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Friday, December 28, 1973
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The Headlines
Sperm Screening in Lab May Help Produce Boys
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
On This Day
The United States Endangered Species Act is signed into law by President Richard Nixon.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Woodrow Wilson (1856)
- Linus Torvalds (1969)
- John von Neumann (1903)
- Liu Xiaobo (1955)
- Denzel Washington (1954)
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
19,152 days ago
(52 years, 172 days)