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Thursday, July 18, 1974
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The Headlines
Makarios,inLondon,Gets Britain's Strong Backing
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rock Your Baby
George McCrae
#1 at the box office
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
$869,202
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Nelson Mandela (1918)
- Hendrik Lorentz (1853)
- Vin Diesel (1967)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811)
- John Glenn (1921)
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
18,950 days ago
(51 years, 335 days)