From the day
On the date
Sunday, August 23, 1970
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The Headlines
Times Square Finds Erotica Has Impact
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
War
Edwin Starr
#1 at the box office
Woodstock
$746,500
The must-have
Lite-Brite
On This Day
Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
- Halimah Yacob (1954)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Floppy Disk, Digital Watch & Boeing 747 (Service).
Style of 1970
Silhouette: Long and lean
Material: Polyester and corduroy
- Maxi dresses
- Platform shoes
- Leisure suits
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
20,376 days ago
(55 years, 301 days)