[custom_adv] A half-century ago, the war in Vietnam was escalating, the space race was in full swing, the Rolling Stones were on a world tour, the bravery of those who marched to Selma led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act, and the St. [custom_adv] A reception dress (left) made of green fancy-colored chiffon, with pants instead of gown, and wide flounces, and an after-ski of violet wool complete with gloves and stockings, handmade of sky-blue wool (right). These are two creations by the Alberto Fabiani fashion house of Rome and Paris, presented at the Florence show of Italian spring and summer fashions in Italy, on January 18, 1965. [custom_adv] From left: George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, and John Lennon of the Beatles on their hotel terrace in Milan, Italy, with Il Duomo Cathedral in the background before their show at the Velodromo Vigorelli on June 24, 1965. [custom_adv] Daughters and sons of Washington diplomats swing in the staid East Room of the White House in Washington, on June 18, 1965. They were guests of Luci Johnson, the 17-year-old daughter of the president. [custom_adv] Louis Arch was completed. The United States occupied the Dominican Republic, Malcolm X was assassinated, NASA's Mariner 4 flew by Mars, race riots erupted in Watts, California, and Muhammad Ali defeated Sonny Liston. Let me take you 50 years into the past now, for a photographic look back at the year 1965. [custom_adv] Riggers work at the New York World’s Fair in New York on October 21, 1965, to dismantle the Brontosaurus which has been on exhibit at the Sinclair Pavilion. The pre-historic animal replica will be reassembled and is scheduled to go on tour. [custom_adv] The massive job of cleaning up the black section of Los Angeles through which riots surged for five days gets underway as a bulldozer clears debris from a fire-gutted store off the sidewalk in Watts, Los Angeles, August 18, 1965. [custom_adv] Vietnamese soldiers prepare the Viet Cong terrorist Le Dau, 24, for execution at Da Nang, on April 15, 1965. He was executed after being convicted of attempting to blow up a hotel occupied by Americans in Da Nang on April 4. [custom_adv] Lyndon Johnson takes the oath of office during his second inauguration ceremony in front of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., on January 20, 1965. Administering the oath is Chief Justice Earl Warren, right. Holding the Bible at center is Lady Bird Johnson, beginning a new tradition. [custom_adv] Wilson Baker (left), the Selma, Alabama, director of public safety, holds up his hand in front of Martin Luther King Jr., on February 1, 1965, to tell him that he and his followers, about 250 of them, were under arrest for parading without a permit. [custom_adv] British Naval Officers stand vigil by the coffin of Sir Winston Churchill at Westminster Hall, London, before his funeral. Churchill died on January 24, 1965, at the age of 90, shortly after suffering a stroke. He was buried with full state honors on January 30. [custom_adv] An audience views the multiscreen presentation in the theater at the IBM Pavilion of the 1964-1965 World's Fair in New York, New York. [custom_adv] The sail-like shells that form the roof of Sydney’s massive Opera House take shape and dwarf a ferry cruising in Sydney Cove, an arm of Sydney Harbor, Australia, on June 19, 1965. The Opera House was completed in 1973.
