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Thursday, October 16, 1975
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The Headlines
PACT WITH SOVIET ON MISSILE CURBS REPORTED IN PERIL
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bad Blood
Neil Sedaka
#1 at the box office
Three Days of the Condor
$1,071,168
The must-have
Pet Rock
On This Day
The Australian Coalition sparks a constitutional crisis when they vote to defer funding for the government's annual budget.
Wikipedia →Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
Wikipedia →Indonesian troops kill the Balibo Five, a group of Australian journalists, in Portuguese Timor.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- Günter Grass (1927)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
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
18,495 days ago
(50 years, 245 days)