From the day
On the date
Friday, August 30, 1946
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The Headlines
M'Arthur Lists Year's Gain In Achieving Aims in Japan; Review Declares War-Making Machinery Is Smashed, Monopolies Destroyed and Electoral System Rendered Free
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
To Each His Own
Freddy Martin and His Orchestra with Stuart Wade
#1 at the box office
Notorious
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
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
29,134 days ago
(79 years, 299 days)