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Friday, October 26, 1979
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The Headlines
CHRYSLER PAY PACT TO SAVE $203 MILLION
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rise
Herb Alpert
#1 at the box office
When a Stranger Calls
$1,437,056
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
Park Chung Hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Hillary Clinton (1947)
- François Mitterrand (1916)
- Evo Morales (1959)
- Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1919)
- Georges Danton (1759)
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
17,024 days ago
(46 years, 234 days)