Sunday, February 9, 1964
Top News Headlines This Week:
Feb 9 - 1st appearance of The Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
Feb 9 - GI Joe character created
Feb 9 - 9th Winter Olympics games close at Innsbruck, Austria
Feb 9 - Stephanie born in San Francisco, CA
Top Songs for 1964
The House of the Rising Sun by Animals
Can't Buy Me Love by Beatles
Oh, Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison
I Feel Fine by Beatles
There! I've Said It Again by Bobby Vinton
She Loves You by Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand by Beatles
Baby Love by Supremes
Chapel of Love by Dixie Cups
I Get Around by Beach Boys
US President
Lyndon B.Johnson
No Vice President
1964 Prices
Bread: $0.21/loaf
Milk: $1.06/gal
Eggs: $0.98/doz
Car: $2,350
Gas: $0.30/gal
Academy Award Winners
Best Picture: My Fair Lady
Directed By George Cukor
Best Actor: Rex Harrison
in My Fair Lady
Best Actress: Julie Andrews
in Mary Poppins
1964 Prices
House: $20,500
Stamp: $0.05/ea
Avg Income: $7,336/yr
Min Wage: $1.25/hr
DOW Avg: 874
People born on February 9
1923 - Kathryn Grayson North Carolina, vocalist/actress (Anchors Aweigh, Kiss Me Kate)
1955 - Jm J Bullock Casper WY, actor (Monroe-Too Close for Comfort)
1965 - Lennox Lewis London England, Super heavyweight boxer (Olympics-gold-1988)
1773 - William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (March 4-April 4, 1841)
1945 - Mia [Maria] Farrow, LA, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
1971 - Ken Felder US baseball outfielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1891 - Ronald Colman England, 1947 Academy Award actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
1949 - Judith Light Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
1909 - Carmen Miranda [Maria do Carmo Miranda Da Cunha] Marco de Canavezes Portugal, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy)
1914 - Ernest Tubb Texas, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1928 - Roger Mudd Washington DC, news anchor (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News)
1940 - Smokey Robinson rocker (& Miracles-Tears of Clown)
1944 - Alice Walker US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
1942 - Carole King [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry)
1943 - Joe Pesci Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
1955 - Charles Shaughnessy London England, actor (Maxwell Sheffield-The Nanny, Shane-Days of our Lives)
1963 - Travis Tritt, country singer/songwriter
On TV in 1964
The Andy Griffith Show
Petticoat Junction
My Three Sons
The Lucy Show
Flipper
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Munsters
Perry Mason
Gilligan's Island
Bewitched
The Ed Sullivan Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Hot New Toys in 1964
Rummikub
Bobbing Head Beatles Dolls
Easy Bake Oven
Top Books in 1964
It's Like This, Cat by Emily Cheney Neville
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Shadow and Act by Ralph Ellison