From the day
On the date
Saturday, May 4, 1968
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The Headlines
84 Killed in Crash of Braniff Electra in Texas; 4-Engine Turboprop Airplane Falls in an Electric Storm Eyewitness Reports That It Exploded While in Air 84 Dead in Crash of Braniff Airliner
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Honey
Bobby Goldsboro
#1 at the box office
The Graduate †
The must-have
Hot Wheels
You Share a Birthday With
- Audrey Hepburn (1929)
- Hosni Mubarak (1928)
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825)
- Amos Oz (1939)
- Werner Faymann (1960)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
Computer Mouse (Demo), Boeing 747 & 911 Emergency System.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
21,216 days ago
(58 years, 46 days)