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Monday, May 12, 1941
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The Headlines
NAZI RAIDING PACE SUGGESTS INVASION; Rising Tempo Hints at Aim to Destroy 'Energy Centers' as Prelude to Landings NAZI RAIDING PACE SUGGESTS INVASION
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Amapola (Pretty Little Poppy)
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
On This Day
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- George Carlin (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Aerosol Spray Cans, Z3 Computer & Dacron.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
31,071 days ago
(85 years, 46 days)