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Monday, December 17, 1973
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The Headlines
KISSINGER MEETS WITH MRS. MEIR ON GENEVA TALKS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Most Beautiful Girl
Charlie Rich
#1 at the box office
The Way We Were
$504,100
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Thirty passengers are killed in an attack by Palestinian terrorists on Rome's Leonardo da Vinci–Fiumicino Airport.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Pope Francis (1936)
- Humphry Davy (1778)
- Muhammadu Buhari (1942)
- Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu (1948)
- Willard Libby (1908)
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
19,164 days ago
(52 years, 184 days)