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On the date
Thursday, July 14, 1949
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The Headlines
RED FAILURES HERE TOLD BY MINORITIES; Jews Anti-Communist, a Rabbi Says -- Negro Publisher Insists Robeson 'Betrays His Race'
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
Sorrowful JonesThe Girl from Jones Beach
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gerald Ford (1913)
- Ingmar Bergman (1918)
- Gustav Klimt (1862)
- Cardinal Mazarin (1602)
- Gavrila Derzhavin (1743)
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
28,086 days ago
(76 years, 346 days)