Dec 1963: "I Want To Hold Your Hand" is released in the U.S. and goes to number one where it remains for seven weeks.
Can you imagine a song like that being number one now? It was a different time, maybe we were a different people.
By March of 1964, the Beatles have songs in the top five positions of the Billboard's singles chart. This is a first for Billboard. The songs, in order of their charting position, are: Can't Buy Me Love, Twist and Shout, She Loves You, I Want To Hold Your Hand, Please Please Me.
President Kennedy assassinated in November.
1964: The Civil Rights Act signed into law. Elizabeth Taylor marries Richard Burton. The first Ford Mustang is made. Nelson Mandela sentenced to life in prison. U.S. Surgeon General reports that smoking may lead to lung cancer.
1967: Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band released in U.K. Number one for 27 weeks.
Average Cost of a new house $14k. Average year income $7k. Gas per gallon 33¢
Evil Knievel motorcycle jumps 16 cars.
World's first heart transplant.
1968: Beatles release White Album.
Assassination of Martin Luther King and Senator Robert Kennedy.
Average price of a new car $2,822
Anti Viet Nam war protests
London Bridge sold for $1M. Re-errected in Arizona
Pope Paul VI bans Catholics from using the contraceptive pill for birth control
Hong Cong flue epidemic begins in Hong Cong
Black Power salute in Mexico Olympics
1969: Lennon leaves the Beatles. Abby Road is released
Neil Armstong steps onto the moon
Woodstock 350,000 attend
Draft lottery for Viet Nam war
Wal-Mart incorporated
1970: McCartney leaves the Beatles
Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die. Both are 27
1980: John Lennon is killed
Mount St. Helens erupts
Rubics Cube
Post-It Notes
2001: George Harrison dies of cancer
Apple releases OSX
World Trade Center attacked
Shoe explosive aboard American Airlines
2010: Beatles music catalog released on iTunes
Deepwater Horizon oil drilling platform explodes
WHO declares H1N1 influenza pandemic over
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