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Wednesday, August 28, 1963
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The Headlines
SENATE VOTES BAN ON RAIL WALKOUT; HOUSE ACTS TODAY; Expected to Approve Plan Before Deadline--Morse and Tower Dissenters STRIKE SET FOR TONIGHT Measure Bars Stoppage for 180 Days--Arbitration Is Limited to Two Issues Goldwater Opposes Plan Sets Up 7-Man Board SENATE VOTES BAN ON RAIL WALKOUT Morse Assails Union Heads Sees Campaign Issue Urged to Use Air Mail
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Cleopatra †
The must-have
Easy-Bake Oven
On This Day
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gives his I Have a Dream speech.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
- Paul Martin (1938)
- Ai Weiwei (1957)
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
22,927 days ago
(62 years, 297 days)