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TRIVIA, NEWS, AND EVENTS FROM 1961
COSTS IN 1961
Cost of a new home, $12,500.00
Cost of a gallon of milk, $0.49
Median household income, $5,735.00
Cost of a first-class stamp, $0.04
Cost of a gallon of gas $0.31
MOVIES
The Guns of Navarone
The Absent-Minded Professor
The Parent Trap
Swiss Family Robinson
Exodus
The World of Suzie Wong
Alamo
The Hustler
101 Dalmations
Splendor in the Grass
TV
Wagon Train
Bonanza
Gunsmoke
Hazel
Perry Mason
MUSIC
“Wonderland By Night” - Bert Kaempfert
“Calcutta” - Lawrence Welk
“Pony Time” - Chubby Checker
“Blue Moon” - The Marcels
“Runaway” - Del Shannon
“Running Scared” - Roy Orbison
“Moody River” - Pat Boone
“Tossin’ And Turnin’”- Bobby Lewis
“Michael” - The Highwaymen
“Hit The Road Jack” - Ray Charles
“Big Bad John” - Jimmy Dean
“Please Mr. Postman” - The Marvelettes
EVENTS
John F. Kennedy sworn in as President of the United States
The National Council of Churches endorses birth control as a means of family planning
President Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
“Poppin’ Fresh” Pillsbury Dough Boy is introduced
The first black light is sold
Green Giant launches its frozen food products in the United States
IBM introduces the Selectric, which has some basic word-processing capacity
Mattel Toys launches the Ken doll as a boyfriend for Barbie
Astronaut Alan Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American in space
The first in-flight movie is shown on a TWA flight
Nineteen-year-old Bob Dylan makes his New York singing debut at Gerde’s Folk City
Catch-22 is first published by Joseph Heller
President Kennedy sends 18,000 military “advisors” to South Vietnam
The Vietnam War officially begins, as the first American helicopters arrive in Saigon |
