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Wednesday, June 12, 1963
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The Headlines
WATCH ON YEMEN APPROVED BY U.N.; Soviet Stands Aside and Council Votes Sanction Thant Orders Action
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
How the West Was Won
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
On This Day
The film Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released in US theaters. It was the most expensive film made at the time.
Wikipedia →NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi, by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- George H. W. Bush (1924)
- Anne Frank (1929)
- Anthony Eden (1897)
- Jordan Peterson (1962)
- Egon Schiele (1890)
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
23,004 days ago
(63 years, 9 days)