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Saturday, November 18, 1978
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The Headlines
New Regime Moving Afghanistan Deeper Into Orbit of Soviet Union
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
MacArthur Park
Donna Summer
#1 at the box office
Magic
$1,177,317
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet makes its first flight, at the Naval Air Test Center in Maryland, United States.
Wikipedia →In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Margaret Atwood (1939)
- Louis Daguerre (1787)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786)
- Owen Wilson (1968)
- Patrick Blackett (1897)
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
17,366 days ago
(47 years, 211 days)