From the day
On the date
Friday, November 17, 1944
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The Headlines
8,000 TONS DROPPED; Heavies Hit Field Guns, Foxholes, Strong Points in Aachen Sector RAF AIDS NINTH ARMY Fighter Escorts Strafe Railways -- 8 American Planes Are Lost 8,000 TONS DROPPED IN HEAVY BARRAGE
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
- Martin Scorsese (1942)
- Eugene Wigner (1902)
- Louis XVIII (1755)
- Danny DeVito (1944)
- Nicolas Appert (1749)
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
29,785 days ago
(81 years, 220 days)