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On the date
Friday, February 15, 1974
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The Headlines
Liver Cancer Alert Declared to Protect Plastics Workers
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 †
$1,506,188
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Galileo Galilei (1564)
- Louis XV (1710)
- Jeremy Bentham (1748)
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861)
- Susan B. Anthony (1820)
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
19,103 days ago
(52 years, 123 days)