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On the date
Wednesday, September 26, 1979
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The Headlines
CARTER, IN QUEENS, CRITICIZES KENNEDY
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
My Sharona
The Knack
#1 at the box office
Monty Python's Life of Brian
$1,262,773
The must-have
Sony Walkman
You Share a Birthday With
- T. S. Eliot (1888)
- Martin Heidegger (1889)
- Pope Paul VI (1897)
- Petro Poroshenko (1965)
- Ivan Pavlov (1849)
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
17,054 days ago
(46 years, 264 days)