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Thursday, August 15, 1974
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The Headlines
SEOUL PRESIDENT ESCAPES ASSASSIN
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
The Night Chicago Died
Paper Lace
#1 at the box office
That's Entertainment!
$1,307,900
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung Hee.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Napoleon (1769)
- Walter Scott (1771)
- Ben Affleck (1972)
- Louis de Broglie (1892)
- Sri Aurobindo (1872)
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
18,922 days ago
(51 years, 307 days)