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Thursday, March 2, 1978
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The Headlines
New Construction in January Off By 4%, Largest Decline in a Year
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
(Love Is) Thicker Than Water
Andy Gibb
#1 at the box office
Saturday Night Fever
$1,687,869
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
The late iconic actor Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from his grave in Switzerland.
Wikipedia →Czech Vladimír Remek becomes the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Mikhail Gorbachev (1931)
- Pope Pius XII (1876)
- Pope Leo XIII (1810)
- Daniel Craig (1968)
- Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937)
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
17,627 days ago
(48 years, 107 days)