Happy 40th Birthday Mr. Stern!

Trent Arlan Stern
March 2, 1969
Albert Lea Navy Hospital Minnesota

Let's take a trip back to 1969 shall we...

NOTABLE:
• Popular songs:“Aquarius/Let the Sun Shine In,” Fifth Dimension;
“Sugar, Sugar,” the Archies; “In the Year 2525,” Zager & Evans;“Get Back”
The Beatles.
• “The Saturday Evening Post” stops publication.
• Mohammar Gadhafi seizes power in a Libyan coup.
• Television show debuts: “The Brady Bunch,”“Love,American Style,”
“Marcus Welby, M.D.,”“Room 222.”
• Popular movies:“They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?,”“Easy Rider,”
“True Grit,”“Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.”

COST OF LIVING:
• The cost of first class postage is 6¢.
• Average Cost New Car $3,270.00
• Average Income per year $8,550.00
• The average cost of a gallon of gasoline is 34¢.
• Average Cost of new house $15,550.00
• Average Income per year $8,550.00

SPORTS:
• Major League baseball introduces divisional playoffs during its
100th year anniversary.
• The New York Mets, once the worst team in baseball, win the
World Series in five games over the Baltimore Orioles.
• In Superbowl III, the underdog New York Jets topple the
Baltimore Colts, 16-7.
• UCLA wins the NCAA basketball title by defeating Purdue, 97-92.

HEADLINES:
• On July 20, Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon.
• Richard M. Nixon is inaugurated as the 37th U. S. President.
• Senator Edward Kennedy is involved in an auto accident at Chappaquiddick
(Martha’s Vineyard, MA) in which Mary Jo Kopechne is killed.
• Charles Manson is arrested for the murder of Sharon Tate and
four others in Hollywood.
• James Earl Ray is sentenced to 99 years for the murder of
Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for killing Robert F. Kennedy.