1965
1960s Era
Act I
The World Stage
1965
3.3B
people on Earth when this year began
Today
8.2B
+4.9B more people since
🇺🇸
US President
Lyndon B. Johnson
🇬🇧
UK Prime Minister
Harold Wilson
🇺🇳
UN Secretary-General
U Thant
Defining Moments
US sends troops to Vietnam
Malcolm X assassinated
Voting Rights Act signed
Watts riots in Los Angeles
Act II
Culture & Entertainment
#1 Song
Wooly Bully
Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs
- ♪ The Beatles - Help!
- ♪ Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
#1 Movie
The Sound of Music
Oscar Best Picture: The Sound of Music
- 🎥 The Sound of Music
- 🎥 Doctor Zhivago
- 🎥 Thunderball
Top TV Shows
- 📺 Bonanza
- 📺 Bewitched
- 📺 The Beverly Hillbillies
Notable Books
- 📚 Dune - Frank Herbert
Act III
Technology & Science
First commercial communications satellite
Compact cassette introduced
Space
First spacewalk (Alexei Leonov) • Mariner 4 reaches Mars
Nobel Peace Prize
UNICEF
Nobel Physics
Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Julian Schwinger, Richard Feynman
Act IV
Cost of Living
Gas / Gallon
$0.31
Today: $3.50
Milk / Gallon
$1.05
Today: $4.15
Movie Ticket
$1.01
Today: $11.75
Average Home
$14,400
Today: $420,000
New Car
$2,650
Today: $49,500
Postage Stamp
$0.05
Today: $0.73
Average Salary
$5,500 / year (min wage: $1.25/hr)
Act V
Sports Champions
World Series
Los Angeles Dodgers
NBA Finals
Boston Celtics
Super Bowl
N/A (first in 1967)
Act VI
Our Planet
CO₂ Levels
0
parts per million
Today: 422 ppm
Temperature Anomaly
-0.11°C
vs. pre-industrial average
Today: +1.45°C
Life Expectancy
70.2 years