Monday 18 September 2006

Happy Birthday to ME!

Saturday, September 18, 1965

US President - Lyndon B. Johnson
US Vice President - Hubert H. Humphrey

Top News Headlines This Week:
Sep 18 - Mickey Mantle Day at Yankee Stadium: Mantle play his 2,000th game
Sep 18 - Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2380 Heilongjiang
Sep 18 - "Get Smart" premiers
Sep 18- Joyous bundle arrives in Nay household - A Star is Born!

1965 Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: The Sound Of Music, Directed By Robert Wise
Best Actor: Lee Marvin, in Cat Ballou
Best Actress: Julie Christie, in Darling

Top Songs for 1965
Help! by Beatles
Yesterday by Beatles
I Got You Babe by Sonny & Cher
You've Lost The Lovin' Feelin' by Righteous Brothers
Turn! Turn! Turn! by Byrds
Downtown by Petula Clark
Satisfaction by Rolling Stones
Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter by Herman's Hermits
I Can't Help Myself by Four Tops
This Diamond Ring by Gary Lewis & the Playboys 1965

Prices
Bread: $0.21/loaf
Milk: $1.05/gal
Eggs: $1.00/doz
Car: $2,350
Gas: $0.31/gal
House: $21,500
Stamp: $0.05/ea
Avg Income: $7,704/yr
Min Wage: $1.25/hr
DOW Avg: 969

People born on September 18
1905 - Greta Garbo Stockholm (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille)
1838 - Anton Mauve, painter/graphic artist/cousin of Vincent Van Gogh
1905 - Agnes De Mille NYC, choreographer (Oklahoma)
1905 - Claudette Colbert Paris, actress (Lily Chauchoin, Arise My Love)
1920 - Jack Warden Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby)
1928 - Adam Walacinski, composer
1946 - Alan "Bam" King, rocker
1933 - Robert Blake Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)
1940 - Frankie Avalon Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus)
1964 - Holly Robinson Phila, actress (21 Jump Street)
1965- Joyce Kristine - Novelist, Columnist
1971 - Jada Pinkett, actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society)

On TV in 1965
Gilligan's Island
Green Acres
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Twilight Zone
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Lost in Space
The Addams Family
Hogan's Heroes
Get Smart
Bewitched
I Dream of Jeannie
The Andy Griffith Show
The Flinstones
Bonanza
The Beverly Hillbillies
Hot New Toys in 1965
Operation
Spirograph
Barrel of Monkeys
Mystery Date
Screaming Mee-Mee Gun
Booby Trap
Super Ball
G.I. Joe
Battleship
The Big Wheel
Trouble
Green Ghost Game

Top Books in 1965
Shadow of a Bull by Maia Wojciechowska
The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote