McQuade Library
40th Anniversary
1968 - 2008

Hit Movies of the year

• Barbarella, starring Jane Fonda
• Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand
• The Green Berets, starring John Wayne
• Rosemary's Baby, starring Mia Farrow and directed by Roman Polanski
• Planet of the Apes, starring Charlton Heston
• 2001: A Space Odyssey, directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Hit Songs of the Year

• "Hey Jude" - The Beatles
• "Hello, I Love You" - The Doors
• "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" - Marvin Gaye
• "(Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding
• "Mrs. Robinson" - Simon and Garfunkel
• "Born to Be Wild" - Steppenwolf

National and World Events

• April 4: Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated in Memphis, TN.
• June 5: New York Senator and Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated.
• August: Vietnam War and Civil Rights protesters disrupt the Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago, IL.
• Aug 21: Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia.
• Nov 11: Richard Nixon wins the Presidential election.
• Nov 14: Yale University admits women.

Sports

• The Green Bay Packers beat the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in the second Super Bowl.
• The Boston Celtics win the NBA championship in six games.
• Tennis player Billie Jean King turns pro.
• The Detroit Tigers beat the Saint Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.
• The XIX Olympics open in Mexico.
• USC running back O.J. Simpson wins the Heisman Trophy.

Top TV Shows

1. Laugh-in
2. Gomer Pyle
3. Bonanza
4. Mayberry R.F.D.
5. Family Affairs
6. Gunsmoke
7. Julia
8. The Dean Martin Show
9. Here's Lucy
10. The Beverly Hillbillies

Lifestyle and Culture

• The West German Volkswagen Beetle reaches record sales of 569,292 in the U.S.
• The Confessions of Nat Turner, by William Styron, wins the Pulitzer Prize for Literature.
• The average price of a new single-family home is $26,600.
• Rene Cassin of France won the Nobel Peace Prize for his contribution to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.