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Monday, April 23, 1979
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The Headlines
Jumbo Elliott: Ingenious Giant Of U.S. Track
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Heart of Glass
Blondie
#1 at the box office
The Deer Hunter
$1,340,362
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
Blair Peach, a British activist, was fatally injured after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.
Wikipedia →SAETA Flight 011 crashes in Pastaza Province, Ecuador, killing all 57 people on board. The wreckage was not discovered until 1984.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Max Planck (1858)
- James Buchanan (1791)
- Halldór Laxness (1902)
- John Cena (1977)
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
17,210 days ago
(47 years, 55 days)