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On the date
Sunday, January 30, 1972
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The Headlines
Life Hints Hughes Aide Stole Book Data
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
American Pie
Don McLean
#1 at the box office
Diamonds Are Forever
$660,962
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Pakistan leaves the Commonwealth of Nations in protest of its recognition of breakaway Bangladesh.
Wikipedia →The Troubles: Bloody Sunday: British paratroopers open fire on anti-internment marchers in Derry, Northern Ireland, killing 13 people; another person later dies of injuries sustained.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Felipe VI (1968)
- Dick Cheney (1941)
- Abdullah II of Jordan (1962)
- Islam Karimov (1938)
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
19,850 days ago
(54 years, 140 days)