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Tuesday, April 30, 1974
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The Headlines
Front Page 2 ‐‐ No Title
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Loco-Motion
Grand Funk
#1 at the box office
The Sting
$1,032,900
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- António Guterres (1949)
- Stephen Harper (1959)
- Carl XVI Gustaf (1946)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
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
19,030 days ago
(52 years, 50 days)