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Welcome to Retroville! It’s 1968!
IN THE NEWS:
- North Korea seizes the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo and holds 83 crewmen on board as spies
- Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray in Memphis, Tennessee, on the balcony of his hotel
- Senator Robert F. Kennedy is shot and killed by Sirhan Sirhan in a Los Angeles hotel after winning the California Primary
- ARPANET (the original Internet) is tested by the military
- Computer mouse is patented
- First computer with integrated circuits debuts
- Computer RAM (Random Access Memory) is patented by Robert Dennard
- Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is signed
- On May 15 tornado outbreaks in the Midwest leave 71 dead
- Detroit Tigers defeat St Louis Cardinals in the World Series
- Actor Nick Adams commits suicide at 37
ON THE RADIO:
- Breakfast Club
- Day of the Triffids
- Dick Jurgens Orchestra
- Meet the Press
- Jean Shepard
- Telephone Hour
ON TELEVISION:
- Adam-12
- The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
- The Land of the Giants
- The Avengers
- The Outcasts
- Here’s Lucy
- Mayberry R.F.D.
- Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In
- Mod Squad
- It Takes a Thief
- That’s Life
- Julia
- Jonathan Winters Show
- Blondie
- Hawaii Five-O
- Dragnet 1969
- Don Rickles Show
- The Name of the Game
- Carol Burnett Show
- 60 Minutes
- The first moon pictures appear on television (sent by Apollo 11)
FADS & FASHION:
- Battling Tops
- Star Trek Astro Walkie-Talkies
- Zillion Bubble Blowers
- Bellbottom jeans
- Black lights
- Love beads
WHAT THINGS COST:
- Car: $2,450
- Gasoline: 34 cents per gallon
- House: $26,600
- Bread: 22 cents per loaf
- Milk: $1.21 per gallon
- Postage Stamp: 5 cents
- Average Annual Salary: $9,670
- Minimum Wage: $1.60 per hour
ACADEMY AWARD – BEST PICTURE:
- Oliver – family musical by Carol Reed starring Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, and Oliver Reed
TONY AWARD – BEST MUSICAL:
- Hallelujah, Baby! – based on a book by Arthur Laurents, music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, starring Marilyn Cooper, Leslie Uggams, and Alan Weeks
PULITZER PRIZES:
- The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (fiction)
- The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution by Bernard Bailyn (history)
- Memoirs by George E. Kennan (biography)
- The Hard Hours (poetry)
- Rousseau and Revolution: The Tenth and Concluding Volume of the Story of Civilization by Will Durant and Ariel Durant (non-fiction)
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE:
- Rene Cassin, France, 1887-1976, President of the European Court of Human Rights
TOP SONGS:
- The Dock of the Bay by Otis Redding
- This Guy’s in Love With You by Herb Alpert
- Love Child by Diana Ross and The Supremes
