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Tuesday, February 2, 1971
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The Headlines
APOLLO CLEARED TO MAKE MOON LANDING ON FRIDAY; NO DOCKING FLAWS FOUND
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Knock Three Times
Dawn
#1 at the box office
Love Story †
$815,900
The must-have
Uno
On This Day
Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
Wikipedia →The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- James Joyce (1882)
- Ayn Rand (1905)
- Valéry Giscard d'Estaing (1926)
- Park Geun-hye (1952)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754)
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
20,212 days ago
(55 years, 137 days)