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On the date
Thursday, October 19, 1961
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The Headlines
PENTAGON PUSHES BOMBER CUTBACK; Reaffirms Decision to Halt Production of the B-52 PENTAGON PUSHES BOMBER OUTBACK
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Runaround Sue
Dion
#1 at the box office
Breakfast at Tiffany's
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
You Share a Birthday With
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- John le Carré (1931)
- Philip Pullman (1946)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
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
23,606 days ago
(64 years, 246 days)