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Born this year• Steve Jobs, Apple Computer• Bill Gates, Microsoft• Tony Dungy, first African-

American NFL head coach

• Whoopi Gold-berg, comedian/actress

• Kevin Costner, actor

• Willem Dafoe, actor

• Olga Ko-rbut, Olympic

gymnast, USSR

• Reba McEntire,

singer/ac-tress• Donatella

Versace, fashion designer

BORN THIS YEAR: Bill Gates, Microsoft founder.Above left: Howie Mandel, comedian/game show host; Reba McEntire, country singer/TV star;Willem Dafoe, movie actor; Whoppi Goldberg,

comedian/actress/talk show host.

TV shows• Gunsmoke• Alfred

Hitchcock Pres-ents

• Cheyenne• The

Honey-moon-ers

• The Little Rascals

• Highway Patrol

• The Law-rence Welk Show

• The Mickey Mouse Club• Captain Kangaroo

Music• “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom

White,” Perez Prado• “Rock Around The

Clock,” Bill Haley and His Comets

• “The Yellow Rose of Texas,” Mitch Miller

• “Autumn Leaves,” Roger Williams

• “Unchained Melody,” Les Baxter

• “Sixteen Tons,” Tennes-see Ernie Ford

• Income per year ....... $4,130• Minimum wage .............. 75¢• New house ............ $15,000• Monthly rent .................... $87• New car .................... $1,900• Gallon of gas .................. 23¢• Dozen eggs .................... 61¢• Gallon of milk .................. 92¢• Loaf of bread .................. 18¢• First-class stamp .............. 3¢• Movie ticket .................... 50¢

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Dwight D. Eisenhower34th President of the United States

Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

“Our

American values

are not luxu-ries, butnecessities — not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself.” — Jimmy Carter

World events• U.S. military intervention in Iran• Great Britain declares state of

emergency due to national rail strike• The first commercial TV station

with advertisements starts in London• The St. Lawrence Seaway opens

to ocean vessels from Montreal to U.S. ports on the Great Lakes

• The Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies sign the Warsaw Pact giving integra-tion of military, economic and cultural policy between the eight Communist nations

• Ruth Ellis, the last wom-an in England to be executed, is hung at Holloway Prison

• 77 die in a disaster at 24-hour Le Mans Race

• New polyurethane is used more and more in everyday

goods• West Germany

joins NATO

• The military seizes control in Argentina, forcing Juan Peron to flee

U.S. news• Hurricane

Diane hits the northeast U.S., kill-ing 200 and causing over $1 billion in damage

• “In God We Trust” is added to all U.S. paper cur-

rency• United Airlines Flight

629 is blown up shortly af-ter takeoff over Longmont, Colorado

• Rosa Parks’ arrest for not giving up her bus seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama, sets the American Civil

Rights Movement in motion• Emmett Till, a black 14-year-old

teenager, is murdered for not show-ing respect to a white woman in Money, Miss.

• Jonas Salk produces the vac-cine to prevent polio

Popular culture• Disneyland opens in Cali-

fornia• Though McDonald’s began

in California by the McDonald brothers who initiated the low price fast food concept, it was not until 1955 when Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald’s franchise chain in Des Plains, Ill., that it became what it is today.

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• PEZ was original-ly created as a mint dispenser in 1927,

but soon after the Pez Hass Austrian candy maker the company decided to place heads on the dispensers and market them to children. Santa Claus and Mickey Mouse were the first ren-ditions.

Movies• Blackboard Jungle• East of Eden• The Night of the Hunter• To Catch a Thief• Oklahoma!

Richard M. Nixon36th Vice President of the United StatesServed from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

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“A people that values its privileges above itsprinciples soon loses.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower