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Friday, April 5, 1974
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The Headlines
NIXON TAX INQUIRY IS CLOSED BYIRS AND CONGRESS UNIT
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
$1,585,100
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Carrie, the first novel by American author Stephen King, is published for the first time with a print run of 30,000 copies.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Hobbes (1588)
- Bette Davis (1908)
- Gregory Peck (1916)
- Pope Urban VIII (1568)
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (1947)
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
19,055 days ago
(52 years, 75 days)