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Tuesday, August 28, 1973
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The Headlines
REBOZO IDENTIFIED AS HELPING NIXON TO BUY COAST LAND
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
Norrmalmstorg robbery: Stockholm police secure the surrenders of hostage-takers Jan-Erik Olsson and Clark Olofsson, defusing the Norrmalmstorg hostage crisis. The behaviours of the hostages later give rise to the term Stockholm syndrome.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749)
- Jack Black (1969)
- Shania Twain (1965)
- David Fincher (1962)
- Ivo Josipović (1957)
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
19,274 days ago
(52 years, 294 days)