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Friday, January 7, 1972
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The Headlines
53‐CENT INCREASE IN REAL TAX SEEN BY BUDGET GROUP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Brand New Key
Melanie
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$1,717,800
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Iberia Flight 602 crashes near Ibiza Airport, killing all 104 people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Jeremy Renner (1971)
- Nicolas Cage (1964)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858)
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
19,873 days ago
(54 years, 163 days)