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Monday, April 17, 1961
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The Headlines
Good Day for Seagulls, but Not for Travel or Baseball; CITY IS DRENCHED; GULLS ENJOY PARK
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Blue Moon
The Marcels
#1 at the box office
The Absent-Minded Professor
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- William Holden (1918)
- Sean Bean (1959)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
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
23,791 days ago
(65 years, 66 days)