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On the date
Monday, July 16, 1979
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The Headlines
Atom Plants Are Hiring Stand‐Ins To Spare Aides the Radiation Risk
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Bad Girls
Donna Summer
#1 at the box office
Dracula
$1,838,533
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Roald Amundsen (1872)
- Larry Sanger (1968)
- Barbara Stanwyck (1907)
- Ginger Rogers (1911)
- Will Ferrell (1967)
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
17,126 days ago
(46 years, 336 days)