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On the date
Thursday, July 25, 1946
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The Headlines
SHIPS BOB AROUND IN BLAST LIKE TOYS; Caldron of Fire, Smoke, Steam Engulfs Area After Explosion, Says Reporter in Plane SHIPS BOB AROUND IN BLAST LIKE TOYS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
The Gypsy
Dinah Shore
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
On This Day
The Crossroads Baker device is the first underwater nuclear weapon test.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Elias Canetti (1905)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920)
- Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1922)
- Gavrilo Princip (1894)
- Arthur Balfour (1848)
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
29,170 days ago
(79 years, 335 days)