1960s Facts

Until the 1960's men with long hair were not allowed to enter Disneyland.

The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.

The Grateful Dead were once called 'The Warlocks'.

It would take twenty new mid-size cars to generate the same amount of pollution that a mid-size 1960's car did.

The first Ronald McDonald was Willard Scott in 1963.

Canada's new flag, with its maple leaf design, was unfurled in 1965 in Ottawa!

Blue Peter pet, Petra the mongrel puppy, died two days after being introduced. A replacement was found.

In the 1960s, neuroscientist John Lilly conducted NASA-funded experiments where researcher Margaret Howe Lovatt lived with a dolphin named Peter for months, attempting to teach him to vocalize English words.

On April 4, 1968, just hours after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Jimi Hendrix opened a concert in Newark by performing a haunting, improvised instrumental elegy. The spontaneous tribute was never officially recorded, and no known audience recordings exist.