From the day
On the date
Thursday, August 28, 1941
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The Headlines
Germans Claim Zaporozhe, See Donets Basin Menaced; Report Leningrad-Moscow Rail Line Cut -- A Soviet Army 'Destroyed' in Capture of City West of the Capital
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Green Eyes (Aquellos Ojos Verdes)
Unknown Artist
The must-have
Red Ryder BB Gun
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Paul Martin (1938)
- Jack Kirby (1917)
- Godfrey Hounsfield (1919)
- C. Wright Mills (1916)
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
30,963 days ago
(84 years, 303 days)