This is what happen in life a decade before I came into the world. It is a decade in which my sisters were born and some of my closest friends. It is when the 2nd Vatican council took place and when a lot of famous public figures got gunned down. It is also the decade we left our planet and landed on the moon. It all stared from our place in 2026…
11 Years Before I Was Born
1960 –Salvador Dalí – The Ecumenical Council -Dalí was inspired to paint The Ecumenical Council upon the 1958 election of Pope John XXIII, as the pope had extended communication to Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first such invitation in more than four centuries. The painting expresses Dalí’s renewed hope in religious leadership following the devastation of World War II.
1960 –Edward Hopper – Second Story Sunlight
1960 – Born Free is by Joy Adamson is published. It describes Adamson’s experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. It was translated into several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning 1966 film of the same name.
1960 – The Ohio Art Company launched the Etch a Sketch developed by André Cassagnes, an electrician with Lincrusta Co, who named the toy L’Écran Magique lit. ‘the magic screen‘. in the United States during the 1960 holiday season.
1960 – I Was a Teenage Magoo – Final Mr. Magoo theatrical short.
February 1, 1960 – Greensboro sit-ins: In Greensboro, North Carolina, four black students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University begin a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter. Although they are refused service, they are allowed to stay at the counter. The event triggers many similar non-violent protests throughout the Southern United States, and six months later the original four protesters are served lunch at the same counter.
February 8, 1960 – Hollywood Walk of Fame is established.
February 29, 1960 – Bil Keane‘s The Family Circus makes its debut.
March 1960 – Gardner Fox introduces the Justice League in the 28th issue of The Brave and the Bold.
April, 23, 1960 – The first canoe race (of what will later become known as the Liffey Descent) took place along the River Liffey in Dublin from Grattan Bridge to Butt Bridge.
May 1, 1960 -The U-2 incident: Several Soviet surface-to-air missiles shoot down an American Lockheed U-2 spy plane. Its pilot, Francis Gary Powers of the Central Intelligence Agency, is captured.
In India, on this day it is declared as ‘Maharashtra Divas’, i.e., Maharashtra Day (also celebrated as ‘Kaamgaar Divas’, i.e., Workers Day).
May 6, 1960 – United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law.
May 10, 1960 – The nuclear submarine USS Triton, under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., completes the first underwater circumnavigation of the Earth.
May 11, 1960 – In Buenos Aires, four Mossad agents abduct fugitive Nazi German war criminal Adolf Eichmann in order that he can be taken to Israel and put on trial. This is announced on May 23 by Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion. Eichmann is convicted and executed in 1962.
May 13, 1960 – A joint Swiss and Austrian expedition makes the first ascent of the Asian mountain Dhaulagiri, the world’s 7th highest.
May 27, 1960 – The last barge on the Grand Canal left Dublin carrying a cargo of Guinness stout to Limerick. This marked the end of a 156-year-old service that had been a vital part of the Irish waterways. The last barge’s departure from St James’ Harbour in Dublin was a significant event, as it represented the last commercial barge to carry cargo on Ireland’s canal system.
June 5, 1960 – The Lake Bodom murders occur in Finland.
Also on this date the First Vatican Council, adjourned in 1870, is officially closed.
June 16, 1960 – Premiere of Alfred Hitchcock‘s landmark film, Psycho in the United States. Controversial since release, it sets new standards in violence and sexuality on screen, and is a critical influence on the emerging slasher genre.
July 7, 1960 -– An eight-year-old schoolboy, Graeme Thorne, is kidnapped in Sydney, Australia apparently to extort money from his parents who had recently won the Sydney Opera House lottery.
July 11, 1960 – Harper Lee‘s Southern Gothic Bildungsroman To Kill a Mockingbird is published in the United States. She completes no later novel before her death in 2016.
July 14, 1960 – Jane Goodall went to Gombe Stream National Park, becoming the first of what would come to be called the Trimates. It is a name given to three women – Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Biruté Galdikas – chosen by anthropologist Louis Leakey to study primates in their natural environments. They studied chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans, respectively.
July 25, 1960 – The Woolworth Company‘s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that has sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.
August 12, 1960 – Green Eggs and Ham, by Dr. Seuss, is published in the United States; 40 years on it will be the fourth-best selling English-language children’s hardcover book yet written.
August 17, 1960 – The Time Machine, starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux.
August 25, 1960 – The 1960 Summer Olympic Games begin in Rome.
September 5, 1960 –1960 Summer Olympic Games: Muhammad Ali (at this time Cassius Clay) of the United States wins the gold medal in light-heavyweight boxing.
September 10, 1960 – 1960 Summer Olympic Games: Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia wins the gold medal in the marathon, running barefoot in a world time, and becoming the first person from Sub-Saharan Africa to win Olympic gold.
September 19, 1960 – “The Twist” – Chubby Checker
September 26, 1960– Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy participate in the first ever presidential debate. The debate is broadcast on both radio and television with most radio listeners preferring Nixon’s performance and TV viewers favoring Kennedy’s.
September 30, 1960 –Hanna Barbera‘s series The Flintstones debuts on ABC (1960–1966).
October 1, 1960 – The Shari Lewis Show debuts.
October 3, 1960 – Series The Andy Griffith Show premieres on CBS (1960–1968).
October 7, 1960 – Nigeria becomes the 99th member of the United Nations.
October 12, 1960 – Cold War: Shoe-banging incident – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, his way of protesting the discussion of the Soviet Union‘s policies toward Eastern Europe.
The often used fake image of Khrushchev waving a shoe (above), and the original photo taken at the United Nations General Assembly, October 10, 1960.
October 11, 1960 – The Bugs Bunny Show, Looney Tunes’ first television series (1960–2000).
October 23, 1960 – My sister Mary Wilson is born.
November 8, 1960 – 1960 United States presidential election: In a close race, Democratic U. S. Senator John F. Kennedy is elected over Republican U. S. Vice President Richard Nixon, to become (at 43) the second youngest man to serve as President of the United States, and the youngest man elected to this position.
November 18, 1960 – The High Crusade by Poul Anderson. It was nominated for a Hugo Award.
December 2, 1060 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the use of $1.0 million for the relief and resettlement of Cuban refugees, who have been arriving in Florida at the rate of about 1,000 per week.
December 9, 1960 – Tom Monaghan and his brother, Jim, took over the operation of DomiNick’s, an existing location of a small pizza restaurant chain that had been owned by Dominick DeVarti in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Five years later they changed the name to Dominos.
December 20, 1960 – Pepe starring Cantinflas is released.
10 Years Before I Was Born
1961 –M. C. Escher – Waterfall (lithograph)
1961 –Sacred Heart of Jesus (Indianapolis; approximate date)
1961 -“The Lion Sleeps Tonight” – The Tokens
1961 – “Stand By Me” – Ben E. King #4 US
1961 – The Country Music Association (CMA) creates the Country Music Hall of Fame and inducts, Jimmie Rodgers, Fred Rose and Hank Williams as the first three members.
1961 – Papa Ginos Pizza was founded Helen and Michael Valerio. (I have worked at 4 different Papa Ginos over the years. Since 2018 they have filed for bankruptcy.
1961 – Classic chess set designed by Rubber Duck guy Peter Ganine goes on sale. The chess pieces from the Classic chess set were used in Star Trek as part of the tri-dimensional chess set.
1961 – Dowsing The American Society of Dowsers is a non-profit organization that was founded in 1961, to disseminate knowledge of dowsing (water witching, the discovery of lost articles or persons, and related para-psychological phenomena), development of its skills, and recognition for its achievements. Dowsing, Faith, and Reason
January 5, 1961 – Mister Ed –Mister Ed is one of the few series to debut in syndication and be picked up by a major network for prime time. All 143 episodes were filmed in black and white.
January 25, 1961 – Walt Disney‘s One Hundred and One Dalmatians premieres, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton Luske and Clyde Geronimi.
January 31, 1961 – Ham, a 37-pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space in a test of the Project Mercury capsule designed to carry U.S. astronauts into space.
February 7, 1961 – Cat Alarm -Final theatrical Mighty Mouse Cartoon.
February 12, 1961 – The Miracles‘ “Shop Around” becomes Motown‘s first million-selling single.
February 25, 1961 – March 7, 1964 – Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America (now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) premiers.
March 16, 1961 – The Absent-Minded Professor, starring Fred MacMurray
March 17, 1961 – Publication in the United States of Irving Stone‘s biographical novel of Michelangelo, The Agony and the Ecstasy.
April 12, 1961 –Vostok 1: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space, orbiting the Earth once before parachuting to the ground.
April 17, 1961 -The U.S.-backed Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba begins; it fails by April 19.
June 21, 1961 – The Parent Trap opens in theaters.
