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On the date
Wednesday, May 11, 1949
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The Headlines
ANTI-HAGUE TICKET WINS IN JERSEY CITY BY 4-TO-3 MARGIN; 32-Year Reign Broken When Kenny Forces Capture All 5 Places on City Commission
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
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Richard Feynman (1918)
- Camilo José Cela (1916)
- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930)
- Antony Hewish (1924)
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
28,149 days ago
(77 years, 44 days)