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Tuesday, May 20, 1969
Top News Headlines This Week:
May 20 - US troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam May 21 - After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over the New York Mets May 21 - Robert Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death May 21 - Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel May 21 - Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over NY Mets May 22 - Stafford & Cernan pilot Apollo 10 LEM 9.4 miles (15km) above lunar surface
Top Songs for 1969
Everyday People by Sly & the Family Stone In the Year 2525 by Zager & Evans
Honky Tonk Women by Rolling Stones Wedding Bell Blues by Fifth Dimension
Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In by Fifth Dimension I Can't Get Next to You by Temptations
Get Back by Beatles (with Billy Preston) Sugar, Sugar by Archies
Dizzy by Tommy Roe Crimson & Clover by Tommy James & the Shondells

1969 Prices US President
Bread: $0.23/loaf Richard M. Nixon
Milk: $1.26/gal US Vice President
Eggs: $1.14/doz Spiro T. Agnew
Car: $3,400 Academy Award Winners
Gas: $0.35/gal Best Picture: Midnight Cowboy
Directed By John Schlesinger
Best Actor: John Wayne
in True Grit
Best Actress: Maggie Smith
in The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

House: $27,900
Stamp: $0.06/ea
Avg Income: $10,577/yr
Min Wage: $1.60/hr
DOW Avg: 800
People born on May 20
1919 - George Gobel Chicago IL, comedian/TV personality (I Love My Wife)
1959 - Bronson Pinchot New York NY, actor (Perfect Strangers, Beverly Hills Cop)
1908 - Jimmy Stewart, PA, actor (Mr Smith Goes to Wash, Wonderful Life)

On TV in 1969
Marcus Welby, M.D. Mannix Hawaii Five-O
The Jim Nabors Hour The Johnny Cash Show Hee Haw
Mission: Impossible The Bill Cosby Show The Doris Day Show
Mayberry R.F.D.

Hot New Toys in 1969
Barrel of Monkeys Silly String Zeroids
Toss Across Nerf Ball Upsy Downsy Babies
Easy-Bake Premier Oven Wizzer Weebles

Top Books in 1969
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Deliverance by James Dickey Present at the Creation by Dean Acheson
The High King by Lloyd Alexander

That was brilliant!!!.

For some reason i thought it was a tuesday that i was born, but it was a wednesday.

Thanks for sharing that with us!.

Susan

That's a great site - I never knew I was as old as the frisbee!

Great site!!!

jcat, I found out that the frisbee was from my day also, and play doh. Now I really feel old!!

Sun Feb 9 Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
Sun Feb 9 36th NBA All-Star Game East beats West 139-132 at Dallas
Sun Feb 9 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
Sun Feb 9 Tomb of Tutanchamon's treasurer Maya found in Egypt
Sun Feb 9 Marvin Johnson wins record 3rd time, light heavyweight boxing title
Sun Feb 9 Haydar Bakr al-Attas appointed President of South Yemen
Sun Feb 9 West German team swims world record 4x200 meter freestyle (7:05.17)

There ya go. Pretty interesting.

Thanks for sharing.

Peace,
Brandon

Dec. 7, 1957 was a VERY boring day. No wonder, that Mom went to the hospital, to have me - there was nothing else going on!

I didn't realize that it was a Saturday - Mom always said that I was born on a Wednesday and I never bothered to check. The only notable thing, to me, is that it was also my grandfather's 55th birthday.

OMG my mom is right!!! My dad and the doc were watching a big baskball game the day I was born and not paying attention to her

Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts,

10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by University of Pennsylvania; Michigan State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 points

Nothing interesting happened on my birthday either!

But that was a cool site! Thanks for sharing.