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Tuesday, October 8, 1974
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The Headlines
Saks, Bergdorf and Bonwit Accused as Price‐Fixers
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Honestly Love You
Olivia Newton-John
#1 at the box office
Cabaret (reissue)
$1,345,000
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the time it is the largest bank failure in the history of the United States.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Sigourney Weaver (1949)
- Ursula von der Leyen (1958)
- Matt Damon (1970)
- Marina Tsvetaeva (1892)
- Juan Perón (1895)
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
18,868 days ago
(51 years, 253 days)