1962 - 8th Grade

...the Cuban missile crisis.
...Marilyn Monroe died.
...the first transatlantic television transmission occurs via the Telstar Satellite.
...Johnny Carson takes over hosting duties of The Tonight Show.
...movies Lawrence of Arabia, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Manchurian Candidate, Divorce-Italian Style.
...Lt. Col. John H. Glenn, Jr., is first American to orbit Earth.
...Mariner II, the first interplanetary probe, reaches Venus.
...Academy Award, Best Picture: West Side Story.
...Record of the Year: "Moon River," Henry Mancini.
...Album of the Year: Judy at Carnegie Hall, Judy Garland (Capitol).
...Song of the Year: "Moon River," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, songwriters.

1963 - 8th & 9th Grade

...Michael E. De Bakey implants artificial heart in human for first time at Houston hospital (April 21).
...US Supreme Court rules no locality may require recitation of Lord's Prayer or Bible verses in public schools (June 17).
..."March on Washington," civil rights rally held by 200,000 blacks and whites in Washington, D.C.; Martin Luther King delivers "I have a dream" speech (Aug. 28).
...President Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas, Texas.
...Viewers tuned into NBC witness Jack Ruby shoot Lee Harvey Oswald on camera – the first live telecast of a murder.
...The French Chef with Julia Child debuts on educational television.
...movies Tom Jones, Lilies of the Field, America, America.
...The first liver transplant is performed by F.D. Moore and T.E. Starzl
...The first commercial nuclear reactor goes online at the Jersey Central Power Company.
...Academy Award, Best Picture: Lawrence of Arabia.
...Record of the Year: "I Left My Heart in San Francisco," Tony Bennett.
...Album of the Year: The First Family, Vaughn Meader (Cadence).
...Song of the Year: "What Kind of Fool Am I," Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley, songwriters.

1964 - Freshman Year

...Khrushchev is deposed.
...China detonates its first atomic bomb.
...Peyton Place premieres on ABC and is the first prime-time soap opera.
...Color television makes its way into U.S. homes.
...The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show.
...movies Red Desert, Dr. Strangelove, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, Zorba the Greek, Becket.
...US Surgeon General Luther Terry affirms that cigarette smoking causes cancer.
...Academy Award, Best Picture: Tom Jones.
...Record of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini.
...Album of the Year: The Barbra Streisand Album, Barbra Streisand (Columbia).
...Song of the Year: "The Days of Wine and Roses," Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, composers.

1965 - Sophomore Year

...The first US combat troops arrive in Vietnam.
...Malcolm X, black-nationalist leader, shot to death at Harlem rally (Feb. 21).
...Blacks riot for six days in Watts section of Los Angeles: 34 dead, over 1,000 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested (Aug. 11-16).
...The Sound of Music premieres.

...Bill Cosby, starring in I Spy, becomes the first African American to headline a television show.
...movies Dr. Zhivago, The Sound of Music, A Thousand Clowns, Darling
...Academy Award, Best Picture: My Fair Lady
...Record of the Year: "The Girl From Ipanema," Stan Getz and Astrud Gilberto
...Album of the Year: Getz/Gilberto, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto (Verve)
...Song of the Year: "Hello, Dolly!," Jerry Herman, songwriter

1966 - Junior Year

...France withdraws its forces from NATO
...Medicare begins (July 1).
...Supreme Court decides Miranda v. Arizona, protecting rights of the accused.
...The first Star Trek episode, "The Man Trap," is broadcast on September 8.
...CBS backs out of plans to broadcast Psycho, deeming the movie too violent for at-home viewing.
...movies A Man for All Seasons, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Alfie, A Man and a Woman
...Insulin is first synthesized in China. Background: Health & Nutrition
...MIT biochemist Har Khorana finishes deciphering the DNA code.
...The Food and Drug Administration declares "the Pill" safe for human use.
...Academy Award, Best Picture: The Sound of Music
...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"  

1967 - Senior Year

...Astronauts Col. Virgil I. Grissom, Col. Edward White II, and Lt. Cmdr. Roger B. Chaffee killed in fire during test launch (Jan. 27).
...Congress creates PBS
...Rolling Stone and New York Magazine debut
...movies The Graduate, Bonnie and Clyde, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?, In the Heat of the Night, Cool Hand Luke
...music The Beatles, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
...Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard and team of South African surgeons perform world's first successful human heart transplant (Dec. 3). The patient dies 18 days later.
...Academy Award, Best Picture: A Man for All Seasons
...Record of the Year: "Strangers in the Night," Frank Sinatra
...Album of the Year: Sinatra: A Man and His Music, Frank Sinatra (Reprise)
...Song of the Year: "Michelle," John Lennon and Paul McCartney, songwriters

 And if that doesn't make you feel old enough, here's what was going on in:

 1949 - Generally our Class Birth Year

...Cable television debuts, bringing better reception to rural areas where the conventional television signal is weak.
...Milton Berle hosts the first telethon, which benefits cancer research.
...45 rpm records are sold in the U.S
...movies All the King's Men, Twelve O'Clock High, Sands of Iwo Jima, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, The Third Man
...music "Some Enchanted Evening", "Ghost Riders in the Sky", "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer", "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend"
...theater Death of a Salesman, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
...Capt. James Gallagher and USAF crew make first round-the-world nonstop flight from Ft. Worth, Texas, and returning to same point: 23,452 miles in 94 hours, 1 minute (Feb. 27–March 2).
...Academy Award, Best Picture: Hamlet (British)