WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:

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MONDAY, DECEMBER 28: THE 1960 CENSUS

Profile America -- Monday, December 28th. The national census next April will be the 23rd time this count has been conducted since 1790. The 18th census in 1960 profiled a nation on the verge of the space age. There were more than 179 million people in U.S., including the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. On the list of 10 largest cities, Los Angeles ranked number three, with a population of just under 2.5 million. In the decade to follow, U.S. Marines arrived in Vietnam, the Beatles appeared on American television, and 450,000 people jammed the Woodstock music festival. At the decade's end, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of Apollo 11 become the first humans to walk the surface of the moon. Profile America is in its 13th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, Through the Decades

Profile America is produced by the Public Information Office of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on a monthly CD or on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look under the "Newsroom" button).

SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau

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