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Thursday, April 26, 1962
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The Headlines
Vatican Set to Aid Church Unity With Non-Doctrinal Concessions; Vatican Set to Aid Church Unity With Non-Doctrinal Concessions
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Good Luck Charm
Elvis Presley
#1 at the box office
West Side Story
The must-have
Slip 'N Slide
On This Day
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
Wikipedia →The British space programme launches its first satellite, the Ariel 1.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889)
- AD 121 (121)
- AD 757 (757)
- Eugène Delacroix (1798)
- I. M. Pei (1917)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Telstar Satellite, LED (Light Emitting Diode) & Compact Cassette.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
23,417 days ago
(64 years, 57 days)