It Was Thirty-Seven Years Ago Today…

Ferdinand Marcos is president of the Philippines. Lyndon B. Johnson is

president of the US, the next country in which I live. Lester B.

Pearson is prime minister of Canada. my current home.

Love is a Many Splendored

Thing debuts on US daytime television and is the first soap opera to

deal with an interracial relationship. CBS censors find it too controversial and ask for it

to be stopped, causing show creator Irna Phillips to quit.

President Johnson and Soviet premiere Aleksei Kosygin agree not to let any crisis push them into war.

The X-15 research aircraft

with Chuck Yeager establishes a speed record of Mach 6.7.

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first black Supreme Court justice.

The first home microwave is released by Amana.

St. Louis Cardinals win the World Series.

Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I.

The Toronto Maple Leafs win the Stanley Cup. They have not won it since.

Disney’s The Jungle Book and The Graduate are the top grossing films

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is founded.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is published.

Paul McCartney announces that all four members of the Beatles have “dropped acid”.

For the first time, Jimi Hendrix sets his guitar on fire during a concert in London.

Canada celebrates its first one

hundred years of Confederation.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is released.

The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.

US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public

Broadcasting. Sesame Street ensues.

The FCC orders that cigarette ads on television, radio and in print must include a warning about the health risks of smoking.

And finally: The United States Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia declares all U.S. state law

which prohibit interracial marriage to be unconstitutional. That’s gonna come in pretty handy next year,