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On the date
Thursday, February 13, 1975
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The Headlines
OIL NATIONS’ CASH SURGING INTO U.S.
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
You're No Good
Linda Ronstadt
#1 at the box office
The Towering Inferno
$1,580,114
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Fire at One World Trade Center (North Tower) of the World Trade Center in New York.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Thomas Robert Malthus (1766)
- Robbie Williams (1974)
- William Shockley (1910)
- Georges Simenon (1903)
- Ivan Krylov (1769)
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
18,740 days ago
(51 years, 125 days)