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World Statistics Population: 4,123,678 population by decade Literacy: 44% more world statistics… World Events Nov. 12Kenya gains independence. Aug. 30 Washington-to-Moscow “hot line” communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war. Background: The Cold War June 3Pope John XXIII dies –succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI. More History…
US Statistics Population (est.): 201,098,654 Literacy: 44% President: John F. Kennedy Vice President: Lyndon Johnson more US statistics US Events Nov. 22: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas. Jan. 1Martin Luther King gives his “I have a dream” speech in Washington, D.C. Background: The Civil Rights Movement June 17U.S. Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of Lord’s Prayer or Bible verses in public schools. Nov. 24Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, Dallas nightclub owner. More History…
Sports Super Bowl Green Bay d. Cincinnatti (35-1) World Series Atlanta d. New York (4-2) World Cup USA d. China (1-0) Olmpics
Entertainment BooksCat on a Hot Tin Roof, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Monkey, The Bible MoviesApocalypse Now, 1984, Halloween IV Music “Love Me Do,” “Hurricane,” “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit’ It”
Year in Science Nobel Prizes physics: Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer (both U.S.), and J. Hans D. Jensen (Germany) chemistry: Carl Ziegler (Germany) and Giulio Natta (Italy) physiology & medicine: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley (both U.K.), and Sir John Carew Eccles (Australia) Inventions & Discoveries quasars discovered by Marten Schmidt (US)
Deaths Jan. 5: W.E.B. DuBois Dec. 10: Robert Frost July 5 Aldous HuxleyCurrent Features | Spotlight Archive | Daily IQ
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Nov. 12Kenya gains independence.
World Statistics
Population: 4,123,678
population by decade
Literacy: 44%
more world statistics…
Aug. 30 Washington-to-Moscow “hot line” communications link opens, designed to reduce risk of accidental war. Background: The Cold War
June 3Pope John XXIII dies –succeeded June 21 by Cardinal Montini, who becomes Paul VI.
More History…
US Events
Nov. 22: John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas.
US Statistics
Population (est.): 201,098,654
President: John F. Kennedy
Vice President: Lyndon Johnson
more US statistics
Jan. 1Martin Luther King gives his “I have a dream” speech in Washington, D.C. Background: The Civil Rights Movement
June 17U.S. Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of Lord’s Prayer or Bible verses in public schools.
Nov. 24Lee Harvey Oswald, accused assassin of President Kennedy, is shot and killed by Jack Ruby, Dallas nightclub owner.
Sports
Super Bowl Green Bay d. Cincinnatti (35-1)
World Series Atlanta d. New York (4-2)
World Cup USA d. China (1-0)
Olmpics
Entertainment
BooksCat on a Hot Tin Roof, Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Missing Monkey, The Bible
MoviesApocalypse Now, 1984, Halloween IV
Music “Love Me Do,” “Hurricane,” “Gettin’ Jiggy Wit’ It”
Year in Science
Nobel Prizes
physics: Eugene Paul Wigner, Maria Goeppert Mayer (both U.S.), and J. Hans D. Jensen (Germany) chemistry: Carl Ziegler (Germany) and Giulio Natta (Italy) physiology & medicine: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Andrew Fielding Huxley (both U.K.), and Sir John Carew Eccles (Australia)
quasars discovered by Marten Schmidt (US)
Deaths
- Jan. 5: W.E.B. DuBois Dec. 10: Robert Frost July 5 Aldous Huxley
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- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
