From the day
On the date
Monday, April 25, 1949
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The Headlines
Offensive Is Unchecked; CHINESE COMMUNIST FORCES RACE ON TO EXTEND THEIR RULE SHANGHAI RINGED; TAIYUAN IS TAKEN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Careless Hands
Mel Tormé with Sonny Burke and His Orchestra
#1 at the box office
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Al Pacino (1940)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Johan Cruyff (1947)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
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
28,165 days ago
(77 years, 60 days)