From the day
On the date
Monday, August 28, 1972
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The Headlines
Postwar Shock Besets Veterans of Vietnam
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Alone Again (Naturally)
Gilbert O'Sullivan
#1 at the box office
Butterflies Are Free
$678,900
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Black (1969)
- Shania Twain (1965)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
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
19,639 days ago
(53 years, 294 days)