Thursday, January 16, 1969

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The Headlines

RISE IN SOCIAL SECURITY PROVIDED; BROADER BENEFITS 10% Increase Sought, With Higher Taxes to Finance It Social Security: l0% Benefit Increase, With Tax Rise, Is Sought

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Marvin Gaye

The must-have

Nerf Ball

On This Day

• Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.

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• Space Race: Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of crewed spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Susan Sontag (1933)
• Fulgencio Batista (1901)
• Johannes Rau (1931)
• Dian Fossey (1932)
• Sade (singer) (1959)

Slang

Tech Check

ARPANET (Internet Precursor), Moon Lander & UNIX.

Cost of Living (1960)