Interesting Facts



The Population of people in the world in the 70's were around 204,879,000. There were 4,088,000 people unemployed in 1970. The national Debt was $382 billion dollars, and the average salary was $7,564. Food prices were: milk, 33 cents a qt. Bread, 24 cents a loaf; round steak, $1.30 a pound. Also the Life Expectancy in that time for Males was 67.1 and for female it was 74.8.


On July 20th in 1969 the first manned spacecraft landed on the moon. The Moon was first visited by Soviet spacecraft Luna 2 in 1959. It is the only form of body to have been visited by humans. The last time the moon was visited by man was in December of 1972.