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On the date
Thursday, November 8, 1973
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The Headlines
Struck Hospitals Discharging Thousands of Patients
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)
$1,258,167
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alain Delon (1935)
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954)
- Bram Stoker (1847)
- Margaret Mitchell (1900)
- Edmond Halley (1656)
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
19,202 days ago
(52 years, 222 days)