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Saturday, August 30, 1969
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The Headlines
City and Hospital Leaders Confer on Medicaid Crisis; Officials of City and Hospitals Conferring on Medicaid Crisis
Read in The New York Times →World Mood
#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Honky Tonk Women
The Rolling Stones
#1 at the box office
Goodbye, Columbus
$522,100
The must-have
Nerf Ball
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Alexander Lukashenko (1954)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
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
20,733 days ago
(56 years, 293 days)