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Wednesday, April 9, 1969
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The Headlines
Man Who Got Plastic Heart Dies As Dispute on the Device Looms; Man Who Received Plastic Heart Dies in Houston
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
The 5th Dimension
#1 at the box office
The Love Bug
$497,750
The must-have
Nerf Ball
On This Day
The first British-built Concorde 002 makes its maiden flight from Filton to RAF Fairford with Brian Trubshaw as the test pilot.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Charles Baudelaire (1821)
- Jean-Paul Belmondo (1933)
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835)
- Hugh Hefner (1926)
- Elias Lönnrot (1802)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bummerfoxhunkscam
Hippie
flower powergroovyheavyout of sightright on
Surfer
cowabungahang tenwipe outgnarly
Tech Check
ARPANET (Internet Precursor), Moon Lander & UNIX.
Cost of Living (1960)
Loaf of Bread
$0.20
Gallon of Gas
$0.31
Average Home
$11,900
New Car
$2,600
Time Elapsed
20,877 days ago
(57 years, 72 days)