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Thursday, January 13, 1972
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The Headlines
I.R.S. Team Collects Data On Extremists for Tax Use
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
American Pie
Don McLean
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$963,450
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- AD 101 (101)
- Wilhelm Wien (1864)
- Sydney Brenner (1927)
- Patrick Dempsey (1966)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961)
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
19,867 days ago
(54 years, 157 days)