From the day
On the date
Friday, January 24, 1975
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The Headlines
Schlesinger Confident U.S. Can Support Israel in War
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Please Mr. Postman
The Carpenters
#1 at the box office
Murder on the Orient Express
$1,133,300
The must-have
Pet Rock
You Share a Birthday With
- Frederick the Great (1712)
- Moon Jae-in (1953)
- Joachim Gauck (1940)
- Pierre-Augustin de Beaumarchais (1732)
- E. T. A. Hoffmann (1776)
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
18,761 days ago
(51 years, 146 days)