MAJOR EVENTS:

• After completing what would have been the final year of John F. Kennedy's first term, President Johnson re-elected in a landslide over Barry Goldwater.
• President Johnson declares "war on poverty," introduces a variety of federal welfare programs, including Medicare (initially proposed by Kennedy in 1960) .
• Three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi during "Freedom Summer".
• 24th Amendment to Constitution adopted, ensuring fair voting practices.
• Race riots break out in Harlem and other U.S. cities.
• Time magazine named Martin Lutehr King, Jr. as the Man of the Year. Dr. King won the Nobel Pease Prize.
• President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act on July 3.
• Investigating the Kennedy assassination, the Warren Commission determines that "Oswald acted alone" in killing the president.
• U.S. military forces launch attacks on North Vietnam in response to an alleged attack on a U.S. destroyer off the Vietnamese coast; Congress passes Gulf of Tonkin resolution that gives the President greater freedom to authorize combat actions in Vietnam.
• Soviet leader Khrushchev falls from power, is ultimately replaced by Leonid Brezhnev.
• Anchorage, Alaska hit by massive earthquake.
• Turkey attacks Cyprus.
• Pulitzer Prizes cancelled as committee announces no work is good enough.
• New York hosted the World's Fair.
• U. S. Surgeon General Luther Terry declared smoking to be a health hazard.
• Died: Peter Lorre, Cole Porter, Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Alan Ladd, Harpo Marx, Eddie Cantor, and Gracie Allen.

• Teamsters leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud, conspiracy and jury tampering.
• The average hourly wage for blue collar workers has increased from between 50 and 75 percent since 1949.

• Space probe Mariner IV flies by Mars, transmitting pictures of the planet's surface back to earth. " The world's longest suspension bridge, the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York, opens.
• Concern in Britain over "brain drain," or the mass emigration of British scientists to the U.S.
• World's Fair held in New York.
• First lung transplant.

• World Series: St. Louis over New York Yankees, 4-3.
• Olympics held in Tokyo.
• Cassius Clay (the future Muhammad Ali) defeats Sonny Liston to win heavyweight boxing title.
• Northern Dancer won the Kentucky Derby.

• Movies: Lord of the Flies, A Hard Day's Night, My Fair Lady, Goldfinger, Zorba the Greek, Mary Poppins.
• Songs: I Want to Hold Your Hand, Hello Dolly!, She Loves You, Can't Buy Me Love, Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Oh Pretty Woman, Baby Love, My Guy.
• TV Shows: The Munsters, The Virginian, Daniel Boone, Outer Limits, Gilligan's Island, Man From UNCLE, Flipper, Dr. Kildare, Voyage the the Bottom of the Sea.
• Books: A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemmingway (posthumous publication); Herzog, Saul Bellow; In His Own Write, John Lennon. "
• Beatlemania" spreads as the Beatles become a global phenomenon.
• Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton after divorcing Eddie Fisher 10 days before.

FUN FACTS:

• The highest rated records for the year are the:
  Beach Boys' All Summer Long.
  Dionne Warwick, Anyone Who Had A Heart and Make Way For Dionne Warwick.
  The Supremes' Where Did Our Love Go?
  Mary Wells' My Guy.
  Bob Dylan, Another Side of Bob Dylan.
• The Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show, and released A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale.