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Tuesday, June 24, 1975
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The Headlines
Kissinger Warns Turkey Over Threat to Alliance
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Love Will Keep Us Together
Captain & Tennille
#1 at the box office
Jaws †
$2,590,531
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and crashes on final approach to New York's JFK Airport killing 113 of the 124 passengers on board, making it the deadliest U.S. plane crash at the time. This accident led to decades of research into downburst and microburst phenomena and their effects on aircraft.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Ambrose Bierce (1842)
- Claudia Sheinbaum (1962)
- Victor Hess (1883)
- Juan Manuel Fangio (1911)
- Martin Lewis Perl (1927)
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
18,609 days ago
(50 years, 359 days)