From the day
On the date
Sunday, August 6, 1978
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The Headlines
‘Rehabilitation Is Good Business’
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Three Times a Lady
Commodores
#1 at the box office
Hooper
$2,476,400
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Andy Warhol (1928)
- Alexander Fleming (1881)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809)
- Lucille Ball (1911)
- Michelle Yeoh (1962)
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
17,470 days ago
(47 years, 315 days)