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On the date
Wednesday, August 26, 1964
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The Headlines
GOLDWATER ASKS A‐LARMS FOR NATO; He Would Give a Stockpile of ‘Conventional Nuclear Weapons’ to Alliance
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
The must-have
G.I. Joe
You Share a Birthday With
- Mother Teresa (1910)
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Julio Cortázar (1914)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
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
22,563 days ago
(61 years, 298 days)