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On the date
Wednesday, January 26, 1949
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The Headlines
85 Per Cent Ballot Seen By GENE CURRIVAN; EARLY ISRAEL VOTE PUTS LABOR AHEAD
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)
On This Day
The Hale Telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
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You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas MacArthur (1880)
- Paul Newman (1925)
- Angela Davis (1944)
- Charles XIV John (1763)
- Claude Adrien Helvétius (1715)
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
28,254 days ago
(77 years, 149 days)