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Wednesday, February 5, 1975
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The Headlines
Food Stamp Price Freeze Voted by House, 374 to 38
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Fire
Ohio Players
#1 at the box office
Young Frankenstein
$1,130,440
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Riots break out in Lima, Peru after the police forces go on strike the day before. The uprising (locally known as the Limazo) is bloodily suppressed by the military dictatorship.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Charlotte Rampling (1946)
- William S. Burroughs (1914)
- Robert Peel (1788)
- Robert Hofstadter (1915)
- Gheorghe Hagi (1965)
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
18,748 days ago
(51 years, 133 days)