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Thursday, August 13, 1964
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The Headlines
GOLDWATER GETS WILLI PLEA; Senator Is Said to Agree to Urge Conservatives Not to Run Against Keating
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The must-have
G.I. Joe
On This Day
Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Fidel Castro (1926)
- Alfred Hitchcock (1899)
- Frederick Sanger (1918)
- Karl Liebknecht (1871)
- John Logie Baird (1888)
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
22,576 days ago
(61 years, 311 days)