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On the date
Wednesday, May 25, 1949
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The Headlines
CATHOLICS WARNED NOT TO AID PRAGUE; Czech Archbishop Threatens Excommunication of Those Helping Communist Regime CATHOLICS WARNED NOT TO AID PRAGUE GIVES CHURCH WARNING
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Riders in the Sky
Unknown Artist
#1 at the box office
Flamingo Road
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803)
- Pieter Zeeman (1865)
- Ian McKellen (1939)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803)
- Igor Sikorsky (1889)
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
28,136 days ago
(77 years, 31 days)