1966 inflation grew as part of the effect to fund the war in Vietnam continued.
Both the US and USSR continued in their space race to see who would be the first
to land a man on the moon. Race riots
continued to increase across cities in
America and National Guards were needed to bring back law and order. The
fashions in both America and UK came from a small well known street in London (
Carnaby Street ) part of the swinging
London scene , both women and men wore
patterned pants and flowered shirts and boots, shoes and even caps utilized the
plastic and vinyl History of HiFi and Music Players and Media for a wet shiny
look. The most popular groups included
The "Beach Boys" with Pet Sounds, The
"Rolling Stones" with Under my Thumb and The "Beatles"
with Revolver, and
Yesterday and Today.
Cost of Living 1966
How Much
things cost in 1966
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 3.01%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 3.8%
Year End Close Dow Jones
Industrial Average 785
Average Cost of new house $14,200.00
Average Income per year $6,900.00
Gas per Gallon
32 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
Dishwasher$119.95
Parker Pen Set $11.95
Below are some
Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling
Average House Price 3,840
Gallon
of Petrol 5 shillings or 26 new pence
What Events Happened in 1966
US has nearly 500,000 troops in Vietnam
Miranda Rights come into being after the Supreme Court overturns the
conviction on June 13th of a confessed rapist
ruling he had not been properly
informed of his right to council and to not testify against himself
The Draft Deferment Test is started in the US as a way for students to
convince
the Draft Board that they would serve the nation better in the quiet
of the Classrooms than in the Jungles of
Vietnam
The Houston Astrodome is built with the dome measuring 710 ft diameter
Subway Strike in New York brings the City to a stop
US Population exceeds 195 million
The Black Panthers are formed in US
Richard Speck Murders 8 Nurses in Chicago Illinois
Ex Marine Charles Whitman kills 14 and injures 31 on a killing spree at the
University
Of Texas
Ronald Reagan enters politics becoming governor of California
All cigarette packets in the United States must carry the health warning
"Caution!
Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health."
Italy
The Arno River floods causing the flooding of the city of Florence, with
thousands
of historic books, manuscripts and fine art destroyed.
World
Miniskirts are in fashion UK
Cassius Clay Defeats Henry Cooper in two title fights
in London
Vietnam international days of protest Russia
Soviet Union Lands Luna 9 on the Moon in February
and the US follows in June
with the Surveyor 1 soft moon landing.
Earthquake in Turkey - 2394 dead,
10000 injured
Aberfan disaster in South Wales on October 21st in United Kingdom, a slag heap
containing
unwanted rock from the local coal mine slid down Merthyr Mountain.
As it collapsed it destroyed twenty houses
and a farm before going on to
demolish virtually all of Pantglas Junior School 144 people were killed, 116
of whom were children mostly between the ages of 7 and 10.
China under Chairman Mao launches China's
Cultural Revolution and begins
purging intellectuals August 13th
Popular
Culture
Star Trek first episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek
Author Jacqueline
Susann has her first novel, Valley of the Dolls published
Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas"
the animated television special
adapted from the book is shown for first time on CBS
Simon and Garfunkel
release Sounds of Silence,
Popular Films
Thunderball
Dr. Zhivago
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
A Man for All Seasons
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out our Television Programmes From The 60s whenever possible we have
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Popular Musicians
The Mamas and the Papas
The Beatles
The Monkees
The Beach Boys
The Rolling Stones
Simon and Garfunkel
Popular Songs
I'm a Believer The Monkees
Good Vibrations The beach Boys
Monday Monday The Mamas and the Papas
Wild Thing The Troggs
