From the day
On the date
Sunday, July 16, 1972
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The Headlines
An Anti‐Jewish Joke?
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Lean on Me
Bill Withers
#1 at the box office
The Godfather †
$1,811,400
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Larry Sanger (1968)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Ginger Rogers (1911)
- Will Ferrell (1967)
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
19,682 days ago
(53 years, 337 days)