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On the date

Sunday, December 4, 1949

From the day

Memories from that day

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#1 on Your Hit Parade

Mule Train

Frankie Laine and the Muleskinners

#1 at the box office

Pinky

The must-have

LEGO (Automatic Binding Bricks)

On This Day

  • Sir Duncan George Stewart, governor of the Crown Colony of Sarawak, was fatally stabbed by a member of the Rukun 13.

    Wikipedia →

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

gobbledygooksnafufubar

Gi

ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that

Bobby Soxer

neatodreamydreamboat

Catchphrases of 1949

  • Big Brother is watching you

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

27,942 days ago

(76 years, 202 days)