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Saturday, December 23, 1978
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The Headlines
City to Ask Trade‐In of Aid Set for L.I. Expressway
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Le Freak
Chic
#1 at the box office
Superman
$4,171,899
The must-have
Simon (Memory Game)
On This Day
Alitalia Flight 4128 crashes into the Tyrrhenian Sea while on approach to Falcone Borsellino Airport in Palermo, Italy, killing 108.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Akihito (1933)
- Helmut Schmidt (1918)
- Alexander I of Russia (1777)
- Joseph Smith (1805)
- Jean-François Champollion (1790)
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
17,331 days ago
(47 years, 176 days)