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On the date
Tuesday, December 26, 1978
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The Headlines
Health Plan at Bellevue Offered As a Test for National Insurance
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
The inaugural Paris-Dakar Rally begins.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Charles Babbage (1791)
- Henry Miller (1891)
- Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor (1194)
- Jared Leto (1971)
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
17,328 days ago
(47 years, 173 days)