Born This Year 1966
David Schwimmer This
Day In History November 2nd
Gordon Ramsay News And Events From November 8th
Adam Sandler This Day In History September 9th
Mike Tyson
News And Events From June 30th
Technology 1966
Worlds first vertical
Jump Jet the Harrier is introduced in UK
Hovercraft service begins over the English Channel
Pampers
create the first disposable Diaper
Color Television Sets become popular
There are 78 million cars
registered in the US
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Kevlar USA by Stephanie Kwolek
Fibre Optics England by Charles Keo and George Hockham
Moon Landing
Russia Luna 9 lands softly on the Moon
Space Docking USA Gemini VIII docks with an orbiting satellite
Major Events of 1967
Top Music of 1967
1."Kind of a Drag" ... The Buckinghams
2."Ruby
Tuesday" ... The Rolling Stones
3."Love
Is Here and Now You're Gone" ... The Supremes
4."Penny Lane" ... The Beatles
5."Happy
Together" ... The Turtles
6."Somethin' Stupid"
... Nancy Sinatra & Frank Sinatra
7."The
Happening" ... The Supremes
8."Groovin'"
... The Young Rascals
9."Respect" ... Aretha
Franklin
10."Windy" ... The Association
Popular Movies
1. The Dirty Dozen
2. You Only Live Twice
3. Casino Royale
4. A Man for All Seasons
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie
6. Barefoot in the Park
7. Georgy Girl
8. To Sir With Love
9. Grand Prix
10. Hombre
Academy Awards
Best Picure: "In the Heat of the
Night"
Best Director: Mike Nichols ... "The
Graduate"
Best Actor: Rod Steiger ... "In
the Heat of the Night"
Best Actress: Katherine
Hepburn ... "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?"
Nobel Prizes
Chemistry
The prize was divided, one half being awarded to: EIGEN, MANFRED,
Federal Republic of Germany, Max-Planck-Institut fÙr Physikalische
Chemie, Goettingen, b. 1927; and the other half jointly to: NORRISH,
RONALD GEORGE WREYFORD, Great Britain, Institute of Physical
Chemistry, Cambridge, b. 1897, d. 1978; and PORTER, Lord (GEORGE),
Great Britain, The Royal Institution, London, b. 1920: "for their
studies of extremely fast chemical reactions, effected by disturbing
the equlibrium by means of very short pulses of energy"
Literature
ASTURIAS, MIGUEL ANGEL, Guatemala, b. 1899,
d. 1974: "for his vivid
literary achievement,
deep-rooted in the national traits and
traditions
of Indian peoples of Latin America"
Peace
The prize money was allocated to the Main Fund (1/3)
and to the
Special Fund (2/3) of this prize section.
Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: GRANIT, RAGNAR, Sweden, The
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, b. 1900 (in Helsinki, Finland), d.
1991; HARTLINE, HALDAN KEFFER, U.S.A., The Rockefeller University,
New York, NY, b. 1903, d. 1983; and WALD, GEORGE, U.S.A., Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1906, d. 1997: "for their discoveries
concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes
in the eye"
Physics
BETHE, HANS ALBRECHT, U.S.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, b.
1906 (in Strasbourg, then Germany): "for his contributions to the
theory of nuclear reactions, especially his discoveries concerning
the energy production in stars"
Pulitzer Prizes
Drama: Edward Albee ... "A Delicate Balance"
Fiction: Bernard Malamud ... "The Fixer"
Hisotry: William H. Goetzmann ... "Exploration and
Empire: The
Explorer and Scientist in the Winning
of the American West"
International Reporting:
R. John Hughes ... "Christian Science
Monitor"
National Reporting: Stanley Penn & Monroe Karmin
... "Wall Street
Journal"
Public Service: "Louisville (KY) Courier Journal" & "Milwaukee
Journal"
Most Popular Books
Fiction
1."The Arrangement"... Elia Kazan. Stein & Day
2-3."The Confessions of Nat Turner" ...William Styron. Random House
2-3."The Chosen"... Chaim Potok. Simon & Schuster
4."Topaz"...Leon Uris. McGraw-Hill
5."Christy"...Catherine
Marshall. McGraw-Hill
6."The Eighth Day"...Thornton
Wilder. Harper & Row
7."Rosemary's Baby"...Ira
Levin. Random House
8."The Plot"...Irving
Wallace. Simon & Schuster
9."The Gabriel
Hounds"...Mary Stewart. Morrow
10. "The
Exhibitionist"...Henry Sutton. Bernard Geis
Nonfiction
1."Death of a President,"...
