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Monday, October 15, 1956
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The Headlines
2 TOP CANDIDATES BAR BIAS IN DRIVES; Eisenhower and Stevenson Take Stand on Rights in Reply to Two Groups To Circulate Statements 2 CANDIDATES BAR BIAS IN CAMPAIGN
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
War and Peace
The must-have
Yahtzee
On This Day
FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844)
- Akbar (1542)
- Mikhail Lermontov (1814)
- Michel Foucault (1926)
- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam (1931)
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
25,435 days ago
(69 years, 250 days)