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Friday, December 21, 1973
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The Headlines
28 ARE INDICTED BY FEDERAL JURY IN RACING FIXES
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
The Geneva Conference on the Arab–Israeli conflict opens.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804)
- Mikheil Saakashvili (1967)
- Hu Jintao (1942)
- Heinrich Böll (1917)
- Jane Fonda (1937)
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
19,160 days ago
(52 years, 180 days)