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Sunday, May 28, 1961
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The Headlines
PROVE IT BEATEN; 4-5 Favorite Second to First Balcony, 12-1, in $112,700 Race COAST RACE GOES TO FIRST BALCONY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Travelin' Man
Ricky Nelson
#1 at the box office
The Young Savages
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ian Fleming (1908)
- Patrick White (1912)
- William Pitt the Younger (1759)
- Edvard Beneš (1884)
- Bülent Ecevit (1925)
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
23,749 days ago
(65 years, 24 days)