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Sunday, June 6, 1971
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The Headlines
The Nation
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
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Honey Cone
#1 at the box office
Gimme Shelter
$283,027
The must-have
Uno
On This Day
Soyuz 11 is launched. The mission ends in disaster when all three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patsayev are suffocated by uncontrolled decompression of the capsule during re-entry on 29 June.
Wikipedia →Hughes Airwest Flight 706 collides with a McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II of the United States Marine Corps over the San Gabriel Mountains, killing 50.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alexander Pushkin (1799)
- Diego Velázquez (1599)
- Thomas Mann (1875)
- Sukarno (1901)
- Pierre Corneille (1606)
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
20,088 days ago
(55 years, 13 days)