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Wednesday, June 14, 1972
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The Headlines
Police Here Issued New Bullets; Flat Tip Called Safer, Efficient
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Candy Man
Sammy Davis Jr.
#1 at the box office
The Godfather †
$1,814,100
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Japan Air Lines Flight 471 crashes on approach to Palam International Airport (now Indira Gandhi International Airport) in New Delhi, India, killing 82 of the 87 people on board and four more people on the ground.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Donald Trump (1946)
- Che Guevara (1928)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811)
- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736)
- Steffi Graf (1969)
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
19,714 days ago
(54 years, 4 days)