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Thursday, November 11, 1965
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The Headlines
Darkened Out-of-Town Region Not as Badly Affected as City; Darkened Out-of-Town Region Not So Badly Affected as City
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Get Off of My Cloud
The Rolling Stones
#1 at the box office
The Sound of Music
The must-have
Operation
On This Day
Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia.
Wikipedia →United Air Lines Flight 227 crashes at Salt Lake City International Airport, killing 43.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821)
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922)
- Demi Moore (1962)
- Paracelsus (1493)
- Daniel Ortega (1945)
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
22,121 days ago
(60 years, 221 days)