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On the date
Friday, September 30, 1949
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The Headlines
Fair Deal Victories in '50, '52 Seen by a Confident Truman; FAIR DEAL VICTORY SEEN BY PRESIDENT
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
That Lucky Old Sun
Frankie Laine with Judd Conlon's Rhythmaires, Harry Geller and His Orchestra, and Carl Fischer
#1 at the box office
My Friend Irma
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
On This Day
The Berlin Airlift ends.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rumi (1207)
- Elie Wiesel (1928)
- Truman Capote (1924)
- Jean Perrin (1870)
- Ehud Olmert (1945)
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
28,007 days ago
(76 years, 267 days)