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On the date
Monday, December 4, 1944
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The Headlines
Tokyo Plane Plant Set Afire By B-29's, Bombing in Clear; TOKYO PLANE PLANT SET AFIRE BY B-29'S
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm Making Believe
The Ink Spots and Ella Fitzgerald
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Francisco Franco (1892)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795)
- Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
- Albert Bandura (1925)
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
29,768 days ago
(81 years, 203 days)