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On the date
Tuesday, January 4, 1972
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The Headlines
Price‐Posting by Stores Found Spotty
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Brand New Key
Melanie
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$1,551,359
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, UK.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Gao Xingjian (1940)
- Louis Braille (1809)
- Jacob Grimm (1785)
- Brian Josephson (1940)
- Till Lindemann (1963)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Video Games (Pong), C Programming Language & HBO (Cable TV).
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
19,877 days ago
(54 years, 167 days)