From the day
On the date
Saturday, March 11, 1944
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The Headlines
U.S. DEMANDS BAN; Charges Eire Is a Base for Espionage That Imperils Our Army NOTE BACKED BY BRITAIN De Valera Replies That Close Watch Is Kept -- Use of Nazi Radio Denied EIRE REFUSES BAN ON AXIS MISSIONS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much)
Jimmy Dorsey and His Orchestra with Bob Eberly and Kitty Kallen
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Harold Wilson (1916)
- Torquato Tasso (1544)
- Rupert Murdoch (1931)
- Nicolaas Bloembergen (1920)
- Urbain Le Verrier (1811)
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
30,036 days ago
(82 years, 106 days)