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Sunday, April 30, 1961
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The Headlines
Kennedy's First 100 Days: Gain at Home, Loss Abroad; Overseas Reverses Dim Early Hopes on Relations With Russians -- Successes Scored in Domestic Programs KENNEDY FINISHES HIS FIRST 100 DAYS
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Runaway
Del Shannon
#1 at the box office
The Absent-Minded Professor
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- António Guterres (1949)
- Stephen Harper (1959)
- Carl XVI Gustaf (1946)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
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
23,778 days ago
(65 years, 53 days)