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Monday, June 23, 1969
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The Headlines
POWELL DECLINES ELECTION SUPPORT FOR PROCACCINO; Hails Lindsay as Probably Only Man Able to Calm the Troubled Waters
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet
Henry Mancini
#1 at the box office
Ice Station Zebra
$476,500
The must-have
Nerf Ball
On This Day
Warren E. Burger is sworn in as Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court by retiring Chief Justice Earl Warren.
Wikipedia →IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alan Turing (1912)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889)
- Edward VIII (1894)
- Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
- Frances McDormand (1957)
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
20,802 days ago
(56 years, 362 days)