From the day
On the date
Saturday, May 20, 1944
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The Headlines
125 OF FOE DOWNED; 45 U.S. Planes Missing in Battles Over Reich -- Brunswick Bombed DIEPPE HARBOR POUNDED 60-Car Train Bearing Tanks Left Wrecked and Ablaze in Blow by British 125 OF FOE DOWNED BY AMERICAN GUNS
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
- Honoré de Balzac (1799)
- John Stuart Mill (1806)
- Sigrid Undset (1882)
- José Mujica (1935)
- James Stewart (1908)
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
29,967 days ago
(82 years, 37 days)