what year was it??

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