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On the date
Tuesday, December 18, 1973
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The Headlines
Home Loan Panel Upholds Women's Mortgage Right
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
Soviet Soyuz Programme: Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Steven Spielberg (1946)
- Brad Pitt (1963)
- Willy Brandt (1913)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
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
19,162 days ago
(52 years, 182 days)