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On the date
Friday, November 2, 1973
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The Headlines
U.S. Bids Jersey Reduce Private Driving
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Midnight Train to Georgia
Gladys Knight & the Pips
#1 at the box office
Billy Jack (reissue)
$2,085,425
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- James K. Polk (1795)
- Warren G. Harding (1865)
- Shah Rukh Khan (1965)
- Marie Antoinette (1755)
- George Boole (1815)
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
Meanwhile
- Oil Crisis Recession — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices; stagflation begins.
Time Elapsed
19,208 days ago
(52 years, 228 days)