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WHAT YEAR WAS IT??. By Ashley Pavitt. Cost of Living. Average yearly income: $4,650 House: $30,000 Gallon of Gas: .24 cents Loaf of Bread: .19 cents Gallon of Milk: $1.01/half gal 42 cents Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 per year. TV Highlights. “Strike it Rich” ends - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WHAT YEAR WAS IT??By Ashley Pavitt
Cost of Living
Average yearly income: $4,650
House: $30,000
Gallon of Gas: .24 cents
Loaf of Bread: .19 cents
Gallon of Milk: $1.01/half gal 42 cents
Tuition at Harvard: $1,250 per year
TV Highlights
“Strike it Rich” ends
NBC’s daytime game show “Concentration” begins
“77 Sunset Strip” begins
The “Donna Reed Show”
premiers on ABC
Top Singles
Claudette (The Everly Brothers)
At the Hop (Danny and The Juniors)
Don’t (Elvis Presley)
I Beg of You (Elvis Presley)
Poor Little Fool (Ricky Nelson)
Purple People Eater (Sheb Wooley)
Movies
Old Yeller
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Touch of Evil
House on Haunted Hill
Special Events
VISA and American Express Cards are introduced
U.S. launches its first satellite, Explorer 1 into space
Sweet ‘n’ Low is introduced as artificial sweetner
The first Pizza Hut opens in Kansas City
GM offers “air ride suspension on most of its cars
The Boeing 707 goes into production
Sports
New York Yankees win the World Series defeating the Milwaukee Braves
The Brooklyn Dodgers become the LA Dogers
Sugar Ray Robinson wins middleweight boxing title
PA born golfer Arnold Palmer wins his first Masters
Brazil wins first world cup in soccer defeating Sweden
Ashley Cooper (Australia) wins Wimbledon
Events Around the World
Egypt and Syria unite to form United Arab Republic
Castro’s revolutionary army begins its attacks on Havana
Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3
President Dwight Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into United States Law
US Congress formally creates NASA
The 1st Cold War begins between UK and Iceland
Famous Births
Jan 26- Ellen DeGeneres
March 10- Sharon Stone
April 9- My Dad
May 23- Drew Carey
August 16- Madonna
August 29- Michael Jackson
Nov 22- Jamie Lee Curtis
WHAT YEAR WAS IT???
1958