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Wednesday, April 30, 1975
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The Headlines
74 Saigon Planes Fly 2,000 to Thailand
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)
Tony Orlando and Dawn
#1 at the box office
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
$713,250
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
- António Guterres (1949)
- Stephen Harper (1959)
- Carl XVI Gustaf (1946)
- Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
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
Time Elapsed
18,664 days ago
(51 years, 49 days)