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Friday, May 24, 1974
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The Headlines
COUNCIL DEFEATS HOMOSEXUAL BILL BY 22‐TO‐19 VOTE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Streak
Ray Stevens
#1 at the box office
The Great Gatsby
$1,044,438
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Bob Dylan (1941)
- Queen Victoria (1819)
- Joseph Brodsky (1940)
- Mikhail Sholokhov (1905)
- Jean-Paul Marat (1743)
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
19,005 days ago
(52 years, 25 days)