Time Capsule High School Class of 1965
Key Facts of
1965
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President: Lyndon B.
Johnson
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Vice President: Hubert Humphrey
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Cost of a gallon of gas: 31 cents
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Cost of a gallon of milk: 95 cents
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Cost of a dozen of eggs: 53 cents
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Cost of a new home: $21,500
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Cost of a first class postage stamp: 5
cents
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Unemployment: 5.2%
Notable Inventions of
1965
Time Capsule of
1965:
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The war in Vietnam escalates with over 100,000 U.S. troops and an intensive bombing
campaign.
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The first significant campus protests against the war begins.
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U.S. Marines are sent to the Dominican Republic to prevent an allegedly
imminent leftist takeover.
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After two months of nationally-watched civil rights demonstrations in
Selma, Alabama, President Johnson wins congressional approval of the historic Voting Rights Act, which
will make blacks a political force in the south.
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Black nationalist leader Malcolm X shot to death in New York.
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The Medicare program becomes law.
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The first spacewalk and rendezous of spacecraft.
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A power failure in a Toronto plant, the biggest in history, blacks out
80,000 square miles from southeastern Canada to Boston.
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The ultro-resilient Super-Ball is the biggest toy fad since the Hula
Hoop.
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Skateboarding is in the midst of its first wave of national
popularity.
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Sandy Koufax pitches the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series
Championship over the Minnesoto Twins.
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The Green Bay Packers beat the Cleveland Browns in the NFL championship
game. Jim Brown will retire a year later and end a remarkable career to go into movies.
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Movies: The
top money makers at the boxoffice were The Sound of
Music, (starring Julie Andrews,)
Doctor Zhivago, Thunderball and Those Magnificient Men In
Their Flying Machines.
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Top Musical Artists of
1965:
 
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1965:
 
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