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Thursday, June 15, 1972
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The Headlines
Rock ‘n’ Rhetoric Rally in the Garden Aids McGovern
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 †
$1,633,600
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Cathay Pacific Flight 700Z is destroyed by a bomb over Pleiku, Vietnam (then South Vietnam) and kills 81 people.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Xi Jinping (1953)
- Yuri Andropov (1914)
- Edvard Grieg (1843)
- Courteney Cox (1964)
- Ice Cube (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)