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On the date

Sunday, September 3, 1978

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Memories from that day

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Boogie Oogie Oogie

A Taste of Honey

The must-have

Simon (Memory Game)

On This Day

  • During the Rhodesian Bush War a group of ZIPRA guerrillas shot down civilian Vickers Viscount aircraft (Air Rhodesia Flight 825) with a Soviet-made SAM Strela-2; of 56 passengers and crew 38 people died in crash, 10 were massacred by the guerrillas at the site.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

discostreakyuppie

Trucker Cb

10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey

Funk Soul

can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey

Catchphrases of 1978

  • Nanu Nanu

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

17,442 days ago

(47 years, 287 days)