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Tuesday, January 7, 1975
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The Headlines
A DELAY ON JOBS DENIED BY BEAM
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Elton John
#1 at the box office
The Godfather Part II
$1,473,000
The must-have
Pet Rock
You Share a Birthday With
- Millard Fillmore (1800)
- Jeremy Renner (1971)
- Nicolas Cage (1964)
- Pope Gregory XIII (1502)
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Personal Computer (Altair 8800), Digital Camera & Laser Printer.
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Meanwhile
- Oil Crisis Recession — OPEC embargo quadrupled oil prices; stagflation begins.
Time Elapsed
18,777 days ago
(51 years, 162 days)