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On the date
Thursday, June 11, 1964
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The Headlines
Goldwater Foes to Press Opposition to Last Ditch
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Carpetbaggers †
The must-have
G.I. Joe
On This Day
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Yasunari Kawabata (1899)
- Gene Wilder (1933)
- Jacques Cousteau (1910)
- Richard Strauss (1864)
- Ben Jonson (1572)
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
22,639 days ago
(62 years, 9 days)