From the day
On the date
Monday, November 8, 1948
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The Headlines
Greeks Stay Execution of 10 After U.N. Appeal to King; Evatt Sets Precedent by Cabling Paul That Carrying Out of Death Sentences Would Hurt Balkan Conciliation Efforts
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Buttons and Bows
Dinah Shore and her Happy Valley Boys
#1 at the box office
A Song Is Born
The must-have
Scrabble
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
- Gottlob Frege (1848)
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
Time Elapsed
28,334 days ago
(77 years, 229 days)