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:
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!
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