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Thursday, April 27, 1978
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The Headlines
Judge Facing Reversal On Legal‐Aid Effort
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Night Fever
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
House Calls
$818,620
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
Wikipedia →John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
Wikipedia →Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (1967)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
GPS Satellites, LaserDisc & Space Invaders.
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Time Elapsed
17,571 days ago
(48 years, 51 days)