TIME CAPSULE
CIVIL RIGHTS, THE ASTRODOME AND LOST IN SPACE
1965: F-Troop and Gatorade
More than 30,000 join the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s civil rights march to Montgomery, Alabama. A traffic stop gone wrong leads to riots in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood that leave 34 dead and more than 1,000 injured. TV favorites F-Troop,
Lost in Space, Green Acres, I Dream of Jeannie and Get Smart all debut in the same week. Helen Gurley Brown starts to turn Cosmopolitan into the single woman’s bible. And sports will never be the same after a University of Florida scientist invents Gatorade.
JAN. 2 The New York Jets sign University of Alabama quarterback
Joe Namath for a reported $427,000.
JAN. 4 President
Lyndon B. Johnson unveils his “Great Society” initiative to advance civil rights and aid those in poverty.
FEB. 15 Canada raises its new red and white maple leaf flag for the first time.
FEB. 21 Malcolm X is shot to death in New
York City.
MARCH 2 The Sound
of Music movie premieres in New York City.
MARCH 7 Alabama troopers attack civil rights marchers on Selma’s Edmund Pettus Bridge.
MARCH 8 The first American combat troops land in Vietnam.
APRIL 9 The Astros beat the Yankees in the first indoor baseball game, held in Houston’s new
Astrodome, top right. MAY 10 Warren Buffett takes over BerkshireHathaway, a New England textile firm.
MAY 16 FrancoAmerican’s SpaghettiOs, right, hit the market.
MAY 18 President Johnson introduces the Head Start program as a lifeline for kids from low-income families.
MAY 25 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston with the so-called “phantom punch” in the first round to keep his heavyweight boxing title.
JUNE 3 Astronaut Ed White is the first American to walk in space.
JULY 27 Cigarette makers are required to print “cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health” on all packs.
JULY 30 Medicare becomes law. AUG. 14 Sonny and Cher’s “I Got You Babe” reaches No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
AUG. 28 Fred DeLuca, 17, opens his first Subway restaurant with $1,000 in startup money.
AUG. 29 Gemini 5, below left, splashes down after a record eight days in space.
AUG. 31 President Johnson outlaws the burning of draft cards.
SEPT. 9 Dodgers lefty Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game against the Chicago Cubs.
OCT. 4 Pope Paul VI is the first pontiff to visit the Western Hemisphere with an outdoor Mass at Yankee Stadium.
OCT. 6 Patricia Roberts Harris becomes the United States’ first African American female envoy, posted in Luxembourg.
OCT. 28 The Gateway Arch, designed by Eero Saarinen, is completed in St. Louis, Missouri.
NOV. 8 The long-running soap Days of Our Lives premieres on NBC.
DEC. 31 American troops in Vietnam number 184,300.