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On the date
Friday, August 9, 1974
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The Headlines
Only Nixon Is Serene At Sad White House
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Feel Like Makin' Love
Roberta Flack
#1 at the box office
Return of the Dragon
$1,168,500
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first president of the United States to resign from office. Vice President Gerald Ford becomes president.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Whitney Houston (1963)
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Romano Prodi (1939)
- Gillian Anderson (1968)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
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
18,928 days ago
(51 years, 313 days)