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19RR Fun Farts and r 1968 Cost of Living • Yearly Inflation Rate in the USA: 4.27% • Year End Dow Jones Industrial Average: 943 • Average Cost of new house: $14,950.00 • Average Income per year: $7,850.00 • Average Monthly Rent: $130.00 • Gas per Gallon: 34 cents • Average Cost of a new car: $2,822.00 • Movie Ticket: $1.50 • The Federal Hourly Minimum Wage is: $1.60 an hour News • Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot and killed on April 4, 1968 by James Earl Ray. The assassination led to a nationwide wave of race riots in Washington D.C., Chicago, Baltimore, Louisville, Kentucky, Kansas City, and dozens of other cities. • Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968. • Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. • President Johnson announces on nationwide television he would not run for another term of office • The nuclear-powered U.S. submarine Scorpion sank in the Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 99 crew members. • Truth In Lending Act is passed to protect consumers during credit transactions. • United States Presidential Election 1968 Richard Nixon (Republican) defeats Hubert Humphrey (Democratic) and George Wallace (American Independent). Technology • Boeing 747 made its maiden flight. • NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission. • Air Bags, Allen K Breed invents an air bag that deploys and inflates automatically on violent impact using nitrogen gas. • Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space mission to achieve the feat. • Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant. • US Explodes experimental hydrogen Bomb. • The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA which provides a single number for reporting emergencies and is manned 24 hrs per day 365 days per year. • ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S. EFTA_R1_02213906 EFTA02726210 Popular Culture • The first Big Mac goes on sale in McDonalds costing 49 cents. • The Beatles create Apple Records and record "Hey Jude" as the first single on the label. • The CBS television news magazine program "60 Minutes" shown for the first time Musical Hair opens at Shaftesbury Theatre in London featuring nudity and drug-taking. Popular Films • The Graduate • Guess Who's Coming to Dinner • Bonnie and Clyde • Valley of the Dolls • The Odd Couple • Planet of the Apes • Rosemary's Baby Popular Television • The Monkees • Route 66 • Ironside • Hogan's Heroes • Flipper • The Brady Bunch • The Fugitive • The Man From Uncle • Gilligan's Island • Columbo • The Virginian • Mr. Ed • I Dream of Jeannie • Bewitched • Get Smart • Green Acres • The Addams Family • My Three Sons Popular Musicians and songs • The Rolling Stones • The Supremes • The Beatles with " Hey Jude " • Fleetwood Mac • Aretha Franklin • Gary Puckett and The Union Gap • The Grateful Dead • The Monkees • Simon and Garfunkel " Mrs Robinson " EFTA_R1_02213907 EFTA02726211 • The Beach Boys • The Bee Gees • The Jimi Hendrix Experience • Cream • The Doors " Hello I Love You " • Pink Floyd • Moody Blues • Bobby Goldsboro " Honey " • Marvin Gaye " I heard it through the Grapevine " • David Bowie Born in 1968 • Will Smith • Naomi Watts • Jerry Yang • Celine Dion Source of information: http://www.thepeoplehistorv.com/1968.html EFTA_R1_02213908 EFTA02726212