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On the date
Saturday, September 2, 1961
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The Headlines
ALL 78 ON PLANE KILLED IN CRASH OUTSIDE CHICAGO; FAMILIES PERISH Piston Craft Plunges Into Field Minutes After Take-Off Airliner's Pilot and Site of Crash ALL 78 ON PLANE KILLED IN CRASH
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Michael
The Highwaymen
#1 at the box office
Come September
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Wilhelm Ostwald (1853)
- Frederick Soddy (1877)
- Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953)
- Liliʻuokalani (1838)
- Andrej Babiš (1954)
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
23,653 days ago
(64 years, 293 days)