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On the date
Wednesday, January 25, 1961
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The Headlines
DELGADO DEFIANT; Enemy of Salazar, Now in Brazil, Ordered Ship Captured Portuguese Rebels Demand U.S. and Britain Stand Aside in Takeover of Liner DELGADO ADMITS ORDERING SEIZURE Calls Action Political and Beyond the Jurisdiction of Other Nations
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Shirelles
#1 at the box office
Spartacus
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
In Washington, D.C., US President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
Wikipedia →Walt Disney Productions released the animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians, based on Dodie Smith's 1956 children's novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
23,873 days ago
(65 years, 148 days)