From the day
On the date
Sunday, January 30, 1944
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The Headlines
THE FRONTS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)
Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra with Eugenie Baird
The must-have
Slinky
On This Day
World War II: The Battle of Cisterna, part of Operation Shingle, begins in central Italy.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Dick Cheney (1941)
- Islam Karimov (1938)
- Olof Palme (1927)
- Gene Hackman (1930)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Harvard Mark I Computer, Kidney Dialysis Machine & Synthesized Quinine.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
30,078 days ago
(82 years, 148 days)