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On the date
Wednesday, May 12, 1965
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The Headlines
CITY REORGANIZES DRIVE ON POVERTY; Two Boards Formed to Give the Poor More Power City Reorganizes Antipoverty Drive
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
Herman's Hermits
#1 at the box office
The Sound of Music
The must-have
Operation
On This Day
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Katharine Hepburn (1907)
- Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895)
- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910)
- George Carlin (1937)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Supercomputer (CDC 6600), Hypertext & Kevlar.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
22,304 days ago
(61 years, 39 days)