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Thursday, October 21, 1965
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The Headlines
CONGRESS CLEARS A TEACHER CORPS AND COLLEGE AID; First Federal Scholarships Set Up in $2.3 Billion Bill -- Victory for Johnson
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Yesterday
The Beatles
#1 at the box office
The Great Race
The must-have
Operation
On This Day
Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
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
22,143 days ago
(60 years, 243 days)