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Monday, July 22, 1946
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The Headlines
NEW DRIVES BEGUN IN YANGTZE VALLEY TO DESTROY REDS; Hostilities Reach Peak as the Communists Are Partly Encircled in Pocket 'LONG MARCH' IS RECALLED Government Has Embarked on Major Campaigns to Clear Five Railway Arteries
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On This Day
King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
- Louise Fletcher (1934)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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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
29,173 days ago
(79 years, 338 days)