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On the date
Wednesday, June 5, 1946
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The Headlines
BEVIN SAYS RUSSIA SEEKS WORLD BUILT ON HER OWN MODEL; Tells Commons Soviet Thinks It Alone Is Democratic and Represents Workers HOPE PINNED ON U.S. PLAN Moscow Urged to Reconsider 4-Power Pact--Alternative on Peace Threatened
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
#1 at the box office
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
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You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
- Pancho Villa (1878)
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
29,220 days ago
(80 years, 20 days)