From the day
On the date
Saturday, November 9, 1946
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The Headlines
CEASE FIRE ORDER ISSUED BY CHIANG; But Chinese Reds Oppose Bid to End Civil War and Join the Assembly Tuesday
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Rumors Are Flying
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Two Years Before the Mast
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Ivan Turgenev (1818)
- Carl Sagan (1934)
- Muhammad Iqbal (1877)
- Edward VII (1841)
- Imre Kertész (1929)
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
29,063 days ago
(79 years, 228 days)