From the day
On the date
Wednesday, April 27, 1949
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The Headlines
Girl Aide of FBI Testifies Of 7 Years as 'Communist'; GIRL FBI AIDE TELLS OF COMMUNIST PLOT
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
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
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
28,163 days ago
(77 years, 58 days)