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Saturday, June 29, 1974
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The Headlines
Guerrillas Freed by Sudan Reported Jailed in Egypt
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
On This Day
Vice President Isabel Perón assumes powers and duties as Acting President of Argentina, while her husband President Juan Perón is terminally ill.
Wikipedia →Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Soviet Union to Canada while on tour with the Kirov Ballet.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900)
- Giorgio Napolitano (1925)
- Giacomo Leopardi (1798)
- Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (1957)
- Murad I (1326)
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
18,969 days ago
(51 years, 354 days)