From the start of Omni Glass & Paint to Aretha Franklin releasing “Respect,” 1967 was a pretty great year. Check out some 1967 trivia, facts and history.
- Cost a first-class stamp: $0.05
- Gas per gallon: $0.33
- Movie ticket: $1.25
- Federal minimum wage: $1.40/hour
- Medium Household Income: $7,143
- Lyndon B. Johnson is President & Time Magazine’s Man of the Year
- Congress creates PBS
- According to the Article VIII of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, you can be arrested for ac crime committed anywhere in the known universe!
- Superbowl I: Green Bay Packers beat Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Superbowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, quarterback
- Cost of Super Bowl ad in 1967: $42,000
- Doritos first sold nationally as a basic corn tortilla chip in 1967. Nacho cheese wasn’t sold until 1972, and much later Cool Ranch in 1986.
- The first handheld calculator invented.
- South African doctor Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant.
- Rolling Stone began publication. The first issue sold about 5,000 copies.
- Most popular TV show was The Andy Griffith Show
- Popular movies: The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke
- Aretha Franklin releases “Respect”
- Walt Disney’s 19th full-length animated feature The Jungle Book, the last animated film personally supervised by Disney, is released and becomes an enormous box-office and critical success
