The Flintstones were only 2 years old.
John F. Kennedy was President of the United States.
The Cuban Missile Crisis had everyone on pins and needles.
West Side Story won Best Picture at the Academy Awards.
Moon River by Henry Mancini won Record and Song of the year at the Grammy Awards.
John H. Glenn, Jr. was the first American to orbit the earth.
Unimation introduced the first industrial robot.
Mariner II, the first interplanetary probe reached Venus.
The Kentucky Derby Champion was Decidedly (eight years before Secretariat was born.
The cost of a first class stamp was $0.04. That's right, 4 cents!
The first unmanned Subway train was introduced in New York City.
The Twist dance was deemed "impure" and banned from Catholic Schools.
The World Population was 3.136 billion, today; 6.8 billion.
A gallon of gas cost about $0.28 - 28 cents a gallon!
Tuition to Harvard was about $1500.00
The Beatles released their first record "Love Me Do".
The first live trans-atlantic television signal was broadcast.
The average house cost about $3000 - new about $12,000.00.
Andy Warhol released his famous Soup Can painting.
Last but not least, we started casting Pieta statues for the Vatican display at the 1964/1965 World's Fair