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On the date
Tuesday, May 10, 1949
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The Headlines
Dulles Will Advise U. S. Group in Paris
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra
#1 at the box office
Flamingo Road
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Fred Astaire (1899)
- Heydar Aliyev (1923)
- Gustav Stresemann (1878)
- Karl Barth (1886)
- Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788)
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
28,151 days ago
(77 years, 46 days)