Lyndon Johnson was president. Hubert Humphrey was vice president.

A postage stamp cost 5 cents and India was dealing with its worst famine in 20 years.

It was the fall of 1966.

On television we were watching "Lassie," "Candid Camera," "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Petticoat Junction."

"Star Trek" debuted on NBC on Sept. 8 with its first episode, "The Man Trap."

We were listening to the Monkees, Cher, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Barbara Streisand, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, Jefferson Airplane, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, James Brown, the Supremes, the Mamas & The Papas and Elvis Presley.

The Vietnam War raged on. The Black Panther Party was founded and former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.

LSD became illegal and the Toyota Corolla came on the market.

Here are some highlights from the fall of 1966:

Sept. 1: The first Labor Day Muscular Dystrophy Telethon hosted by Jerry Lewis was held.

Sept. 6: The prime minister of South Africa, Hendrik Verwoerd, who implemented apartheid, was assassinated by Dimitri Tsafendas. Tsafendas stabbed Verwoerd to death.

Sept. 8: The "Star Trek" television series debuted on NBC.

Sept. 12: The first episode of "The Monkees" aired.

Sept. 19: Scotland Yard arrested Buster Edwards, one of the men suspected in the Great Train Robbery in South East England on Aug. 8, 1963.

Oct. 1: Sandy Koufax became the first three-time winner of the Cy Young Award.Oct. 6: LSD was made illegal in the United States.

Oct. 6: Jim Palmer, 20, of the Baltimore Orioles, became the youngest person to pitch a World Series shutout.

Oct. 15: Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, students at Merritt College in California, founded the Black Panther Party. Their Ten Point Program called for adequate housing, jobs, education and an end to police brutality.

Oct. 16: Grace Slick performed live for the first time with Jefferson Airplane.

Oct. 21: The merger of the AFL and NFL was approved by Congress.

Oct. 25: The first automated teller machine was displayed at the American Bankers Association annual meeting in San Francisco.

Oct. 26: A fire aboard the USS Oriskany aircraft carrier killed 44 crewmen.

Nov. 8: Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the U.S. Senate.

Nov. 8: Actor Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.

Nov. 15: Gemini 12 with astronauts James Lovell and Buzz Aldrin returned to Earth after a four-day mission.

Nov. 27: The Washington Redskins defeated the New York Giants 72-41 in the highest scoring game in NFL history.