From the day
On the date
Sunday, January 27, 1980
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The Headlines
What Hope for the Young American Conductor?; Young Conductors
Read in The New York Times →#1 on the Billboard Hot 100
Rock with You
Michael Jackson
#1 at the box office
Kramer vs. Kramer
$1,541,864
The must-have
Rubik's Cube
On This Day
Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Lewis Carroll (1832)
- Wilhelm II (1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
- Abbas the Great (1571)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
awesomebodaciouscheesychill
Valley Girl
as ifbarf me outgag me with a spoongrodytotally
Hip Hop
baddefdopeflyfreshword
Yuppie
greed is goodpower lunchnetworking
Tech Check
Fax Machine Boom, Pac-Man & Flash Memory.
Style of 1980
Silhouette: Oversized inverted triangle
Material: Lycra and sequins
- Shoulder pads
- Perms
- Neon accessories
Cost of Living (1980)
Loaf of Bread
$0.50
Gallon of Gas
$1.19
Average Home
$47,200
New Car
$7,200
Time Elapsed
16,932 days ago
(46 years, 142 days)