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Tuesday, June 20, 1972
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The Headlines
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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
Watergate scandal: An 18+1⁄2-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Nicole Kidman (1967)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819)
- John Goodman (1952)
- Martin Landau (1928)
- Jean-Marie Le Pen (1928)
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
19,708 days ago
(53 years, 363 days)