William Manchester. Harper & Row
2."Misery
Is a Blind Date" ...Johnny Carson. Doubleday
3."Games People Play"... Eric Berne, M.D. Grove Press
4."Stanyan Street & Other Sorrows"... Rod McKuen. Random House
5."A Modern Priest Looks at His Outdated Church"... Father James
Kavanaugh. Trident Press
6."Everything but Money"...
Sam Levenson. Simon & Schuster
7."Our Crowd"...Stephen
Birmingham. Hai-per & Row
8-9-10."Edgar Cayce-The
Sleeping Prophet"...Jess Stearn. Doubleday
8-9-10."Better
Homes and Gardens Favorite Ways with Chicken"...
Meredith Press
8-9-10."Phyllis Diller's Marriage
Manual"...Phyllis Diller.
Most Popular Television Shows
1.The Andy Griffith
Show (CBS)
2. The Lucy Show (CBS)
3. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
4. Gunsmoke (CBS)
5. Family Affair (CBS)
6. Bonanza (NBC)
7. The Red Skelton (CBS)
8. The Dean Martin Show (CBS)
9. The Jackie Gleason
Show (CBS)
10. Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC)
1968 In both Europe and America Japanese imported cars and other goods were
continuing to rise and trouble the governments of UK and USA as they worried
about industries in their own countries
being effected and jobs lost. In the
spring of 1968 on 4th April The Rev Martin Luther King was assassinated and
Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded. The peace movement had continued to grow
and more and more Americans were against
the war in Vietnam, and once again more
riots occurred throughout cities in America. The music scene was once again
set
by the "Beatles" and the "Rolling Stones" , and fashion flirted with see through
blouses
and midis and maxis skirts joined the Mini Skirt as part of the fashion
trends. There is a Flu Pandemic in Hong Kong
and the first Black power salute is
seen on Television worldwide during an Olympics medal ceremony Cost Of Living, -
Cost of Living 1968
How Much things cost in 1968
Yearly Inflation Rate
USA 4.27%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 4.7%
YearEnd Dow Jones Industrial Average 943
Average Cost of new house
$14,950.00
Average Income per year $7,850.00
Average Monthly Rent $130.00
Gas per Gallon 34 cents
Average
Cost of a new car $2,822.00
Movie Ticket$1.50
The Federal Hourly Minimum Wage is $1.60 an hour
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling
Average House Price 4,344
Gallon
of Petrol 5 shillings 5 pence or 28 new pence
What Events Happened in 1968
World
Anti Vietnam War protests throughout the western world Vietnam
North
Vietnam and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet offensive Vietnam
Vietnam US soldiers massacre men, women and children
in My lai Vietnam
President Lyndon Johnson orders an end to the bombing of North Vietnam U.S.
Assassination
of Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of Negro Civil Rights Movement
is killed by James Earl Ray which leads to Violence
and Race Riots in US
Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. President Lyndon Johnson
signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968 UK
RMS Queen Elizabeth - retired from service UK
Dutch Elm Disease
continues to increase with tens of thousands of trees now
destroyed UK
British Post office introduces
First Class Post China
China celebrates 20 years of communist rule by Mao Tse-tung U.S.
Senator
Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
Sicily
Earthquake in Sicily - 231 dead, 262 injured.
Enoch Powell's delivers his "Rivers of Blood"
anti immigration speech
The new wide ranging race relations act goes into force
South Africa
The Third Heart transplant is performed in South Africa By Dr Christian N
Barnard UK
London Bridge
sold for 1 million. and later re-erected in Arizona . U.S.
President Johnson announces on nationwide television
he would not run for
another term of office U.S.
The Redwood National Park is created in California
to protect the Giant
Redwoods.
Vatican
Pope Paul VI
bans Catholics from using the contraceptive pill for birth
control U.S.
50,000 people participated
in " The Poor Peoples March " on June 19th
Washington, D.C.
World
Population in Europe reaches 455 million ( excluding USSR ) UK
The Kray twins, arrested for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat'
McVitie, members of the London
underworld.
U.S.
