From the day
On the date
Tuesday, January 29, 1974
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The Headlines
L.I.R.R. IS ASSAILED ON ICE EMERGENCY; Panel Finds Line Misjudged Storm, Worsening Effect of Lack of Planning
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Way We Were
Barbra Streisand
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,535,896
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Anton Chekhov (1860)
- William McKinley (1843)
- Romain Rolland (1866)
- Oprah Winfrey (1954)
- Abdus Salam (1926)
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
19,121 days ago
(52 years, 141 days)