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Saturday, September 16, 1961
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The Headlines
MENDERES TO DIE; BAYAR GETS LIFE; Turkish Court Also Dooms 2 Ex-Ministers -- Junta Spares Lives of 12 MENDERES TO DIE; BAYAR GETS LIFE Deposed Turkish Leaders Sentenced
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Take Good Care of My Baby
Bobby Vee
#1 at the box office
Come September
The must-have
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On This Day
Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
Wikipedia →Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
Wikipedia →The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Lee Kuan Yew (1923)
- Lauren Bacall (1924)
- B. B. King (1925)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Henry V of England (1386)
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
23,638 days ago
(64 years, 278 days)