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On the date

Saturday, December 4, 1965

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The Headlines

GEMINI 7 IS POISED FOR FLIGHT TODAY; Craft and Crew Are Ready -- Weather Is Expected to Permit the Launching

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)

The Byrds

#1 at the box office

The Sound of Music

The must-have

Operation

On This Day

  • Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

bummerfoxhunkscam

Hippie

flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on

Surfer

cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly

Catchphrases of 1965

  • Get Smart

Tech Check

Supercomputer (CDC 6600), Hypertext & Kevlar.

Cost of Living (1960)

Loaf of Bread

$0.20

Gallon of Gas

$0.31

Average Home

$11,900

New Car

$2,600

Time Elapsed

22,098 days ago

(60 years, 198 days)