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On the date
Wednesday, March 13, 1974
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The Headlines
St. Clair Views Role as Counsel To the Presidency, Not to Nixon
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 †
$1,012,100
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Sierra Pacific Airlines Flight 802 crashes into the White Mountains near Bishop, California, killing 36.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Giorgos Seferis (1900)
- Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1741)
- Pope Innocent XII (1615)
- Mahmoud Darwish (1942)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1899)
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
19,077 days ago
(52 years, 97 days)