Monday, July 14, 2008

Tuesday, July 14th 1964



1964:


Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 874


Average Cost of new house $13,050.00


Average Income per year $6,000.00

Gas per Gallon 30 cents

Average Cost of a new car $3,500.00

Loaf of bread 21 cents

United States Postage Stamp 5 cents

Average Monthly Rent $115.00

Ticket to the movies $1.25




What Events Happened in 1964



Cassius Clay Beats Sonny Liston for World Heavyweight championship


The Boston Strangler is captured


The first Ford Mustang from Ford Motor Company is made.


Nelson Mandela and seven others are sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa


Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr receives the Nobel Peace Prize

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is signed into law by President Johnson.


U.S. Surgeon General reports that smoking may lead to lung cancer


Jack Ruby is convicted of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy


Sidney Poitier becomes the first black actor to win the "best actor" Oscar


The Rolling Stones release debut album, "The Rolling Stones"


The Beatles make their first appearances on the Ed Sullivan Show


The Beatles hold the top five positions in the Billboard Top 40 singles in America


Hasbro launches G.I. Joe, an action figure for boys to join the Barbie Doll For Girls


Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is published written by Roald Dahl

BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language is introduced.


Sony introduces the first VCR Home Video Recorder


The first driver less train runs on London Underground


The State Department told the press that 40 hidden microphones had been found in the U.S. Embassy in Moscow.


Actress Elizabeth Taylor and actor Richard Burton were married for the first time getting divorced in June 1974 only to get married again in October 1975 which lasts less than 12 months.


The third major World's Fair to be held in New York City opens . It was the largest World's Fair ever held in the United States, occupying nearly a square mile (2.6 km²) of land. and more fifty million people attend the Fair


The president of the powerful American Teamsters union James Hoffa is found guilty and sentenced to eight years on bribery charges


Joe Frazier, the future heavyweight champion of the world, won a gold medal for the USA in heavyweight boxing


People who share my Birthday:


Missy Gold
Harry Dean Stanton
Ingmar Bergman
Gerald R. Ford
Jimmy Hoffa
William Hanna
Tom Carvel
Paul Guilfoyle

1 comment:

H said...

Interesting that you could multiply all the averages costs by 10 and end up with our current prices. (almost)

Just think, in 6 years...
anything that was started in the year you were born will be half a decade old. YIKES!