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Monday, December 3, 1979
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The Headlines
BUSINESS Digest
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Babe
Styx
#1 at the box office
...And Justice for All
$965,755
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
In Cincinnati, 11 fans are suffocated in a crush for seats on the concourse outside Riverfront Coliseum before a Who concert.
Wikipedia →Iranian Revolution: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Conrad (1857)
- Ozzy Osbourne (1948)
- Julianne Moore (1960)
- Jean-Luc Godard (1930)
- Brendan Fraser (1968)
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
16,986 days ago
(46 years, 196 days)