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How US house prices have changed since 1963

How times have changed
1963: President Kennedy is assassinated
1964: The Beatles take the world by storm
1965: Protestors march against the Vietnam War
1966: Fashion gets fun
1967: Twiggy enters the scene
1968: Martin Luther King is shot dead
1969: Neil Armstrong lands on the moon
1970: Jimi Hendrix and The Who rock the Isle of Wight Festival
1971: Greenpeace is born
1972: Munich massacre
1973: Sydney Opera House opens
1974: Richard Nixon resigns after Watergate scandal comes to light
1975: Microsoft is founded
1976: First commercial flights on Concorde
1977: Elvis Presley dies
1978: Space Invaders launches
1979: Margaret Thatcher is elected
1980: US boycott of Moscow Olympics
1981: Lady Diana marries Prince Charles
1982: The UK and Argentina go to war over the Falklands
1983: First mobile phone call made
1984: Band Aid
1985: First version of Windows is released
1986: Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station explodes
1987: US stock market crashes
1988: NASA resumes space shuttle flights
1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall
1990: Nelson Mandela is freed
1991: World wide web introduced
1992: Euro Disney opens in France
1993: Tsunami hits Japan
1994: Channel Tunnel opens
1995: O.J. Simpson acquitted of murder
1996: Dolly the sheep is cloned
1997: Princess Diana dies
1998: Russian banks collapse
1999: Global population exceeds six billion
2000: Concorde crashes while taking off from Paris
2001: First space tourist lifts off
2002: The Queen celebrates her Golden Jubilee
2003: The second Iraq war
2004: Boxing Day tsunami hits Asia
2005: Benedict XVI becomes the new Pope
2006: New Horizon Space Probe is launched by NASA
2007: Global financial crisis begins
2008: Citigroup reports $9.8 billion loss
2009: Barack Obama becomes US president
 2010: BP Deepwater Horizon rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico
2011: Arab Spring protests
2012: Skydiver Felix Baumgartner breaks the sound barrier
2013: NSA secret surveillance program revealed
2014: Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 goes missing
2015: US Supreme Court affirms same-sex marriage
2016: Donald Trump is elected US President
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1966: Fashion gets fun

You can’t look back on the mid-60s without remembering the fashions, with bold patterns, flowery shirts and miniskirts ruling the roost. In the housing market new-builds were selling for an average of $23,300 ($175,105 in 2017).
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lovemoney staff

04 October 2017

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