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On the date
Wednesday, November 14, 1973
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The Headlines
ALASKA PIPELINE VOTED BY SENATE NIXON GETS BIB
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
In the United Kingdom, Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
Wikipedia →The Athens Polytechnic uprising, a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967–74, begins.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jawaharlal Nehru (1889)
- Charles III (1948)
- Claude Monet (1840)
- Josh Duhamel (1972)
- Astrid Lindgren (1907)
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
19,197 days ago
(52 years, 217 days)