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Tuesday, January 22, 1974
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The Headlines
Supreme Court Rules Pregnant Teachers Cannot Be Forced to Take Long Leaves
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You're Sixteen
Ringo Starr
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,532,611
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
UPC Barcode, Rubik's Cube & Post-it Notes.
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
19,127 days ago
(52 years, 147 days)