Saturday, January 4, 1958

From the day

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The Headlines

SOVIET BLOC AID TO 10 NATIONS PUT AT $1,500,000,000; U.S. Notes Communist Gain by Economic Offensive in Mideast and Orient

#1 on Your Hit Parade

At the Hop

Danny & the Juniors with Artie Singer

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Hula Hoop

On This Day

• Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gao Xingjian (1940)
• Louis Braille (1809)
• Jacob Grimm (1785)
• Brian Josephson (1940)
• Ali al-Sajjad (659)

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Tech Check

Integrated Circuit (Microchip), Stereo Records & Modem.

Cost of Living (1950)