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Friday, September 6, 1974
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The Headlines
U.S. Official Warns Of Ozone Depletion From Nuclear War
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
That's Entertainment!
$781,150
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- John Dalton (1766)
- Jane Addams (1860)
- Edward Appleton (1892)
- Idris Elba (1972)
- Roger Waters (1943)
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
18,900 days ago
(51 years, 285 days)