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On the date
Sunday, September 24, 1972
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The Headlines
You Like to Recognize the Tune? You Will
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Baby, Don't Get Hooked on Me
Mac Davis
#1 at the box office
Super Fly
$625,500
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India, overrunning the runway resulting in 11 injuries.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896)
- Konstantin Chernenko (1911)
- İsmet İnönü (1884)
- Gerolamo Cardano (1501)
- Horace Walpole (1717)
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
19,612 days ago
(53 years, 267 days)