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On the date
Thursday, January 20, 1949
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The Headlines
10 KILLED, 21 HURT AS SHIPS COLLIDE OFF JERSEY COAST; Coast Guard Icebreaker, on Which All Casualties Occur, Is Struck by Tanker
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
A Little Bird Told Me
Evelyn Knight and the Stardusters
#1 at the box office
The Snake Pit
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Federico Fellini (1920)
- André-Marie Ampère (1775)
- Buzz Aldrin (1930)
- David Lynch (1946)
- Johannes V. Jensen (1873)
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
28,260 days ago
(77 years, 155 days)