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Friday, January 27, 1961
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The Headlines
4 INCHES OF SNOW ADDED BY STORM; MUCH OF EAST HIT; Fall Is Below Prediction, but Traveling Is Disrupted -- Cold Will Continue TOLL IN U.S. PUT AT 46 Many Jet Flights Into City Diverted -- Autos Slowed on Slippery Highways 4 INGHES OF SNOW ADDED BY STORM
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Shirelles
#1 at the box office
Swiss Family Robinson
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Lewis Carroll (1832)
- Wilhelm II (1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
- Abbas the Great (1571)
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
23,870 days ago
(65 years, 145 days)