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Remember when...
Richard M. Nixon was President and Spiro T. Agnew was Vice President
The population was 205,052,174
Inflation was at 6.5% and Unemployment was 3.5%
The price of a new home was $26,600
1st Class Postage Stamp was $0.06
A gallon of milk was $1.15 and a dozen eggs were $0.62
A gallon of regular gas was only $0.36
Kirby Theater movie tickets were $0.75
Wow! Those were the days, huh?
Music, Movies and Television
Top Songs 1969 & 1970 |
Sugar
Sugar - The Archies
Aquarius / Let the Sun Shine In - 5th Dimension
Honky Tonk Women - Rolling Stones
Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head - B. J. Thomas
I'll Be There - Jackson 5
Venus - The Shocking Blue
Mama Told Me Not to Come - Three Dog Night
I Think I Love You - The Partridge Family
Tears of a Clown - Smokey Robinson & Miracles
The Rapper - The Jaggerz
I Want You Back - Jackson 5
Spirit in the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
Vehicle - The Ides of March
War - Edwin Starr
Green-eyed Lady - Sugarloaf |
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Grammy Award Winners |
Album of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
- Simon & Garfunkel
Best New Artist: The Carpenters
Best Pop Duo or Group: "Close To You" - The Carpenters
Best Pop Female Vocal: "I'll Never Fall In Love Again" - Dionne
Warwick
Best Pop Male Vocal: "Everything Is Beautiful" - Ray Stevens
Best Pop Song: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon & Garfunkel
Record of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon &
Garfunkel
Song of the Year: "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon &
Garfunkel |
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Movies 1969 & 1970 |
Butch Cassidy & the
Sundance Kid
Love Bug
Midnight Cowboy
Love Story
M*A*S*H
Chariots of the Gods
Joe
Airport
Chisum
Diary of a Mad Housewife
Five Easy Pieces
Gimme Shelter
Tora! Tora! Tora!
Woodstock
Patton
Women In Love
Ryan's Daughter |
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Academy Award Winners |
Best Actor: George C. Scott - Patton
Best Actress: Glenda Jackson - Women In Love
Best Director: Franklin J. Schaffner - Patton
Best Picture: Frank McCarthy - Patton
Best Supporting Actor: John Mills - Ryan's Daughter
Best Supporting Actress: Helen Hayes - Airport |
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Television 1969 & 1970 |
Laugh In
Mayberry, RFD
Family Affair
Red Skeleton
Walt Disney
Marcus Welby, MD
The Flip Wilson Show
Here's Lucy
Ironside
Gunsmoke
Bonanza |
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Emmy Award Winners - Drama |
Best Drama: The Bold Ones, The Senator(NBC)
Best Actor: Hal Holbrook - The Bold Ones, The Senator(NBC)
Best Actress: Susan Hampshire - Masterpiece Theater
Supporting Actor: David Burns, Hallmark Hall of Fame - The Price
Supporting Actress: Margaret Leighton, Hallmark Hall of Fame -
Hamlet |
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Emmy Award Winners - Comedy |
Best Comedy: All in the Family
Best Actor: Jack Klugman - The Odd Couple
Best Actress: Jean Stapleton - All in the Family
Supporting Actor: Edward Asner - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Supporting Actress: Valarie Harper - The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Best Variety: The Flip Wilson Show |
Sports |
Football |
Super Bowl V: Baltimore 16 - Dallas 13 |
Rose Bowl: Stanford 27 - Ohio St 17 |
Orange Bowl: Nebraska 17 - LSU 12 |
Cotton Bowl: Notre Dame 24 - Texas 11 |
Sugar Bowl: Tennessee 34 - Air Force 13 |
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Basketball |
NBA Championship: New York 113 - LA Lakers
99 |
NCAA Championship: UCLA 80 - New Mexico
State 79 |
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Baseball |
World Series: Baltimore 4 - Cincinnati 1 |
Potpourri 1969 & 1970 |
July 20, 1969 - Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
land on the moon |
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May 4, 1970 - National Guard fires on
Vietnam War protesters at Kent State Univ. and Jackson State
Univ. killing several students |
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Beatles break up |
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Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Sonny Liston and
Charles Riggles die |
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Nation celebrates "Earth Day" |
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NFL and AFL merge into the NFL |
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IBM introduces the "Floppy" disk for storage |
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Lasers are used in bombing targeting for
more accuracy |
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New words: preppie, hassle, fast-food,
rip-off, Fortran, blahs, put down, floppy disk |
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Massive recall of canned tuna by FDA for
possible mercury poisoning |
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Vassar College admits male students for the
first time |
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1970 Horse Racing's Greatest Triple Crown
winner "Secretariat" was born |
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