From the day
On the date
Monday, December 11, 1944
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The Headlines
ATHENS IS SHELLED; BOMBERS HIT ELAS; Leftists on Hill Fire on City -Battle Pitch Mounts as Salonika Is Fortified ATHENS IS SHELLED; BOMBERS HIT ELAS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Don't Fence Me In
Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters with Vic Schoen and His Orchestra
The must-have
Slinky
You Share a Birthday With
- Naguib Mahfouz (1911)
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918)
- Hector Berlioz (1803)
- Robert Koch (1843)
- Max Born (1882)
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
29,761 days ago
(81 years, 196 days)