1936 Stats

1936 Stats

FDR wins a second term.

Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind published.

Alexis Carrel and Charles Lindbergh develop the first artificial heart.

The Boulder Dam is completed.

The first successful helicopter flight is made.

1990 Stats

1990 Stats

Median Household Income:  $29,943

Cost of a first-class stamp:   $0.25

The X rating is replaced by NC-17 (no children under 17).

The Hubble Space Telescope is launched (Apr. 25).

Ninety-nine percent of U.S. households have at least one radio, with the average owning five.

Euro dance band Milli Vanilli admits to lip-synching hits such as "Girl You Know Its True," and has their Grammy award revoked.

Seinfeld debuts on NBC.

Academy Award 1990 
Best Picture: Driving Miss Daisy

Grammys awarded in 1990
Record of the Year: "Wind Beneath My Wings," Bette Midler

Song of the Year: "Wind Beneath My Wings," Larry Henley and Jeff Silbar, songwriters

Album of the Year: Nick of Time, Bonnie Raitt (Capitol)

1956 Stats

Average Cost of new house $11.700.00 

Average Monthly Rent $88.00 

Average Yearly Wages $4.450.00 

Cost of a gallon of Gas 22 cents 

Average Cost of a new car $2,050.00 

Ground Coffee 85 Cents per lb

Alabama Bus segregation laws declared illegal by US Supreme Court.

Eight Negro students refused entry to Sturgis High School in Sturgis Kentucky.

Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 signed into law on 29th June for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways over a 20-year period.

1972 Stats

US Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing of students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation (April 20).

Anti-war militants attempt to disrupt government business in Washington (May 3)—police and military units arrest as many as 12,000; most are later released.

Pentagon Papers published (June 13).

Median Household Income: $9,028 

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.06 ($0.08 as of 5/16/71)

All in the Family debuts on CBS and introduces a trend in socially conscious programming.

Jim Morrison dies in Paris at age 27. (July 3).

The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C. with the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

Twenty-sixth Amendment to US Constitution lowers voting age to 18. (June 30).

Intel introduces the microprocessor. Background: Computers and Internet

Cho Hao Li synthesizes the growth hormone somatotropin. Background: Health & Nutrition

1989 Stats

George Herbert Walker Bush inaugurated as 41st US President (Jan. 20).

Ruptured tanker Exxon Valdez sends 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound (March 24).

Median Household Income: $28,906 per year

Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.25

Salman Rushdie's novel Satanic Verses is published and sparks immediate controversy. Islamic militants put a price on his head.

Comedienne Lucille Ball dies at age 87.

Jaron Lanier coins the term virtual reality and produces the equipment to experience it.

Grammy Awards in 1989

Record of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin

Album of the Year: Faith, George Michael (Columbia/CBS)

Song of the Year: "Don't Worry Be Happy," Bobby McFerrin, songwriter

1972 Stats

Median Household Income:  $9,697 per year 

Cost of a first-class stamp:  $0.08

Wimbledon Women's Champion: Billie Jean King d. E. Goolagong (6-3 6-3)

Wimbledon Men's Champion: Stan Smith d. I. Nastase (4-6 6-3 6-3 4-6 7-5)

Gloria Steinem's Ms magazine debuts.

Atari introduces the arcade version of Pong, the first video game. The home version comes out in 1974.

Time Inc. transmits HBO, the first pay cable network.

The compact disk is developed by RCA (US).

The video disk is introduced by Philips Company (Netherlands).

Electronic mail is introduced. Queen Elizabeth will send her first email in 1976. 

Apollo XVII, the last manned moon landing to date, returns to Earth with 250 pounds of lunar samples. Background: US Staffed Space Flights

The antidepressant Prozac (fluoxetine) is developed by Bryan B. Malloy (Scotland) and Klaus K. Schmiegel (US). 

The National Institute of Mental Health and the surgeon general issue a report that claims exposure to violence on television fosters aggression in children.

Grammy Awards 1972

Record of the Year: "It's Too Late," Carole King

Album of the Year: Tapestry, Carole King (Ode)

Song of the Year: "You've Got a Friend," Carole King, songwriter