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On the date
Wednesday, August 7, 1974
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The Headlines
New Theater in Park Is Planned to Replace Delacorte
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Feel Like Makin' Love
Roberta Flack
#1 at the box office
For Pete's Sake
$661,500
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center 1,368 feet (417 m) in the air.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jimmy Wales (1966)
- Elinor Ostrom (1933)
- Mata Hari (1876)
- Sofia Rotaru (1947)
- David Duchovny (1960)
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
18,930 days ago
(51 years, 315 days)