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On the date
Tuesday, November 13, 1979
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The Headlines
Voice ‘Lie Detectors’Decried as Unscientific Do Detectors Work?
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Still
Commodores
#1 at the box office
...And Justice for All
$1,222,477
The must-have
Sony Walkman
You Share a Birthday With
- Augustine of Hippo (354)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850)
- Whoopi Goldberg (1955)
- Andrés Manuel López Obrador (1953)
- Edward III (1312)
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
17,006 days ago
(46 years, 216 days)