1965 History, Trivia and Fun Facts

• Sports: Astroturf was invented.
• The Top Song was (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction by The Rolling Stones
• The Big Movies included The Sound of Music, Doctor Zhivago and Thunderball
• Introduced in 1965, the Pillsbury Doughboy's name is actually Poppin'Fresh.
• Price of Volkwagon 'Bug' Beetle in 1965: $1,595.00
  Bufferin Aspirin: 99 cents/100
  Price of a movie ticket: 1.00
• The World Population was ~ 3,330,000,000
• Flower of Scotland, the unofficial national anthem of Scotland, was only written in 1965
• Mystery Date and Trouble (board games) were introduced in 1965.
• Operation (motor skills game) was also released.
• And... In 1965, "Slumber Party" Barbie dolls came with a diet book entitled How to Lose Weight which included text like "Don't eat!" and a bathroom scale set to 110 lbs.

Pete Townshend of The Who wrote the lyric "Hope I die before I get old" for My Generation after England's Queen Mother had his 1935 Packard hearse towed from the front of his home.

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first person to 'walk' in space, on March 18th, next to the Voskhod 2.'

Sandy Koufax, Dodgers's pitcher, refused to pitch in Game 1 of the 1965 World Series due Yom Kippur, (The Day of Atonement). Many people followed his example that day by putting religion before career -skipping work and school.

Hugh Hefner threw a Batman-themed party back in 1965; ABC executive Yale Udoff was in attendance and ended up pitching the idea for the Batman TV show launched in 1966.

Keith Richards came up with the famous guitar riff for "Satisfaction" when he woke up from a deep sleep and sung the riff for 3 seconds into a tape recorder only then to fall back to sleep again.

When McDonalds first became a publicly traded company in 1965, many Wall Street brokers were wary as they had never heard of it.

Girls used to buy comic books as often as boys. "Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane" was the third best-selling title in 1965, selling four times as many copies as today's most-popular comic book.

Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old, set the scientifically-documented record for the longest a non-stimulated human has gone without sleep, by staying up over 11 days... all for his science fair project.

The longest interview Martin Luther King, Jr. ever gave was to Playboy Magazine. It ran in two parts, with Alex Haley as the interviewer.

The longest recorded time spent awake was set in 1965- Randy Gardner, a 17-year-old high school student, stayed awake for 264 hours.

Muhammad Mahmood Alam, a Pakistani fighter pilot shot down four enemy aircraft in 30 seconds, then shot another one within the minute, and has held that world record still stands.

Bob Dylan said that if he ever sold out to a commercial interest, it would be "ladies garments." In 2007, he and his music appeared in a Victoria's Secret commercial.

Finished in 1965, the St Louis Arch's Height and Width are the same: 630 ft.

Construction of the Duomo of Milan began in 1386, but wasn't considered complete until the final bronze door was installed in 1965, after nearly 600 years.

T.G.I. Friday's began in Manhattan in 1965 as one of the world's first singles bars. It was very successful, in part because 480 stewardesses lived nearby. The restaurant became family-oriented only after expanding to the suburbs.

Ronald Reagan's first autobiography was titled "Where's the Rest of Me?" (1965) from a line in the movie King's Row (1942) where his character wakes up to find that his legs have been amputated.

James Russell invented the compact disc in 1965, although the public first got a first taste of this invention in 1980.

Joseph Licklider's 1962 idea became a reality with his Integalactic Computer Network in 1965, the first internet. Al Gore claimed the Court of Public Opinion 'common knowledge' Internet creator title in the late 1990s.

US Senator John McCain won Jeopardy in 1965.

Howard Stringer got drafted six weeks after finding a job at CBS in New York in 1965. He complied with the draft notice, spent a year in Vietnam, returned to his job, and became head of the TV network in 1988.

Pop singer Bobby Darin (real name: Walden Robert Cassotto) was an advocate for civil rights and participated in a 1965 civil rights march to Alabama.

Chris Matulich's New Orleans restaurant "Chris Steak House" was bought by Ruth Furtel in 1965. Thus oddly named "Ruth's Chris Steak House".

A Ukrainian farmer dug up the lower jawbone of a mammoth. Further excavations revealed the presence of 4 huts, made up of a total of 149 mammoth bones. These dwellings, dating back some 15,000 years, were determined to have been some of the oldest shelters ever built.

Gatorade was created and named in 1965 by scientists at the University of Florida at the request of the head coach of the football team. When the Gators won the Orange Bowl, the opposing coach said about the loss, "We didn't have Gatorade. That made the difference."

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