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On the date
Thursday, January 20, 1972
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The Headlines
Malcolm, a Black, Named Correction Chief by Mayor
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
American Pie
Don McLean
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$834,600
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Pakistan launches its nuclear weapons program, a few weeks after its defeat in the Bangladesh Liberation War, as well as the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Federico Fellini (1920)
- André-Marie Ampère (1775)
- Buzz Aldrin (1930)
- David Lynch (1946)
- Johannes V. Jensen (1873)
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
19,861 days ago
(54 years, 151 days)