Wednesday, July 12, 1961

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The Headlines

Factory Pay Rises To Peak of $94.24; Factory Pay Rises to $94 Peak As Work Week Increases in June

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Tossin' and Turnin'

Bobby Lewis

#1 at the box office

The must-have

Slip 'N Slide

On This Day

• Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.

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• ČSA Flight 511 crashes at Casablanca–Anfa Airport in Morocco, killing 72.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Pablo Neruda (1904)
• Henry David Thoreau (1817)
• Amedeo Modigliani (1884)
• Buckminster Fuller (1895)
• Richard Simmons (1948)

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Tech Check

Space Capsule (Vostok/Mercury), Electric Toothbrush & Industrial Robots (Unimate).

Cost of Living (1960)