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TheMirrorSelf
1951 Yeah I AM that old...
Yearly Inflation Rate USA 7.88% Yearly Inflation Rate UK 9.5%
Average Cost of new house $9.000.00 Average House Price UK - 2,115 -
Average wages per year - $3,510.00
Cost of a gallon of Gas 19 cents Average Cost of a new car - $1,500.00
Loaf of Bread - 16 cents LB of Hamburger Meat - 50 cents
Bacon per LB - 52 cents One dozen Eggs - 24 cents
Baby Diapers ( Cotton ) - From $2.79 Children's Tricycle - From $14.00
On October 15, 1951, Dr. Carl Djerassi and student Luis Miramontes, under
the direction of George Rosenkranz, successfully synthesize progestin
norethisterone while working at Syntex. The hormone was a key ingredient
in the creation of the birth control pill and Miramontes was credited with
completing the final step in the synthesizing process.
Pretty sure I beat the Pill by a year plus one week. Dodged THAT bullet...
"I Love Lucy" debuted on the CBS network on October 15th .
The popular film "The Day the Earth Stood Still" debuts.*
Walt Disney's 13th animated feature film "Alice in Wonderland" is released
during July
The first commercial computer to be created in the U.S., the UNIVAC
(Universal Automatic Computer), was dedicated for use at the U.S. Census
Bureau during June . The computer was designed by Presper Eckert and
John Mauchly and was created by the Remington Rand company.
Eckert and Mauchly had also created the first general-purpose computer
(ENIAC) in 1946.
The data-processing machine had 5,000 vacuum tubes, weighed about
16,000 pounds, and measured 14.5 by 7.5 by 9 feet in size. UNIVAC was an
improved version of ENIAC and the first successful commercial computer
created for civilian use. It could do about 1,000 calculations in a second
[woohoo], improving the efficiency of the Census Bureau.
Iran Nationalizes it's Oil Fields
King Abdullah of Jordan assassinated on July 20
President Harry S Truman fires General Douglas MacArthur as commander
of United Nations Forces
And OH YEAH, the US powered up the first breeder reactor... in a nutshell,
a fission machine that can refine Plutonium out of Uranium.
Always kinda handy.
* "We come to you in peace... and with good will." Michael Rennie does Klaatu (1)
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