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On the date
Thursday, July 4, 1946
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The Headlines
Strike Grounds One Line's Planes; Truman Creates Board of Inquiry; STRIKERS GROUND ONE LINE'S PLANES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
The Ink Spots
#1 at the box office
A Stolen Life
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
After 381 years of near-continuous colonial rule by various powers, the Philippines attains full independence from the United States.
Wikipedia →The Kielce pogrom against Jewish Holocaust survivors in Poland.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Gina Lollobrigida (1927)
- Alfredo Di Stéfano (1926)
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
29,191 days ago
(79 years, 356 days)