World Events
Population: 3.415 billion
France withdraws its forces from NATO. President De Gaulle visits the USSR (June 20).
Sukarno leaves office in Indonesia; Suharto assumes power.
Botswana, Lesotho, and Guyana become independent states within the British Commonwealth.
India suffers the worst famine in 20 years; Lyndon Johnson asks for $1 billion in aid to the country.
U.S. Events
President: Lyndon B. Johnson
Vice President: Hubert H. Humphrey
Population: 196,560,338
Life expectancy: 70.2 years
Violent Crime Rate (per 1,000): 26.7
Property Crime Rate (per 1,000): 24.5
Homicide Rate (per 100,000): 5.9
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $787.8 billion
Federal spending: $134.53 billion
Federal debt: $328.5 billion
Consumer Price Index: 32.4
Unemployment: 4.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Medicare begins (July 1).
Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona, protecting rights of the accused.
Stokeley Carmichael elected president of Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Background: Student movements
Sports
World Series
Baltimore d. LA Dodgers (4-0)
NBA Championship
Boston d. LA Lakers (4-3)
Stanley Cup
Montreal d. Detroit (4-2)
Wimbledon
Women: Billie Jean King d. M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
Men: Manuel Santana d. D. Ralston (6-4 11-9 6-4)
Kentucky Derby Champion
Kauai King
NCAA Basketball Championship
Texas Western d. Kentucky (72-65)
NCAA Football Champions
Notre Dame (AP, UPI, FW, NFF-tie) (9-0-1) & Michigan St. (NFF-tie) (9-0-1)
World Cup
England d. W. Germany (4-2)
Entertainment
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
Music: Variations for Orchestra, Leslie Bassett
Oscars awarded in 1966
Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox)
Nobel Prize for Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Sweden)
Grammy Awards
Record of the Year: A Taste of Honey - Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, songwriters
Miss America: Deborah Irene Bryant (KS)
The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8. The plot concerns a creature that sucks salt from human bodies.
CBS backs out of plans to broadcast Psycho, deeming the movie too violent for at-home viewing.
The old Metropolitan Opera House is abandoned as the company moves to Lincoln Center. The new Metropolitan Opera opens with Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra.
Movies
A Man for All Seasons, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alfie, A Man and a Woman
Books
John Barth, Giles Goat-Boy
Paul Bowles, Up Above the World
Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
Robert Coover, The Origin of the Brunists
Bernard Malamud, The Fixer
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Robert Sanderson Mulliken (US), for research on bond holding atoms together in molecule
Physics: Alfred Kastler (France), for work on energy levels inside atom
Physiology or Medicine: Charles Brenton Huggins (US), for studies in hormone treatment of cancer of prostate; Francis Peyton Rous (US), for discovery of tumor-producing viruses
Insulin is first synthesized in China. Background: Health & Nutrition
MIT biochemist Har Khorana finishes deciphering the DNA code. Background: genetic engineering
The Food and Drug Administration declares "the Pill" safe for human use. Background: Birth & Contraception
Deaths
Montgomery Clift
Walt Disney