From the day
On the date
Thursday, December 27, 1973
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The Headlines
Mormon Leader Dies
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Time in a Bottle
Jim Croce
#1 at the box office
Papillon
$1,463,300
The must-have
Shrinky Dinks
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis Pasteur (1822)
- Marlene Dietrich (1901)
- Johannes Kepler (1571)
- Salman Khan (1965)
- Gérard Depardieu (1948)
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
19,154 days ago
(52 years, 174 days)