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On the date
Thursday, May 1, 1969
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The Headlines
Administration Gets Study Of Global Nuclear Strategy; National Security Council Will Take Up Comprehensive Analysis of Options, Including a Sweeping Modification STRATEGY REVIEW TO GO TO COUNCIL
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
99 Women
$311,778
The must-have
Nerf Ball
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
20,855 days ago
(57 years, 50 days)