Hamilton Luske‘s The Litterbug, the final theatrical Donald Duck cartoon premieres.
July 17, 1961 –Roald Dahl – James and the Giant Peach
July 19, 1961 –Trans World Airlines becomes the first airline to show regularly scheduled movies during its flights, presenting By Love Possessed to 1st-class passengers.
July 31, 1961 -At Fenway Park in Boston, the first Major League Baseball All-Star Game tie occurs, when the game is stopped in the 9th inning due to rain (the only tie until 2002).
August 5, 1961 – Six Flags Over Texas the first amusement park in the Six Flags chain opened.
August 13, 1961 – The Berlin Wall goes up.
September 17, 1961 – Car 54, Where Are You? on NBC (1961–1963)
September 19, 1961; 10:30 p.m. – Betty and Barney Hill UFO Encounter American couple Barney and Betty Hill claimed they were abducted by extraterrestrials in a rural portion of the state of New Hampshire. But Were Betty & Barney Hill Really Abducted?
October 1961 – “Crazy” – Patsy Cline #9 US
October 3, 1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS (1961–1966)
October 18, 1961 – West Side Story is released as a film in the United States.
November 21, 1961 – “Can’t Help Falling in Love” – Elvis Presley #1 US, UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, NZ, Netherlands, Sweden
November 22, 1961 –Fantastic Four (1961 series) #1 – Marvel Comics –First appearance of the Fantastic Four (Mister Fantastic, Invisible Woman, Human Torch and the Thing)
December 20, 1961 – The last legal execution in Ireland, of Robert McGladdery for murder, occurred in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Also on this date – Wolfgang Reitherman‘s Goofy cartoon Aquamania premieres. This cartoon was the last from Disney’s “Golden Era” which featured Goofy as a solo star, and the first time the xerography animation-technique was used in a Goofy cartoon. Aquamania combined Goofy’s three familiar areas in his career: sports, fatherhood, and documentary-subject.
9 Years Before I Was Born
1962 –Andy Warhol – Campbell’s Soup Cans (complete)
1962 –Isaac Asimov, editor – The Hugo Winners
1962 – Operation Northwoods is planned. It was a proposed false flag operation that originated within the US Department of Defense of the United States government. The proposals called for CIA operatives to both stage and commit acts of terrorism against American military and civilian targets, blaming them on the Cuban government, and using it to justify a war against Cuba. The proposals were rejected by President John F. Kennedy.
January 1, 1962 – Madeleine L’Engle – A Wrinkle in Time
1962 –Alexander Schmemann is selected as dean of Saint Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. He served in this position until his death in 1983. He was an influential Orthodox priest, theologian, and author who spent most of his career in the United States. For 30 years, his sermons in Russian were broadcast by Radio Liberty into the Soviet Union, where they were influential as a voice from beyond the Iron Curtain.
January 3, 1962 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.
March 7, 1962 – My sister Patty Carner is born.
April 1, 1962 – Golden Rule
April 1962 -The first known video game to be played at multiple computer installations was Spacewar!
May 6, 1962 – Martin de Porres is canonized.
April 28, 1962 – St. Gianna Beretta Molla dies.
May 23, 1962 – The Miracle Worker an American biographical film directed by Arthur Penn and starring Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke
July 2, 1962 -The first Walmart retail store, at this time known as Wal-Mart, is opened for business by brothers Sam and James “Bud” Walton in Rogers, Arkansas.
July 3, 1962 –Solar eclipse of July 31, 1962: An annular solar eclipse is visible in South America, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean, and is the 36th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 135.
July 6, 1962 – Gay Byrne presents the first edition of The Late Late Show on RTÉ in Ireland. Byrne would present the show for 37 years, the longest period through which any individual has hosted a televised talk show anywhere in the world, and the show itself becomes the world’s second longest-running talk show.
August 5, 1962 – Death of Marilyn Monroe: Actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead aged 36 from an overdose of sleeping pills and chloral hydrate at her home in Brentwood, Los Angeles; it is officially ruled a “probable suicide” (the exact cause has been disputed).
Also on this date– Anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela is arrested by the South African government near Howick, and charged with incitement to rebellion. On November 7, he is sentenced to imprisonment.
August 1962 – Amazing Fantasy (1961 series) #15 renamed from Amazing Adult Fantasy – Marvel Comics -First appearance of Spider-Man.
Journey into Mystery (1952 series) #83 – Marvel Comics – First appearance of Thor.
August 1962 – “Sherry” – The Four Seasons. Later on that year they release “Big Girls Don’t Cry” .
August 11, 1962 – King Kong vs. Godzilla is released in Japan, becoming the first Godzilla and King Kong film in colour. It also becomes the 3rd film in both franchises.
August 16, 1962 – The Beatles fire drummer Pete Best and replace him with Ringo Starr.
September 15, 1962 –The Incredible Hulk (1962 series) #3 – Marvel Comics
September 22, 1962 – Bob Dylan appears for the first time at Carnegie Hall in New York City as part of a hootenanny including the first public performance of “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall“.
September 26, 1962 – The Beverly Hillbillies premieres on CBS (1962–1971)
September 27, 1962 – Silent Spring by Rachel Carson is published. he book described the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment, and is widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement.
October 1962 –Philip K. Dick – The Man in the High Castle
October 1, 1962 – The first black student, James Meredith, registers at the University of Mississippi, escorted by Federal Marshals to protect him from official obstruction and violent segregationist protest, the “Ole Miss riot of 1962“.
Also on this date– Johnny Carson takes over as permanent host of NBC‘s The Tonight Show on television, a post he will hold for 30 years.
October 5, 1962 –The Beatles‘ first single in their own right, “Love Me Do“/”P.S. I Love You“, is released in the U.K. on EMI‘s Parlophone label. This version was recorded on September 4, at Abbey Road Studios in London, with Ringo Starr as drummer.
Dr. No, the first James Bond film, premieres at the London Pavilion, featuring Sean Connery as the hero. Although it was the first of the Bond books to be made into a film, Dr. No was the sixth of Fleming’s series, beginning with Casino Royale. The James Bond series is the second longest-running film franchise of all time (next to Godzilla), still running 60 years later (No Time to Die, 2021). It also launches the career of Sean Connery.
October 11, 1962 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
Also on this date – – McHale’s Navy on ABC (1962–1966)
Vatican 2 Information Resources
October 16, 1962 – November 20, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis begins when U.S. President Kennedy is told of photographs (taken from U-2 flights) showing Soviet nuclear weapon installations being constructed on Cuba in the Caribbean. A stand-off ensues for 12 days between the United States and the Soviet Union, threatening the world with nuclear war.
October 20, 1962 – Peter, Paul and Mary‘s self-titled debut album reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
November 6, 1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
November 20, 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, President John F. Kennedy ends the blockade of the island.
November 22, 1962, – The Secret Cuban Missile Crisis On during a tense, four-hour meeting, Mikoyan was forced to use the dark arts of diplomacy to convince Castro that despite Moscow’s best intentions, it would be in breach of an unpublished Soviet law (which didn’t actually exist) to transfer the missiles permanently into Cuban hands and provide them with an independent nuclear deterrent.
Finally after Mikoyan’s trump card, Castro was forced to give way and – much to the relief of Khrushchev and the whole Soviet government – the tactical nuclear weapons were finally crated and returned by sea back to the Soviet Union during December 1962. Cuban missile crisis: The other, secret one – BBC News
December, 1962 – L. Frank Baum‘s short story “The Tiger’s Eye” appears for the first time nearly 60 after it was written.
December 10, 1962 –Lawrence of Arabia, directed by David Lean, starring Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness, José Ferrer – (UK/US)
8 Years Before I Was Born
1963
1963 – Roy Lichtenstein –Whaam! (diptych)
1963 –Cap’n Crunch cereal is first sold.
1963 – Fruit Loops cereal is first sold.
1963 in comics – debut: X-Men, The Avengers, Doctor Strange, Iron Man; published: The Amazing Spider-Man #1;
1963 – Harvey Ball designs the smiley.
1963 –Arthur Ashe became the first black player ever selected for the United States Davis Cup team for Tennis.
January 1, 1963 – Astro Boy (known as Mighty Atom in Japanese), on Fuji TV. It is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime.
January 6, 1963 – Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom on NBC (1963–88, 2002–2011)
January 8, 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci‘s Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first (and only) time, for a period of four weeks, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. During this time it was viewed by over half a million people.
February 11, 1963 – January 14, 1973 – The French Chef debuted as a regular series created and hosted by Julia Child, produced and broadcast by WGBH, the public television station in Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the first cooking shows on American television.
March 4, 1963 – “Surfin’ U.S.A.” – The Beach Boys
March 22, 1963 – The Beatles first album Please Please Me was released in the UK and became a huge commercial success.
