Complete the “Year You Were Born” Activity
This assignment is easy. Just do some research and share some interesting facts from the year you were born. Share things like historical events, TV Shows, movies, books, songs, who won different sporting events, anything really. Here is a compilation of people, places and things that happened in 1967, the year I was born.
Lyndon Baynes Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was originally the vice president under President John F. Kennedy from 1961 to 1963, but was sworn in as president after Kennedy’s assassination. He was then re-elected and served until 1969.
In 1967, the world population was about 3.5 billion, while the US population was about 197 thousand.
One of the worst tragedies in the history of spaceflight occurred on January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral.
Despite the Apollo tragedy, NASA launched the Saturn V rocket for the first time on November 8, 1967.
This is the original brochure from 1967 for this cute little house in Grandview, MO that could originally be had for $16,300. The same family lived in it for 54 years, never modified it and sold it in 2021 for $158,000.
Minimum wage was $1.40 per hour. A gallon of gas was 33 cents. Coca-Cola has been around since 1886 and for 73 years, until 1959, the price of a bottle of Coke was set at 5 cents, but by 1967 it had gone up to 29 cents. The Ford Mustang Hardtop retailed for $2,592, the Fastback retailed for $2,692, and the Convertible retailed for $2,698. You could buy your family a dozen eggs for 33 cents, three boxes of Kellogg’s cereal for $1 and six cans of frozen orange juice concentrate for another $1. Then for dinner, you could get some Swanson’s TV dinners for 39 cents each and have frozen chocolate pie for 25 cents.
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles and Daydream Believer by The Monkees were both released in 1967. I remember watching The Monkees TV show in syndication as a teenager and had a huge crush on Davy Jones (what teenage girl didn’t?), but it originally came out in 1966 and ran for only two seasons.
Native New Yorker and aspiring journalist, Jann Wenner, released the first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine on November 9, 1967. It featured John Lennon on the cover and had stories about Jimi Hendrix, the Who, and Pink Floyd.
A Man for All Seasons won 6 Academy Awards that year and Elizabeth Taylor won Best Actress for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. A movie ticket cost $1.25, or four people could go to a drive-in for $2.00 per car.
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