The Zodiac serial murderer begins his reign
of terror in California in what
has been described as the perfect crime ( He claimed in letters sent to the
newspapers to have murdered 37, but police files put the number at 11. ( He
has never been caught )
World
Televisions Installed increases 25 million US , 20.5 million
Japan , 19
Million Great Britain
France becomes the world's fifth nuclear power
Alec
Rose completes his single-handed 354-day round-the-world trip.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the Prime Minister
of Canada U.S.
Student Occupation at Columbia University over Universities affiliation with
the
Institute for Defense.
Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry
The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine
Scorpion sank in the Atlantic Ocean with
the loss of 99 crew members.
Hong Kong Flu pandemic begins
in Hong Kong.
Black power salute is seen on Television worldwide after the gold and bronze
medalists
in Olympics show salute during medal ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
Truth In Lending Act is passed to protect consumers during credit transactions.
Technology
Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first
manned Apollo mission
Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space mission to achieve
the feat.
Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.
US Explodes experimental
hydrogen Bomb.
The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA which provides a
single
number for reporting emergencies and is manned 24 hrs per day 365 days
per year
ATM First Philadelphia
Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the
U.S.
Popular
Culture 1968
The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents
The Beatles create Apple Records and record "Hey Jude" as the first single on
the label
The CBS television
newsmagazine program "60 Minutes" shown for the first time
Musical Hair opens at Shaftesbury Theatre in London
featuring nudity and
drug-taking
Popular Films
The Graduate
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Bonnie and Clyde
Valley of the Dolls
The
Odd Couple
Planet of the Apes
Rosemary's Baby
Check
out our Television Programmes From The 60s whenever possible we have
included a trailer to jog your memory. Series trailers
and more information are
found on the decade they started.
Popular Musicians
The Rolling Stones
The Supremes
The Beatles with " Hey Jude
"
Fleetwood Mac
Aretha Franklin
Gary Puckett and The Union Gap
The
Grateful Dead
The Monkees
Simon and Garfunkel " Mrs Robinson "
The Beach
Boys
The Bee Gees
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream
The Doors " Hello
I Love You "
Pink Floyd
Moody Blues
Bobby Goldsboro " Honey "
Marvin Gaye " I heard it through the Grapevine "
David Bowie
1969 On July 20th one of mans crowning
achievements occurred when American
Astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon and
uttered the immortal words "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for
mankind." . The opposition
to the war continued to increase with more and more
attending anti war demonstrations and demanding that the US withdrew
from
Vietnam. The music came from groups including the Doors, Led Zeppelin, Janis
Joplin and the Beatles and the
most famous music festival of modern times
"WOODSTOCK" took place on a New York Farm on August 15th to August
17th with
more than 400,000 avid music fans attending to see the Who, Jimi Hendrix, Crosby
Stills Nash and Young
and others perform live. fashions reflected the anti war
sentiment with military jackets adorned with peace signs, and
other trends
including long unkempt wild hair and headbands showed the feelings of anti
establishment felt by
the youth.
Cost of Living 1969
How Much things cost in 1969
Yearly Inflation
Rate USA 5.46 %
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.6%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 800
Average Cost
of new house $15,550.00
Average Income per year $8,550.00
Average Monthly Rent $135.00
Average Cost New
Car $3,270.00
Toyota Corona $1,950.00
Gas per Gallon 35 cents
Alarm Clock from Westclox $9.98
Below
are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Stirling
Average House Price 4,640
Gallon of Petrol 6 shillings 2 pence
or 31 new pence
What Events Happened in 1969
Richard Nixon becomes
President of the United States
250,000 march on Washington in protest at the Vietnam War
The first
man is landed on the moon on the Apollo 11 mission by the United
States and Neil Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin
became the first humans to
set foot on the Moon. and the famous words "That's one small step for man, one
giant leap for mankind." will become part of our history
Charles "Pete" Conrad and
Alan Bean of Apollo 12 land on the Moon to become
the second set of American astronauts to walk on the moons
surface.
RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 entered service
Golda Meir of Milwaukee, Wisconsin
, USA, becomes Prime Minister of Israel
Robin Knox-Johnston becomes the first person to sail around the world
solo
without stopping
The US institutes the draft lottery to determine draft into US Forces for
Vietnam War
The very first U.S. troop withdrawals are made from Vietnam
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Established
Chappaquiddick Affair Senator Edward Kennedy
driving a car plunges into a pond
and a body of a woman passenger is found in the car
Members of a cult led by Charles Manson murder five people August 9th
Hurricane Camille
hits the Mississippi coast killing 248 people
Britain deploys troops in Northern Ireland following increasing
violence
Bloodless Coup in Libya deposing King Idris
Australian light aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne
slices the destroyer USS
Frank E. Evans in half killing 82 of her crew
Wal-Mart incorporates as
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc
The trial begins of "Chicago Seven" accused of inciting riot at 1968
Democratic National Convention
A bomb is exploded in a bank in Milan, Italy
World
Rising Inflation is a worldwide problem
The Death Penalty is Abolished in the UK
Atlanta
International Pop Festival on 4th July attracts 100,000 fans
Woodstock attracts more than 350,000 rock-n-roll
fans
The US Supreme Court rules on Stanley v. Georgia declaring "The State may not
prohibit
mere possession of obscene materials for personal use".
Militant black students at Cornell University in
Ithaca, New York use force to
take over Willard Straight Hall demanding a black studies program.
Police forces in the United States crack down on student protests
The U.S. Air Force closed its Project ( Blue
Book ) concluding there was no
evidence of UFO's
Technology
First Concorde test flight is conducted In France
First transplant of human eye
Seiko sells
the first Quartz Watch
The Harrier Jump Jet enters service with the RAF
The Palestine Liberation
Organization ( PLO ) is founded
The first automatic teller machine ATM or Cash Machine is installed in the
United States
Creation of ARPANET, the predecessor of the Internet
The Boeing 747 jumbo
jet makes its debut. It carried 191 people, most of them
reporters and photographers, from Seattle to New York
City.
UNIX is developed by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs
The Pontiac Firebird Trans
Am the epitome of the American muscle car is
introduced.
The Microprocessor ( a miniature set of
integrated circuits ) is invented
opening the way for the computer revolution that followed
Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Internet USA US
military
Manned Moon Landing USA Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on Moon
CCDs USA Charge Coupled Device -
to capture image
Cash Dispenser Turkey by Luther Simjian
Battery Powered Smoke Detector USA
Popular Culture 1969
A free concert organized
by the Rolling Stones is held at Altamont Speedway in
Livermore, Calif with problems caused by the use of Hells
Angels as Bouncers
resulting in a number of deaths
The Groundbreaking TV programme Monty Python's
Flying Circus is shown for the
first time and the catch phrase "And now for something completely different,"
becomes their trade mark
Sesame Street known for its Muppet characters, makes it's debut on PBS
Bell Bottom Jeans and tie-dye shirts become part of the teenage fashion scene.
The John Lennon Album "Two Virgins" featuring John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the
nude are confiscated
at Newark Airport
The Beatles' last public performance, on the roof of Apple Records.
The Beatles
release their album Abbey Road.
Sesame Street debuts on Public Television
Brian Jones Former Rolling
Stones Guitarist drowns after drinking and drugs
binge.
Popular
Films
The Love Bug
Funny Girl
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
True
Grit
Midnight Cowboy
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Easy Rider
Where Eagles Dare
Popular Musicians
The Rolling Stones " Honky Tonk Woman "
James Brown
The Beatles with " Get Back and Come Together "
Johnny Cash "
Daddy Sang Bass "
Bob Dylan
Crosby, Stills and Nash
Creedence Clearwater Revival
John Denver
Simon and Garfunkel
Fleetwood Mac
Marvin Gaye
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Cream
Pink Floyd
" In The Year 2525 " by Zager
and Evans
" Sugar Sugar " by The Archies
Elton John
David Bowie
Born This Year 1969
Catherine Zeta-Jones News And Events From September 25th
Brett Favre
This Day In History October 10th
Renee Zellweger News And Events From April 25th
Jennifer Aniston This Day In History
February 11th
