Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 969 Average Cost of new house $13,600 Average Income per year $6,450 Gas
per Gallon 31 cents Average Cost of a new car $2,650 Loaf of bread 21 cents Average Rent per month $118
Some Events of 1965
Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
The Palm Sunday Tornado Outbreak on April 13th: An estimated fifty-one tornadoes (forty-seven confirmed) hit in six Midwestern states killing anywhere from 256 to 271 people and injuring some 1,500 more.
Lyndon B. Johnson announces increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
Lyndon B. Johnson announces his program to create Medicare and to expand his war on poverty.
Hurricane Betsy makes landfall in the Bahamas, Florida and Louisiana causing $1 billion dollars worth of Damage.
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the United States.
Power Blackout in Canada and New York affects over thirty million people, many without power for over 12 hours.
Malcolm X shot in New York.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery.
In St. Louis, Missouri, the 630-foot-tall parabolic steel Gateway Arch is completed (The St Louis Arch).
Several U.S. states (VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY and portions of NJ) and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. 30 million people are affected.
Higher Education Act of 1965 is signed into law providing low-interest loans for students in higher education.
US Citizens Evacuated due to Civil War in Dominican Republic.
The Voting Rights Act, guaranteeing African Americans the right to vote, becomes law.
Warren Buffet Gains controlling interest in Berkshire-Hathaway 1965 at $18 per share. In 2008, it's $150,000 per share.
Troopers violently confront civil rights marchers in Alabama.
Race Riots Break Out In Watts, California leaving large parts of the city burned and looted and 34 dead.
Technology 1965
Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program.
Ranger 9 sends back live TV broadcast when it crashes on to the moon.
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
Major Edward H. White II becomes the second human to walk in space during the flight of Gemini 4.
Sony introduces it's Betamax video recorder.
Popular Culture
The Mary Quant designed Mini Skirt appears in London and will be the fashion statement of the 60's
One of most popular films "Sound of Music" released
The Beatles Release The Movie and Album "Help!"
The Beatles Play Live Concert Shea Stadium
The Grateful Dead with Lead guitarist Jerry Garcia play their first concert, in San Francisco
