From the day
On the date
Saturday, May 25, 1946
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The Headlines
World News Summarized
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
The Ink Spots
#1 at the box office
Do You Love Me
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
The parliament of Transjordan makes Abdullah I of Jordan their Emir.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
- Igor Sikorsky (1889)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
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
29,232 days ago
(80 years, 32 days)