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Tuesday, April 25, 1961
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The Headlines
Millions in France Stop Work to Back de Gaulle; 10,000,000 SHOW LOYALTY TO PARIS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Runaway
Del Shannon
#1 at the box office
The Absent-Minded Professor
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Al Pacino (1940)
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Johan Cruyff (1947)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
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
23,783 days ago
(65 years, 58 days)