What Happened on Sunday, June 8, 1969?



Newspaper Headlines from June 8

Berry Academy Class of 1969 Says Goodbye

21st Emmy Awards: Get Smart, Don Adams and Susan St. James

Brian Jones Leaves the Rolling Stones

Nixon: 25,000 Troops To Leave Vietnam by End of August

Mickey Mantle Day, 60,096 See #7 Retired



Top Songs of Spring, 1969

Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine In    -   5th Dimension

Dizzy   -   Tommy Roe

Proud Mary   -   Credence Clearwater Revival

Crimson & Clover  -  Tommy James and the Shondells

Build Me Up Buttercup   -   The Foundations

One   -   Three Dog Night

My Cherie Amour   -   Stevie Wonder

Hair   -   Cowsills

1969 Prices

Bread:   $ .23/loaf

Milk:   $ 1.26/gallon

Eggs:    $1.14/dozen

Car:   $ 3,400

Gas:   $ .35/gallon

House:   $27,500

Stamp:   $ .06

Minimum Wage:  $1.60/hr


Birthdays on June 8

1867   Frank Lloyd Wright - Master Builder

1933   Joan Rivers - comedian

1939   Herb Adderly - NFL Hall of Famer (Packers, Cowboys)

1940   Nancy Sinatra - Singer

1942   Chuck Negron - singer, Three Dog Night

1944   Boz Scaggs (William Royce) - Singer

1944   Don Grady - Actor (Robbie Douglas on My Three Sons)


Popular TV Shows In 1969

The Ed Sullivan Show

Mission: Impossible

Mannix

Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In

Marcus Welby, M.D.

Bonanza


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