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Tuesday, February 15, 1972
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The Headlines
Plan to Give Jersey Flood Plain Control Is Due for Hearing
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Without You
Nilsson
#1 at the box office
The French Connection
$711,400
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
José María Velasco Ibarra, serving as President of Ecuador for the fifth time, is overthrown by the military for the fourth time.
Wikipedia →Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Louis XV (1710)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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
19,834 days ago
(54 years, 124 days)