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Friday, February 3, 1961
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The Headlines
Mayor Asks State to Allow City To Plan Its Own Charter Change; Mayor Asks State to Allow City To Plan Its Own Charter Change
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Will You Love Me Tomorrow
The Shirelles
#1 at the box office
The Misfits
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
The United States Air Force begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Felix Mendelssohn (1809)
- Alvar Aalto (1898)
- Simone Weil (1909)
- Gertrude Stein (1874)
- Joachim Löw (1960)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
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Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
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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
23,863 days ago
(65 years, 138 days)