From the day
On the date
Sunday, January 29, 1978
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The Headlines
`Redlining'‐Byrne vs. Banks
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Stayin' Alive
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
$1,774,208
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Anton Chekhov (1860)
- William McKinley (1843)
- Romain Rolland (1866)
- Oprah Winfrey (1954)
- Abdus Salam (1926)
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
17,659 days ago
(48 years, 139 days)