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Sunday, December 8, 1974
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The Headlines
Milk Employes Here Expected to Ratify 2‐Year Pact Today
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
On This Day
A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Jim Morrison (1943)
- Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (1832)
- Mary, Queen of Scots (1542)
- Jean Sibelius (1865)
- Kim Basinger (1953)
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
18,807 days ago
(51 years, 192 days)