From the day
On the date
Sunday, April 7, 1946
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The Headlines
French Support of Sanctions Against Franco Is Indicated; Bonnet Presses for Embargo to Implement Opposition to Spanish Regime--Giral Cabinet Takes In a Communist
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Oh! What It Seemed to Be
Frank Sinatra
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
The Soviet Union annexes East Prussia as the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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You Share a Birthday With
- William Wordsworth (1770)
- Gerhard Schröder (1944)
- Gabriela Mistral (1889)
- Francis Ford Coppola (1939)
- Ravi Shankar (1920)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
29,279 days ago
(80 years, 79 days)