In 1966 a first class stamp costs 5 cents!!!!

TOP SINGLES

"I'm a Believer," The Monkees

"The Ballad of the Green Berets," Sg. Barry Sadler

"Winchester Cathedral," The New Vaudeville Band

You Can't Hurry Love

"Cherish", The Association

"We can Work it Out," The Beatles.

John Lennon claims the Beatles are more popular than Jesus Christ, and fans in Alabama burn their records.

TELEVISION SHOWS:  

BATMAN, 
STAR TREK
BONANZA
THE LUCY SHOW
ANDY GRIFFITH
GOMER PYLE

MOVIES: One Million Years BC, A Man for all Seasons, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf, A Man and a Woman

Oscars awarded in 1966 Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music

Grammy:  "A Taste of Honey," Herb Alpert, Tiajuana Brass

Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra

Our Man Flint & the Beach Party Movies

In the news: Demonstrations against the Vietnam War all across the country

July 1966: 

Construction crews tear up Market Street to build BART.

Beatles attacked in Philippines after insulting Imelda Marcos.

Frank Sinatra, 50, marries Mia Farrow, 21


Race riots in SF, Cleveland, Brooklyn, Omaha, Baltimore. 

August 1966: 

Defense Department issues the highest monthly draft since the Korean War, 46,200.

Luci Baines Johnson weds Patrick Nugent amid pomp and splender.

FAMOUS FACTS:

Orioles take the World Series from Dodgers.

Kuaai King wins the Kentucky Derby, then the Preakness, losing Belmont to Amberoid

Jockey Willie Shoemaker leading money in the world, taking in $34,789 in earnings.