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On the date
Wednesday, June 22, 1949
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The Headlines
POLICE HUNT 2 MEN AS LURYE KILLERS IN 48-STATE ALARM; Ex-Convict Out on Parole Is Named as One Indicted in Murder of Union Organizer ANOTHER TIED TO WITNESS Believed to Have Been Partner of Ex-Dress Manufacturer Now Held in $100,000 Bail POLICE SEEK 2 MEN AS LURYE KILLERS
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
It Happens Every Spring
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 1000 (1000)
- Meryl Streep (1949)
- Erich Maria Remarque (1898)
- Giuseppe Mazzini (1805)
- Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767)
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
28,107 days ago
(77 years, 2 days)