This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Other things were happening in 1960
The Summer and Winter Olympics were played in Rome (summer) and Squaw Valley, California (winter). No snow until the start of The Olympics.
70 million watch the presidential debate
First working laser is built by T. H. Maiman (US)
Miss America: Lynda Lee Mead (MS)
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho hits the theaters
Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria, Madagascar, and Zaire (Belgian Congo... Read Full Story
This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Other things were happening in 1968
Movies
2001 A Space Odyssey
Funny Girl
The Lion in Winter
Miss America, Miss Debra Dene Barnes (KS)
North Korea seizes US Navy ship Pueblo, holds 83 on board as spies
Stanley Cup Montreal defeats St. Louis (4-0)
60 Minutes airs on CBS
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy shot and killed
US GDP $910.6 billion
Amniocentes is developed
Median Household Income $7,743
Helen Keller dies Read Full Story
This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Other things were happening in 1966.
Insulin is first synthesized in China
Unemployment 4.5%
Wimbledon Billie Jean King defeats M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
On July 1 Medicare begins
India suffers the worst famine in 20 years. Lyndon Johnson asks for $1 billion in aid for the country.
On September 8th the first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap" is broadcast.
World Series Baltimore defeats LA Lakers (4-0)
MIT... Read Full Story
This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Other things were happening in 1962.
Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show
NBA Championship Boston defeats LA Lakers (4-3)
Pat Brown defeats Richard Nixon in the California gubernatorial race
First-class stamp is $0.04
Mariner ll the first interplanetary probe reaches Venus
Eleanor Roosevelt dies
Cuban missile crisis Read Full Story
This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart.
Other things were happening in 1970.
Monday Night Football debuts on ABC
IBM introduces the floppy disk
The Beatles break up
On May 31 an earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Peru.
World Series- Baltimore defeats Cincinnati (4-1)
The LCD (liquid crystal display) is invented by Hoffman- La Roche (Switzerland)
Jimi and Janis die at the age of 27.
United States population around 205,052,000... Read Full Story
This lens is about all the songs that hit number one on the Billboard Pop Singles Chart.
Other things were happening in 1967.
In December of that year was the first human-to-human heart transplant is performed. Lpuis Washkansky died 18 days after the transplant.
The world population then was around 3.485 billion.
Rolling Stone Magazine debut in that year.
In October Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black US Supreme Court Justice.
January 27th Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col... Read Full Story
