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On the date
Wednesday, May 1, 1963
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The Headlines
Setback Suffered By Fanfani's Party; FANFANI'S PARTY SUFFERS SETBACK
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
How the West Was Won
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Touch-Tone Phone, Computer Mouse (Prototype) & Instant Replay.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
23,046 days ago
(63 years, 51 days)