From the day
On the date
Tuesday, August 20, 1946
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The Headlines
HUNT FOR PLANE ON; Transport Craft Sends Word It Is Fired On, Then Radio Ceases FATE OF CREW NOT KNOWN Fliers Believed to Have Moved Over Yugoslav Strip While on Flight to Italy
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
To Each His Own
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Night and Day
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Harrison (1833)
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
- Slobodan Milošević (1941)
- Salvatore Quasimodo (1901)
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
29,145 days ago
(79 years, 310 days)