“Yea, I grew up in the Sixties — Yea, it was that crazy”

Text Box: 1st operational weather satellite, ESSA-1 launched (US) 
Dow-Jones Index hits record 995 points 
Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19 meter indoor world record 
John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus" 
Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles 
James Meredith wounded by white sniper 
Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF) 
LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act 
Richard Speck rapes & kills 8 nurses in a Chicago dormitory 
Lenny Bruce comedian, dies of a morphine overdose 
Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering the Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again 
Beatles last public concert, (Candlestick Park, SF) 
"Star Trek" premiers on NBC-TV 
National Organization of Women founded 
1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) 
Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California 
US Roman Catholic bishops did away with rule against eating meat on Fridays 
400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog

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« Escalation in Vietnam

« Protests heat up

« Black militants emerge

« Miranda decision

« Charles Whitman fires from the Texas tower

« Walt Disney dies at age 65

« New York’s Metropolitan Opera closes

« New York Stock Exchange peaks at 995 then drops to 744

« Medicare begun

« First Mini-skirts appear

« Timothy Leary's LSD ushers in drug use

« Jack Nicklaus wins all four majors

« All US cigarette packs have to carry "Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health"

« "Batman" with Adam West & Burt Ward premieres on ABC TV

« USAF B-52 carrying 4 unarmed hydrogen bombs crashes on Spanish coast at Palomares, 7 die

« 1st soft landing on the Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

« Julian Bond denied seat in Georgia legislature for opposing Vietnam War

« Indira Gandhi elected India's 3rd prime minister

The Year Was 1966