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Wednesday, August 20, 1975
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The Headlines
Israelis Given Assurances On a Peace Force in Sinai
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Fallin' in Love
Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds
#1 at the box office
Jaws †
$1,968,605
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
Wikipedia →ČSA Flight 540 crashes on approach to Damascus International Airport in Damascus, Syria, killing 126 people.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Benjamin Harrison (1833)
- H. P. Lovecraft (1890)
- Rajiv Gandhi (1944)
- Slobodan Milošević (1941)
- Amy Adams (1974)
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
18,552 days ago
(50 years, 302 days)