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Tuesday, February 29, 1972
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The Headlines
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Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Without You
Nilsson
#1 at the box office
The Last Picture Show
$465,350
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
South Korea withdraws 11,000 of its 48,000 troops from South Vietnam as part of Nixon's Vietnamization policy in the Vietnam War.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Gioachino Rossini (1792)
- Pedro Sánchez (1972)
- Pope Paul III (1468)
- Bartholomew I of Constantinople (1940)
- Morarji Desai (1896)
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
19,820 days ago
(54 years, 110 days)