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Thursday, February 16, 1978
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The Headlines
Sales and Production Fell During January Storms
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Stayin' Alive
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
Saturday Night Fever
$1,605,673
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Octave Mirbeau (1848)
- Kim Jong Il (1941)
- Ernst Haeckel (1834)
- Philip Melanchthon (1497)
- John McEnroe (1959)
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
17,641 days ago
(48 years, 121 days)