From the day
On the date
Sunday, December 2, 1973
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The Headlines
A NATO Nuclear Strategy
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Top of the World
The Carpenters
#1 at the box office
The Way We Were
$967,700
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
You Share a Birthday With
- Maria Callas (1923)
- Lucy Liu (1968)
- Georges Seurat (1859)
- Pedro II of Brazil (1825)
- Monica Seles (1973)
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
19,178 days ago
(52 years, 198 days)