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On the date
Saturday, August 4, 1973
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The Headlines
JOBLESS RATE OFF TO A 3‐YEAR LOW
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Morning After
Maureen McGovern
#1 at the box office
Live and Let Die
$514,950
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
You Share a Birthday With
- Barack Obama (1961)
- Louis Armstrong (1901)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792)
- Knut Hamsun (1859)
- José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (1960)
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
19,298 days ago
(52 years, 318 days)