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On the date
Saturday, December 22, 1973
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The Headlines
CONGRESS PASSES 11% BENEFITS RISE
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
A Royal Air Maroc Sud Aviation Caravelle crashes near Tangier-Boukhalef Airport in Tangier, Morocco, killing 106.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Ralph Fiennes (1962)
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
19,158 days ago
(52 years, 178 days)