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Wednesday, July 24, 1974
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The Headlines
Rejoicing Athenians Chant ‘Demokratia!’
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Annie's Song
John Denver
#1 at the box office
Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
$869,202
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Watergate scandal: The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they order him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Simón Bolívar (1783)
- Alexandre Dumas (1802)
- Jennifer Lopez (1969)
- Amelia Earhart (1897)
- Henrik Pontoppidan (1857)
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
18,945 days ago
(51 years, 330 days)