From the day
On the date
Wednesday, January 12, 1972
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The Headlines
Nubar Gulbenkian, Oil Millionaire, Dies
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
American Pie
Don McLean
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$1,717,800
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack London (1876)
- Swami Vivekananda (1863)
- Haruki Murakami (1949)
- Edmund Burke (1729)
- Jeff Bezos (1964)
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
19,868 days ago
(54 years, 158 days)