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On the date
Wednesday, December 12, 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
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
$5,643,078
The must-have
Sony Walkman
On This Day
The 8.2 Mw Tumaco earthquake shakes Colombia and Ecuador with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), killing 300–600, and generating a large tsunami.
Wikipedia →Coup d'état of December Twelfth occurs in South Korea.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Gustave Flaubert (1821)
- Frank Sinatra (1915)
- Edvard Munch (1863)
- Jennifer Connelly (1970)
- Alfred Werner (1866)
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
16,978 days ago
(46 years, 188 days)