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Saturday, April 27, 1974
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The Headlines
Understating of Oil Prof its Alleged by Some Analysts
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
TSOP (The Sound of Philadelphia)
MFSB and The Three Degrees
#1 at the box office
The Sting
$1,032,900
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1967)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
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
19,033 days ago
(52 years, 53 days)