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Wednesday, August 8, 1973
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The Headlines
SENATORS RECESS ON WATERGATE; RESUME SEPT. 10
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
On This Day
Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Paul Dirac (1902)
- Mohamed Morsi (1951)
- Dustin Hoffman (1937)
- Giuseppe Conte (1964)
- Emiliano Zapata (1879)
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
19,294 days ago
(52 years, 314 days)