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On the date
Monday, May 1, 1978
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The Headlines
Nikon Says He Preserved Tapes As Protection Against His Aides; Nixon Says Tapes Were Protection From Aides; Suspicious of Prosecutor; Oval Office Conversations; Dissuaded by Family
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
Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1769)
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852)
- Joseph Addison (1672)
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881)
- Joseph Heller (1923)
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
17,567 days ago
(48 years, 47 days)