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Thursday, January 30, 1975
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The Headlines
House Democrats Endorse Own Study on Intelligence
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Laughter in the Rain
Neil Sedaka
#1 at the box office
Young Frankenstein
$1,130,440
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Turkish Airlines Flight 345 crashes into the Sea of Marmara near Istanbul Yeşilköy Airport, killing 42.
Wikipedia →The Monitor National Marine Sanctuary is established as the first United States National Marine Sanctuary.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882)
- Felipe VI (1968)
- Dick Cheney (1941)
- Abdullah II of Jordan (1962)
- Christian Bale (1974)
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
18,755 days ago
(51 years, 140 days)