April 1963 – “Da Doo Ron Ron” – The Crystals
April 10, 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald’s First Assassination? Edwin Anderson Walker (November 10, 1909 – October 31, 1993) reported that he was the target of an assassination attempt at his home on April 10, 1963, but escaped serious injury when a bullet fired from outside hit a window frame and fragmented. After its investigation into the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission concluded that Walker’s assailant had been Lee Harvey Oswald
April 11, 1963 – Pope John XXIII issues his final encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty, the first papal encyclical addressed to “all men of good will”, rather than to Roman Catholics only.
April 16, 1963 – Martin Luther King, Jr. issues his “Letter from Birmingham Jail“.
April 19, 1963 – Ring of Fire – Johnny Cash
April 21–23, 1963 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Baháʼí Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Baháʼí World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held.
May 1, 1963 – The Coca-Cola Company introduces its first diet drink, Tab cola.
May 21, 1963 – Fingertips – “Little” Stevie Wonder
May 25, 1963 – The Organization of African Unity is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
June 4, 1963 – The Nutty Professor, directed by and starring Jerry Lewis, with Stella Stevens
June 19, 1963 – Jason and the Argonauts, starring Todd Armstrong – (U.K./U.S.)
June 21, 1963 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.
June 26, 1963– Following a three-day visit to West Germany which he concluded with his historic Cold War address in West Berlin earlier in the day, President Kennedy of the United States arrived in Ireland for a four-day state visit. He was greeted at Dublin Airport by President de Valera and Taoiseach Seán Lemass. His motorcade to the US Ambassador’s residence in the Phoenix Park in Dublin was met by large crowds in O’Connell Street and Dame Street.
July 1, 1963 – ZIP codes are introduced by the United States Postal Service.
August 1963 – I Am the Greatest is a comedy album by boxer Cassius Clay, released in August 1963 – six months before he won the world heavyweight championship, publicly announced his conversion to Islam, and changed his name to Muhammad Ali. It was released by Columbia/CBS. The album helped establish Ali’s reputation as an eloquently poetic “trash talker“. The album has also been identified as an early example of hip hop music.
August 28, 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to an audience of at least 250,000, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It is, at that point, the single largest protest in American history.
September 29, 1963 – My Favorite Martian (1963–66) on CBS
October 1, 1963 – Lilies of the Field, directed by Ralph Nelson, starring Sidney Poitier. It earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress for Skala. Poitier won the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Black actor to win in a leading role.
November 7, 1963 – The comedy It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World premieres, with one of the finest all-star ensemble casts ever.
November 12, 1963 -My best friend Marshall Myers is born.
November 13, 1963 – Maurice Sendak – Where the Wild Things Are
John Fitzgerald Kennedy (May 29, 1917), often referred as to just JFK, was the 35th president of the United States in 1961. JFK died along with these other famous folks.
Aldous Huxley (July 26, 1894) was an English writer and philosopher best known for his classic dystopian novel ‘Brave New World’.
C.S. Lewis (November 29, 1898) was a British writer and lay theologian. In the Christian world he is known for his great apologetics work Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters. To the rest of the world he is best known as the creator of fictional land of Narnia. He also happen to be great friends with the creator of middle earth, J.R.R. Tolkien.
What do all these men have in common?
They all died on November 22, 1963.
Police officer J. D. Tippit (September 18, 1924 – November 22, 1963) also died having been shot by Lee Harvey Oswald.
This day also claimed the death of internist Nazi physician Wilhelm Franz Josef Beiglböck (10 October 1905 – 22 November 1963). But doesn’t factor into this story at all.
Peter Kreeft captures this event (fictionally) in the first of his many dialog books, “Between Heaven and Hell: A Dialog Somewhere Beyond Death” in 1982. The souls of John F. Kennedy, C. S. Lewis, & Aldous Huxley all meet in Purgatory on the day that they all die. They engage in a philosophical discussion on faith, life and death. It’s a fascinating bit of trivia turned into a fascinating book about a possible fascinating meeting beyond earthly life.
Here is a taste…
Lewis: Why, it’s Huxley! Aldous Huxley. Aldous, welcome. How did you get here?
Huxley: Same way you did, I’m sure. I just died. Oh, I say! Kennedy and Lewis! What good company to die in—or live in, whatever we’re doing. Where is this place, anyway?
Kennedy: That’s what we’re trying to figure out. Lewis thinks it may be some sort of limbo or purgatory. I’m just hoping it’s not hell.
Huxley: Well, you’re both wrong. It’s heaven. It must be heaven. Kennedy: Why? Huxley: Because everywhere is heaven, if only you have enlightened eyes. Lewis: Even hell?
Huxley: Oh, this is going to be fun! Lewis, you’ve lost none of your cantankerous penchant for Socratic questioning, have you? I remember you made Oxford a regular hornets’ nest when you debated back on earth, and now you’ve shipped your hornets to heaven. This is a nice challenge.
Lewis: Then reply to it. If everywhere is heaven, then either hell does not exist, or hell is part of heaven. Which way will you have it, Aldous?
Kennedy: Wait, please! Before you two take off, could you give me some assurances about this sort of debate? I was a debater too, but we politicians confined ourselves to the concrete and tangible. I’m not at all convinced you can do anything more than talk through your hat about things you’ve never seen.
Lewis: So you want an assurance that there is some method of really finding the truth about things we can’t see.
The following day after all 3 men had died, the beginning of one of the most iconic and mysterious science fiction shows premiered on British TV.
Dr. Who
The show’s launch was overshadowed by the assassination of American President John F. Kennedy the previous day, resulting in a repeat of the first episode the following week. But 60 years later it is celebrating it’s special anniversary.
November 24, 1963 – Jack Ruby murders John F. Kennedy’s suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald live on television.
December 18, 1963 – The Pink Panther, directed by Blake Edwards, starring David Niven, Peter Sellers, Robert Wagner, Capucine
December 25, 1963 – The Sword in the Stone, directed by Wolfgang Reitherman and produced by the Walt Disney Company is first released
7 Years Before I Was Born
1964 – René Magritte – The Son of Man
1964 – Norman Rockwell – The Problem We All Live With
1964 – The Dubliners is the debut album by the Irish folk band The Dubliners.
1964 – My Autobiography by Charlie Chaplin
The Book of Three (1964)
The Chronicles of Prydain # 1
Lloyd Alexander
January 1964 –The Word of Unbinding (1964) [SF] by Ursula K. Le Guin in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, January 1964
January 5, 1964 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem.
January 8, 1964 – President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a “War on Poverty” in the United States.
January 11, 1964 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one’s health (the first such statement from the U.S. government).[
January 16, 1964 –Hello, Dolly! opens on Broadway.
January 23, 1964– Pope Paul VI institutes the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. During this celebration the Pope reminds the universal Church that still today salvation comes to everyone. It continues to be celebrated every Fourth Sunday of Easter (also known as Good Shepherd Sunday).
January 17, 1964 – Roald Dahl – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
January 25, 1965 – The late John F. Kennedy becomes the first President credited with a Top 10 album after Dickie Goodman released John F. Kennedy: The Presidential Years 1960–1963. The following week a second album, credited to the late President, would also hit the Top 10 giving Kennedy two posthumous albums simultaneously in the Top 10.
January 29, 1964 – February 9, 1964 – The 1964 Winter Olympics are held in Innsbruck, Austria. The luge made its debut on the Olympic program. Three Asian nations made their Winter Games debut: North Korea, India and Mongolia.
February 1, 1964 – The G.I. Joe t12-inch (30 cm) line is first introduced.
February 9, 1964 – The Beatles perform for the first time for an American audience on The Ed Sullivan Show to a record television audience of 73 million people, launching Beatlemania in the United States, as part of The British Invasion.
February 25, 1964 -In Miami Beach, Florida – Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston by TKO in the 7th round to win the World Heavyweight Championship. Cassius Clay would latter change his name to Muhammad Ali.
March 10, 1964 – “The Sound of Silence” – Simon & Garfunkel is recorded.
March 28, 1964 –The Incredible Mr. Limpet, starring Don Knotts, Jack Weston and Andrew Duggan
April 1964 – The Rule of Names (1964) [SF] by Ursula K. Le Guin in Fantastic Stories of Imagination, April 1964
April 13, 1964 – At the 36th Academy Awards ceremony, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American to win an Academy Award in the category Best Actor in a Leading Role in Lilies of the Field.
April 20, 1964 -U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson in New York, and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, simultaneously announce plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapons.
Also on this day – Nelson Mandela makes his “I Am Prepared to Die” speech at the opening of the Rivonia Trial, a key event for the anti-apartheid movement.
