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Friday, July 22, 1966
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The Headlines
BROOKLYN SNIPER KILLS NEGRO BOY IN RACE DISORDER; Shooting in East New York Follows Fight Between Negroes and Whites DEBRIS RAINS ON POLICE Stores Looted as Crowds Swirl Through Area Lindsay Is at Scene Brooklyn Sniper Kills 11-Year-Old Negro Boy in Race Disorder
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hanky Panky
Tommy James and the Shondells
#1 at the box office
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The must-have
Twister
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Willem Dafoe (1955)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Fiber Optics, Handheld Calculator Concept & Fuel Injection.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
21,868 days ago
(59 years, 333 days)