From the day
On the date
Saturday, June 23, 1973
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The Headlines
Decisions Protested by Nation's Media
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
My Love
Paul McCartney & Wings
#1 at the box office
Scarecrow
$627,600
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
A fire at a house in Hull, England, which kills a six-year-old boy is passed off as an accident; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by serial arsonist Peter Dinsdale.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Alan Turing (1912)
- Zinedine Zidane (1972)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889)
- Edward VIII (1894)
- Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
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
19,340 days ago
(52 years, 360 days)