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Friday, March 29, 1974
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The Headlines
Attorney General's First Watergate Intervention Is Scored by Ervin
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sunshine on My Shoulders
John Denver
#1 at the box office
The Sting
$1,332,300
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
Wikipedia →Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Tyler (1790)
- John Major (1943)
- Lavrentiy Beria (1899)
- Vangelis (1943)
- Ernst Jünger (1895)
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
19,061 days ago
(52 years, 81 days)