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Sunday, December 22, 1974
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The Headlines
93d Congress Set Historic Precedents
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Angie Baby
Helen Reddy
#1 at the box office
The Godfather Part II
$1,450,135
The must-have
Connect 4
On This Day
Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Giacomo Puccini (1858)
- Jean Racine (1639)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887)
- Diocletian (244)
- Ralph Fiennes (1962)
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
18,794 days ago
(51 years, 179 days)