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Friday, April 17, 1964
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The Headlines
MAYOR DEPLORES PROPOSED TIE‐UP ON ROADS TO FAIR; Calls Brooklyn CORE's Plan ‘Ill‐Chosen’—Johnson and Kennedy Warn Militants
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
Tom Jones
The must-have
G.I. Joe
On This Day
Jerrie Mock completes the first around-the-world airplane flight by a woman. Her solo flight in the Spirit of Columbus, which took 29 1/2 days, took off and landed at the Port Columbus International Airport in Ohio.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Sirimavo Bandaranaike (1916)
- J. P. Morgan (1837)
- William Holden (1918)
- Sean Bean (1959)
- Thornton Wilder (1897)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
BASIC Programming Language, IBM System/360 & Word Processor.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
22,695 days ago
(62 years, 65 days)