Reminisce Extra – July 2018

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12 REMINISCE.COM * JULY 2018

FUTURISTS

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JULY 10 NASA’s first

telecommunications

satellite, Telstar, is

launched from Cape

Canaveral. Within days it

transmits a trans-Atlantic

television signal.

JULY 12 The Rolling

Stones play their first gig

at London’s Marquee

Jazz Club.

AUG. 5 After returning

to South Africa, Nelson

Mandela is arrested and

eventually sentenced

to life in prison.

JAN. 1 The Beatles

audition for Decca

Records but are rejected.

JAN. 1 Madeleine

L’ E n g l e ’ s AWrinklein

Time is published.

FEB. 20 Astronaut

John Glenn orbits the

earth, an American first.

MARCH 21 Glen Bell,

creator of the crunchy

taco shell, opens the first

Taco Bell in Downey, CA.

APRIL 9 WestSide

Story walks away with

10 Oscars at the 34 th

Academy Awards show.

APRIL 21 The 1962

World’s Fair opens in

Seattle, WA, where the

605 -foot-tall Space

Needle, top, is unveiled.

APRIL 26 NASA’s

Ranger 4 crash-lands on

the far side of the moon.

JULY 9 Andy Warhol’s

first solo exhibition at

Ferus Gallery in Los

Angeles, CA, features his

AUG. 5Marilyn Monroe

dies from a sleeping pill

overdose in her home

in Brentwood, CA.

AUG. 10Marvel’s

Spider-Man makes his

firstappearanceinthe

anthology comic book

Amazing Fantasy .

SEPT. 23The Jetsons

an animated futuristic

sequel toThe Flintstones

debuts on ABC below

SEPT. 26Jed Clampett,

Granny, Elly May and

Jethro—known asThe

DISCOUNT SHOPPING AND DRAMATIC ENDINGS

T

he year was rife with belly laughs aimed atThe Beverly

Hillbillies on TV; bargain prices rising from the debuts

of Kmart, Walmart, Target, Kohl’s and Motel 6 ;

and terrifying realities when the Cuban missile crisis

nearly led to nuclear war. Future U.S. Sen. John Glenn

orbited the earth. Army veteran James Meredith became the first

African-American enrolled at the University of Mississippi.

The Beach Boys, Bob Dylan, and Peter, Paul and Mary released

debut albums, while Marilyn Monroe sang “Happy Birthday”

to President John F. Kennedy.

BYDEBRA STEILEN

Time

CapSule

SPACE NEEDLE: SPACE NEEDLE;

THE JESTSONS

: MOVIESTORE/SHUTTERSTOCK

BeverlyHillbillies—debut

on CBS to rave reviews.

OCT. 1 Johnny Carson

debuts as host of

TheTonightShow

OCT. 5 The Beatles

release their first single,

“Love Me Do.”

OCT. 5 DrNo kicks off

the James Bond movie

franchise with its U.K.

premiere.

OCT. 9 GE engineer

Nick Holonyak Jr.

demonstrates the

first visible LED (light-

emitting diode), which

he predicts will someday

make the incandescent

bulb obsolete.

OCT. 28 The Cuban

missile crisis effectively

ends—and the world

breathes a sigh of relief—

when Soviet Premier

Nikita Khrushchev agrees

to dismantle missile sites

in Cuba ( 90 miles off the

coast of Florida).

NOV. 29 Cellist Yo-Yo

Ma, age 7 , performs

for President Kennedy

at a benefit concert in

Washington, D.C. 

DEC. 25 ToKill

aMockingbird

based on the 1960

Harper Lee novel,

opens in theaters

across America.