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On the date
Tuesday, July 9, 1974
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The Headlines
Trudeau Wins in Canada; Parliament Majority Seen
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rock Your Baby
George McCrae
#1 at the box office
The Exorcist †
$1,542,825
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Tom Hanks (1956)
- Viktor Yanukovych (1950)
- Donald Rumsfeld (1932)
- Courtney Love (1964)
- Edward Heath (1916)
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
18,959 days ago
(51 years, 344 days)