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Monday, February 13, 1961
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The Headlines
Aid Goes to All Collegians Or None, Mahoney Warns; MAHONEY WARNS SCHOLAR AID FOES
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Calcutta
Lawrence Welk
#1 at the box office
Exodus
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- William Shockley (1910)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
- Paul Biya (1933)
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
23,853 days ago
(65 years, 128 days)