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On the date
Sunday, August 22, 1971
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The Headlines
Peace Corps First in $100,000 Race
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
The Anderson Tapes
$654,200
The must-have
Uno
On This Day
J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Deng Xiaoping (1904)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Ray Bradbury (1920)
- Leni Riefenstahl (1902)
- Pope Leo XII (1760)
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
20,011 days ago
(54 years, 301 days)