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Friday, May 11, 1973
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The Headlines
Steel Price Rise Set
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree
Dawn featuring Tony Orlando
#1 at the box office
The Poseidon Adventure †
$363,800
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg's charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times are dismissed.
Wikipedia →Aeroflot Flight 6551 crashes in Semey, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic (now Kazakhstan), killing all 63 aboard.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Richard Feynman (1918)
- Camilo José Cela (1916)
- Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930)
- Antony Hewish (1924)
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
19,383 days ago
(53 years, 38 days)