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On the date
Wednesday, November 8, 1944
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The Headlines
Roosevelt Leads as Davis Trails, In Mounting Pennsylvania Count; ROOSEVELT LEADS IN PENNSYLVANIA
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'll Walk Alone
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
- Gottlob Frege (1848)
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
29,794 days ago
(81 years, 229 days)