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Wednesday, December 17, 1969
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The Headlines
PRESIDENT BACKS SENATORS ON LAOS; White House Makes Clear It Endorsed in Advance Curb on Combat Units PRESIDENT BACKS SENATORS ON LAOS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Peter, Paul and Mary
#1 at the box office
A Boy Named Charlie Brown
$290,000
The must-have
Nerf Ball
On This Day
Project Blue Book: The United States Air Force closes its study of UFOs.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Francis (1936)
- Humphry Davy (1778)
- Muhammadu Buhari (1942)
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948)
- Willard Libby (1908)
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
20,624 days ago
(56 years, 184 days)