Class of 1966

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1966

Price of a Gallon of Gas: $.37

Average In-State CA College Tuition: $275 

Price of a Big Mac: Not invented until 1967!

What was new in innovation, culture and education?

Doritos, Vans and White-Out were invented.

200,000 protestors attend anti-Vietnam war protests around the world; students stage a sit-down protest around a Navy recruiter table in the UC Berkeley Student Union; Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali declared himself a conscientious objector and refused to go to war.

Eisenhower and Nixon both started to give more money to the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.

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