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Friday, March 1, 1974
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The Headlines
Selassie, to Placate Army, Appoints a New Premier
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Seasons in the Sun
Terry Jacks
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,182,600
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Frédéric Chopin (1810)
- Yitzhak Rabin (1922)
- Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892)
- Dalia Grybauskaitė (1956)
- Javier Bardem (1969)
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
19,089 days ago
(52 years, 109 days)