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Friday, February 18, 1972
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The Headlines
3,300 Autos Driven To Capital in Protest
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Without You
Nilsson
#1 at the box office
Dirty Harry
$601,500
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
The California Supreme Court in the case of People v. Anderson, (6 Cal.3d 628) invalidates the state's death penalty and commutes the sentences of all death row inmates to life imprisonment.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Toni Morrison (1931)
- Alessandro Volta (1745)
- John Travolta (1954)
- Ramakrishna (1836)
- Mary I of England (1516)
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
19,831 days ago
(54 years, 121 days)