April 24, 1964 – Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO sighting that occurred on April 24, 1964 near Socorro, New Mexico when Socorro police officer Lonnie Zamora claimed he saw two people beside a shiny object that later rose into the air accompanied by a roaring flame. Zamora’s claims were subject to attention from news media, UFO investigators and UFO organizations, and the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book listed the case as “unknown”. Conventional explanations of Zamora’s claims include a lunar lander test by White Sands Missile Range and a hoax by New Mexico Tech students.
April 25, 1964 – Thieves steal the head of the Little Mermaid statue in Copenhagen, Denmark. Although the attack is attributed to Jørgen Nash, the Danish media blame painter Henrik Bruun, who never confesses to the crime.
May 11, 1964 – “I Get Around” – The Beach Boys
May 24–25, 1964 – The crowd at a football match in Lima, Peru, riots over a referee’s decision in the Peru-Argentina game; 319 are killed, 500 injured.
June 11, 1964 – Cologne school massacre: In Cologne, West Germany, Walter Seifert attacks students and teachers in a Catholic elementary school with a flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21.
July 2, 1964 – The United States Civil Rights Act of 1964 is enacted
June 12, 1964 – Nelson Mandela and 7 others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa, and sent to the Robben Island prison.
June 19, 1964 – House of the Rising Sun –The Animals
July 15, 1964 – Universal Studios Hollywood theme park opens.
July 18, 1964 – Robert McKimson‘s False Hare, the final Bugs Bunny theatrical short and the last original production completed by Warner Bros. Cartoons, is first released.
July 24, 1964 – A minor criticality accident takes place at a United Nuclear Corporation Fuels recovery plant in Wood River Junction, Rhode Island, United States, causing the death of one worker.
August 13, 1964 – The last judicial hanging in the United Kingdom takes place when murderers Gwynne Owen Evans and Peter Anthony Allen are executed at Walton Prison in Liverpool.
August 15, 1964 – “Oh, Pretty Woman” w.m. Roy Orbison & Bill Dees
August 22, 1964 – The Supremes reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart with the first of five successive number one hits, “Where Did Our Love Go“.
August 27, 1964 – The film Mary Poppins is released. Not only is it a massive hit with both critics and audiences, but it also becomes Disney‘s highest-grossing film of all time. It goes on to win five Academy Awards, including Best Actress for Julie Andrews.
September, 1964 – Big Sur UFO Incident – A UFO supposedly fired four beams of light at a nuclear missile undergoing testing.
September 11, 1964 – In Jacksonville, Florida, John Lennon announces that the Beatles will not play to a segregated audience.
September 14, 1964 – Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1964–68)
September 17, 1964 – Bewitched on ABC (1964–1972)
September 18, 1964 –The Addams Family on ABC (1964–1966)
Also on this date – Goldfinger, starring Sean Connery as James Bond), with Honor Blackman, Shirley Eaton and Gert Fröbe – (U.K.)
Also on this date – Jonny Quest on ABC (1964–1965)
September 22, 1964 – Fiddler on the Roof opens on Broadway.
September 24, 1964 – The Munsters on CBS (1964–1966)
September 26, 1964 – Gilligan’s Island on CBS (1964–1967).
October 1, 1964 -Three thousand student activists at the University of California, Berkeley, surround and block a police car from taking a CORE volunteer arrested for not showing his ID, when he violated a ban on outdoor activist card tables. This protest eventually explodes into the Berkeley Free Speech Movement.
The Shinkansen high-speed rail system, the world’s first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka.
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October 5, 1964 -Twenty-three men and thirty-one women escape to West Berlin through a narrow tunnel under the Berlin Wall.
Elizabeth II and The Duke of Edinburgh begin an 8-day visit to Canada.
October 7, 1964 – The Giving Tree written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein.
October 10–24, 1964 – The 1964 Summer Olympics are held in Tokyo, Japan, the first in an Asian country.
October 12, 1964 – The Soviet Union launches Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits. The flight is cut short and lands again on October 13 after 16 orbits.
October 14, 1964 – American civil rights movement leader Martin Luther King Jr. becomes the youngest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, which is awarded to him for leading non-violent resistance to end racial prejudice in the United States.
October 18, 1964 – Charles Lwanga, Kizito & others are canonized.
October 10, 1964 – Spook-A-Nanny – This is the only appearance of Smedley the Dog in a Woody special, Andy Panda in a Woody special, Wally Walrus in a Woody special, also only appearance of Chilly Willy in a Woody special, and also only appearance of Homer Pigeon in a Woody special, who then never appeared again after this. This is the first time aside from Half Baked Alaska where Chilly Willy speaks. Walter Lantz Wiki | Fandom
December 6, 1964 – NBC in the United States debuts the Christmas special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. It will become a holiday tradition, moving to CBS in 1972
December 11, 1964 – Sam Cooke is killed under mysterious circumstances in Los Angeles, California. Shortly thereafter, “A Change Is Gonna Come“, a song considered by many to be his best, is released.
December 18, 1964 – Friz Freleng and David DePatie‘s The Pink Phink premieres in theaters which marks the beginning of the Pink Panther series of shorts. The short won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short at the 37th Academy Awards.
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1965 – Carel Willink – To the Future
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1965 – Edgar Rice Burroughs – Tarzan and the Castaways
January 1965 – Everything That Rises Must Converge a collection of nine short stories written by Flannery O’Connor during the final decade of her life.
January 23, 1965 – “Downtown” hits No. 1 in the US singles chart, making Petula Clark the first British female vocalist to reach the coveted position since the arrival of The Beatles.
January 30, 1965 – The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.
February 15, 1965 – George Stevens‘ production of The Greatest Story Ever Told, a retelling of the account of Jesus Christ, premieres in New York City, New York. It was such a flop with critics and audiences that its failure discouraged production of religious epics for many years. It is considered notable in the 21st century for its astonishing landscapes, powerful and provocative cinematography, Max von Sydow‘s debut acting performance in an American film, and the final film performance of Claude Rains.
February 20, 1965 –Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
February 15, 1965 – The maple leaf is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the Canadian Red Ensign flag.
February 20, 1965 –Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
February 21, 1965 -Malcolm X, black Muslim leader is assassinated.
March 1965 – “Iko Iko” – The Dixie Cups
March 2, 1965 – The Rodgers and Hammerstein film adaptation of The Sound of Music, directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, premieres. It quickly became a worldwide phenomenon and an instant classic. It successfully displaced Gone with the Wind to become, at the time, the highest-grossing film of all-time. The Sound of Music is credited as the film that saved and restored Twentieth Century-Fox from bankruptcy after it suffered from extremely high production costs of Cleopatra two years prior.
March 7, 1965 – Mass in the Catholic Church worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.
March 8, 1965 – Vietnam War: Some 3,500 United States Marines arrive in Da Nang, South Vietnam, becoming the first American ground combat troops in Vietnam.
March 9, 1965 – The “Turnaround Tuesday” march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, under the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., stops at the site of “Bloody Sunday”, to hold a prayer service and return to Selma, in obedience to a court restraining order. On the same day, White supremacists attack three white ministers, leaving Unitarian Universalist minister James J. Reeb in a coma.
March 18, 1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov leaves his Voskhod 2 spacecraft for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.
March 20, 1965 – Gulliver’s Travels Beyond the Moon is released. In one of his earliest animation jobs, a young Hayao Miyazaki worked on this film as an in-between artist. His contribution to the ending of the film brought Miyazaki to the attention of a Japanese animation studio named Toei.
Also on this date – Ireland made its debut at the Eurovision Song Contest. Butch Moore sang Walking the Streets in the Rain and came sixth at the final in Naples.
March 23, 1965 –Gemini 3: NASA launches the United States’ first 2-person crew (Gus Grissom, John Young) into Earth orbit.
March 25, 1965 – Martin Luther King Jr. and 25,000 civil rights activists successfully end the 4-day march from Selma, Alabama, to the capitol in Montgomery.
June 1965 – NASA Astronaut Group 4 a group of six astronauts selected by NASA is created. One of the astronauts was Harrison Schmitt who today is a former U.S. senator from New Mexico. He is as of today the most recent living person—and only person without a background in military aviation—to have walked on the Moon.
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June 1965 – “I’m Henry VIII, I Am” – Herman’s Hermits
June 1965 – “I Got You Babe” – Sonny & Cher
July 1, 1965 – Blake Edwards‘s epic comedy The Great Race, starring Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Natalie Wood, Peter Falk, and Keenan Wynn, premieres. Initially a flop with critics and audiences, some do admire Edwards’ direction, the acting by its ensemble cast, Henry Mancini‘s music and its climactic pie fight.
July 30, 1965 – War on Poverty: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
July 31, 1965 – Joanne Rowling is born.
August 10, 1965 – A massive vault fire at MGM studios in Culver City, California, destroys the only known copies of hundreds of archived silent films, including Lon Chaney‘s London After Midnight and Greta Garbo’s The Divine Woman.
