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Thursday, March 29, 1979
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The Headlines
Video Recorders Changing Daily Habits
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Tragedy
Bee Gees
#1 at the box office
The China Syndrome
$2,326,181
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
Quebecair Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport in Quebec City, killing 17.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- John Tyler (1790)
- John Major (1943)
- Lavrentiy Beria (1899)
- Vangelis (1943)
- Ernst Jünger (1895)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
discostreakyuppie
Trucker Cb
10-4bearconvoygood buddysmokey
Funk Soul
can you dig itjiveright onsolidturkey
Tech Check
Sony Walkman, Spreadsheet (VisiCalc) & Cellular Network (1G).
Cost of Living (1975)
Loaf of Bread
$0.36
Gallon of Gas
$0.57
Average Home
$39,300
New Car
$4,950
Time Elapsed
17,236 days ago
(47 years, 81 days)