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Friday, August 30, 1974
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The Headlines
Schoolboy Accepts $3‐Million Pro Offer
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(You're) Having My Baby
Paul Anka and Odia Coates
#1 at the box office
Chinatown
$1,175,900
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
A Belgrade–Dortmund express train derails at the main train station in Zagreb killing 153 passengers.
Wikipedia →A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975, by Japanese authorities.
Wikipedia →The Third World Population Conference ends in Bucharest, Romania. At the end of the ceremony, the UN-Romanian Demographic Centre is inaugurated.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Alexander Lukashenko (1954)
- Warren Buffett (1930)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Cameron Diaz (1972)
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
18,907 days ago
(51 years, 292 days)