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Saturday, January 20, 1973
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The Headlines
LAIRD URGES PACT OH VIETNAM ARMS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You're So Vain
Carly Simon
#1 at the box office
The Poseidon Adventure †
$649,400
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Amílcar Cabral, leader of the independence movement in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, is assassinated in Conakry, Guinea.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Federico Fellini (1920)
- André-Marie Ampère (1775)
- Buzz Aldrin (1930)
- David Lynch (1946)
- Johannes V. Jensen (1873)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Cell Phone (Call), Ethernet & MRI Scanner.
Cost of Living (1970)
Loaf of Bread
$0.25
Gallon of Gas
$0.36
Average Home
$17,000
New Car
$3,450
Time Elapsed
19,494 days ago
(53 years, 149 days)