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NINETY SIX TEARS - ? & THE MYSTERIANS - 1966

NEWS

• U.S. warplanes bombed Hanoi for the first time.

• In the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong begins the Cultural Revolution to purge and reorganize China's Communist Party.

• Lyndon Johnson signs the 1966 Uniform Time Act. (daylight saving time.)

• We heard of groups called the Black Panthers & the National Organization of Women for the first time.

• The first SR-71 Blackbird spy plane goes into service

• The Merry Prankster’s conducted Acid Tests at the Fillmore in San Francisco.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• T.V.: Star Trek was new but Ozzie & Harriet & the Dick Van Dyke show are seen for the last time.

• MOVIES: “The Sand Pebbles”, “Grand Prix” & “Fantastic Voyage”

• The NFL & AFL finally merged to create one football league

• John Lennon pontificated that the Beatles were “More popular than Jesus” which set off a rash of protests & record burnings here in the U.S 

• The legendary album Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys is released. 

• Bob Dylan's seminal album, Blonde on Blonde is released in the U.S. 

 

AZ HISTORY

• Miranda v. Arizona, the Supreme Court ruled that detained criminal suspects, prior to police questioning, must be informed of their constitutional right to an attorney and against self-incrimination.

 

DEAD

• Walt Disney

 

#1@1

• Perhaps the first band to be described as punk rock.

• “?’s" birth name is Rudy Martinez. He claimed (and still claims) to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and he never appears in public without sunglasses.

• In 2006 “? And The Mysterians” were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame. 

• The band's biggest hit, "96 Tears", was voted a Legendary Michigan Song the following year.

• This is “? And the Mysterians” with “96 Tears” your #1 @ 1 from October 1966.



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