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Sunday, October 21, 1979
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The Headlines
U.S.C.'s White Crushes Notre Dame, 42‐23
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rise
Herb Alpert
#1 at the box office
When a Stranger Calls
$1,649,481
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Alfred Nobel (1833)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (1949)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772)
- Carrie Fisher (1956)
- Ursula K. Le Guin (1929)
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
17,029 days ago
(46 years, 239 days)