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Thursday, December 5, 1974
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The Headlines
HOUSE DEMOCRATS VOTE TO WEAKEN SENIORITY SYSTEM
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Kung Fu Fighting
Carl Douglas
#1 at the box office
Death Wish
$693,951
The must-have
Connect 4
You Share a Birthday With
- Walt Disney (1901)
- Martin Van Buren (1782)
- Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927)
- Werner Heisenberg (1901)
- Józef Piłsudski (1867)
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
18,810 days ago
(51 years, 195 days)