From the day
On the date
Wednesday, January 12, 1949
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The Headlines
British Ask Security Council To Impose Palestine Peace; See 'Grave Threat' to Stability of Middle East -- Concerned Over Deterioration of Anglo-American Relations BRITAIN URGES U. N. TO IMPOSE PEACE
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
The Paleface
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Haruki Murakami (1949)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Hermann Göring (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
45 RPM Vinyl, Atomic Clock & Crash Test Dummies.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Time Elapsed
28,268 days ago
(77 years, 163 days)