From the day
On the date
Friday, October 11, 1946
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The Headlines
Cards, With Record-Typing 20 Hits, Rout Red Sox, 12-3, to Even Series; Return of Batting Power Brings Runs, Victory and Smiles to the Cardinals in Fourth Game of Series
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Five Minutes More
Frank Sinatra
#1 at the box office
Three Little Girls in Blue
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884)
- Amitabh Bachchan (1942)
- François Mauriac (1885)
- Bobby Charlton (1937)
- Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
29,092 days ago
(79 years, 257 days)