August 27, 1965 – The Beatles visit Elvis Presley at his home in Bel-Air. It is the only time the band and the singer meet.
September 14, 1965 – F Troop (1965–1967) on ABC
Also on this date – My Mother the Car (1965–1966) on NBC
September 15, 1965 – Lost in Space (1965–1968) premiers on CBS. Theme Music was by none other than movie composer legend John Williams.
September 17, 1965 – The Wild Wild West (1965–1969)
Also on this date – Hogan’s Heroes (1965–1971) on CBS
September 18, 1965 – I Dream of Jeannie
Also on this date –Get Smart on NBC (both 1965–1970)
September 15, 1965, to April 27, 1971 – Green Acres
October 1, 1965 – “Turn! Turn! Turn! (to Everything There Is a Season)” – The Byrds
Also on this date –Frank Herbert – Dune
October 4, 1965 – Pope Paul VI‘s visit to New York receives saturation television coverage on all three major American television networks. The Papal Mass at Yankee Stadium is broadcast in color.
October 15, 1965 – Vietnam War: The Catholic Worker Movement stages an anti-war protest in Manhattan. One draft card burner is arrested, the first under the new law.
October 28, 1965 – Pope Paul VI promulgates Nostra aetate, a “Declaration on the Relation of the (Roman Catholic) Church with Non-Christian Religions” by the Second Vatican Council which includes a statement that Jews are not collectively responsible for the death of Jesus (Jewish deicide)
November 16, 1965 – A few days before the council ended, 40 bishops led by Hélder Câmara (February 7, 1909 – August 27, 1999) met at night in the Catacombs of Domitilla outside Rome. They celebrated the Eucharist and signed a document under the title of the Pact of the Catacombs. In 13 points, they challenged their brother bishops to live lives of evangelical poverty: without honorific titles, privileges, and worldly ostentation. They taught that “the collegiality of the bishops finds its supreme evangelical realization in jointly serving the two-thirds of humanity who live in physical, cultural, and moral misery”. They called for openness “to all, no matter what their beliefs”. Câmara is quoted as having said, “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist.”
December 8, 1965 -The Second Vatican Council closes.
December 9, 1965 – A Charlie Brown Christmas premieres on CBS.
December 20, 1965 – The World Food Programme is made a permanent agency of the United Nations.
December 24, 1965 – The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation isthe first short in the Inspector series of theatrical cartoons.
1965 – Bob Marley & The Wailers – “One Love”
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1966 –Edward Hopper – Two Comedians – It was his final painting, executed one year before his death in 1967.
1966 – Brazilian musician Sérgio Mendes covered the song Mas que nada with his band Brasil ’66 on their debut album, Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66 (1966).
1966 –That’s Life/Strangers in the Night –Frank Sinatra
1966 – Morningtown Ride by the Australian band the Seekers with Bobby Richards and his Orchestra on the 1964 album Hide & Seekers.
1966 – The First of the Irish Rovers by the Canadian Irish folk band The Irish Rovers.
1966 – Reincarnation Research Twenty Cases Suggestive of Reincarnation is a 1966 book written by psychiatrist Ian Stevenson on claims of spontaneous recall of information about previous lives by young children. The book focuses on twenty cases investigated by the author. It has been translated into seven foreign languages. His book is just one of many that talk about Reincarnation Theories
1966 –Verbum Domini on Apple Podcasts The Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE) an English translation of the Bible is first published.
The Jerusalem Bible, a Roman Catholic translation, is published in English.
January 1966 – Father Brown on West Germany’s ARD (1966–1972)
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January 7, 1966 – My Sister Laurie Elliott is born.
January 10, 1966 –Pakistani–Indian peace negotiations end successfully with the signing of the Tashkent Declaration, a day before the sudden death of Indian prime minister Lal Bahadur Shastri.
January 12, 1966 – Batman on ABC (1966–1968)
January 14, 1966 – Young English singer David Jones changes his last name to Bowie to avoid being confused with Davy Jones of the Monkees.
January 17, 1966 –Truman Capote – In Cold Blood (non-fiction novel – book publication)
January 19, 1966 – Indira Gandhi is elected Prime Minister of India; she is sworn in on January 24.
January 26, 1966 – Disappearance of the Beaumont children: Three children disappear on their way to Glenelg, South Australia, never to be seen again. Their fate remains unknown.
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February 4, 1966 –Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree (animated short) (U.S. with The Ugly Dachshund)
March 4, 1966 – The Beatles‘ John Lennon is quoted in the London Evening Standard newspaper as saying that “We’re more popular than Jesus now.” In August, following publication of this remark in Datebook, there are Beatles protests and record burnings in the Southern US’s Bible Belt.
March 8, 1966 -A teenage riot took place in the early hours at Dublin Airport when singer Dickie Rock returned from his joint-fourth-place rank at the Eurovision song contest (for his song “Come Back to Stay“) in Luxembourg. Gardaí linked arms and struggled to contain the surging mob of 1,000 over-excited young people, twenty of whom were taken to hospital.
March 11, 1966 – The first Nebula Awards ceremony was held recognizing outstanding works in science fiction and fantasy published in 1965. Best novel was Dune by Frank Herbert*and Best Short Story was “‘Repent, Harlequin!’ Said the Ticktockman” by Harlan Ellison*.
March 24, 1966 – Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.
March 31, 1966 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10, which becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
April 8, 1966 -Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.
April 10, 1966– Celebrations took place to mark the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rising in 1916. Nine hundred survivors of the rising heard the reading of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic and President Éamon de Valera took the salute at a military parade.
April 18, 1966 – The 38th Academy Awards ceremony airing in color for the first time on ABC, is held in Santa Monica, California: The Sound of Music wins Best Picture.
April 19, 1966 – Moors murders: Ian Brady and Myra Hindley go on trial at Chester Crown Court in north west England for the murders of 3 children who vanished between November 1963 and October 1965.
April 21, 1966 -The opening of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is televised for the first time.
April 24, 1966 – Uniform daylight saving time is first observed in most parts of North America.
April 27, 1966 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).
May 3, 1966 – Twister became a major success when actress Eva Gabor played it with Johnny Carson on television’s The Tonight Show.
May 7, 1966 – The Rolling Stones release “Paint It, Black” in the US (May 13 in the UK); this becomes the first number one hit single in the US and UK to feature a sitar (played by Brian Jones).
May 16, 1966 -The Chinese Communist Party issues the ‘May 16 Notice’, marking the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.
Propaganda poster depicting Mao Zedong, above a group of soldiers from the People’s Liberation Army. The caption reads, “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army is the great school of Mao Zedong Thought“.
May 26, 1966 – “Yellow Submarine” / “Eleanor Rigby” by the Beetles.
May 27, 1966 -In Australia The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them.
May 29, 1966 – Sports stadium Estadio Azteca officially opens in Mexico City in advance of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
June 6, 1966 – Civil rights activist James Meredith is shot by a sniper while traversing Mississippi in the March Against Fear.
June 13, 1966 – Miranda v. Arizona: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. This dates back to March 13, 1963 when Ernesto Miranda was arrested by Phoenix Police Department officers Carroll Cooley and Wilfred Young, based on circumstantial evidence linking him to the kidnapping and rape of an 18-year-old woman 10 days earlier. He was not at any time told of his right to counsel.
June 14, 1966 – The Vatican abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.
June 23, 1966 – Octopussy and The Living Daylights appears as the final collection of James Bond short stories by the character’s creator, Ian Fleming, who died in 1964.
July 13, 1966 – In Chicago, United States, Richard Speck breaks into a nurses’ dormitory and murders eight of the nine student nurses who live there
June 25, 1966 – “You Can’t Hurry Love” – The Supremes
August 1, 1966 -Sniper Charles Whitman kills 15 people and wounds 31 from roof of the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower in the United States, after earlier killing his wife and mother.
The window of Sheftall’s Jewelry store at 2268 Guadalupe St. was shattered by a bullet fired by sniper Charles Whitman during the University of Texas Tower Shooting. The area around the store known locally as “The Drag” became a shooting zone, with at least seven gunshot victims taking cover inside the store until an ambulance could arrive.
August 16, 1966 – Fantastic Voyage, directed by Richard Fleischer, starring Stephen Boyd and Raquel Welch
August 18, 1966 – “Reach Out I’ll Be There” – by the Four Tops
August 29, 1966 – The Beatles end their U.S. tour with a concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco. It is their last performance as a live touring band.
September 8, 1966 – The first episode of Star Trek (“The Man Trap”) is aired.
