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Saturday, November 17, 1973
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The Headlines
JAPAN TO RATION FUEL AND POWER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Keep on Truckin'
Eddie Kendricks
#1 at the box office
The Way We Were
$1,345,000
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
Wikipedia →The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Martin Scorsese (1942)
- Eugene Wigner (1902)
- Cyril Ramaphosa (1952)
- Louis XVIII (1755)
- Danny DeVito (1944)
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
19,194 days ago
(52 years, 214 days)