From the day
On the date
Thursday, December 21, 1972
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The Headlines
State Investigating Charge By Deposed Shubert Heir
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Me and Mrs. Jones
Billy Paul
#1 at the box office
The Poseidon Adventure
$777,700
The must-have
Pong (Atari)
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1967)
- Hu Jintao (1942)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
- Jane Fonda (1937)
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
19,525 days ago
(53 years, 180 days)