September 9, 1966 –
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September 12, 1966 – The Monkees on NBC (1966–1968)
September 17, 1966 – Mission: Impossible on CBS (1966–1973)
October 1966 – In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash – The work inspired several films in the Parker Family Saga, including A Christmas Story (1983) and My Summer Story (1994). Shepherd is the narrator in both films.
October 1966– “The Land of 1000 Dances” – Wilson Pickett
October 27, 1966 – Walt Disney records his final filmed appearance prior to his death, detailing his plans for EPCOT, a utopian planned city to be built in Florida.
Also on this date – It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown airs for the first time on CBS.
November 1966 “I’m a Believer“/(I’m Not Your) Steppin’ Stone – The Monkees
November 1966 – “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” – The Royal Guardsmen
November 4, 1966 – 1966 flood of the Arno river in Italy hits Florence, flooding it to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books. In addition, a severe tidal flood hits Venice.
November 5, 1966 – The Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner cartoon Sugar and Spies premieres, it marks the final appearance of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner in the Golden Age of American Animation.
November 7, 1966 – Dumb Blonde by American singer-songwriter Dolly Parton. “Dumb Blonde” debuted at number 64 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart, becoming Parton’s first song to appear on the chart.
November 8, 1966 – The martial law imposed on the Israeli Arabs since the founding of the State of Israel is lifted completely and Arab citizens are granted the same rights as Jewish citizens under law.
November 19, 1966 – The St. Francis Xavier X-Men win their first Vanier Cup by defeating the Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks 40–14 in the 2nd Vanier Cup played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto.
December 1, 1966 – Stillorgan Shopping Centre, the first shopping centre in Ireland, was opened by the recently retired Taoiseach, Seán Lemass.
December 12, 1966 – A Man for All Seasons, directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Paul Scofield, Robert Shaw, Orson Welles – winner of 6 Academy Awards and 5 BAFTAs – (U.K.)
December 15, 1966 – Entertainment pioneer Walt Disney, best known for his creation of Mickey Mouse, breakthroughs in the field of animation, filmmaking, theme park design and other achievements, dies at the age of 65. He died while he was producing The Jungle Book, The Happiest Millionaire, and Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; the last three films under his personal supervision.
December 16, 1966 –Andrei Rublev, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky – (USSR)
December 18, 1966 – CBS in the United States airs the How the Grinch Stole Christmas! animated TV special for the first time.
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1967 – David Hockney – A Bigger Splash
1967 – Salvador Dalí – Tuna Fishing
1967 – Edward Delaney – Wolfe Tone (bronze statue)
1967 -The Jari project begins in the Amazon. The Jari project was a brainchild of US entrepreneur and billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig. The Jari project was an attempt to create a tropical tree farm in Brazil for producing pulp for paper.
1967 – Catherine Marshall – Christy. It is a historical fiction Christian novel by American author Catherine Marshall, set in the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee, in 1912. The novel was inspired by the work of Marshall’s mother, Leonora Whitaker, who taught impoverished children in the Appalachian region when she was a young, single woman. The novel explores faith, and mountain traditions such as moonshining, folk beliefs, and folk medicine.
1967 – “The Unicorn” – The Irish Rovers
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January 1967 – “Happy Together” – The Turtles
January 1, 1967 – Canada begins a year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of Confederation, featuring the Expo 67 World’s Fair.
1967 – St Christopher’s Hospice, the world’s first purpose-built secular hospice specializing in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Dame Cicely Saunders with the support of Albertine Winner.
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January 14,1967 – Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California‘s Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love
January 15, 1967 − Super Bowl I: the Green Bay Packers (NFL) won 35−10 over the Kansas City Chiefs (AFL)
Also on this date– Louis Leakey announces the discovery of pre-human fossils in Kenya; he names the species Kenyapithecus africanus.
January 23, 1967 – In Munich, the trial begins of Wilhelm Harster, accused of the murder of 82,856 Jews (including Anne Frank) when he led German security police during the German occupation of the Netherlands. He is eventually sentenced to 15 years in prison.
January 27. 1967 –Apollo 1: U.S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
Also on this date -The United States, Soviet Union and United Kingdom sign the Outer Space Treaty (ratified by USSR May 19; comes into force October 10), prohibiting weapons of mass destruction from space.
February 3, 1967 – Ronald Ryan becomes the last man hanged in Australia, for murdering a guard while escaping from prison in December 1965.
February 23, 1967 –Trinidad and Tobago is the first Commonwealth nation to join the Organization of American States.
Also on this date – The Twenty-fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution is enacted. It clarifies that the vice president becomes president if the president dies, resigns, or is removed from office by impeachment. It also establishes the procedure for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice president.
March 9, 1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva (February 28, 1926 – November 22, 2011) the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his second wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva stated her desire to defect in writing at the United States Embassy in New Delhi. The United States ambassador Chester Bowles offered her political asylum and a new life in the United States. She would later convert to Catholicism.
March 11, 1967 – A taped appearance by the Beatles on American Bandstand includes their new music video for the songs “Penny Lane” and “Strawberry Fields Forever“.
March 18, 1967 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land’s End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point.
March 26, 1967 – Jim Thompson, co-founder of the Thai Silk Company, disappears from the Cameron Highlands. He was an American businessman who helped revitalize the Thai silk industry in the 1950s and 1960s. At the time of his disappearance he was one of the most famous Americans living in Asia. Time magazine claimed he “almost singlehanded(ly) saved Thailand‘s vital silk industry from extinction”.
March 28, 1967 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio. The encyclical was on the topic of “the development of peoples” and that the economy of the world should serve mankind and not just the few.
April 15, 1967 -The season finale of season 12 of Gunsmoke airs. Season 12 of Gunsmoke was the first season of color episodes. Previous seasons were filmed in black-and-white. After 12 seasons and with declining ratings, almost gets cancelled, but protests from viewers, network affiliates and even members of Congress and especially William S. Paley, the head of the network, lead the network to move the series from its longtime late Saturday time slot to early Mondays for the fall—displacing Gilligan’s Island, which initially had been renewed for a fourth season but is cancelled instead. Gunsmoke would remain on CBS until 1975.
May 1, 1967 – Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu are married in Las Vegas.
May 26, 1967 – The Beatles release the groundbreaking album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band in the United Kingdom. It becomes one of the most influential albums in popular music history.
May 27, 1967 – The Australian referendum, 1967 passes with an overwhelming 90% support, removing, from the Australian Constitution, 2 discriminatory sentences referring to Indigenous Australians. It signifies Australia’s first step in recognizing Indigenous rights.
June 2, 1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into fights, during which 27-year-old student Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group 2 June Movement.
June 5, 1967 – Six-Day War begins: Israel launches Operation Focus, an attack on Egyptian Air Force airfields; the allied armies of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, and Jordan invade Israel. Battle of Ammunition Hill, start of the Jordanian campaign.
June 12, 1967 –Loving v. Virginia: The United States Supreme Court declares all U.S. state laws prohibiting interracial marriage to be unconstitutional.
June 13, 1967 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 25, 1967 – 400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles‘ song “All You Need Is Love“.
June 26, 1967 –Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).
June 30, 1967 –Jacqueline Kennedy arrived in Ireland for a holiday with her children, Caroline and John. She was received at the president’s residence, Áras an Uachtaráin, where she was an overnight guest, by President Éamon de Valera and his wife, Sinéad. She was hosted in the evening by Taoiseach Jack Lynch and his wife Máirín at a state banquet in Dublin Castle.
August 26, 1967 – Herbert James “Burt” Munro (March 25, 1899 – January 6,1978) was a motorcycle racer from New Zealand, famous for setting an under-1,000 cc world record, at Bonneville. This record still stands; Munro was 68 and was riding a 47-year-old machine when he set his last record.
September 7, 1967 – The Flying Nun
September 8, 1967 – The final Tom and Jerry theatrical short, Purr-Chance to Dream (directed by Ben Washam and produced by Chuck Jones), premieres.
September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978 – The Carol Burnett Show ran for 279 episodes.
September 19, 1967 -“Massachusetts” – Bee Gees
September 1967 – “What a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong
October 4, 1967 – The Shag Harbour UFO incident occurs.
October 18, 1967 – Walt Disney‘s 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success. On a double bill with the film is the (now) much less well-known true-life adventure, Charlie the Lonesome Cougar.
October 20, 1967 – Bigfoot enthusiast Roger Patterson and his partner Robert “Bob” Gimlin were filming a Bigfoot docudrama in an area called Bluff Creek in Northern California. The pair claimed they came upon a Bigfoot and filmed the encounter. The 59.5-second-long video, dubbed the Patterson-Gimlin film (PGF), has become iconic in popular culture and Bigfoot-related history and lore. The PGF continues to be a highly scrutinized, analyzed, and debated subject
October 21, 1967 -Approximately 70,000 Vietnam War protesters march in Washington, D.C. and rally at the Lincoln Memorial; in a successive march that day, 50,000 people march to the Pentagon, where Allen Ginsberg, Abbie Hoffman, and Jerry Rubin symbolically chant to “levitate” the building and “exorcise the evil within.”
