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Sunday, September 17, 1961
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The Headlines
Court Procedure Revised To Speed Accident Cases; Courts Here Alter Procedure To Expedite Accident Cases
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
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Wikipedia →Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Narendra Modi (1950)
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
- Anne Bancroft (1931)
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
23,637 days ago
(64 years, 277 days)