The year my husband was born

Cost of Living 1965

How Much things cost in 1965
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 1.59%
Yearly Inflation Rate UK 5.0%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 969
Average Cost of new house $13,600.00
Average Income per year $6,450.00
Gas per Gallon 31 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
Loaf of bread 21 cents
Average Rent per month $118,00
Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling Average House Price 3,660
Gallon of Petrol 5 shillings or 26 new pence

U.S.
Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.
Lyndon B. Johnson announces increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000
 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
Warren Buffet Gains controlling interest in Berkshire-Hathaway 1965 ( $18.00 per share ) in 2008 ( $150,000 per share )
Malcolm X shot in New York
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads civil rights march in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery
Troopers violently confront civil rights marchers in Alabama
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

Australia
Australia Joins Vietnam War
India
Hindi becomes the official language of India.
UK
Following the UK Continental Shelf Act ( 1964 ) The BP's Sea Gem rig finds gas in the West Sole field , the first major oil find did not occur until 1970 with the discovery of the Forties oil field
Canada
The Maple leaf becomes Canada’s new national flag symbol
Rhodesia / Zimbabwe
Rhodesia Declares Unilateral Independence From Great Britain and becomes Zimbabwe
India
India and Pakistan Fighting continues to escalate
UK
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs escapes from Wandsworth Prison and flees to Brazil.
UK
Britain brings in a new Race Relations Act hoping to stop some of the unrest in inner cities
UK
Cigarette advertising banned on Television in Britain
UK
The Post Office Tower opens in London
UK
70 mph speed limit imposed on British roads
Indonesia
Following attempted coup by communists in Indonesia lead to the murder of over half million people and a transition to the new order led by Major General Suharto.
Vietnam
Operation Rolling Thunder Launched In Vietnam
 Cuba
US begins airlift of Cubans wishing to leave Cuba and live in America


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

Inventions Invented by Inventors and Country ( or attributed to First Use )
Space Walk Russia Aleksei Leonov - first person outside space vehicle
Optical Disk USA by James Russell - now Compact Disk
Hypertext USA for linking text on the Internet
Respirator ( replacement for the Iron Lung ) USA

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

Popular Films

• Mary Poppins
• The Sound of Music
• Goldfinger
• My Fair Lady
• What's New Pussycat?
• Cat Ballou

Books Released

• Dune
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• Hotel

Popular Musicians

• The Beatles
• The Rolling Stones
• Freddie and the Dreamers
• The Animals
• The Kinks
• The Searchers
• The Seekers
• Moody Blues
• Donovan
• Cilla Black
• Dusty Springfield
• Tom Jones

Major World Political Leaders 1965

Australia Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies Brazil President Castelo Branco Canada Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
China Chairman of the People's Republic of China Liu Shaoqi
France President Charles de Gaulle
Germany Chancellor Ludwig Erhard India Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri
Italy Prime Minister Aldo Moro
Japan Prime Minister Eisaku Sato Mexico President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz Russia / Soviet Union First Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev South Africa Prime Minister Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd United States President Lyndon B. Johnson United Kingdom Prime Minister Harold Wilson