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Time to take a trip back memory lane to the year 1965.....


Major Events

  • Singapore leaves Federatoin
  • Gambia Independent
  • Rhodesia Independence
  • War of Poverty
  • Violence in Selma
  • Voting Rights Act
  • Riots in Watts
  • Immigration Act
  • US Troops in Dominican Republic
  • "Unsafe At Any Speed"
  • Great Blackout
  • First Commercial Satellite



    Sports
  • NBA: Boston Celtics vs. LA Lakers Series: 4-3
    NCAA Football: Notre Dame & Michigan State record: 9-0-1 & 9-0-1
    Heisman Trophy: Steve Spurrier, florida, QB points: 1,679
    Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens vs. Detroit Red Wings Score: 4-2
    US Open Golf: Billy Casper Score: 278 Course: Olympic CC Location: San Francisco
    World Cup: England vs. West Germany Series: 4-2
    World Series: Baltimore Orioles vs. LA Dodgers Series: 4-0

    Popular Music of 1965

    1."The Sound of Silence" ... Simon and Garfunkel
    2."We Can Work It Out" ... The Beatles
    3."My Love" ... Petula Clark
    4."Lightnin' Strikes" ... Lou Christie
    5."These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" ... Nancy Sinatra
    6."The Ballad of the Green Berets" ... Sgt. Barry Sadler
    7."Soul and Inspiration" ... The Righteous Brothers
    8."Good Lovin'" ... The Young Rascals
    9."Monday, Monday" ... The Mamas and the Papas
    10."When a Man Loves a Woman" ... Percy Sledge

    Popular Movies

    1. Thunderball
    2. Doctor Zhivago
    3. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
    4. That Darn Cat
    5. The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming
    6. Lt. Robin Crusoe, USN
    7. The Silencers
    8. Torn Curtain
    9. Our Man Flint
    10. A Patch of Blue

     

    Grammy Awards

    Record of the Year: "Strangers in the Night" ... Frank Sinatra
    "Michelle" ... John Lennon, Paul McCartney "Sinatra: A Man and His Music" ... Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra ... "Strangers in the Night" Edyie Gorme ... "If He Walked into My Life Today"

     

    Academy Awards

    Best Picture: "A Man for All Seasons"
    Best Director: Fred Zinnemann ... "A Man for All Seasons"
    Best Actor: Paul Scofield ... "A Man for All Seasons"
    Best Actress: Elizabeth Taylor ... "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

    Most Popular Books

    Fiction
    1."The Source"...James A. Michener. Random House
    2."Up the Down Staircase"...Bel Kaufman. Prentice-Hall
    3."Herzog"... Saul Bellow. Viking Press
    4."The Looking Glass War"...John Le Carre. Coward-McCann
    5."The Green Berets"...Robin Moore. Crown
    6."Those Who Love"...Irving Stone. Doubleday
    7."The Man with the Golden Gun"... Ian Fleming. New American
    Library
    8."Hotel"... Arthur Hailey. Doubleday
    9."The Ambassador"... Morris West. Morrow
    10. "Don't Stop the Carnival" ...Herman Wouk, Doubleday
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    Nonfiction
    1."How To Be a Jewish Mother" ...Dan Greenburg. Price/Stern/ Sloan
    2."A Gift of Prophecy" ...Ruth Montgomery. Morrow
    3."Games People Play"... Eric Berne, M.D. Grove Press
    4."World Aflame"... Billy Graham. Doubleday
    5."Happiness Is a Dry Martini"...Johnny Carson. Doubleday
    6."Markings"...Dag Hammarskjold. Knopf
    7."A Thousand Days"... Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. Houghton Mifflin
    8."My Shadow Ran Fast"...Bill Sands. Prentice-Hall
    9."Kennedy"...Theodore C. Sorensen. Harper & Row
    10."The Making of the President, 1964" ... Theodore H. White.
    Atheneum

    Most Popular Television Shows

    1. Bonanza (NBC)
    2. Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. (CBS)
    3. The Lucy Show (CBS)
    4. The Red Skelton Hour (CBS)
    5. Batman (Thur.) (ABC)
    6. The Andy Griffith Show (CBS)
    7. Bewitched (ABC)
    8. The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS)
    9. Hogan's Heroes (CBS)
    10. Batman (Wed.) (ABC)

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