From the day
On the date
Monday, November 28, 1949
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The Headlines
COMMUNIST DRIVE NEARS CHUNGKING; Reds Reach Kikiang, 40 Miles South -- Nationalists Impose Martial Law on City
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
Mule Train
Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners
#1 at the box office
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
The must-have
LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)
You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Engels (1820)
- William Blake (1757)
- Stefan Zweig (1881)
- Alexander Blok (1880)
- Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908)
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
27,949 days ago
(76 years, 209 days)