From the day
On the date
Tuesday, August 30, 1949
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The Headlines
Tito Applies for a U. S. Loan To Help Overcome Blockade; Asks $25,000,000 to Buy Mine Machinery -- Payment Would Be Made in Metals -- Acheson Is Said to Favor Request
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
You're Breaking My Heart
Vic Damone with Glenn Osser's Orchestra
#1 at the box office
It's a Great Feeling
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
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
28,038 days ago
(76 years, 298 days)