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Where were you?
We were between Poodle Skirts and Mini Skirts, before Woodstock, before Flower Power and Peace Signs.
Most people know where they were when they heard JFK had been shot. How about seeing the Beatles on Ed Sullivan?
Following are some of the events that took place while we were in high school. Some changed the course of history (some didn't).
1960
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Greensboro NC Woolworth
1st Playboy Club, featuring bunnies, opens in Chicago
USSR launch 1st (unmanned) space capsule
USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"
1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
Flintstones premiers (1st prime time animation show)
Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe at UN General Assembly session
1st electronic wrist watch placed on sale, NYC
Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1961
Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
Jim Bakker marries Tammy Faye
Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth
1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro
1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
JFK sets goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade
1st in-flight movie shown (TWA)
Construction on Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
Soviet Union tests a 58 megaton hydrogen bomb
1st performance of the Beach Boys
1962
Canadian Marine Service renamed Coast Guard
US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose
UN announces Earth population has hit 3 billion
ABC's 1st color TV series-The Jetsons
Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite
Cuban missile crisis began as JFK becomes aware of missiles in Cuba
Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
1963
1st discotheque opens, The Whiskey-a-go-go in Los Angeles CA
Khrushchev claims to have a 100-megaton nuclear bomb
1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"
Mickey Mantle of New York Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000
Alcatraz federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay closed
British Minister of War John Profumo denies having sex with Christine Keeler
Martin Luther King Jr delivers his "I have a dream" speech
Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6
Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie," radio stations label it obscene
Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
John F Kennedy 35th U.S. President, shot dead in Dallas, Texas
1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964
Jack
Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"
US
Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous
GI
Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
France
& Great-Britain sign accord over building channel tunnel
Cassius
Clay becomes a Muslim & adopts the name Muhammad Ali
1st
appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
Ford
Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1st
BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
Separatists
riot in Québec
South
Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment
US
begins bombing North Vietnam
Beatles
are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
Beatles perform at Montreal Forum
1965
Obverse design of
all Canadian coins is changed to depict present-day
Winston Churchill
PM of Britain, dies at 90
Canada replaces the
Union Jack flag with the Maple Leaf
Gas explosion kills
28 in apartment complex (La Salle, Québec)
1st US combat
forces arrive in South Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
USSR launches
Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes 1st spacewalk (20 minutes)
Albert Schweitzer
dies
"Get
Smart" premiers
Massive power
failure in New England, & Ontario (NY blackout)
"A Charlie
Brown Christmas" premieres