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cial Document reproduction Machine• The United States launches the 

first weather satellite, TIROS-1.• Dr Kazuo Hashimoto Invents the 

Ansafone sold in the USA as a Automatic Telephone Answering

Machine

Movies• The 3rd Voice• Five Branded Women• 13 Ghosts•  The Adventurs of Huckleberry 

Finn• The Alamo• All Yough Men

Music• Elvis Presley, “It’s Now or Never”•  Ray Charles, “Georgia on my 

Mind• Percy Faith, “A Summer Place”

BORN THIS YEAR: Julianne Moore, actress.Above left: James Spader, Actor;

Jennifer Grey, actress; Hugo Weaving, actor;  Darryl Hannah, actress.

• The MOT Test is introduced in Britain

• US Experimental rocket powered air-

plane travels at 2,200 MPH

• Xerox intro-duces the first Com-mer-

• Income per year ....... $5,315• Minimum wage ........... $5.15• New house ............ $12,700• Monthly rent .................... $88• New car .................... $2,600• Gallon of gas .................. 25¢• Dozen eggs .................... 57¢• Gallon of milk .................. 49¢• Loaf of bread .................. 20¢• First-class stamp .............. 4¢• Movie ticket ................. $1.00

AVERAGE COSTOF LIVING   

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1960 Ferrari 250 GT

1960 Chevrolet Corvette

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Dwight D. Eisenhower34th President of the U.S.

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

World events• The cold war is in full swing with 

Nikita Khrushchev banging his shoe on the table at the UN telling us he would bury us.

• The Berlin Wall is under construc-tion and the Soviet Union was ahead in the Space Race.

• Fidel Castro confiscates $770 mil-lion of U.S. property

• The sexual revolution of the Six-ties begins with women using birth control pills and the first Playboy Club opening in Chicago.

year old Ruby Bridges suffering a hail of racial epitaphs and tomatoes as she integrated the first school in New Orleans.

• The United States announces that 3,500 American soldiers are

going to be sent to Viet-nam

• In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later took the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight after having won

the Gold Medal in Rome in the Olym-

pic games• The United States 

launches the world’s first nuclear powered Aircraft Car-

rier the USS Enterprise.

Technology 1960• France tests its first atomic bomb 

in Sahara and joins US, UK and USSR as Nuclear Power

• Over one hundred mil-lion television sets in use worldwide.

• Aluminum Cans used for the first time

Richard Nixon36th Vice President of the U.S.Served from Jan. 20, 1953 to Jan. 20, 1961

“We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.” — Eisenhower

• 900 U.S. military advisers are sent to Vietnam.

• Israelis Kidnap Adolf Eich-mann from Argentina to Jerusa-lem

• Communist China and Soviet Union split in conflict over Communist ideology.

• Capt. Gary Powers U-2 Spy Plane Shot Down Over Russia

U.S. News• John F Kennedy wins 

presidential Election.• Norman Rock-

well’s famous painting of six year old Ruby Bridges suffering a hail of racial epi-taphs and tomatoes as she integrated the first school in New Orleans.

• Norman Rockwell’s famous painting of six 

1960 Chevy Impala

U.S. Troops land in Vietnam

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