1960's+Pop+Culture

=The 1960's=

POP Culture


[] =Statstics (1960)= Taken from : http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html
 * Population 177,830,000
 * Never half of the Worlds Ppulation was under the age of 18
 * Unemployment 3,852,000
 * National Debt 286.3 Billion
 * Average Salary $4,743
 * Teacher's Salary $5,174
 * Minimum Wage $1.00
 * Life Expectancy: Males 66.6 years, Females 73.1 years
 * Auto deaths 21.3 per 100,000
 * An estimated 850,000 "war baby" freshmen enter college; emergency living quarters are set up in dorm lounges, hotels and trailer camps.
 * Spanish American Population was tripled

Important Events
1961 - Peace Corps created by Pres. Kenndy 1963 - Martin Luther King delivers his I have a dream speech 1963 - Pres. John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas 1963 - Lyndon Johnson becomes President of the United States 1967- Abortion and artificial insemination became legal in some states. 1968- Martin Luther King was assassinated 1963-John Glenn was the first American to orbit the earth. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, in Apollo XI, were the first men to walk on the moon in 1969

=**Changes in //SOCIETY//**= ===The Civil Rights movement made great changes in society in the 1960's. The movement began peacefully, with Martin Luther King leading sit-ins and peaceful protests, joined by whites, particularly Jews who all wanted and desired te feeling of being trested as an equal counterpart o f the white=== = =

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The first artificial heart in a human was implanted, and it kept the patient alive...
for three days until a human heart could be transplanted. =Inventions = Please watch YouTube video on 1960s inventions media type="youtube" key="YT6si7a4VEY" height="315" width="420"
 * 1) ===The birth control pill became widely available ===
 * 2) ===<span style="font-family: helvetica,arial,sans-serif;">The Skateboard was invented by a couple of surfers that could not stand the wet cold weather ===
 * 3) ===Audio cassette[[image:lifestyle1960s/images_(5).jpg caption="salestores.com"]]===
 * 4) ===First handheld calculator===
 * 5) ===ATM===
 * 6) ===Bar code scanner [[image:lifestyle1960s/images_(6).jpg]]===
 * 7) ===Halogen lamp===