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Thursday, August 10, 1961
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The Headlines
JETLINER SEIZED, FLOWN TO HAVANA; CUBA RELEASES IT; 81 Aboard Hijacked Pan Am Plane Diverted Over Mexico -- Craft Back in Miami JETLINER SEIZED, FLOWN TO HAVAHA
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Tossin' and Turnin'
Bobby Lewis
#1 at the box office
The Guns of Navarone
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Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20 million US gallons (76,000 m3) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Herbert Hoover (1874)
- Juan Manuel Santos (1951)
- Antonio Banderas (1960)
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810)
- Jorge Amado (1912)
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
23,675 days ago
(64 years, 315 days)