Amaizing Times

• Moscow first Exchange Student Arives - Brigitte Nitz from Balingen Germany.
• Carole Farley was named Miss Moscow - Latah County .. Moscow's Junior Miss
• Sheila Byers was our Homecoming Queen, Janet Parkinson was our Senior Princes
• Linda Dailey and Corky Johnson named Boy & Girl of the year.
• The Moscow Bear football team registered a perfect season (don't ask.. ).

• January 3 - Senator Barry Goldwater announces that he will seek the Republican nomination for President.
• January 8 - In his first State-of-the-Union address, President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty" in the United States.
• January 9 - Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian mobs in the Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis and result in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers.
• January 11 - United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous for one's health. First such statement from US government.
• January 16 - John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, resigns from the space program and announces the next day that he will seek the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator from Ohio.
• January 27 - Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-Me.), 66, announces her candidacy for the Repubican nomination for President.
• January 28 - A U.S. Air Force jet training plane that strayed into East Germany is shot down by Soviet fighters near Erfurt. All three crew men are killed.
• January 30 - The junta ruling South Vietnam since the overthrow of President Ngo Dinh Diem is itself toppled from power in a bloodless coup led by Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh.
• February 7 - A jury trying Bryon De La Beckwith for the murder of Medgar Evers in June 1963 reports in Jackson, Mississippi that it was unable to agree on a verdict, resulting in a mistrial.
• February 7 - The Beatles arrived on their first visit to the United States
• February 26 - John Glenn slips on a bathroom rug in his Columbus, Ohio apartment and hits his head on the bathtub, injuring his left inner ear, and prompting him (later that week) to withdraw from the race for the Senate nomination.
• March 4 - Jimmy Hoffa, President of the Teamsters, is convicted by a Federal jury of tampering with a Federal jury in 1962.
• March 9 - The first Ford Mustang rolls off the assembly line at Ford Motor Company.
• March 10 - Soviet Union military forces shoot down an unarmed reconnaissance bomber that had strayed into East Germany; the three U.S. flyers parachute to safety.
• March 14 - A jury in Dallas, Texas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing John F. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.
• March 27 - The Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history at a magnitude of 9.2 strikes South Central Alaska killing 125 people and inflicting massive damage to the city of Anchorage
• April 7 - IBM announced System/360, the first IBM family of compatible machines. Computers enter the general world of business.
• June 19 - Senator Edward Kennedy, 32, is seriously injured in a private plane crash at Southampton, Massachusetts; the pilot is killed.
• June 21 - Three civil rights workers, Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney, are murdered near Philadelphia, Mississippi, by local segregationist law enforcement officials.
• July 27 - Vietnam War: 5,000 more American military advisers are sent to South Vietnam bringing the total number of United States forces in Vietnam to 21,000.
• August 4 - American civil rights movement: Civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.
• August 4 - Vietnam War: United States destroyers USS Maddox and USS C. Turner Joy are attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin. Air support from the carrier USS Ticonderoga sinks two, possibly three North Vietnamese gunboats.
• August 5 - Vietnam War: Operation Pierce Arrow - American aircraft from carriers USS Ticonderoga and USS Constellation bomb North Vietnam in retaliation for strikes against US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
• August 7 - Vietnam War: The United States Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
• October 14-15 - Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev assumes power.
• October 16 - Communist China explodes an atomic bomb in Sinkiang.
• October 31 - Campaigning at Madison Square Garden, New York, President Lyndon Johnson pledges the creation of the Great Society.
• November 3 - Lyndon Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater in the U.S. presidential election

• Physics - Charles Hard Townes, Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov
• Chemistry - Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
• Medicine - Konrad Bloch, Feodor Lynen
• Literature - Jean-Paul Sartre
• Peace - Martin Luther King Jr

• A gallon of gasoline costs 30 cents.
• Hasbro introduces the G.I. Joe doll.
• A San Francisco introduces a topless bar. Later that year, the bottoms go, too.

We left the hallowed halls of MHS