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On the date
Sunday, May 23, 1971
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The Headlines
COMMUTERS'
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Brown Sugar
The Rolling Stones
#1 at the box office
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
$421,000
The must-have
Uno
On This Day
Seventy-eight people are killed when Aviogenex Flight 130 crashes on approach to Rijeka Airport in present-day Rijeka, Croatia (then the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia).
Wikipedia →The Intercontinental Hotel in Bucharest opens, becoming the second-tallest building in the city.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Linnaeus (1707)
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891)
- John Bardeen (1908)
- Anatoly Karpov (1951)
- Alan García (1949)
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
20,103 days ago
(55 years, 28 days)