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Sunday, July 24, 1966
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The Headlines
DISTRICTING PLAN FOR HOUSE UPSET BY JERSEY COURT; But Ruling Permits the Use of Democratic Measure for Election in Fall DISTRICTING PLAN BARRED IN JERSEY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Wild Thing
The Troggs
#1 at the box office
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
The must-have
Twister
On This Day
Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
- Robert Graves (1895)
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
21,866 days ago
(59 years, 331 days)