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Thursday, September 16, 1976
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The Headlines
A.T.&T. FIRST TO EARN $1 BILLION IN QUARTER
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Play That Funky Music
Wild Cherry
#1 at the box office
Obsession
$424,979
The must-have
Stretch Armstrong
On This Day
Armenian champion swimmer Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.
Wikipedia →Night of the Pencils: In the city of La Plata, Argentina, a group of high-school students were kidnapped and later tortured, raped and murdered during the Argentinian military dictatorship
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Lee Kuan Yew (1923)
- Lauren Bacall (1924)
- B. B. King (1925)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Henry V of England (1386)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Apple I, VHS VCR & Inkjet 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
18,159 days ago
(49 years, 274 days)