A Blast From The Past

In Sheri's blog she mentioned #1 songs from everyone in her family and it got me thinking a little more.
Here is my list of #1 things from just the year I was born, other family members coming soon.

Wednesday, September 05, 1962

Top News Headlines This Week:
Sep 5 - Atletico Madrid wins 2nd Europe Cup II
Sep 5 - Cubs Ken Hubbs sets 2nd base record for consecutive errorless games
Sep 5 - at 78 & consecutive errorless chances (418), he errors in the 4th
Top Songs for 1962
Telstar by Tornadoes
Big Girls Don't Cry by Four Seasons
Peppermint Twist by Joey Dee & the Starliters
Hey! Baby by Bruce Channel
Sherry by Four Seasons
Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler
I Can't Stop Loving You by Ray Charles
Roses Are Red by Bobby Vinton
Soldier Boy by Shirelles
The Twist by Chubby Checker
US President
John F. Kennedy
US Vice President
Lyndon B. Johnson
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture:
Lawrence Of Arabia
Directed By David Lean
Best Actor:
Gregory Peck
in To Kill A Mockingbird
Best Actress:
Anne Bancroft
in The Miracle Worker
1962 Prices:
House:
$19,000
Stamp:
$0.04/ea
Avg Income:
$6,670/yr
Min Wage:
$1.15/hr
DOW Avg: 652
People born on September 5
1964 - Kristian Alfonso actress (Days of our Lives, Falcon Crest)
1817 - Aleksei K Tolstoi, [Kozjma Prutkov], Russian poet/writer [NS]
1937 - William Devane Albany NY, actor (Family Plot, Missles of October)
1940 - Raquel Welch Chic Ill (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles)
1946 - Freddie Mercury rock vocalist (Queen-We are the Champions)
1969 - Dweezil Zappa rocker/son of Frank Zappa/MTV VJ
On TV in 1962
The Andy Griffith Show
Rawhide
Gunsmoke
The Lucy Show
Candid Camera
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Red Skelton Show
My Three Sons
Dragnet
The Rifleman
Bonanza
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Virginian
Hot New Toys in 1962
The Great Garloo
Deluxe Aggravation
The Exciting Game Of The Kennedies
Colorforms - Miss Weather
King Zor Dinosaur
Mille Bornes
Astro Ray Gun
Mystery Space Ship
Sea Monkeys
Odd Ogg
Little Audrey Breakfast Time
Operation Moon Base Playset
Singing Chatty Cathy
King Zor
Tammy Doll
Top Books in 1962
The Bronze Bow by Elizabeth George Speare
The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
Patriotic Gore by Edmund Wilson
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn

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