From the day
On the date
Friday, July 12, 1946
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The Headlines
Cardinal Puts Blame on Some Jews For Program; 9 Poles to be Hanged; Polish Cardinal Talks on Pogrom
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Pablo Neruda (1904)
- Henry David Thoreau (1817)
- Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
- Buckminster Fuller (1895)
- Bill Cosby (1937)
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
29,183 days ago
(79 years, 348 days)