Tuesday, April 7, 2009

43 years ago...

Yep...I made an appearance. Happy birthday to me LOL

In 1966...

World~

  • Population: 3.415 billion
  • France withdraws its forces from NATO. President De Gaulle visits the USSR (June 20).
  • Sukarno leaves office in Indonesia; Suharto assumes power.
  • Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana become independent states within the British Commonwealth.
  • India suffers the worst famine in 20 years; Lyndon Johnson asks for $1 billion in aid to the country.

US~

  • President: Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
  • Population: 196,560,338
  • Life expectancy: 70.2 years
  • Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 26.7
  • Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 24.5
  • Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.9
  • Medicare begins (July 1).
  • Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona, protecting rights of the accused.
  • Stokeley Carmichael elected president of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

Economics~

  • Federal spending: $134.53 billion
  • Federal debt: $328.5 billion
  • Consumer Price Index: 32.4
  • Unemployment: 4.5%
  • Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

Sports~

  • World Series: Baltimore d. LA Dodgers (4-0)
  • NBA Championship: Boston d. LA Lakers (4-3)
  • Stanley Cup: Montreal d. Detroit (4-2)
  • Wimbledon:
    Women: Billie Jean King d. M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
    Men: Manuel Santana d. D. Ralston (6-4 11-9 6-4)
  • Kentucky Derby Champion: Kauai King
  • NCAA Basketball Championship: Texas Western d. Kentucky (72-65)
  • NCAA Football Champions: Notre Dame (AP, UPI, FW, NFF-tie) (9-0-1) & Michigan St. (NFF-tie) (9-0-1)
  • World Cup: England d. W. Germany (4-2)

Entertainment~
Events~

  • The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8. The plot concerns a creature that sucks salt from human bodies.
  • CBS backs out of plans to broadcast Psycho, deeming the movie too violent for at-home viewing.
  • The old Metropolitan Opera House is abandoned as the company moves to Lincoln Center. The new Metropolitan Opera opens with Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra.

Movies~

  • A Man for All Seasons
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Alfie, A Man and a Woman

Books~

  • John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
  • Paul Bowles, Up Above the World
  • Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
  • Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists
  • Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
  • Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49

Entertainment Awards~

  • Pulitzer Prizes~
    Fiction: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
    Music: Variations for Orchestra, Leslie Bassett
  • Oscars awarded~
    Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
  • Grammys awarded~
    Record of the Year: "A Taste of Honey," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
    Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
    Song of the Year: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, songwriters
  • Miss America: Deborah Irene Bryant (KS)

Science~

  • Insulin is first synthesized in China.
  • MIT biochemist Har Khorana finishes deciphering the DNA code.
  • The Food and Drug Administration declares "the Pill" safe for human use.

Nobel Prizes in Science~

  • Chemistry: Robert Sanderson Mulliken (US), for research on bond holding atoms together in molecule.
  • Physics: Alfred Kastler (France), for work on energy levels inside atom.
  • Physiology or Medicine: Charles Brenton Huggins (US), for studies in hormone treatment of cancer of prostate; Francis Peyton Rous (US), for discovery of tumor-producing viruses.

And sadly, Walt Disney passed away.

A rather busy year...

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