From the day
On the date
Saturday, August 10, 1974
Memories from that day
No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.
The Headlines
A Plea to Bind Up Watergate Wounds
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Herbert Hoover (1874)
- Juan Manuel Santos (1951)
- Antonio Banderas (1960)
- Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour (1810)
- Jorge Amado (1912)
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
18,927 days ago
(51 years, 312 days)