:
- Astroturf
- Soft contact lenses
- GI Joe action figures
- Battleship (the game)
- Operation
- Man From U.N.C.L.E. Headquarters Transmitters
- Slot car racing
- Go-go boots
- Lava lamps
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $2,350
- Gasoline: 31 cents per gallon
- House: $21,500
- Bread: 21 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.05 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 5 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $7,704
- Minimum Wage: $1.25 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- The Sound of Music – a drama by Robert Wise starring Julie Andrews
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- Fiddler on the Roof – based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreographed by Jerome Robbins, starring Zero Mostel and Maria Karnilova
PULITZER PRIZES:
- The Keepers of The House by Shirley Ann Grau (fiction)
- The Subject Was Roses by Frank D. Gilroy (drama)
- The Greenback Era by Irwin Unger (history)
- Henry Adams by Ernest Samuels (biography)
- 77 Dream Songs by John Berryman (poetry)
- O’ Strange New World by Howard Mumford Jones (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), New York, established by the United Nations in 1946
TOP SONGS:
- Help! by the Beatles
- You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling by the Righteous Brothers
- 1-2-3 by Len Berry
- These Boots Are Made for Walkin by Nancy Sinatra
