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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1967!
IN THE NEWS:
- The Apollo astronauts (Grissom, White, and Chaffee) died in a spacecraft fire during a simulated launch
- Israel and Arab forces battle during the Six-Day War resulting in Israel taking control of Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, Gaza Strip, the East Bank of the Suez Canal
- Communist China explodes its first hydrogen bomb
- Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African American Supreme Court Justice
- Dr. Christiaan Barnard and a team of South African surgeons perform the world’s first human heart transplant (patient dies 18 days later)
- Pulsars (dying stars) are discovered by Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish
- On April 21 tornado outbreaks in Illinois and Michigan leave 33 dead
- St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox in the World Series
- Billie Jean King wins the U.S. and British Women’s Singles and Doubles championships
ON THE RADIO:
- Dr. Christian
- Eternal Light
- Gibson
- Guy Lombardo Orchestra
- Meet the Press
- Sherlock Holmes
ON TELEVISION:
- The Dating Game
- The Newlywed Game
- Mannix
- Gentle Ben
- Mothers-in-Law
- The High Chaparral
- Carol Burnett Show
- N.Y.P.D.
- The Flying Nun
- Ironside
- Judd, for the Defense
- The Avengers
- Mission: Impossible
- I Dream of Jeannie
- The Prisoner
- NBC News and CBS News both become 30-minute programs
FADS & FASHION:
- Hand held calculators
- Ants-in-the-Pants game
- The Monkees Game
- Dr. Doolittle’s Pushmi-Pullyu stuffed toys
- Twiggy fashion tote bags
- Miniskirts
- Nehru jackets
- Beatles haircuts
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $2,425
- Gasoline: 33 cents per gallon
- House: $24,600
- Bread: 22 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.15 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 5 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $8,801
- Minimum Wage: $1.40 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- In the Heat of the Night – mystery by Norman Jewison starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- Cabaret – based on the book by Joe Masteroff, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, choreographed by Harold Prince, starring Jill Haworth and Joel Grey
PULITZER PRIZES:
- The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (fiction)
- A Delicate Balance by Edward Albee (drama)
- Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West by William H. Goetzmann (history)
- Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain by Justin Kaplan (biography)
- Live or Die by Anne Sexton (poetry)
- The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture by David Brion Davis (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- none awarded
TOP SONGS:
- To Sir With Love by Lulu
- Happy Together by The Turtles
- Daydream Believer by The Monkees
