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Saturday, January 26, 1974
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The Headlines
PEKING REPORTS HOLDING U.S. AIDE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You're Sixteen
Ringo Starr
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,535,896
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Turkish Airlines Flight 301 crashes during takeoff from Izmir Cumaovası Airport (now İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport), killing 66 of the 73 people on board the Fokker F28 Fellowship.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Douglas MacArthur (1880)
- Paul Newman (1925)
- José Mourinho (1963)
- Ellen DeGeneres (1958)
- Anders Fogh Rasmussen (1953)
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
19,123 days ago
(52 years, 143 days)