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Wednesday, August 14, 1974
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The Headlines
3‐Year Cab Pact Reached; Fleets Ask 25% Fare Rise
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Night Chicago Died
Paper Lace
#1 at the box office
Return of the Dragon
$1,168,500
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Turkey launches the second phase of the invasion of Cyprus, which eventually resulted in the Turkish occupation of 37% of Cyprus.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Galsworthy (1867)
- Halle Berry (1966)
- Hans Christian Ørsted (1777)
- Pope Pius VII (1742)
- Magic Johnson (1959)
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
18,923 days ago
(51 years, 308 days)