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On the date
Thursday, November 21, 1974
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The Headlines
Nation's No. 1 Utility An Investor Favorite
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
$2,026,000
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but are later exonerated.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Voltaire (1694)
- Pope Benedict XV (1854)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1903)
- Björk (1965)
- René Magritte (1898)
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
18,824 days ago
(51 years, 209 days)