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Saturday, April 14, 1979
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The Headlines
Uganda Regime Assumes Office Amid Jubilation
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
What a Fool Believes
The Doobie Brothers
#1 at the box office
The Deer Hunter
$1,927,378
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
The Progressive Alliance of Liberia stages a protest, without a permit, against an increase in rice prices proposed by the government, with clashes between protestors and the police resulting in over 70 deaths and over 500 injuries.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- B. R. Ambedkar (1891)
- Averroes (1126)
- Christiaan Huygens (1629)
- Arnold J. Toynbee (1889)
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia (1906)
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
17,220 days ago
(47 years, 65 days)