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On the date
Wednesday, December 26, 1973
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The Headlines
Inonu Dies at 89
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Time in a Bottle
Jim Croce
#1 at the box office
Serpico
$907,102
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
You Share a Birthday With
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Charles Babbage (1791)
- Henry Miller (1891)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194)
- Jared Leto (1971)
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
19,155 days ago
(52 years, 175 days)