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Monday, December 18, 1972
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The Headlines
CONGRESS SEEKS NEW BUDGET ROLE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Me and Mrs. Jones
Billy Paul
#1 at the box office
Man of La Mancha
$365,996
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
On This Day
Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Steven Spielberg (1946)
- Brad Pitt (1963)
- Willy Brandt (1913)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
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
19,527 days ago
(53 years, 182 days)