From the day
On the date
Sunday, April 30, 1944
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The Headlines
BLOCKADE TIGHTENS; Soviet Black Sea Fleet Sends 3 Transports to Bottom Off Crimea LAND ACTION IS SPORADIC Gain Near Jassy Claimed by Enemy -- Moscow Repeats: 'No Essential Change' BLOCKADE TIGHTENS ON CRIMEA HARBOR
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I Love You
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
- Mary II (1662)
- Claude Shannon (1916)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
29,986 days ago
(82 years, 56 days)