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On the date
Tuesday, July 4, 1944
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The Headlines
Doughboys Land on Numfor, Swiftly Win Main Airfield; ANOTHER LANDING IN SOUTHWEST PACIFIC DOUGHBOYS LAND ON NUMFOR ISLE
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
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)
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
29,921 days ago
(81 years, 356 days)