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Friday, September 21, 1956
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The Headlines
BRITISH EXECUTE THREE IN CYPRUS; Pro-Greek Terrorists Hanged Amid a Protest Strike and Renewed Violence Newspapers Shut Down BRITISH EXECUTE THREE IN CYPRUS Cases Against the Three Athens Heads 'Cut' U.S. Ballet
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
High Society
The must-have
Yahtzee
You Share a Birthday With
- H. G. Wells (1866)
- Shinzo Abe (1954)
- Kwame Nkrumah (1909)
- Stephen King (1947)
- Leonard Cohen (1934)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Hard Disk Drive (IBM 305), Videotape & Transatlantic Telephone Cable.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
25,459 days ago
(69 years, 274 days)