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Thursday, June 5, 1975
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The Headlines
STATE AID AGENCY CITY'S ONLY OPTION, PANEL MAINTAINS
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Thank God I'm a Country Boy
John Denver
#1 at the box office
Shampoo
$575,500
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
The Suez Canal opens for the first time since the Six-Day War.
Wikipedia →The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Maynard Keynes (1883)
- Federico García Lorca (1898)
- Mark Wahlberg (1971)
- Dennis Gabor (1900)
- Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (1942)
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
18,628 days ago
(51 years, 13 days)