What's In a Name?

Did you know that Michael was the number one most common boys' name in 1970... and 1971... and in 1972? In fact, Michael the most popular boys' name all the way through 1999 when Jacob bumped Michael from the top spot.

Let's take a quick peek at 1970... there have been a lot of changes:

President: Richard Nixon
Cost of a 1 lb hamburger: 70 cents
Cost of a loaf of bread: 30 cents
Gallon of gas: 37 cents
New house: >$23,400
Average income: $9,350
A NEW CAR: $3,900
Car 8 Track Stereo Tape Player:$38.99
CB Radio:$147

Also in 1970:

• January 5 – The first episode of All My Children broadcast on the ABC television network.
• January 22 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service.
• March 21 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued.
• April 1 – President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States
• April 22 – The first Earth Day is celebrated in the U.S.
• April 24 – China's first satellite (Dong Fang Hong 1) is launched into orbit using a Long March-1 Rocket (CZ-1).
• May 4 – Kent State shootings
• May 8 – The Beatles release their 12th and final album, Let It Be.
• May 31 – The 1970 FIFA World Cup is inaugurated in Mexico.
• June 10 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs a measure lowering the voting age to 18. (sadly, the DRINKING AGE was raised some years later)
  
• July 16 – Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh opens.
• September 9 – Elvis Presley begins his first concert tour since 1958 in Phoenix, Arizona at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
• September 11 – The Ford Pinto is introduced.
• October 15 – The Baltimore Orioles defeat the Cincinnati Reds in Game 5 of the World Series, 9–3, to win the series 4 games to 1 for their 2nd World Championship.
• October 26 – Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.
• December 2 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
• December 31 – Paul McCartney sues in Great Britain to dissolve the Beatles' legal partnership.

Also born in 1970:

• Gabrielle Reece
• Minnie Driver
• Mariah Carey
• Vince Vaughn
• Queen Latifah
• Andre Agassi
• Uma Thurman
• Tina Fey
• River Phoenix
• Debbie Gibson
• Kelly Ripa
• Annika Sorenstam
• Tonya Harding

Quite a year!