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Thursday, July 31, 1975
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The Headlines
False Alarms, Up by 36%, Now Exceed Valid Calls
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
One of These Nights
Eagles
#1 at the box office
Jaws †
$2,225,509
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
The Troubles: Three members of a popular cabaret band and two gunmen are killed during a botched paramilitary attack in Northern Ireland.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- J. K. Rowling (1965)
- Milton Friedman (1912)
- Louis de Funès (1914)
- Primo Levi (1919)
- Premchand (1880)
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
18,572 days ago
(50 years, 322 days)