October 25, 1967 – The Abortion Act 1967 passes in the British Parliament and receives royal assent two days later.
November 7, 1967 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Carl B. Stokes is elected Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American elected mayor of a major United States city.
The 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution is celebrated in the Soviet Union.
November 14, 1967 – The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150-year anniversary of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as the “Day of the Colombian Woman”.
November 20, 1967 – The “population clock” of the United States Census Bureau records the U.S. population at 200 million people at 11:03 a.m. Washington, D.C. time.
November 24, 1967 – The first dedicated location for Chick-fil-A opened in the food court of the Greenbriar Mall in Atlanta.
November 25, 1967 – Pata Pata – by South African singer Miriam Makeba.
December 4, 1967 -At 6:50 PM, a volcano erupts on Deception Island in Antarctica.
December 3, 1967 – Christiaan Barnard carries out the world’s first heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
December 6, 1967 – At Maimonides Medical Center, Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz‘s team of surgeons performed the world’s first pediatric heart transplant attempt as well as the first human-to-human heart transplant in the United States.
December 19, 1967 – The Rescue Agreement setting forth rights and obligations in outer space is voted into consensus by the United Nations General Assembly.
December 29, 1967 – Hyundai Motor founded in South Korea.
December 31, 1967 – Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel attempts to jump 141 feet over the Caesars Palace Fountains on the Las Vegas Strip in the United States. Knievel crashes on landing and the accident is caught on film.
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1968 – Paul Delvaux – The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
1968 – American designer fashion retail chain Calvin Klein was founded by designer Calvin Klein and his childhood friend, Barry K. Schwartz.
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1968 – Carlos Castaneda: Godfather of the New Age The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge is published by the University of California Press as a work of anthropology, though it is now widely considered a work of fiction. It was written by Carlos Castaneda (December 25, 1925 – April 27, 1998) and submitted as his Master’s thesis in the school of Anthropology. It purports to document the events that took place during an apprenticeship with a self-proclaimed Yaqui “Man of Knowledge “Indian Sorcerer, don Juan Matus from Sonora, Mexico between 1960 and 1965.
January 1968 – The I’m Backing Britain campaign starts spontaneously.
January 8, 1968 – The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series premiers.
February 6–18, 1968 – The 1968 Winter Olympics are held in Grenoble, France.
February 8, 1968 – Civil rights movement in the United States: Orangeburg Massacre – A civil rights demonstration on a college campus to protest de facto racial segregation in South Carolina is broken up by highway patrolmen; three African American students are killed, the first instance of police killing student protestors at an American campus.
February 19, 1968 – National Educational Television in the United States begins airing preschool show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood nationally; it runs until 2001.
March 1 1968 – I’ve Been Loving You debut single by British musician Elton John.
Also on this date – Commonwealth Immigrants Act 1968 further reduces right of entry for citizens from the British Commonwealth to the United Kingdom.
March 16, 1968 – Vietnam War – My Lai massacre: American troops kill between 347 and 504 unarmed civilians and rape women and children. The story, initially covered up as a military victory, will first become public in November 1969 and will help undermine public support for the U.S. efforts in Vietnam.
Photograph taken by Ronald L. Haeberle of South Vietnamese women and children in Mỹ Lai before being killed in the massacre. According to Haeberle, soldiers had attempted to rip the blouse off the woman in the back while her mother, in the front of the photo, tried to protect her.
April 4, 1968 –Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.: Martin Luther King Jr. is shot dead at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee by James Earl Ray. King-assassination riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards.
April 6, 1968 – The 13th Eurovision Song Contest is held in the Royal Albert Hall, London. The winning song, Spain‘s “La, la, la” is sung by Massiel, after Spanish authorities refuse to allow Joan Manuel Serrat to perform it in Catalan. The UK finish in second place, just one point behind, with the song “Congratulations” sung by Cliff Richard, which goes on to outsell the winning Spanish entry throughout Europe.
April 7, 1967 –Roger Ebert‘s first review for the Chicago Sun-Times began: “Georges Lautner’s Galia opens and closes with arty shots of the ocean, mother of us all, but in between it’s pretty clear that what is washing ashore is the French New Wave.”
April 2, 1968. – Our Lady of Zeitoun – Our Lady of Zeitoun, was a mass Marian apparition that was reported to have occurred in the Zeitoun district of Cairo, Egypt, during a period of about 3 years
April 26, 1968 – The nuclear weapon “Boxcar” is tested at the Nevada Test Site in the biggest detonation of Operation Crosstie.
May 18, 1968 – Hot Wheels invented by Elliot Handler husband of Barbi creator, is first introduced.
June 3, 1968 – Radical feminist Valerie Solanas shoots Andy Warhol at his New York City studio, The Factory; he survives after a 5-hour operation.
June 5, 1968 – Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: Senator Robert F. Kennedy, a leading 1968 Democratic presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. Palestinian-born Sirhan Sirhan is arrested.
June 12, 1968– The Green Children of Woolpit Sir Herbert Edward Read, (December 4, 1893 – 12 June 12, 1968) dies. He wrote a book called The Green Child. The Green Child is the only completed novel by the English anarchist poet and critic Herbert Read. Written in 1934 and first published by Heinemann in 1935, the story is based on the 12th-century legend of two green children who mysteriously appeared in the English village of Woolpit, speaking an apparently unknown language.
June 23, 1968 – Puerta 12 tragedy: A football stampede in Buenos Aires leaves 74 dead and 150 injured. All of them Boca Juniors fans with an average age of 19, were crushed to death, as they attempted to leave the stadium following a match between River Plate and their arch-rivals Boca Juniors. This event is considered the worst disaster in Argentine sports history.
June 29, 1968 – Alex Lovy‘s cartoon See Ya Later Gladiator premieres, produced by Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Animation. It marks the final appearances of Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales in the original Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies series.
July 1968 -The American Indian Movement (AIM) is an American Indian grassroots movement which was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota initially centered in urban areas in order to address systemic issues of poverty, discrimination, and police brutality against American Indians. John Fire Lame Deer a Lakota holy man and member of the Heyoka society, grandson of the Miniconjou head man Lame Deer, and father of Archie Fire Lame Deer participated in American Indian Movement activist events, including sit-ins at the Black Hills.
July 17, 1968 – Saddam Hussein becomes Vice Chairman of the Revolutionary Council in Iraq after a coup d’état.
July 25, 1968 – Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical Humanae vitae, reaffirming the Catholic Church’s opposition to artificial birth control.
September 17, 1968 – The D’Oliveira affair: The Marylebone Cricket Club tour of South Africa is cancelled when the South Africans refuse to accept the presence of Basil D’Oliveira, a Cape Coloured, in the England side.
September 22, 1968 – Land of the Giants
September 23, 1968 – St. Pio of Pietrelcina (May 25, 1887 – September 23, 1968) dies.
September 24, 1968 – 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS
October 2, 1968 – Tlatelolco massacre: A student demonstration ends in bloodbath at La Plaza de las Tres Culturas in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, Mexico, 10 days before the inauguration of the 1968 Summer Olympics. 300-400 are estimated to have been killed.
October 3, 1968 –Mama Tried Merle Haggard (with the Strangers) (1968)
October 11, 1968 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first crewed Apollo mission (Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham). Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and simulating lunar module rendezvous and docking, using the S-IVB rocket stage as a test target.
October 12–27, 1968 – The 1968 Summer Olympics are held in Mexico City, Mexico.
October 16, 1968 – 1968 Olympics Black Power salute: In Mexico City, African-American athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos raise their fists in a Black Power salute after winning, respectively, the gold and bronze medals in the Olympic men’s 200 metres (with the support of Australian silver medallist Peter Norman).
November 7, 1968 – Start of the 1968 movement in Pakistan, which leads to the resignation of General Ayub Khan, and ultimately the split of the country and formation of Bangladesh.
November 17, 1968 – The “Heidi Game“: NBC cuts off the final 1:05 of an Oakland Raiders–New York Jets football game to broadcast the pre-scheduled Heidi. Fans are unable to see Oakland (which had been trailing 32–29) score 2 late touchdowns to win 43–32; as a result, thousands of outraged football fans flood the NBC switchboards to protest.
December 20, 1968 – Zodiac Killer Questions The Zodiac Killer is the pseudonym of an unidentified serial killer who operated in Northern California. The case has been described as the most famous unsolved murder case in American history and has become both a fixture of popular culture and a focus for efforts by amateur detectives. The first murders widely attributed to the Zodiac were the shootings of high school students Betty Lou Jensen and David Arthur Faraday.
