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On the date
Saturday, December 4, 1965
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The Headlines
GEMINI 7 IS POISED FOR FLIGHT TODAY; Craft and Crew Are Ready -- Weather Is Expected to Permit the Launching
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)
The Byrds
#1 at the box office
The Sound of Music
The must-have
Operation
On This Day
Launch of Gemini 7 with crew members Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. The Gemini 7 spacecraft was the passive target for the first crewed space rendezvous performed by the crew of Gemini 6A.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Francisco Franco (1892)
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875)
- Thomas Carlyle (1795)
- Jeff Bridges (1949)
- Samuel Butler (novelist) (1835)
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
22,098 days ago
(60 years, 198 days)