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Tuesday, October 21, 1969
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The Headlines
Citizens Union Endorses Lindsay as an Innovator; Citizens Union Endorses Lindsay as Innovator; Calls Term 'Not an Unqualified Success'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Can't Get Next to You
The Temptations
#1 at the box office
Easy Rider
$496,644
The must-have
Nerf Ball
On This Day
The 1969 Somali coup d'état establishes a Marxist–Leninist administration.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
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
20,682 days ago
(56 years, 242 days)