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On the date
Friday, December 12, 1969
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The Headlines
HANOI'S TOP AIDE SHUNS PARIS TALK; Thuy Says U.S. Sabotages Conference by Not Naming Replacement for Lodge
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
Steam
#1 at the box office
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
$290,000
The must-have
Nerf Ball
On This Day
The Piazza Fontana bombing; a bomb explodes at the headquarters of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura (the National Agricultural Bank) in Piazza Fontana in Milan, Italy, killing 17 people and wounding 88. The same afternoon, three more bombs are detonated in Rome and Milan, and another is found unexploded.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
- Rajinikanth (1950)
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
20,629 days ago
(56 years, 189 days)