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Les Johns, Australian rugby league player and coach
Leslie Howard Johns is a former Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and early 1970s. He scored 14 tries and 233 goals and 19 field goals for Canterbury-Bankstown during his career. Les Johns, of Welsh descent, started his career at Newcastle's Souths club.
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Les Johns was born in 1942. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.
These figures put everyday life in Les Johns's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.
| Measure | 1942 | 2026 |
|---|---|---|
| Gas | $0.20 | $3.45/gal |
| Average home | $5,600 | $435,000 |
| Average income | $3,800 | $67,500 |
| Minimum wage | $0.30 | $7.25/hr (federal) |
| Movie ticket | $0.27 | $11.95 |
| Postage stamp | $0.03 | $0.73 |
| Population | 134.9M | 341 million |
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