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Tuesday, September 10, 1974
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The Headlines
DISSIDENTS GAIN IN OPPOSING PACT FOR MOZAMBIQUE
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Shot the Sheriff
Eric Clapton
#1 at the box office
That's Entertainment!
$781,150
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jack Ma (1964)
- Arthur Compton (1892)
- Colin Firth (1960)
- Karl Lagerfeld (1933)
- Pope Julius III (1487)
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
18,897 days ago
(51 years, 282 days)