From the day
On the date
Saturday, August 14, 1948
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The Headlines
Israel Bids U.N. Set Truce Limit; Demands Peace or Freedom to Act; TRUCE LIMIT URGED ON U.N. BY ISRAEL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You Call Everybody Darlin'
Al Trace and His New Orchestra with Bob Vincent
#1 at the box office
Key Largo
The must-have
Scrabble
On This Day
An Idaho Department of Fish and Game program to relocate beavers known as Beaver drop occurred. This program relocated beavers from Northwestern Idaho to Central Idaho by airplane and then parachuting the beavers into the Chamberlain Basin .
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You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
- Wim Wenders (1945)
- Richard R. Ernst (1933)
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
28,420 days ago
(77 years, 315 days)