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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $787.8 billion
Federal spending: $134.53 billion
Federal debt: $328.5 billion
Consumer Price Index: 32.4
Unemployment: 4.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.05
Sports
World SeriesBaltimore d. LA Dodgers (4-0)NBA ChampionshipBoston d. LA Lakers (4-3)Stanley CupMontreal d. Detroit (4-2)WimbledonWomen: Billie Jean King d. M. Bueno (6-3 3-6 6-1)
Men: Manuel Santana d. D. Ralston (6-4 11-9 6-4)Kentucky Derby ChampionKauai KingNCAA Basketball ChampionshipTexas Western d. Kentucky (72-65)NCAA Football ChampionsNotre Dame (AP, UPI, FW, NFF-tie) (9-0-1) & Michigan St. (NFF-tie) (9-0-1)World CupEngland d. W. Germany (4-2)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter, Katherine Anne Porter
Music: Variations for Orchestra, Leslie Bassett
Oscars awarded in 1966
Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music, Robert Wise, producer (Twentieth Century-Fox) Nobel Prize for Literature: Shmuel Yosef Agnon (Israel) and Nelly Sachs (Sweden) 1966 Emmy Awards 1966 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1966
Record of the Year: "A Taste of Honey," Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Album of the Year: September of My Years, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
Song of the Year: "The Shadow of Your Smile" (Love Theme From The Sandpiper), Paul Francis Webster and Johnny Mandel, songwriters Miss America: Deborah Irene Bryant (KS) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8. The plot concerns a creature that sucks salt from human bodies.
- CBS backs out of plans to broadcast Psycho, deeming the movie too violent for at-home viewing.
- The old Metropolitan Opera House is abandoned as the company moves to Lincoln Center. The new Metropolitan Opera opens with Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra.
Movies- A Man for All Seasons, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alfie, A Man and a Woman
Books
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Robert Sanderson Mulliken (US), for research on bond holding atoms together in molecule Physics: Alfred Kastler (France), for work on energy levels inside atom Physiology or Medicine: Charles Brenton Huggins (US), for studies in hormone treatment of cancer of prostate; Francis Peyton Rous (US), for discovery of tumor-producing viruses
Deaths
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