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Tuesday, September 17, 1974
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The Headlines
TOP BUSINESSMEN CALL FOR EASING OF MONEY POLICY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Babe
Barry White
#1 at the box office
That's Entertainment!
$524,350
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Narendra Modi (1950)
- Bernhard Riemann (1826)
- Anastacia (1968)
- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (1857)
- Pope Paul V (1550)
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
18,890 days ago
(51 years, 275 days)