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On the date
Monday, January 25, 1971
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The Headlines
Shah of Iran Warns West That Oil May Be Shut Off
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Knock Three Times
Dawn
#1 at the box office
Love Story †
$892,200
The must-have
Uno
On This Day
Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
Wikipedia →Charles Manson and four "Family" members (three of them female) are found guilty of the 1969 Tate–LaBianca murders.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Virginia Woolf (1882)
- Robert Burns (1759)
- Vladimir Vysotsky (1938)
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874)
- Robert Boyle (1627)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Microprocessor (Intel 4004), Email & Soft Contact Lenses.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
20,220 days ago
(55 years, 145 days)