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On the date
Sunday, November 4, 1973
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The Headlines
BEANIE EXPECTED TO LEAD A SWEEP
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Keep on Truckin'
Eddie Kendricks
#1 at the box office
Billy Jack (reissue)
$2,085,425
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
The Netherlands experiences the first car-free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Matthew McConaughey (1969)
- Laura Bush (1946)
- Tony Abbott (1957)
- Traian Băsescu (1951)
- Luís Figo (1972)
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
19,206 days ago
(52 years, 226 days)