| DID YOU KNOW 1960-1969 In 1967, the world's first
heart transplant was performed in Cape Town, South Africa, by Christian
Barnard, but the patient lived only 18 days. New York Surgeon
Adrian Kantrowitz performed the operation four days later, but his
patient only lived a few hours.
Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 by James Earl Ray, an ex-convict from the Mississippi Penitentiary. The Poor People's March on Washington in 1968 protested the hunger problem in the United States. The Department of Agriculture loosened the restrictions on the Food Stamp Program. Japan became the world's second strongest economic power aft the U.S. when its Gross National Product (GPN) exceeded $140 billion in 1968. Sesame Street, created by the Children's Television Workshop, debuted on public television in 1969 and began to change attitudes about children's learning capabilities. The Woodstock music festival reigned for four days in the Catskill Mountains in 1969. Recreational drugs were quite widespread. The gay rights movement began in 1969 in New York with the Stonewall Inn Riot, in protest of a police raid of a dance club and bar in Greenwich Village. President Kennedy's widow, Jackie, married Greek tycoon Aristotle Onassis in 1968. In 1960, a Japanese company introduced the first felt tip pen. Johnson & Johnson introduced Tylenol in 1961. The Supreme Court ruled that reading verses from the Bible in public schools was unconstitutional in 1963. New York renamed its Idlewild airport in memory of assassinated president John F. Kennedy in 1963 A gallon of gas in 1964 would cost you about 30 cents. "Amos and Andy" was taken off the air amid protests of racial stereotyping. Ironically, black actors were laid off a result. The U. S. wasn't first: Britain banned cigarette advertising from television. The Grateful Dead began its 30 year run. The worst power failure in history blacked out Ontario and nine U. S. states, including New York. The power was out for 12 hours; nine months later, a whole lot of post boomer babies were born. |