From the day
On the date
Wednesday, February 9, 1944
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The Headlines
RICH MINES REWON; Twin Soviet Victories Sweep Germans From Manganese Source BRIDGEHEAD IS WIPED OUT 15,000 Nazis Killed in Rout as Red Armies Merge Forces -- Pocket Is Tightened NIKOPOL CAPTURED IN SOVIET ADVANCE
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
You Share a Birthday With
- William Henry Harrison (1773)
- Thomas Paine (1737)
- J. M. Coetzee (1940)
- Alice Walker (1944)
- Joseph Stiglitz (1943)
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
30,068 days ago
(82 years, 138 days)