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Saturday, October 19, 1974
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The Headlines
Soviet Jews Voice Hopes and Doubts On Accord Report
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Nothing From Nothing
Billy Preston
#1 at the box office
Airport 1975
$903,934
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899)
- Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910)
- John le Carré (1931)
- Philip Pullman (1946)
- Marsilio Ficino (1433)
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
18,857 days ago
(51 years, 242 days)