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On the date
Thursday, December 20, 1973
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The Headlines
U.S. Energy Crisis Stirs Self‐Interest of Regions
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Most Beautiful Girl
Charlie Rich
#1 at the box office
Serpico
$907,102
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
On This Day
Assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco: A car bomb planted by ETA in Madrid kills three people, including the Prime Minister of Spain, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Binali Yıldırım (1955)
- Martin Schulz (1955)
- Kim Young-sam (1927)
- Kim Ki-duk (1960)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890)
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
19,161 days ago
(52 years, 181 days)