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Thursday, May 4, 1961
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The Headlines
BRAZIL ALARMED BY CASTRO STAND; Proclamation of 'Socialist' Cuba Leads to Clamor for Action by O.A.S. BRAZIL ALARMED BY CASTRO STAND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Runaway
Del Shannon
#1 at the box office
Gone with the Wind (reissue)
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
Wikipedia →Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67 km).
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You Share a Birthday With
- Audrey Hepburn (1929)
- Hosni Mubarak (1928)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
- Amos Oz (1939)
- Werner Faymann (1960)
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
23,773 days ago
(65 years, 48 days)