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On the date
Friday, November 10, 1972
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The Headlines
130 Refuse to Join Ship; Most Reassigned by Navy
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Can See Clearly Now
Johnny Nash
#1 at the box office
The Valachi Papers
$740,300
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Luther (1483)
- Friedrich Schiller (1759)
- Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919)
- Ennio Morricone (1928)
- Richard Burton (1925)
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
19,565 days ago
(53 years, 220 days)