06/25/2010 | Dunseith Alumni

Year correction for Hannah Loeb (39)

Folks, Yesterday I listed Hannah Loeb as being with the class of 49. She was with the class of 39, not 49. Another careless mistake on my part. Hannah Loeb and Art Rude were in the same class. Art was advanced a year along the way, so he was a year younger. Armand Mongeon told me that Art Rude would have been in his class of 1940 had he not been advanced a grade.

More Facts from 1965

From Bill Grimme (65): Birmingham, AL.

World News

By year’s end, there are 190,000 American soldiers in Vietnam.

The India-Pakistan hostility erupts into war.

Ferdinand Marcos is inaugurated as the new Philippine President.

An new red-white-maple leaf design is adopted as the flag of Canada, replacing the old Canadian Red Ensign banner.

Russian cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first person to walk in space, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes.

France announces it will convert $150 million of its currency to gold.

Britain bans cigarette ads on television.

The miniskirt, designed by Brit Mary Quaint, appears in London and will soon be all the rage.

National News:

The Star of India and other stolen gems are returned to the NY’s American Museum of Natural History.

For 21 minutes, Edward H. White is the first American to “space walk” outside Gemini IV

Nonfiction Best Sellers: “How to Be a Jewish Mother” by Dan Greenburg, “Word Aflame” by Billy Graham and “Happiness is a Dry Martini” by Johnny Carson

President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

Federal Voting Rights Act passes, guaranteeing rights to African-American voters.

In St. Louis, MO, the 630 foot tall steel Gateway Arch is completed.

The U. S. Supremen Court decides Griswold v. Connecticut, which effectively legalizes the use of contraception by married couples

Music:

Bob Dylan “goes electric” with his first album featuring plugged-in instruments, “Bringing it All Back Home”

The Beatles are appointed Members of the Order of the British Empire.

The rock group Jefferson Airplane forms.

Top Songs:

Back in My Arms Again – The Supremes

Eight Days a Week – The Beatles

Get Off My Cloud – The Rolling Stones