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- Average US yearly income was $5,315
- Gas cost $.27.
- Average US house was $12,500.
- Average UK house was £2,770.
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- Castro declares Cuba is a communist country and bans free elections.
- CIA joins with Cuban exiles to attempt taking back Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
- Kennedy advises Americans to build bomb shelters.
- Peace Corps established.
- Amnesty International started in UK.
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- UK stops using the farthing coin.
- In the US, pampers goes on sale as the first disposable diaper.
- In Russia, Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space.
- The first electric toothbrush is sold.
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- Paul Newman plays a mean game of pool as The Hustler.
- Natalie Wood may have lip-synced in singing in West Side Story but she was gorgeous doing it.
- The islands were the real star of Elvis' Blue Hawaii.
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