Big G Cereal Retro Prize Pack and Target Gift Card Giveaway – 5 Winners – Week 2

While supplies last, Target stores nationwide will carry five limited-edition General Mills Big G cereal boxes featuring fun “Retro” package designs.  The packages also have cartoons from the 50s, 60s and 80s.  Consumers picked their favorite Retro package designs and General Mills listened.  Visit http://www.grocerysavvy.com/ to view some past cartoons while getting product information, coupons and more!

This week is about the Trix box from 1968.  Here are some great facts from 1968 to start off your day:

• Pop Culture:
  • The Green Bay Packers win Super Bowl II
  • The musical Hair officially opens on Broadway
  • Hawaii 5-O debuts on CBS and eventually becomes the longest-running crime show in television history until Law & Order overtakes it in 2003
  • 60 Minutes debuts on CBS and remains on the air today
  • The Detroit Tigers win the 1968 World Series, defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 4 games to 3
• Politics/News:
  • Vietnam War – Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. is shot dead in Memphis, TN. Riots erupt in major American cities, lasting for several days afterwards
  • U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968
  • NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission. Mission goals include the first live television broadcast from orbit and testing the lunar module docking maneuver
  • Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
• Popular Fads/Products etc:
  • Mattel’s Hot Wheels toy cars are introduced
  • ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.
  • Air Bags , Allen K Breed invents an air bag that deploys and inflates automatically on violent impact using nitrogen gas

Each week, I will feature a different Big G Cereal box.  One reader will win a Big G Cereal Retro Prize Pack each week as well.  This prize pack includes the 5 boxes of cereal and a $10 Target Gift Card.

Enter the giveaway by filling out the form below.  Also, be sure to check out all of our other giveaways.

This giveaway is open until March 25, 2011 at 11:59 pm CST to U.S residents.

Please leave your name, address, email and answers to the questions (if any) in the form below. This is required for initial entry. Extra entries are optional. For more information on how to enter our giveaways, please see our contest guidelines page. There you’ll find options for extra entries, rules, etc.

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