From the day
On the date
Sunday, June 23, 1974
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The Headlines
The Battle of Warren: Racket Over a Rocket
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$4,061,300
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Alan Turing (1912)
- Zinedine Zidane (1972)
- Anna Akhmatova (1889)
- Edward VIII (1894)
- Martti Ahtisaari (1937)
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
18,975 days ago
(51 years, 360 days)