Roxbury High School Class of 1965

• Vietnam War escalation begins, 150,000 US troops deployed.
• US black nationalist leader, Malcolm X is assassinated.

• Gulf of Tonkin incident between USA North Vietnam.
  
• US Surgeon General Terry warns against cigarette smoking.
  
• The Beatles arrive on their first visit to the USA.
  
• First Ford Mustang produced.
• Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life imprisonment.
  

• A quarter of million people participate in the civil rights March on Washington DC. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I have a dream" speech.
  
• USA and USSR establish "hotline" connection.
  
•  President Kennedy assassinated on November 22^nd in Dallas, Texas.
  

● 1962 (Spring of Freshman/Fall of Sophomore years)

• Cuban Missile Crisis - world stands on brink nuclear war. Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago independent from UK .
  
• Adolf Eichmann (captured by Mossad agents in 1960) is sentenced to death and hanged in Israel for his part in the Holocaust during WW!!
  
• Telstar world's first active communications satellite, is launched.
  
• Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.
  

• NY Yankees star Mickey Mantle becomes the highest paid baseball player after signing a $75,000 contract and his teammate Roger Maris breaks (hits 61) Babe Ruth’s single season home run record of 60 which stood since 1927.

• Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba fails.
  
• Soviet cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space.
  
• Sealing of East German border and building of Berlin Wall.
  
• South Africa leaves British Commonwealth.