From the day
On the date
Saturday, July 22, 1972
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The Headlines
Cost Increase Here Lowest in 5 Years
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Lean on Me
Bill Withers
#1 at the box office
The Godfather †
$1,316,800
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887)
- Willem Dafoe (1955)
- Janusz Korczak (1878)
- Selman Waksman (1888)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784)
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
19,676 days ago
(53 years, 331 days)