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Capture the significant events of your graduation year here |
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Sept 11, 1965 
Beatles' 'Help!' album goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks |
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Sept 12, 1965 
17th Emmy Awards: Â Dick Van Dyke Show & Dick Van Dyke win |
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Sept 13, 1965 
Today Show's 1st totally color broadcast |
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Sept 17, 1965 
CBS premiere of WWII sitcom 'Hogan's Heroes' |
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Oct 10, 1965 
The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show |
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Oct 21, 1965 Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to Robert B. Woodward |
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Oct 25, 1965 Rolling Stones release 'Get Off of My Cloud' |
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Nov 8, 1965 'Days of Our Lives' premieres on TV |
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Nov 9, 1965 Several US states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965 |
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Nov 14, 1965 
US Government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam |
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Nov 16, 1965 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center |
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Nov 19, 1965 ABC radio begins weekly 'Vietnam Update' report |
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Dec 1, 1965 
Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began |
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Dec 17, 1965 Astrodome opens, 1st event is Judy Garland & Supremes Concert |
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Jan 1, 1966 
Simon & Garfunkel's 'Sounds of Silence' reaches #1 |
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Jan 1, 1966 All US cigarette packs have to carry 'Caution Cigarette smoking may be hazardous to your health' |
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Jan 8, 1966 Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' album goes #1 and stays #1 for 6 weeks |
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Jan 8, 1966 Beatles' 'We Can Work It Out' single goes #1 and stays #1 for 3 weeks |
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Jan 13, 1966 
First black selected for President's Cabinet (LBJ selects Robert C. Weaver - HUD) |
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Jan 31, 1966 
USSR launches Luna 9 towards Moon |
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Mar 24, 1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance |
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Mar 27, 1966 
Anti Vietnam War demonstrations in US, Europe, and Australia |
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Apr 12, 1966 First B-52 bombing in North Vietnam |
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May 13, 1966 US Federal education funding is denied to 12 school districts in the South because of violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act |
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May 30, 1966 US launches Surveyor 1 to Moon |
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June 1, 1966 Thomas Edison Class of 66 graduates at 8:00 pm |
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