From the day
On the date
Friday, January 31, 1975
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The Headlines
Ford Opens First Talks With Prime Minister Wilson
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
You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Kenzaburō Ōe (1935)
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (1938)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
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
18,753 days ago
(51 years, 138 days)