- Ninety-five
percent of all homes in America had TV sets; 40 percent were color TVs
- Inflation
was running at 5.7%, unemployment at 3.5%
- The first
draft lottery was held
- Midnight
Cowboy won the Acamemy Award for Best Picture
- Bowie
Kuhn was named baseball commissioner
- That
summer, women were wearing midriff blouses with Dietrich pants or Gable
shorts and clogs; men's suits had wide lapels and ties were 3 1/2 to
5 inches wide.
- John
Lennon and Yoko Ono married
- "-wise"
(as in "careerwise" or "fashionwise") was one of
the buzzwords of the day
- Portnoy's
Complaint by Phillip Roth; The Godfather by Mario Puzo; The
Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull; and The
Graham Kerr Cookbook were some of the year's best sellers
- The underdog
New York Jets led by Joe Namath upset the Baltimore Colts to become
the first AFL team to win the Super Bowl
- Aqaurius/Let
The Sunshine In by the 5th Dimension won the Grammy for best record;
Blood, Sweat and Tears' self-titled effort took best album
- The first
commercial 747 went into service
- Use of
DDT in residential areas was banned
- "Good
Morning Starshine" from the musical Hair was a hit song
- A riot
following a police raid at a gay bar in Greenwich village, New York,
was the beginning of the gay rights movement
- Play
It Again, Sam and Butterflies Are Free opened on Broadway
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