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Friday, July 16, 1948
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The Headlines
Condon Gets Security Clearance In Atomic Energy Group Inquiry; CONDON IS CLEARED AFTER NEW INQUIRY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Woody Woodpecker
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
The Emperor Waltz
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
Following token resistance, the city of Nazareth, revered by Christians as the hometown of Jesus, capitulates to Israeli troops during Operation Dekel in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War.
Wikipedia →The storming of the cockpit of the Miss Macao passenger seaplane, operated by a subsidiary of the Cathay Pacific Airways, marks the first aircraft hijacking of a commercial plane.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Ginger Rogers (1911)
- Yasuo Fukuda (1936)
- Trygve Lie (1896)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Long-Playing Record (LP), Velcro & Holography Theory.
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
28,448 days ago
(77 years, 343 days)