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Saturday, August 23, 1975
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The Headlines
Portuguese From Angola Face Bleak Homecoming
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 †
$1,913,651
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
The Pontiac Silverdome opens in Pontiac, Michigan, 30 miles (48 km) northwest of Detroit, Michigan
Wikipedia →The start of the Wave Hill walk-off by Gurindji people in Australia, lasting eight years, a landmark event in the history of Indigenous land rights in Australia, commemorated in a 1991 Paul Kelly song and an annual celebration.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Louis XVI (1754)
- Edgar de Wahl (1867)
- Georges Cuvier (1769)
- Gene Kelly (1912)
- Halimah Yacob (1954)
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
18,549 days ago
(50 years, 299 days)