December 22, 1968 – Mao Zedong advocates that educated urban youth in China be sent for re-education in the countryside. It marks the start of the “Up to the mountains and down to the villages” movement.
December 24, 1968 – Apollo program: The crewed U.S. spacecraft Apollo 8 enters orbit around the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and William Anders become the first humans to see the far side of the Moon and planet Earth as a whole, as well as having traveled further away from Earth than any people in history. Anders photographs Earthrise. The crew also give a reading from the Book of Genesis.
2 Years Before I Was Born
1969
1969 – Mai Dantsig – Partisan Ballad
1969 – Orville Redenbacher’s popcorn was launched.
1969 – The Wolftones* – Uncle Nobby’s Steamboat / God Save Ireland
1969 – Bobby Bonds in his first full season set a major league record with 187 strikeouts, while also leading the NL in runs. He also became the club’s fourth member in the 30–30 club. He subsequently became the first player to achieve the mark in three, four, and five seasons. His son Barry Bonds is the only other player with five 30–30 seasons.
1969 – The Mystery of Near-Death Experiences Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies Elisabeth Kübler-Ross publishes her book On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families.
January 16, 1969 – First successful docking of two crewed spacecraft in orbit and the first transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another (by a space walk) between Soviet craft Soyuz 5 and Soyuz 4.
January 19, 1969 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests.
January 28, 1969 – 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill: A blowout on Union Oil‘s Platform A spills 80,000 to 100,000 barrels of crude oil into a channel and onto the beaches of Santa Barbara County in Southern California; on February 5 the oil spill closes Santa Barbara‘s harbor. The incident inspires Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson to organize the first Earth Day in 1970.
February 9, 1969 – The Boeing 747 “jumbo jet” is flown for the first time, taking off from the Boeing airfield at Everett, Washington.
February 14, 1969 – Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day).
March 5, 1969 –The Ant and the Aardvark
April 3, 1969 – The Mass of Paul VI is promulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope.
April 8, 1969 – The Montreal Expos become Major League Baseball‘s first team outside the United States.
April 16, 1969 – “Bad Moon Rising” – Creedence Clearwater Revival
May 15, 1969 – An American teenager known as ‘Robert R.‘ dies in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America.
May 28, 1969 – Sweet Caroline” w.m. Neil Diamond
June 5, 1969 – One of my closet friends, Dave Patten and contributor to the Catholic Bard is born.
June 28, 1969 – The Stonewall riots, a milestone in the modern gay rights movement in the United States, began in New York City.
July 14, 1969 –Football War: After Honduras loses an association football match against El Salvador, rioting breaks out in Honduras against Salvadoran migrant workers. Of the 300,000 Salvadoran workers in Honduras, tens of thousands are expelled, prompting a brief Salvadoran invasion of Honduras. The OAS works out a cease-fire on July 18, which takes effect on July 20.
July 20, 1969- Apollo program Moon landing: At 3:17 pm ET (20:17 UTC) Apollo 11‘s Lunar Module Eagle lands on the Moon’s surface. At 10:56 pm ET (02:56 UTC July 21), an estimated 650 million people worldwide, the largest television audience for a live broadcast at this time, watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his first historic steps on the surface.
Telefís Éireann, which normally stopped broadcasting by midnight during the 1960s, transmitted its first all-night programme when the first men landed on the Moon at 9.17 pm, Irish time. The moonwalk began at 3.39 the next morning and ended at 6.11. The entire broadcast was hosted live by Kevin O’Kelly, working alone in front of the camera, and he won a Jacob’s Television Award for his performance.
July 31, 1969 – Hank Aaron hit his 537th home run, passing Mickey Mantle‘s total; this moved Aaron into third place on the career home run list, after Willie Mays and Babe Ruth.
Also on this date – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa
August 1, 1969 – Joseph W. Dailey (February 17, 1917 – July 5, 2007) becomes the 5th sergeant major of the Marine Corps. Dailey served in combat in three wars—World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War—earning the Silver Star for actions during the Battle of Okinawa and the Navy Cross and the Bronze Star Medal for heroism in Korea. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
August 2, 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon visits Romania, becoming the first incumbent U.S. president to visit a communist state since the start of the Cold War.
August 9, 1969 – On orders from Charles Manson, members of the Manson Family invade the Los Angeles home of film director Roman Polanski, and murder his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, and four others.
August 10, 1969 – A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of the Manson Family kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in Los Angeles.
August 15–18. 1969 – The Woodstock Festival is held near White Lake, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
August 21, 1969 – Australian Denis Michael Rohan sets fire to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
September 2, 1969 – Ho Chi Minh, the president of North Vietnam, dies at the age of 79.
September 6, 1969, to December 27, 1969 –H.R. Pufnstuf on NBC.
September 13, 1969 – Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! (1969–72) premiered as part of the network’s Saturday morning cartoon schedule.
September 20, 1969 – The last Merrie Melodies animated short, Injun Trouble, is released before Warner Bros. Cartoons closes down. This particular cartoon was rarely seen after its theatrical release following the controversy regarding the potentially offensive racist content and became the most obscure cartoon by Warner Bros. to date. This was the 1,000th cartoon short released by Warner Bros.
September 25, 1969 – The Organization of the Islamic Conference is founded. It consists of 57 member states, 48 of which are Muslim-majority.The organisation claims to be “the collective voice of the Muslim world” and works to “safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony”.
September 26, 1969 – The Brady Bunch premieres on ABC.
October 5, 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus is broadcast by the BBC.
October 18, 1969 – Caravaggio‘s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence (c.1609) is stolen from its frame in the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo, Sicily; it has not been recovered as of 2020.
October 29, 1969 – The first electronic message is sent between two computers connected via ARPANET between University of California, Los Angeles and SRI International in California at around 10:30pm local time, the initial forerunning technology to the Internet.
November 6, 1969 – Charles Colson was appointed as Special Counsel to President Nixon.
Once known as President Nixon’s “hatchet man”, Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg.[1] In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.
His mid-life religious conversion sparked a radical life change that led to the founding of his non-profit ministry Prison Fellowship and, three years later, Prison Fellowship International, to a focus on Christian worldview teaching and training around the world.
November 10, 1969 – Sesame Street makes its debut on NET (later PBS) (1969–present).
November 15, 1969 – Wendy’s is founded by Dave Thomas in Columbus, Ohio.
November 19, 1969 –Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (“Ocean of Storms”), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
Also on this date- Professional footballer Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
December 1, 1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held. September 14 is the first of the 366 days of the year selected, meaning that anyone born on September 14 in the years from 1944 to 1951 would be the first to be summoned. On January 4, 1970, The New York Times will run a long article, “Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random”.
December 4, 1969 – The first feature length Peanuts movie, A Boy Named Charlie Brown opens in theaters.
December 6, 1969 – Meredith Hunter is stabbed to death by Hells Angels at the Altamont Free Concert, an event which came to be viewed as the end of the hippie era and the de facto conclusion of late-1960s American youth culture.
December 7, 1969 – The Rankin/Bass Productions Christmas special Frosty the Snowman first airs.
December 10, 1969 – The Walt Disney Company releases It’s Tough to Be a Bird, directed by Ward Kimball. It is the final animated cartoon short released by Disney in the golden age of American animation.
December 12, 1969 – Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5 is the debut studio album by the American soul family band the Jackson 5.
1969 – The first documentary on Mother Teresa, by Malcolm Muggeridge, aired on BBC.
Children’s Continuing Series in the 1950s
Bobbsey Twins (1st Book 1904)
Raggedy Ann (1st Book 1918)
Just William (1st Book 1922)
Chalet School (1st Book 1925)
Tintin (1st Appearance (1929)
Shoe Series (1st Book 1936)
Classics Illustrated (1st Book 1941)
The Black Stallion (1st Book 1941)
Enid Blyton – The Famous Five (1st Book 1942)
Moomins (1st 1945)
The Rescuers Series- (1st 1959) Margery Sharp
Continuing Mystery and Adventure Series
Tom Swift (1st Stories 1910/1954) series by Edward Stratemeyer
Agatha Christie – Hercule Poirot (1st Mystery 1921)
The Hardy Boys Mystery Stories (1st Story 1927) by Franklin W. Dixon.
Leslie Charteris –The Saint (Simon Templar) (1st Adventure 1928)
Ellery Queen (1st Mystery 1929)
Margery Allingham –Albert Campion (1st Mystery 1929)
Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series (1st Story 1930) by Carolyn Keene.
Agatha Christie –Miss Marple (1st Mystery 1932)
Biggles (1st Adventure 1932)
Erle Stanley Gardner –Perry Mason (1st Case 1933)
Ngaio Marsh – Chief Inspector Alleyn (1st Mystery 1934)
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