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Tuesday, July 11, 1978
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The Headlines
The Last Test Pilots See a Test‐Pilotless Future
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Shadow Dancing
Andy Gibb
#1 at the box office
Grease †
$2,443,707
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
Los Alfaques disaster: A truck carrying liquid gas crashes and explodes at a coastal campsite in Tarragona, Spain killing 216 tourists.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Quincy Adams (1767)
- Giorgio Armani (1934)
- Alexander Prokhorov (1916)
- Robert the Bruce (1274)
- Yul Brynner (1920)
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
17,496 days ago
(47 years, 341 days)