From the day
On the date
Wednesday, June 21, 1944
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The Headlines
HULL CHIDES BRITON ON OUR WAR ENTRY; Denies We Provoked Japan to Attack -- Lyttelton Retracts Charge -- London Dismayed
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'll Get By (As Long as I Have You)
Harry James and His Orchestra with Dick Haymes
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905)
- Françoise Sagan (1935)
- Pope Leo IX (1002)
- Machado de Assis (1839)
- Siméon Denis Poisson (1781)
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
29,934 days ago
(82 years, 4 days)