From the day
On the date
Wednesday, October 16, 1974
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The Headlines
Auto Safety Bill
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Nothing From Nothing
Billy Preston
#1 at the box office
Cabaret (reissue)
$687,000
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- Günter Grass (1927)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
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
18,860 days ago
(51 years, 245 days)