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Wednesday, July 10, 1974
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The Headlines
U.S ARMS SALES DOUBLED IN ’73–74 REACHS815‐BILLION
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
On This Day
An EgyptAir Tupolev Tu-154 stalls and crashes at Cairo International Airport, killing all six people on board.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Nikola Tesla (1856)
- Marcel Proust (1871)
- Mahathir Mohamad (1925)
- John Calvin (1509)
- Alice Munro (1931)
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
18,958 days ago
(51 years, 343 days)