From the day
On the date
Sunday, July 18, 1948
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The Headlines
Campaign of '48; AS THE U.N. WORKS FOR PEACE IN PALESTINE
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
- Thomas Kuhn (1922)
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
28,446 days ago
(77 years, 341 days)