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On the date
Tuesday, April 26, 1949
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The Headlines
COMMUNISTS ENTER HOME OF U.S. ENVOY; Rouse Stuart From Sleep to 'Look Around' -- Capital Orders Sharp Protest RED TROOPS INVADE HOUSE OF U.S. ENVOY
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
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
- AD 121 (121)
- AD 757 (757)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798)
- I. M. Pei (1917)
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)