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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

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WHAT YEAR WAS IT??

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  1. WHAT YEAR WAS IT?? By Ashley Pavitt

  2. 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

  3. TV Highlights “Strike it Rich” ends NBC’s daytime game show “Concentration” begins “77 Sunset Strip” begins The “Donna Reed Show” premiers on ABC

  4. 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)

  5. Movies Old Yeller Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Touch of Evil House on Haunted Hill

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. WHAT YEAR WAS IT???

  11. 1958

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