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On the date
Wednesday, April 3, 1974
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The Headlines
Con Ed to Cut $40‐Million From Construction Plans
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Hooked on a Feeling
Blue Swede
#1 at the box office
The Sting
$1,332,300
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Marlon Brando (1924)
- Helmut Kohl (1930)
- Jane Goodall (1934)
- Washington Irving (1783)
- Eddie Murphy (1961)
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
19,057 days ago
(52 years, 77 days)