Saturday, August 16, 1975

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The Headlines

Alaska Natives’ Pact: Reality Intrudes

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Jive Talkin'

Bee Gees

#1 at the box office

$1,968,605

The must-have

Pet Rock

On This Day

• Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam symbolically hands over land to the Gurindji people after the eight-year Wave Hill walk-off, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 song by Paul Kelly and an annual celebration.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Madonna (1958)
• Zachary Taylor (1816)
• James Cameron (1954)
• Charles Bukowski (1920)
• Menachem Begin (1913)

Slang

Tech Check

Personal Computer (Altair 8800), Digital Camera & Laser Printer.

Cost of Living (1975)