From the day
On the date
Wednesday, August 30, 1944
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The Headlines
PEAK U.S. AIR BLOW RIPS AMBOINA BASE; 188-Ton Attack Fires Japan's Stronghold in Indies -- Iwo, Paramushiru Hit Again PEAK U.S. AIR BLOW RIPS AMBOINA BASE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Swinging on a Star
Bing Crosby with John Scott Trotter and His Orchestra and the Williams Brothers Quartet
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
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
29,864 days ago
(81 years, 299 days)