From the day
On the date
Thursday, May 7, 1964
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The Headlines
Comes a (Kind of) Pause in Day's Occupation; It's Children's Hour as Johnson Meets Press on Lawn
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Pink Panther
The must-have
G.I. Joe
On This Day
Pacific Airlines Flight 773 is hijacked by Francisco Gonzales and crashes in Contra Costa County, California, killing 44.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
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
22,674 days ago
(62 years, 44 days)