From the day
On the date
Thursday, August 23, 1973
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The Headlines
Rogers Quits, Kissinger Named
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Brother Louie
Stories
#1 at the box office
Enter the Dragon
$802,280
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
A bank robbery gone wrong in Stockholm, Sweden, turns into a hostage crisis; over the next five days the hostages begin to sympathise with their captors, leading to the term "Stockholm syndrome".
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
- Halimah Yacob (1954)
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
19,279 days ago
(52 years, 299 days)