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Friday, January 14, 1972
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The Headlines
Sadat Terms Aid to Israel Peril to U.S. Oil Interests
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
Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederik or Christian since 1513.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- 1949 (1849)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875)
- Jason Bateman (1969)
- Yukio Mishima (1925)
- Giulio Andreotti (1919)
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
19,866 days ago
(54 years, 156 days)