By Tabitha Redder/managing editor
• Billboard top 100 song for most of July: “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” – Rolling Stones.
• The Voting Rights Act passed, guaranteeing African-Americans’ right to vote
• Shooting begins for Where No Man Has Gone Before, Star Trek’s second pilot
• Tom and Jerry has its television debut on CBS
• Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss published
• Civil rights protesters beaten in Selma
• Robert Wise’s The Sound of Music topped the U.S. box office as most popular film of 1965, won Academy Award for Best Picture
• Astroturf invented by Donald L. Elbert, James M. Faria and Robert T. Wright
• Los Angeles Dodgers beat Minnesota Twins 4-3 in the World Series
• Gas was 31 cents per gallon
• Cordless phone invented by Teri Pall
• Pillsbury Doughboy created by Rudy Perz
• Miniskirt becomes popular
• Operation board game released
• Loaf of bread was 21 cents
• Milkmen deliver 25 percent of all milk to homes
• Ed White is the first American man to walk in space
• The Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs, created by Donald Goerke
