It all happened in 1967

US GDP (1998 dollars): $833.6 billion
Federal spending: $157.46 billion
Federal debt: $340.4 billion
Median Household Income (current dollars): $7,143
Consumer Price Index: 33.4
Unemployment: 3.8%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05

Memories

Events

Charlie Chaplins last film

First heart transplant

The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke were the hot movies

First cryonically preserved human

Boston Strangler convicted

Apollo 1 astronauts killed by fire

American Basketball Association formed

Jimmy Hoffa goes to jail

Joseph Stalins daughter defects to the USA

First Boeing 737 flies

BeeGee's release their first international single

Muhammad Ali refuses the draft

Elvis and Priscilla marry

The Beatles release Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court

400 million viewers watch Our World, the first live, international, satellite television production. It features the live debut of The Beatles' song "All You Need is Love."

The first automatic cash machine

Pink Floyd releases their debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

 An X-15 research aircraft with test pilot William J. Knight establishes an unofficial world fixed-wing speed record of Mach 6.7

The musical Hair premieres Off-Broadway

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

Professor John Archibald Wheeler uses the term Black Hole for the first time

LSD declared a illegal by the United States government