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World Events
U.S. Events
Economics
US GDP (1998 dollars): $526.6 billion
Federal spending: $92.19 billion
Federal debt: $290.5 billion
Consumer Price Index: 29.6
Unemployment: 5.5%
Cost of a first-class stamp: $0.04
Sports
World SeriesPittsburgh d. NY Yankees (4-3)NBA ChampionshipBoston d. St. Louis Hawks (4-3)Stanley CupMontreal d. Toronto (4-0)WimbledonWomen: Maria Bueno d. S. Reynolds (8-6 6-0)
Men: Neale Fraser d. R. Laver (6-4 3-6 9-7 7-5)Kentucky Derby ChampionVenetian WayNCAA Basketball ChampionshipOhio St. d. California (75-55)NCAA Football ChampionsMinnesota (AP, UPI, NFF) (8-2-0) & Mississippi (FW) (10-0-1)
Entertainment
Entertainment Awards
Pulitzer Prizes
Fiction: Advise and Consent, Allen Drury
Music: Second String Quartet, Elliott Carter
Drama: Fiorello! George Abbott, Jerome Weidman, Jerry Bock, and Sheldon Harnick Oscars awarded in 1960
Academy Award, Best Picture: Ben-Hur, Sam Zimbalist, producer (MGM) Nobel Prize for Literature: St. John Perse (Alexis St.-Léger Léger) (France) 1960 Emmy Awards 1960 Tony Awards Grammys awarded in 1960
Record of the Year: "Mack the Knife," Bobby Darin
Album of the Year: Come Dance With Me, Frank Sinatra (Capitol)
Song of the Year: "The Battle of New Orleans," Jimmy Driftwood, songwriter Miss America: Lynda Lee Mead (MS) More Entertainment Awards...
Events- Seventy million people watch the presidential debate between Sen. John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard Nixon.
- John Coltrane forms his own quartet and becomes the voice of jazz's New Wave movement.
- Ninety percent of U.S. homes have a television set.
- Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho terrifies movie-goers and becomes one of the year's most successful films, as well as one of the most memorable psychological thrillers.
Movies- Psycho, The Apartment, The Sundowners, Sons and Lovers
Books
Science
Nobel Prizes in Science
Chemistry: Willard F. Libby (US), for “atomic time clock” to measure age of objects by measuring their radioactivity Physics: Donald A. Glaser (US), for invention of ""bubble chamber"" to study subatomic particles Physiology or Medicine: Sir Macfarlane Burnet (Australia) and Peter Brian Medawar (UK), for discovery of acquired immunological tolerance
Deaths
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