From the day
On the date
Tuesday, November 19, 1974
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The Headlines
Greyhound Struck; Riders Stranded
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
I Can Help
Billy Swan
#1 at the box office
The Trial of Billy Jack
$2,390,000
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Indira Gandhi (1917)
- James A. Garfield (1831)
- Jodie Foster (1962)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (1711)
- Charles I of England (1600)
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
18,827 days ago
(51 years, 212 days)