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What life was like, what was in the news and what things cost in 1965.
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Music• “Wooly Bully,” Sam the Sham and
the Pharaohs• “I Can’t Help Myself (Sugar Pie
Honey Bunch),” Four Tops• “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” The
Rolling Stones• “You Were on My Mind,” We Five• “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’,”
The Righteous Brothers• “Downtown,” Petula Clark• “Help!,” The Beatles• “My Girl,” The Temptations
TV shows• Days of Our Lives• I Dream of Jeannie• Hogan’s Heroes• Lost in Space• The Big Valley• Green Acres• Get Smart• F Troop• The Wild Wild West• Gidget
BORN THIS YEAR: Robert Downey Jr., actor.Above left: Elizabeth Hurley, actress; Charlie Sheen, TV & film actor; Chris Rock, comedian;
Ben Stiller, actor/comedian
Inventions• Compact disc• Hypertext lan-
guage• Respirator
Sports• World Series: Dodg-
ers over Minnesota, 4-3• NBA Championship:
Boston over Lakers, 4-1• Racing driver Jim
Clark wins the Indianapolis 500 and later wins the Formula One world driv-ing championship in the same year
Popular culture• Mini skirt makes its appearance
in London
Movies• Mary Poppins• The Flight of the Phoenix• Dr. Zhivago• In Harm’s Way• The Sound of Music• Goldfinger• Battle of the Bulge
• What’s New Pussy-cat?
• Cat Ballou
• Income per year ....... $6,450• Minimum wage ........... $1.25• New house ............ $13,600• Monthly rent ................. $118• New car .................... $2,650• Gallon of gas .................. 31¢• Dozen eggs .................... 53¢• Gallon of milk .................. 95¢• Loaf of bread .................. 21¢• First-class stamp .............. 5¢• Movie ticket ................. $1.00
AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING
Born this year• Dr. Dre• J.K. Rowling• Shawn Michaels• Slash• Ben Stiller• Booker T• Sarah Jessica Parker• Piers Morgan
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1965 FordThunderbird
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Lyndon B. Johnson36th President of the United States
Served from Nov. 22, 1963 to Jan. 20, 1969
World events• Australia joins Vietnam war• Hindi becomes the official lan-
guage of India• The Maple leaf becomes Canada’s
new national flag symbol• Rhodesia declares uni-
lateral independence from Great Britain and becomes Zimbabwe
• India and Pakistan fighting continues to es-calate
• Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs escapes from prison and flees to Brazil
• Cigarette advertis-ing banned on television in Britain
• Following attempted coup by communists in Indonesia lead to the murder of over half million peo-ple and a transition to the new order led by Major General Suharto
• The 630-foot-tall steel Gateway Arch is completed in St. Louis
• The Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing Afri-can Americans the right to vote, becomes law
• Lyndon Johnson announces increase in number of U.S. troops in South Vietnam from 75K to 125K
• Hurricane Betsy makes landfall in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana, causing $1 billion in dam-age
• Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the U.S.
• Malcolm X shot in New York• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads
civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery
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• Higher Education Act of 1965 is signed into law providing low-interest loans for students in higher edu-cation
• Warren Buffet gains controlling inter-est in Berkshire-Hath-away — 1965 ($18 per share), 2008 ($150,000 per share)
• Troopers violently confront civil rights marchers in Alabama
Technology• Cosmonaut Aleksei
Leonov, becomes the first person to walk in space, leaving his space-craft for 12 minutes
Hubert Humphrey38th Vice President of the United StatesServed from Jan. 20, 1965 to Jan. 20, 1969
1965Ford Mustang
“We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.” — Lyndon Johnson
CatBallou
1965 Chevy Corvette
Malcolm X
• Operation Rolling Thunder launched in Vietnam
• U.S. begins airlift of Cubans wishing to leave Cuba and live in America
U.S. news• Palm Sunday
tornado outbreak kills 256 to 271 people
• Race riots break out in Watts, Cali-fornia, leaving large parts of the city burnt and looted and 34 dead
• Northeast black-out — several states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ)
and parts of Canada hit by series of blackouts lasting up to 13-1/2 hours and involving 30 million
people
