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On the date
Monday, July 18, 1949
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The Headlines
Bitter Immigrants in Israel Ask Homes in Crowded Land; INSTALLATIONS FOR IMMIGRANTS ESTABLISHED IN ISRAEL IMMIGRATION CRISIS CONFRONTS ISRAEL
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
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
- Thomas Kuhn (1922)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
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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
28,082 days ago
(76 years, 342 days)