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On the date
Friday, June 28, 1974
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The Headlines
U.S. Court Quashes Indictment of Burke
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Sundown
Gordon Lightfoot
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$2,547,437
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712)
- Elon Musk (1971)
- Peter Paul Rubens (1577)
- Luigi Pirandello (1867)
- Muhammad Yunus (1940)
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
18,970 days ago
(51 years, 355 days)